THE TENSION: Combat Camera: Fort Hood Troops Patrol Kirkuk

A U.S. soldier attached to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas, waves to children in the village of Mahus in Kirkuk, Iraq, June 9. U.S. coalition forces are conducting street level engagements with the local population in and around the Kirkuk province of Iraq. (Photo by Spc. Bobby Allen, Joint Combat Camera Center Iraq.)

A U.S. soldier attached to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas, points to a house in the village of Mahus in Kirkuk, Iraq, June 9. U.S. coalition forces are conducting street level engagements with the local population in and around the Kirkuk province of Iraq. (Photo by Spc. Bobby Allen, Joint Combat Camera Center Iraq.)

U.S. soldiers attached to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas, secure the village of Mahus in Kirkuk, Iraq, June 9. U.S. coalition forces are conducting street level engagements with the local population in and around the Kirkuk province of Iraq. (Photo by Spc. Bobby Allen, Joint Combat Camera Center Iraq.)

A U.S. Army soldier attached to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas, provides security in the village of Mahus in Kirkuk, Iraq, June 9. U.S. coalition forces are conducting street level engagements with the local population in and around the Kirkuk province of Iraq. (Photo by Spc. Bobby Allen, Joint Combat Camera Center Iraq.)

U.S. soldiers attached to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas, point to the next house to visit in the village of Mahus in Kirkuk, Iraq, June 9. U.S. coalition forces are conducting street level engagements with the local population in and around the Kirkuk province of Iraq. (Photo by Spc. Bobby Allen, Joint Combat Camera Center Iraq.)

U.S. Army Capt. Miguel Valdez of Houston, Texas, attached to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas, listens to an Iraqi woman voice her concerns in the village of Mahus in Kirkuk, Iraq, June 9. U.S. coalition forces are conducting street level engagements with the local population in and around the Kirkuk province of Iraq. (Photo by Spc. Bobby Allen, Joint Combat Camera Center Iraq.)

U.S. soldiers attached to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas, patrol the village of Mahus in Kirkuk, Iraq, June 9. U.S. coalition forces are conducting street level engagements with the local population in and around the Kirkuk province of Iraq. (Photo by Spc. Bobby Allen, Joint Combat Camera Center Iraq.)

U.S. Army Capt. Miguel Valdez, right, of Houston, Texas, attached to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas, points to a house in the village of Mahus in Kirkuk, Iraq, June 9. U.S. coalition forces are conducting street level engagements with the local population in and around the Kirkuk province of Iraq. (Photo by Spc. Bobby Allen, Joint Combat Camera Center Iraq.)

U.S. soldiers attached to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas, provides security in the village of Mahus in Kirkuk, Iraq, June 9. U.S. coalition forces are conducting street level engagements with the local population in and around the Kirkuk province of Iraq. (Photo by Spc. Bobby Allen, Joint Combat Camera Center Iraq.)

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Franks of Dallas, Texas, attached to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas, provides security in the village of Mahus in Kirkuk, Iraq, June 9. U.S. coalition forces are conducting street level engagements with the local population in and around the Kirkuk province of Iraq. (Photo by Spc. Bobby Allen, Joint Combat Camera Center Iraq.)

U.S. Army Sgt. Brian Tomasek, of Edmond, Okla., attached to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas, provides security in the village of Mahus in Kirkuk, Iraq, June 9. U.S. coalition forces are conducting street level engagements with the local population in and around the Kirkuk province of Iraq. (Photo by Spc. Bobby Allen, Joint Combat Camera Center Iraq.)