| |  | Patriotic PhotosJanuary 23, 2006
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 | |  | 01/23/06 Staff Sgt. Jacob Sprenger and Pfc. Dewayne White, from Company A, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, provide security at a checkpoint near the village of Hawijah, Iraq, where days earlier, one of their vehicles was hit by a roadside bomb. Photo by Spc. Timothy Kingstonand courtesy of U.S. Army
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 |  | |  | 01/24/06 A U.S. Army flag of the 1st Squadron 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment flies over Forward Operations Base Tiger, Iraq, Jan 24, 2006. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Aaron Allmon | 
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 1st Lt. Andrew Brant, from Company A, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, and Mack, his Iraqi interpreter, chat with children during a patrol in Mosul.
 Photo by Staff Sgt. James H. Christopher IIIand courtesy of U.S. Army
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 |  | |  | 01/26/06 U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Nicolas Riebe hugs his children as he returns from a forward deployed location in Southwest Asia to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., Jan. 26, 2006. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Christine Griffin
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