US Army (USA) SPECIALIST Fourth Class (SPC) David Johnson (left), GUNNER, and Sergeant (SGT) Justin Javar (right), Assistant GUNNER, Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC), 1ST Battalion (BN), 17th Infantry Regiment (1/17th), 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT), fire illumination flares from inside their Stryker Mortar Carrier Vehicle (MCV) 120 mm mortar cannon, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, in order to light-up the night sky over Mosul, Ninawa Province, Iraq (IRQ), in order to deny Iraqi insurgents the opportunity to place improvised explosive devices (IEDs) under the cover of darkness
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Mosul
Country: Iraq (IRQ)
Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Jeremy Lock, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
01/06/2006
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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