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Jamie Bender-Faces of Combat

Early morning in Ar Ramadi

Medics work on a young iraqi girl injured in a vehicle borne IED expolosion. Three soliders died in the attack. So did the girl.

Soldiers from 1st Brigade 16th Infantry Regiment pause on a road outside of Ramadi.

The sun goes down over the berm in Camp Junction City.

Soldiers pray in the newly named Cutchall Memorial Chaple. Named for Staff Sgt. Christopher Cutchall, our first KIA.

ID tags hang from a fallen soldier's M16 at his memorial.

A soldier's remains are recovered and placed in a sandbag for transport to mortuary affairs.

Iraqi defense soldiers are trained to patrol by american infantry soldiers.

Outskirts of Ramadi from a blackhawk.

A soldier in protective chem gear checks a possible chemical weapons site. Nothing was found.

This is all that was left.

Soldiers investigate the remains of a daisy chained IED.

Soldiers from 1st Engineers search for weapons caches in an orange grove.

A butcher shop (?) in downtown Ramadi.

Soldiers line up to pay respects to two of their fallen brothers.

Col. Buck Conner, commander, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, teaches an Iraqi boy how to high five on a recent trip to Habinayia. Conner's security team often carried candy in the vehicles to hand out to local children.

An abandoned house used by insurgents to attack american patrols is leveled by a bomb.

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