A CH-47 Chinook with a flight crew on board from the 6th Battalion, 101st Aviation Brigade, Command Operating Base Speicher standby for a call to return to southwest Samarra, Iraq to pickup U.S. soldiers from 3rd Battalion, 187 Infantry Regiment and Iraqi soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 4th Iraqi Division after completing their mission during Operation Katrina Feburary 27, 2006. U.S. and Iraqi soldiers were dropped off at their objectives with sixteen aircraft while participating in the combined-joint operation to detain or eliminate insurgent activity southwest Samarra, Iraq. (U.S. Army photo by STAFF SGT. Alfred Johnson) (Released)