
Soldiers of the Iraqi Intervention Forces, 1st Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 1st Division go to a school to greet kids in the city of Fallujah, Iraq, on June 15, 2005. Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) conducts counter-insurgency operations with ISF to isolate and neutralize Anti-Iraqi Forces, to support the continued development of ISF, and to support Iraqi reconstruction and democratic elections in order to create a secure environment that enables Iraqi self-reliance and self-governance. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Michael J. O'Brien) CENTCOM photo.