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US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines with Weapons Platoon (PLT), 1ST Battalion (BN), 5th Marines (MAR) (1/5), Bravo Company (B Co), 1ST Marine Division (MAR DIV), patrol the streets in an M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) with a mounted FNMI 7.62 mm M240G machine gun, in response to an attack on the Iraqi Police station in Al Kharma, Iraq. The 1ST MAR DIV is engaged in Security and Stabilization Operations (SASO) in the area during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

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Marines in an M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) are greeted by a pair of Iraqi children as they patrol the city's streets. Marines of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (24th MEU) and MEU Service Support Group 24 (MSSG-24) are furnishing aid to the Kurdish refugees in the Zakhu area as part of Operation Provide Comfort

Kurdish children gather around CMDR. Donald Thurston of Naval Environmental Preventive Medicine Unit 7 (NEPMU-7) as he passes out items from a Meal, Ready-to-Eat (MRE) at a refugee camp near the city of Zakhu. U.S. and coalition troops established the camp as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq and southern Turkey

A Marine Corps M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) passes through the city with a load of supplies during Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in southern Turkey and northern Iraq

Kurdish children play as their mothers tend cooking fires at a refugee camp near the Turkey-Iraq border. Thousands of Kurds fled into Turkey after fighting broke out between Kurdish groups and Iraqi government forces following Operation Desert Storm. Troops from the U.S. and other nations have come to the camp to distribute aid and prepare the refugees for a move to organized camps within Iraq as part of Operation Provide Comfort

Kurdish children pose for a picture after being given a Meal, Ready-to-Eat (MRE) by an Army military policeman. U.S. and coalition troops are in Zakhu as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq and southern Turkey

Kurdish children talk to a U.S. Marine at a camp site on the outskirts of the city. U.S. and coalition troops are in Zakhu as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq and southern Turkey

Military and civilian traffic moves along a road on the outskirts of the city. U.S. and coalition troops are in Zakhu as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq and southern Turkey

Kurdish children give the "thumbs up" to a photographer as they stand near a road sign on the edge of the city. U.S. and coalition troops are in Zakhu as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq and southern Turkey

Children gather near two Marine Corps LAV-25 light armored vehicles parked beside the road outside the city. The Marines are in Zakhu as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in southern Turkey and northern Iraq

Kurdish children play near an Army M1038 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) as it patrols the streets of the city. U.S. and coalition troops are in Zakhu as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq and southern Turkey

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Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT

Base: Zakhu

Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Milton R. Savage

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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