THE TENSION: Combat Camera: 1st Cavalry Division and Iraqi Troops Patrol Mosul

U.S. Army Capt. John Bradley, left, from 2nd Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Unit, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, an interpreter, center, and an Iraqi soldier, right, with 2nd Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 1st Iraqi Army Division, walk together, while on a dismounted combined patrol through the Qadussya District of Mosul, Iraq, on May 12. (Photo by Senior Airman Kamaile O. Chan; Joint Combat Camera Center Iraq.)

An Iraqi soldier, left, with 2nd Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 1st Iraqi Army Division and an interpreter, right, talk with a local Iraqi man during a dismounted combined patrol through the Qadussya District of Mosul, Iraq, on May 12. (Photo by Senior Airman Kamaile O. Chan; Joint Combat Camera Center Iraq.)

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Ivan Rodriguez, with 2nd Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Unit, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, talks with Iraqi children while on a dismounted patrol through the Saddam District of Mosul, Iraq, on May 12. (Photo by Senior Airman Kamaile O. Chan; Joint Combat Camera Center Iraq.)

An Iraqi soldier, left, and an Iraqi police officer, far right, stop a car at the Riyadh vehicle check point, in Mosul, Iraq, on May 12. (Photo by Senior Airman Kamaile O. Chan; Joint Combat Camera Center Iraq.)

An Iraqi interpreter, left, and an Iraqi soldier, center, with 2nd Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 1st Iraqi Army Division, talk with a construction worker about progress on a new sewage system, while on a dismounted combined patrol with U.S. Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Unit, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, through the Qadussya District of Mosul, Iraq, on May 12. (Photo by Senior Airman Kamaile O. Chan; Joint Combat Camera Center Iraq.)

An Iraqi soldier with 2nd Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 1st Iraqi Army Division, gives a thumbs up during a dismounted patrol with U.S. Army Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Unit, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division in the Qadussya District of Mosul, Iraq, on May 12. (Photo by Senior Airman Kamaile O. Chan; Joint Combat Camera Center Iraq.)