photos by Spc. Larayne Hurd, Joint Combat Camera Center
U.S. Army Pfc. Jon Pierre Johnson, of 1st Armored Division, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, 4th Squadron, Quick Strike Troop, puts out his escalation of force cones at the Holland Apartments in the Muhaila neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 3. The school on the campground grounds will serve as screening office for potential security guards.
U.S. Army Sgt. Morales of 1st Armored Division, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, 4th Squadron Quick Strike Troop, looks for snipers while the interpreter talks to the locals inside the school’s walls at the Holland Apartment’s school in the Muhaila neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 3. Quick strike is screening for potential security guards at the school.
U.S. Army Capt. Mathew Bocian of 1st Armored Division 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, 4th Squadron, Quick Strike Troop, looks pulls security outside the Holland Apartment’s school in the Muhaila neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 3. Quick strike is screening for potential security guards at the school.
U.S. Army Soldiers with 1st Armored Division, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, 4th Squadron, Quick Strike Troop, talk outside the school house for guards at the Holland Apartments in the Muhaila neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 3. Inside the classrooms men are being interviewed and entered into the Hierarchical Intrusion Detection system as part of the application process to get jobs as security for the complex.
U.S. Army Soldiers with 1st Armored Division, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, 4th Squadron, Quick Strike Troop, take applications for guards at the Holland Apartments Schoolhouse in the Muhaila neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 3. The men applying for the guard positions are all residents of the apartments and by offering them the jobs first U.S. troops are trying to encourage them to make their complex safer without depending on the U.S.
U.S. Army Capt. Thomas Bessler commander of 1st Armored Division, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, 4th Squadron, Quick Strike Troop, speaks with the sponsors for the Holland Apartments at the Holland Apartments Schoolhouse in the Muhaila neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 3. Although quick strike is screening the potential guards the sponsors are the ones who actually choose the guards.
2nd Lt. Arvind Dayal of 1st Armored Division, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, 4th Squadron, Quick Strike Troop, copies down the information of a potential security guard for the Holland Apartments at the schoolhouse in the Muhaila neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 3. Quick strike is screening the potential guards for the complex.
U.S. Army Capt. Thomas Bessler commander of 1st Armored Division, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, 4th Squadron, Quick Strike Troop, speaks with the sponsors for the Holland Apartments at the Holland Apartments Schoolhouse in the Muhaila neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 3. Although quick strike is screening the potential guards the sponsors are the ones who actually choose the guards.
U.S. Army Pfc. Jon Pierre Johnson, of 1st Armored Division 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment 4th Squadron Quick Strike Troop, takes a retinal picture of a potential security guard at the Holland Apartments School in the Muhaila neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, on October 3, 2007. All the men that turned out for the guard positions are being inputted in the Hierarchical Intrusion Detection system.
U.S. Army Pfc. Jon Pierre Johnson, of 1st Armored Division, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, 4th Squadron, Quick Strike Troop, finger prints a potential security guard at the Holland Apartments School in the Muhaila neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 3. All the men that turned out for the guard positions are being inputted in the Hierarchical Intrusion Detection system.
U.S. Army Capt. Thomas Bessler commander of 1st Armored Division, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, 4th Squadron, Quick Strike Troop, jokes around with an Iraqi army sniper at the Holland Apartments Schoolhouse in the Muhaila neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 3. A few Iraqi army soldiers came out to help keep order along side the U.S. Soldiers.
