Army Private First Class Mark Hexum provides perimeter security during a reconnaissance patrol at the site of insurgent attack on an oil pipeline near Taji, Iraq. Hexum is attached to the 66th Armored Battalion, 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division. DoD photo by Petty Officer First Class Michael Larson, U.S. Navy. (Released)

U.S. Army soldiers and Iraqi National Guardsmen forces battle militants and advance to within 200 yards of the holy city's Imam Ali shrine compound in Najaf where insurgents loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have been holed up and must run while under fire  on patrol.    (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)

A U.S. Army soldier fights in the streets of Najaf, Iraq. Sporadic but heavy fighting continued as U.S. tanks rolled into the Old City of Najaf to within 500 yards of Iraq's holiest Shiite shrine, witnesses said. Explosions also rocked the cemetery. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)

A U.S. soldier sitting atop an armored vehicle stands guard in the deserted streets of the besieged city of Najaf, Iraq. The showdown between U.S. troops and Iraqi militants in Najaf dominated Iraq's national conference, with tribal and religious leaders deciding to send 60 delegates to the holy city to persuade a radical Shiite cleric to call off his fighters. (AP Photo/Halide Mohammed) 

In this picture made available from the US Marines, Marines with Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit walk on the outskirts outside the Wadi Al Salam Cemetery during combat operations in the city of Najaf, Iraq. (AP Photo/US Marine Photo by Cpl. Daniel J. Fosco)

U.S. soldiers stand over an unidentified American Soldier covered and lying on the ground after an attack by unknown gunmen on a U.S. Army patrol on Palestine street near the Shiite Muslim dominated district of Sadr City, in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

U.S. Army soldiers rush to evacuate an injured comrade in the center of Baghdad, Iraq, after thunderous explosions at the capital. A U.S. helicopter landed in the square and evacuated at least one wounded person as American troops and military vehicles provided security. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 2nd Regiment of the First Infantry Division seen after a memorial service for two comrades, on a military base near Najaf, Iraq. Staff Sergeant Victor Rosales and Specialist Allen Vantayburg were killed in action in the last two weeks. (AP Photo/str)

U.S. Marines pray over a fallen comrade at a first aid point after he died from wounds suffered in fighting in Fallujah, Iraq. Hundreds of U.S. Marines have been fighting insurgents in several neighborhoods in the western Iraqi city of Fallujah in order to regain control of the city. (AP Photo/Murad Sezer)

An Honor guard escorts a horse-drawn caisson with the casket of Army Capt. Ernesto M. Blanco at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio. Blanco, 28, was killed when an explosive device struck his vehicle Dec. 28 in Qaryat Ash Shababi in Iraq. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

American and Iraqi troops evacuate a soldier from a U.S. Army humvee which was heavily damaged from an apparent roadside attack on the main route to the airport on the outskirts of the Baghdad. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

An injured soldier is taken out of a plane on a stretcher at Ramstein Air Base in Germany in this image from television. About 18 U.S. soldiers wounded in Chinook helicopter attack in Iraq arrived at Ramstein where they were taken to the nearby Landstuhl Medical Center for treatment. (AP Photo/APTN)

U.S. soldiers pay their last respects next to the helmet and rifle of U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Kim S. Orlando during a memorial ceremony at Camp Babylon in Karbala. Orlando, a native of Nashville, Tennessee, was killed in action in Karbala during a joint mission with Iraqi national police. (AP Photo/Polish Army)

U.S. soldiers comfort each other at their base after a roadside bomb exploded as a U.S. convoy was driving by in Saddam Hussein's hometown Tikrit. Three soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division were wounded. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)

U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division soldiers carry a robot after a clearing a mine at a street in Mosul, 250 miles north of Baghdad. The device was laid under a bridge and was successfully destroyed by U.S. troops. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

U.S. military police officer Brian Pacholski comforts his hometown friend, U.S. military police David Borello, both from Toledo, Ohio, at the entrance of the military base in Balad, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) northwest of Baghdad. Borello broke down after seeing three Iraqi children who were injured while playing with explosive material. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

U.S. Army's Staff Sergeant Dale Hall of Jackson, Michigan, left, and Specialist Clark Aberle of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, stand guard outside of the Palestine and Sheraton Hotels as Iraqi street children sleep next to them in Baghdad early Wednesday. (AP Photo/Murad Sezer)

An F/A 18 Hornet takes off the deck of the USS Theodore Roosevelt in a step up of flight missions. The Tomahawk cruse missiles were fired against Iraqi targets. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

An Iraqi boy on a bicycle stops to look at a U.S. soldier guarding a smoldering pile left after an explosion alongside a road in Baghdad, Iraq. No injuries were reported in the incident. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

A pile of hundreds of AK-47 automatic rifles are seen burning after they were destroyed by U.S. Marines in Salah Al-Deen Military Hospital in the northern Iraqi town of Tikrit. A huge arms cache consisting of thousands of rifles, ammunition and mines was found in the hospital. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

