
MAKING FRIENDS — U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Jeff Newkirk holds an Iraqi child while fellow soldiers conduct a meeting with a sheik and other community leaders in Azuwiyah, Iraq, March 23, 2006. Newkirk is team sergeant with the 445th Civil Affairs Company, supporting the 101st Airborne Division. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Charles W. Gill