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US Army (USA) First Lieutenant (1LT) Leland Case, Military Transition Team (MITT), 3rd Brigade Combat Team (BCT), stands in the open roof turret of a M1114 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) as he readies the M2.50 caliber machine gun in preparation to serve as a turret gunner in order to protect a convoy traveling from Contingency Operating Base (COB) Speicher, Salah Ad Din Province, Iraq (IRQ), during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Cob Speicher
State: Salah Ad Din
Country: Iraq (IRQ)
Scene Camera Operator: SSG Alfred Johnson, USA
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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.
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26/03/2006
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The U.S. National Archives
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