Hanging out with the Iraqi Police

Lt Hatfield with an IP nickel plated AK-47

Doc getting crushed by Al Abbarah's weightlifting champion.

Dinner with the Iraqi Army

Waiting for dinner to be served.

The Iraqi's Kitchen

Dinner is served

Major Morris meeting the leaders of the local villages.

We thought it would be a desert and we got a jungle.

Doc and Sgt Gaitan

Our Welcome Aboard Feast

Doc and Khalid

Our First Convoy

Lt Goo and Doc Macias on our first convoy outside "the wire"

Waiting for a lift to our AO

The team killin time while we wait for transportation to our AO

Returning from training on Camp Fallujah

Chad's Birthday

Chad excited about receiving his birthday cake.

Of course the cake is shared with the rest of the team, and what a good cake it was!

Lt Hatfield, Sgt Luna and Lt Milligan at the Tadji National Supply Depot. We went there to see how the Iraqi Logistics system is progressing.

Lt Milligan hangin out in the heat.

Waiting for our ride to Tadji, Iraq.

The Team enroute to Baghdad from Ali Al Salaam, Kuwait

Maj Morris on the C-130 enroute to Baghdad from Ali Al Salaam, Kuwait.

This is our tent in Ali Al Salaam in Kuwait. We stayed here for a day while we waited for transportation to Baghdad.

More bald heads. Now about half the team has shaved their heads.

The team waiting to check in to United Airlines.

We ended up leaving about an hour and a half late but our connecting flight to Kuwait was held for us in Dulles so we made the connection and are now in Kuwait.

Lt Clever and Lt Milligan both shaved their heads. Lt Milligan doesn't seem to happy about his hair (or lack of it). They seem to think the rest of the team will do the same......

Back left to right: Ali, Lt Milligan, Maj Morris, Hadji, Lt Clever, Lt Hatfield, Doc Macias, Cpl Martin and Sgt Gaitan.

Front left to right: Gy Sexstone, Khalid, Lt Goo, Capt Lewis, Sgt Luna

Reloading the AK-47 magazines.

Lt Goo shooting the AK-47.

Lt Hatfield shooting the AK-47.

Cpl Martin shooting the Avtomat Kalashnikova 1947 (AK-47).

Shooting the PKM.

Lt Goo with the PKM.

Sgt Luna shooting the Pulemyot Kalashnikova Modernizirovanniy (PKM) medium machine-gun. We shot various weapon systems that the Iraqis use so that we are familiar with them before we begin training the Iraqi soldiers.

Lt Clever, Gy Sexstone and Capt Lewis in a training area on Camp Pendleton.

The CMP range at night through a night vision device.

This is the night portion of the CMP.

Gy Sexstone and Sgt Luna at the CMP range.

Gy Sexstone on the CMP range.

The CMP is the Combat Marksmanship Program.

Doc Macias practicing the "combat glide."

Cpl Martin in a gun turret while training in Camp Pendleton.