OIF Deployment Photos

Spc. Richard Rodriguez, a driver for HHC, TF 1-21 INF, pulls security outside the Rasheed-Baba Gurgur Bank in Kirkuk during its reopening ceremony Aug. 29. 2nd BCT's Economic Development Team used more than $29,000 of CERP funds to remodel the bank.

A representative from the Ministry of Finance and Banking in Baghdad (right) points out Baba Gurgur's new vault gate to Lt. Col. George Glaze (left), 2nd Brigade Combat Team's assistant commander. The new vault gate helps secure a weekly average of 4.5 Billion Iraq Dinar and $2.25 Million U.S. dollars.

Sgt. Carlos Ustoy (right), EDT's noncommissioned officer-in-charge, talks to a Baba Gurgur bank employee sitting at her new and improved cashier cage through his interpreter, Siba Damman (far left), at the reopening ceremony of the bank Aug. 29. More than $29,000 of CERP funds were paid to help remodel the bank.

Lukman Kadir Hamad, an Altun Kupri Iraqi National Guardsman, provides security ontop of the former Outlaws' compound during the FOB Altun Kupri closure ceremony Sept. 1.

"Outlaw" Soldiers salute the Iraqi flag as it is raised during the FOB Altun Kupri closure ceremony to mark the beginning of Iraqi control Sept. 1.

Hana (far left), a 8-year-old Altun Kupri girl, shares the load of an extension cord reel after the closure ceremony with Pfc. Jon Raiford, a FDC chart operator with the Outlaws. Hana and her older sister, Sarah (in the background waving goodbye to an Outlaw Soldier), lives next door to the Soldier's compound and over time both learned to speak English from their Soldier friends.

SGT Jared McDonough, HSC / 84th ECB(H) looks on as Jordanian soldiers load a BTR 94 Armored Personnel Carrier onto his vehicle.

SPC Levi Lumm, HSC / 84th ECB(H) secures an armored personnel carrier to his trailer prior to convoying from Jordan into Iraq.

Engineer vehicles loaded with armored personnel carriers await movement from Jordan.