Here’s the second collection of Swarmer images I’ve put together. The first is available here. There just plain isn’t a lot of high-quality (in terms of resolution) stuff available today. One from JCCC, and the rest are lower-res images from Yahoo! News.

U.S. Army Soldiers from 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment conduct Operation Swarmer in the Salah Ad Din province of Iraq March 16, 2006. Operation Swarmer is a combined air assault operation to clear the area northeast of Samarra of suspected insurgents. DoD photo by Journalist 1st Class Jeremy Wood, U.S. Navy. (Released)

Iraqi soldier guarding mosque destroyed (previously, apparently) by terrorists.

U.S. soldiers prepare to leave for a forward location, where fighting is still going on, outside Samarra, 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq , Friday, March 17, 2006.

Haven’t heard much about “fighting”…wonder if this caption means anything.

Iraqi soldiers help US troops ID locations

See? We’re stealing their oil. Or erecting a communications antenna. One or the other.

Looks like armored Humvees.

#Posted by Murdoc at 20:18
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