Spc. Steven M. Devries, a medic with 1st Platoon, Company B, 1-12 Combined Arms Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, and an Iraqi Army soldier with the 5th IA Division, take cover from a sniper behind a Bradley fighting vehicle March 28 in the Tahrir neighborhood of Baqubah, Iraq. Soldiers of 1st Platoon Co. B and Iraqi soldiers encountered sporadic sniper fire for about two hours during a house clearing mission in Tahrir. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Antonieta Rico, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)


Spc. Steven M. Devries, a medic with 1st Platoon, Company B, 1-12 Combined Arms Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, points out the position of a sniper to a fellow Soldier March 28 in the Tahrir neighborhood of Baqubah, Iraq. Soldiers of 1st Platoon Co. B and Iraqi soldiers encountered sporadic sniper fire for about two hours during a house clearing mission in Tahrir. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Antonieta Rico, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)


A Soldier with 1st Platoon, Company B, 1-12 Combined Arms Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, guards a street in the neighborhood of Tahrir in Baqubah, Iraq, March 28. Soldiers of 1st Platoon Co. B and Iraqi Army soldiers encountered sporadic sniper fire for about two hours during a house clearing mission in Tahrir. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Antonieta Rico, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)


Pvt. Eric Rundquist and Pvt. Jason Taylor, both with 1st Platoon, Company B, 1-12 Combined Arms Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, hold on to a strap inside a Bradley fighting vehicle after the Bradley hit a roadside bomb. The Soldiers were en route to the Forward Operating Base Gabe medical station after one of their fellow Soldiers was injured when they encountered sporadic sniper fire for about two hours during a house clearing mission in the Tahrir neighborhood of Baqubah. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Antonieta Rico, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)


Spc. Orlando Jesus Garcia, 1st Platoon, Company B, 1-12 Combined Arms Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, and an Iraqi soldier with the 5th Iraqi Army Division await news, outside the Forward Operating Base Gabe aid station, on the condition of two Soldiers injured during a firefight in the neighborhood of Tahrir March 28. One American Soldier and one Iraqi soldier were injured when Soldiers of 1st Platoon, Co. B, and the Iraqi Army encountered sporadic sniper fire for about two hours during a house clearing mission in Tahrir. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Antonieta Rico, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)


Soldiers of Company B, 1-12 Combined Arms Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, rush a fellow Soldier on to a medical evacuation helicopter in Baqubah, Iraq, March 28. One American Soldier and one Iraqi soldier were injured when Soldiers of 1st Platoon Co. B and the Iraqi Army encountered sporadic sniper fire for about two hours during a house clearing mission in the Tahrir neighborhood of Baqubah. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Antonieta Rico, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)

Labels: 1-12 CAB, 1st Cavalry Division, 3BCT, 5th Iraqi Army Division, Baqubah, Iraq, Tahrir, US Army