US Army (USA) SPECIALIST Fourth Class (SFC) Payne, 173rd Airborne Brigade (AB BDE) mans an FNMI 5.56 mm M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) at the security position atop a High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) (not shown) as part of Operation Bayonet Lightning during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Bayonet Lightning is a 173rd Brigade level joint cordon operation to locate and question persons of interest and a show of force in the Iraqi city of Al Hawijah
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Al Hawijah
State: Diyala
Country: Iraq (IRQ)
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Jeffrey A. Wolfe, USA
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
02/12/2003
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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