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Celebrating in Tikrit
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U.S. troops honor the founding of their nation while in Iraq.
Below, a worker fixes lighting to illuminate the U.S. flag during Independence Day activities on Contingency Operating Base Speicher in Tikrit, Iraq, July 4, 2008. (U.S. Air Force Photo By Staff Sgt. Micky M. Bazaldua)
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Improving Agriculture
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Video: Helicopters spray insecticide on date palm crops in Iraq.
Iraq’s Agriculture Ministry improved its ability to protect the nation’s commercial date palm crop from deadly dubas beetles through a nationwide spraying program completed this week.
Pilots and maintenance crews increased their coverage by 33 percent this year, spraying nearly 170,000 acres in six provinces. Last year, crews sprayed just more than 120,000 acres in four provinces.
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Food for Families
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Troops give food to more than 200 Iraqi families June 12.
Below, an Iraqi girl guides her blind grandfather as they walk away from a food pick-up area during a humanitarian aid mission on Route Kentucky in Shula, Iraq.
(U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Manuel J. Martinez)
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Coalition and Iraqi leaders use local veterinarians to boost livestock health.
Below, Dr. Sadia,a local veterainarian, joins a member of the Sons of Iraq to administer shots of medicine to livestock during a veterinary operation May 11 in Fursan Village, Baghdad Province, Iraq. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. David J. Marshall/Released
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Steady Shot
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An Iraqi Army Soldier practices 'dime drills' to improve his trigger squeeze.
This technique will help the soldiers enhance their ability to steady their weapons for a more accurate shot. Iraqi Soldiers were training with Coalition troops at Forward Operating Base Summerall May 10 in Bayji, Iraq. (U.S. Air Force Photo By Staff Sgt. Micky M. Bazaldua)
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Sisters of Fallujah
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Iraqi women learn they can shoot as well as a man.
Below, an Iraqi woman shoots an AK-47 rifle at a rifle range in Fallujah, Iraq, on April 29, 2008. Women enrolled in becoming Sisters of Fallujah participated in a live-fire range as part of their police training.
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Daughters of Iraq
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Iraqi women playing increased role in their nation's security.
A member of the Daughters of Iraq talks with a U.S. Army Soldier conducting a checkpoint assessment while on patrol in Amariyah, Iraq, April 21, 2008. The Soldier is from Charlie Troop, 4th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Charles W. Gill)
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School Supplies
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Coalition troops distribute school supplies to Iraqi children.
A student (below) from Abu Shear School takes an arm full of backpacks back to the classroom April 14 in the Monsouri area of Iraq. Soldiers from Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1-76th FA, 4th BCT, 3rd Inf. Div., delivered backpacks, soccer balls and notebooks to students there. Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Tami Hillis)
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