THE TENSION: Combat Camera: Wolfhounds Search for Caches Around Baghdad

Soldiers with Company A, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment “Wolfhounds,” 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team “Warrior,” 25th Infantry Division, currently attached to 3rd BCT, 4th Inf. Div., Multi-National Division – Baghdad, enter a flooded courtyard to a house where a suspected illegal weapons cache is located, Dec. 29, 2008, in the Hussaniyah town of the Istaqlal Qada. (Photographer: Staff Sgt. JB Jaso, 2nd Stryker Brigade 25th Infantry Division.)

Staff Sgt. Rodriquez Cruell, of Greenville, N.C., stands in the doorway to a house suspected to be storing an illegal weapons cache in Istaqlal Qada’s Hussaniyah town, Dec. 29, 2008. Cruell is an infantry squad leader with Company A, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment “Wolfhounds,” 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team “Warrior,” 25th Infantry Division, currently attached to 3rd BCT, 4th Inf. Div., Multi-National Division – Baghdad. (Photographer: Staff Sgt. JB Jaso, 2nd Stryker Brigade 25th Infantry Division.)

Spc. Kyle Lauth, of Calverton, N.Y., walks along a flooded neighborhood in Istaqlal Qada’s Hussaniyah town while searching for illegal weapon caches, Dec. 29, 2008. Lauth is an infantryman with Company A, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment “Wolfhounds,” 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team “Warrior,” 25th Infantry Division, currently attached to 3rd BCT, 4th Inf. Div., Multi-National Division – Baghdad. (Photographer: Staff Sgt. JB Jaso, 2nd Stryker Brigade 25th Infantry Division.)

Spc. Jeremy Mingle, of Homer, N.Y., climbs into the front door of a house suspected of storing an illegal weapons cache, avoiding the flooded courtyard in Istaqlal Qada’s Hussaniyah town, Dec. 29, 2008. Mingle is a infantryman with Company A, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment “Wolfhounds,” 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team “Warrior,” 25th Infantry Division, currently attached to 3rd BCT, 4th Inf. Div., Multi-National Division – Baghdad. (Photographer: Staff Sgt. JB Jaso, 2nd Stryker Brigade 25th Infantry Division.)

Soldiers from Company A, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment “Wolfhounds,” 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team “Warrior,” 25th Infantry Division, currently attached to 3rd BCT, 4th Inf. Div., Multi-National Division – Baghdad, depart a Hussaniyah neighborhood, Dec. 29, 2008, after searching the northeast Baghdad region for illegal weapons caches. (Photographer: Staff Sgt. JB Jaso, 2nd Stryker Brigade 25th Infantry Division.)