Women and children from a Shia neighborhood in Baqubah file past a Stryker vehicle of Company A, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, from Fort Lewis, Wash., March 22. Soldiers of Company A visited a sheik in the neighborhood and met with area residents. The unit arrived in Baqubah on March 13 to reinforce recent successes by the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Antonieta Rico, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)


A schoolgirl in a Shia neighborhood in Baqubah stares at a Stryker vehicle of Company A, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, from Fort Lewis, Wash., March 22. Soldiers of Company A visited a sheik in the neighborhood and met with area residents. The unit arrived in Baqubah on March 13 to reinforce recent successes by the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Antonieta Rico, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)


Schoolgirls in a Shia neighborhood in Baqubah file past a Stryker vehicle of Company A, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, from Fort Lewis, Wash., March 22. Soldiers of Company A visited a sheik in the neighborhood and met with area residents. The unit arrived in Baqubah on March 13 to reinforce recent successes by the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Antonieta Rico, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)


A Soldier with Company A, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, from Fort Lewis, Wash., walks by a bullet-ridden window in a building in Baqubah March 22. Soldiers of Company A visited a sheik in the neighborhood and met with area residents. The unit arrived in Baqubah on March 13 to reinforce recent successes by the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Antonieta Rico, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)


A Soldier with Company A, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, from Fort Lewis, Wash., pulls security from a rooftop in Baqubah March 22. Soldiers of Company A visited a sheik in the neighborhood and met with area residents. The unit arrived in Baqubah on March 13 to reinforce recent successes by the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Antonieta Rico, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)

Labels: 1st Cavalry Division, 3SBCT, 5-20 Infantry, Baqubah, Iraq