Sachada Narisaranukul, Personnel Officer, United Nations (UN) Office of the Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq and US Army (USA) Sergeant (SGT) Doug Buckman, a carpenter assigned to the 203rd Combat Engineer Battalion, Missouri Army National Guard (MOANG), collect paperwork for an office building after a truck bombing at the UN Headquarters building in Baghdad, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

Iraq War aka Operation IRAQI FREEDOM was the 2003 invasion of Iraq, led by U.S. Army General Tommy Franks, under the code-name "Operation Iraqi Freedom". 248,000 soldiers from the United States, 45,000 British soldiers, 2,000 Australian soldiers and 194 Polish soldiers from Special Forces unit GROM sent to Kuwait for the invasion. The invasion force was also supported by Iraqi Kurdish militia troops, estimated to number upwards of 70,000.