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MARINES IN IRAQ — U.S. Marines watch the approach of a CH-53E Super Stallion while sitting on an old Iraqi armored personnel carrier, Jan. 9, 2005. The Marines, assigned to Helicopter Support Team, Landing Support Company, Combat Service Support Battalion 7, 1st Force Service Support Group, were waiting to conduct one of many external lifts of the vehicles that were moved from Al Asad, Iraq, to an off-base shooting range used by aircraft from 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Paul Leicht Story




CAMP TURAYBIL, IRAQ — U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpls. John Dooley (left) and William Fishburn keep vigilant watch over traffic passing by on the road to the Jordanian border at Camp Turaybil, Iraq, Jan. 5, 2005. Marine combat engineers have refortified the camp after a suicide bomber drove his truck into the U.S. military compound here in December 2004, killing two Marines and injuring six others. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Ryan B. Busse


U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpls. John Dooley (left) and William Fishburn mix concrete at Camp Turaybil, Iraq, Jan. 5, 2005. Combat engineers from Combat Service Support Battalion 7 have spent the past three weeks refortifying Camp Turaybil after a suicide bomber drove his truck into the U.S. military compound here in December 2004, killing two Marines and injuring six others. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Ryan B. Busse



U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Wesley D. Porter, a heavy equipment operator with Marine Combat Service Support Battalion 7, lifts and transports items with a TRAM (Tractor, Rubber tired, Articulated steering, Multipurpose) at Camp Turaybil, Iraq, Jan. 5, 2005. Battalion combat engineers have spent the past three weeks refortifying Camp Turaybil after a suicide bomber drove his truck into the U.S. military compound here in December 2004, killing two Marines and injuring six others. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Ryan B. Busse


U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Troy Turnbull, a basic metal worker with Company C, Combat Service Support Battalion 7, cuts a steel bar with an acetylene blowtorch at Camp Turaybil, Iraq, Jan. 5, 2005. Battalion combat engineers have spent the past three weeks refortifying Camp Turaybil after a suicide bomber drove his truck into the U.S. military compound here in December 2004, killing two Marines and injuring six others. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Ryan B. Busse


U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Anthony Garcia, with Company S, 5th Battalion, 10th Regiment Artillery, cleans his M240G Machine Gun in a heavily fortified watch post at Camp Turaybil, Iraq, Jan. 5, 2005. A suicide bomber drove his truck into the U.S. military compound here in December 2004, killing two Marines and injuring six others. Combat engineers from Combat Service Support Battalion 7 have spent the past three weeks refortifying Camp Turaybil, working to emplace sand-filled and concrete barriers, elevate watch towers, set concertina wire, and install two steel, reinforced 14-foot high gates so the Marine provisional infantrymen assigned here can better control traffic. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Ryan B. Busse