1st Battalion 22nd Infantry Iraq Page 1

1st Battalion 22nd Infantry

Operation Iraqi Freedom

Photo/Master Sgt. Debra Bingham

June 23, 2003 - Operation Desert Scorpion

Sgt. 1st Class Milton Benson, (Center) Sgt. 1st Class Steven Yslas and (R) Command Sgt Maj. Salvadore Martinez,
all of 1-22 Infantry Battalion, 4th Infantry Division, keep an eye on the money and jewelry as members of the media examine it.
The operation found $8 million in cash, during a raid on a Ba'ath Party farm complex at Al Owaj.

A Blackhawk helicopter takes off from a soccer field in Tikrit
as soldiers of 1st Battalion 22nd Infantry begin a patrol.
Photo by Yuri Kozyrev for TIME http://www.time.com/time/

Soldiers from 1-22 Infantry conduct a house search north of Tikrit.
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1-22 Infantry patrols Tikrit at night.
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1-22 soldiers carry a Wanted stencil depicting Saddam.
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Soldiers of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry of the 4th Infantry Divison inspect a home during a pre-dawn raid on three farms in the northern city of Tikrit, Iraq on Sunday July 27, 2003. The U.S. Army said that they may have missed by 24 hours one of Saddam Hussein's top bodyguards and perhaps Saddam himself in the raid. About 25 men were briefly detained.
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Regulars from 1-22 plan a raid in the village of Mehezam, 6 miles north of Tikrit.
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More than 250 Kalashnikovs and 50 boxes of ammunition are found in this search of a house in Mehezam.
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Members of 1-22 Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, load over 200 AK-47s
and other munitions that were found during Operation Ivy Serpent.
(U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Craig Pickett)

Regulars stack weapons during Operation Ivy Serpent.

Regulars from Company C 1-22 Infantry provide covering fire for their fellow soldiers

Regulars use mine detectors to search for hidden weapons.

In Mehezam 1-22 Infantry uncovers more weapons, explosives and jewelry hidden in an orchard.
Photo by Yuri Kozyrev for TIME http://www.time.com/time/

In Mehezam 1-22 soldiers also found RPG rounds hidden in a ditch.
Photo by Yuri Kozyrev for TIME http://www.time.com/time/