U.S. Marines with India Co., 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division, provides cover fire as other Marines advance on the headquarters of the Fedayeen in Baghdad. The Fedayeen are a secret fighting force controlled by Saddam Hussein. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)

A soldier with Charlie Company /2-7 tasked to the U.S. Army's 3rd Battalion, 69th Regiment Armor Task Force (Task Force 3-69), looks out over Saddam International Airport from the control tower near Baghdad. (AP Photo/USA Today, Jack Gruber)

Marine Lance Corporal Alfredo Fuentas of West Covina, Ca. wanders down to the fire pit where all the trashed is burned at Camp Chesty in central Iraq. The moon shines up above. Camp Chesty is the largest supply depot in the northern most section of central Iraq and supplies all front line troops. (AP Photos/The Chronicle/Michael Macor)

U.S. Marines carry a wounded Marine to a helicopter for evacuation to a mobile surgical hospital after after two convoys headed in opposite directions collided on a road south of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

U.S. Navy Amphibious Construction Battalion (ACB) Seabees personnel, are seen planning the construction of the Elevated Causeway System (ELCAS)-modular structure at Camp Patriot, Kuwait. The structure will serve as an additional tool for the delivery of supplies, equipment and ordnance. (AP Photo/Journalist 1st Class Joseph Krypel/U.S. Navy, HO)

U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Marcco Ware, from Los Angeles, carries an injured Iraqi soldier who was shot three times during an attempted ambush of the 3rd Battalion, Fifth Regiment convoy in central Iraq. (AP Photo/The Sun, John Makely)

Marine litter bearers bring in a wounded soldier to the STP (Shock Trauma Platoon) at Camp Viper from southern Iraq. (AP Photo/Mike Zerby, Minneapolis Star)

Soldiers from the 3rd Brigade of the 101st Airborne assemble before leaving to move to forward positions at Camp New Jersey in the Kuwaiti desert. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju)

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Marine Staff Sergeant Brian Flaherty, of New York Delta Company of the Second Tank Battalion, disconnects a fuel bladder from a tank as a sandstorm rages in Iraq. (AP Photo/Dallas Morning News, Cheryl Diaz Meyer)

U.S. soldiers check an Iraqi man during a routine check in the Northern Iraqi town of Mosul. (AP Photo: Karam Hussein)

An Iraqi civilian kisses the hand of U.S. Marine Corporal Joseph Sharp from Peoria, Illinois, after Marines from the 1st Battalion 5th Marines gave him a supply of food and water in Fallujah, Iraq. (AP Photo/John Moore)

Army soldiers try to locate the original firing point after a rocket landed in the grounds of the Swedish embassy in Iraq in the capital Baghdad. The building was unoccupied and there were no casualties. REUTERS/Oleg Popov

A U.S. Army soldier arrives to investigate after a rocket landed on the grounds of Sweden's embassy to Iraq in the capital Baghdad. REUTERS/Akram Saleh

U.S. soldiers scan surrounding buildings in front of the entrance of the Swedish embassy in Baghdad. A mortar shell landed in a garden near the Swedish Embassy causing an explosion. Police closed off the area on Andalus Square after the attack. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Honored guests at the July 8 Marines' Evening Parade in Washington were, from left, Air Force Staff Sgt. Rudolph M. Funn III; Marine Cpl. Lenard A. Watson; parade host Marine Gen. Peter Pace, Joint Chiefs vice chairman; Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Justin Hendrickson; Army Cpl. Andy Choi and Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Melissa Jacobs. Photo by Darrell K. Hudson 

Four of the five service members had suffered wounds. All of them thought of others before themselves, Pace said.

A U.S. Marine assigned to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, provides support by fire during an operation at Tharthar Lake, Iraq, June 20, 2005. The 2nd Marine Division and Multinational Force-West conducted counter-insurgency operations with Iraqi Security Forces to isolate and neutralize anti-Iraqi forces. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Isaac Aguilar

U.S. Marine Corps 2nd Lt. Chisolm, assigned to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, looks down a pipe to see if there is an underground base during an operation at Tharthar Lake, Iraq, June 20, 2005. The 2nd Marine Division and Multinational Force-West conducted counter-insurgency operations with Iraqi Security Forces to isolate and neutralize anti-Iraqi forces. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Isaac Aguilar

U.S. Marines from 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion, attached to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, use earth-moving equipment to dig into the ground looking for weapons caches or an underground base during an operation at Tharthar Lake, Iraq, June 20, 2005. The 2nd Marine Division and Multinational Force-West conducted counter-insurgency operations with Iraqi Security Forces to isolate and neutralize anti-Iraqi forces. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Isaac Aguilar

U.S. Marines assigned to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, patrol through a field looking for weapons caches or an underground base during an operation at Tharthar Lake, Iraq, June 20, 2005. The 2nd Marine Division and Multinational Force-West conducted counter-insurgency operations with Iraqi Security Forces to isolate and neutralize anti-Iraqi forces. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Isaac Aguilar

