Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Combat Camera: 'Arrowhead' Lights the Candles

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"These aerial denial missions let insurgents know we can reach out and touch them," exclaimed Sgt. 1st Class Mike "Smoke" Hughes, a native of Danville, Penn., and a cannon crew member platoon sergeant assigned to Bravo Battery, 1st Battalion "Arrowhead," 109th Field Artillery Regiment, 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team. The artillery National Guardsmen from Pennsylvania fire the M777A2 Howitzer on a regular basis from Joint Security Station Istaqlal on April 11. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell; Multi-National Division Baghdad.)

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Cpl. Joshua Bohinski (left), from Nanticoke, Penn., and Sgt. James Gillen, from Noxen, Penn., both cannon crew members assigned to Bravo Battery, 1st Battalion "Arrowhead," 109th Field Artillery Regiment, 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, check the ammunition before a fire mission at Joint Security Station Istaqlal on April 11. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell; Multi-National Division Baghdad.)

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Soldiers from Bravo Battery, 1st Battalion "Arrowhead," 109th Field Artillery Regiment, 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, load a 155-mm illumination round into the M777A2 Howitzer gun at Joint Security Station Istaqlal on April 11. To fire the gun, an eight-man crew has to work seamlessly together while communicating instructions. The National Guardsmen from Nanticoke, Penn., have been in Iraq for about four months. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell; Multi-National Division Baghdad.)

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Soldiers from Bravo Battery, 1st Battalion "Arrowhead," 109th Field Artillery Regiment, 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, load 155-mm illumination rounds or "candles" into the M777A2 Howitzer gun at Joint Security Station Istaqlal on April 11. The "Arrowhead" field artillery soldiers fire the rounds from "Hades 3" to light up the night sky to support the other soldiers doing patrol missions throughout northeast Baghdad. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell; Multi-National Division Baghdad.)

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Soldiers from Bravo Battery, 1st Battalion "Arrowhead," 109th Field Artillery Regiment, 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, fire a 155-mm illumination rounds from the M777A2 Howitzer gun at Joint Security Station Istaqlal on April 11. "Patrols are out there watching the areas we put these illumination rounds in," said Sgt. 1st Class Mike "Smoke" Hughes, a native of Danville, Penn., and a cannon crew member platoon sergeant assigned to B Battery. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell; Multi-National Division Baghdad.)

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