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Specialist Jared Hicks, of Three Rivers, Michigan, is on nighttime guard duty during a 16-day mission in a commandeered house in Sadr City, Baghdad. Their mission: to stop the Mahdi Army rockets from hitting the Green Zone.
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Sgt. Badara Cham, 33, originally from Gambia, stands guard at an upstairs window in an Iraqi home the soldiers occupy.
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Soldiers sit around the living room of the home they occupy and reminisce about the comforts of home, toilets, hot food and electricity.
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Spc. Brodie Berkenbille, 20, of Athens, Tennessee, lies on the hard stairs in the home.
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Sgt. David Stine, 28, of Iola Illinois uses his scope to search for the source of fire on the home they occupy.
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The owner stands in the street and asks the soldiers when they are leaving.
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