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Brendan Duffy, assigned to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, searches a small fishing boat looking for weapons during an operation, June 20, 2005, at Tharthar Lake, Iraq. The 2nd Marine Division and Multinational Force-West conducted counter-insurgency operations with Iraqi Security Forces to isolate and neutralize anti-Iraqi forces. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Robert R. Attebury

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Ronnie Shertel, assigned to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, jumps down a small incline while patrolling through the area looking for weapons caches and insurgents during an operation at Tharthar Lake, Iraq, June 20, 2005. The 2nd Marine Division and Multinational Force-West conducted counter-insurgency operations with Iraqi Security Forces to isolate and neutralize anti-Iraqi forces. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Robert R. Attebury

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Mitch Beeler, assigned to Bravo Company, 2nd Amphibious Assault Vehicle Battalion, speaks over the radio while positioning his amphibious assault vehicle in a defensive position to provide security for Marines on the ground searching for weapons caches and insurgents during an operation at Tharthar Lake, Iraq, June 21, 2005. The 2nd Marine Division and Multinational Force-West conducted counter-insurgency operations with Iraqi Security Forces to isolate and neutralize anti-Iraqi forces. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Robert R. Attebury

An M1A1 Main Battle Tank is parked in a defensive position in a base camp set up by U.S. Marines assigned to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, during an operation at Tharthar Lake, Iraq, June 21, 2005. The 2nd Marine Division and Multinational Force-West conducted counter-insurgency operations with Iraqi Security Forces to isolate and neutralize anti-Iraqi forces. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Robert R. Attebury

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Scott McDaniel (background) talks to inbound aircraft, as Staff Sgt. Carl Hill uses a laser to highlight a target during a weapons interdiction mission in Iraq, May 31, 2004. McDaniel and Hill, both with the 116th Expeditionary Air Support Operations Squadron, are part of a joint team which must scout the objective area prior to a coalition attack to ensure no collateral damage will occur. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Scott Reed

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Scott McDaniel (foreground) talks to inbound aircraft, as Staff Sgt. Carl Hill uses night optics to watch for the aircraft during a weapons interdiction mission in Iraq, May 31, 2004. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Scott Reed

In the evening of May 26, 2004, 1st Sgt. Rummel, 2nd from left, C Battery, 2nd Battalion, 11th Field Artillery, 25th Infantry Division, and Capt. Campbell, his battery commander, laugh at a joke made by Mr. Jassam, the power distribution manager for the city of Dibis, Iraq during a power and light assessment of checkpoints manned by members of the Iraqi Police Force. The 25th ID out of Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, is in Northern Iraq in support of the 1st ID. U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Elizabeth Erste

In the evening of May 26, 2004, Sgt. Sutherland, left, and Pfc. Farmer both of C Battery, 2nd Battalion, 11th Field Artillery, 25th Infantry Division, provide security for their fellow soldiers during an assessment of the checkpoints surrounding Dibis, Iraq, manned by members of the Iraqi police force. The 25th ID out of Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, is in Northern Iraq in support of the 1st ID. U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Elizabeth

U.S. Army Sgt. Prugh of A Battery, 2nd Battalion, 11th Field Artillery Regiment, of the 25th Infantry Division, resets the aim of the M119A2 Howitzer during a Harassment and Interdiction Fire exercise at Forward Observing Base Warrior in Kirkuk, Iraq, June 2, 2004. U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Elizabeth Erste

REENLISTMENT — Nine West Virginia National Guard soldiers reenlist, at the Ziggurat of Ur, a famous archaeological site in Iraq. The soldiers are assigned to Battery C, 1st Battalion, 201st Field Artillery Battalion, 197th Field Artillery Brigade, 3rd Corps. The Ziggurat of Ur was built around 2100 BC to honor the moon god Nanna. U.S. Army photo by Maj. Gary Coffey.

U.S. Navy aviation ordnancemen lift a laser-guided bomb to the bomb rack of an F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft on the flight deck of the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) as the aircraft carrier operates in the Persian Gulf. Reagan and its embarked Carrier Air Wing 14 are conducting maritime security operations in the Persian Gulf region. DoD photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Aaron Burden, U.S. Navy.

Soldiers from the U.S. Army's 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team patrol the streets of Tall Kayf, Iraq. DoD photo by Tech. Sergeant John M. Foster, U.S. Air Force.

After enlisting in the Marine Corps more than a year apart, two brothers from Canton, Mich., have crossed paths in Iraq, while deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Lance Corporal Ian L. Eichel (foreground), a 23-year-old motor transportation mechanic with Regimental Combat Team 7, said he was pleasantly surprised March 17, 2006, when he saw his brother, Lance Cpl. Aaron J. Eichel, at Camp Al Asad, Iraq. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Jim Goodwin

U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeants Craig and Millie Nordman enjoy a game of cards during their off-duty time at the recreation tent at Balad Air Base, Iraq. The sergeants have been married for four and a half years and are deployed with the 332nd Expeditionary Civil Engineering Squadron for Air and Space Expeditionary Force 7/8. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Tammie Moore.

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