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1st Battalion 22nd Infantry

Operation Iraqi Freedom

August 15, 2003

When darkness falls, the men of the U.S. Army's 1-22 Infantry Battalion go to work.
Operating in hostile territory, the troops use their night-vision capabilities to surprise the enemy.
Time photographer Benjamin Lowy accompanied a three-man sniper team on a night mission in Tikrit last week.
From the roof of a five-story building, the team staked out an intersection dubbed "rpg alley,"
the site of numerous rocket-propelled-grenade attacks on U.S. convoys.
Because sniper teams are clandestine units, photographs of the troops were shot using a soldier's night optical device,
providing a glimpse inside America's shadow war.