1st Battalion 22nd Infantry Iraq Page 2

1st Battalion 22nd Infantry

Operation Iraqi Freedom

Sgt. Oscar Ipatzi of 1-22 Mortar Platoon keeps watch on top the roof of his building in Tikrit.
Photo by Staff Sgt. Craig Pickett

A Regular of 1st Battalion fires a 4.2 inch (120mm) mortar during target practice, Tikrit, July 31, 2003.
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July 28, 2003
Major Bryan Luke, 1-22 Infantry, stands next to a cache of anti-tank mines
and other explosive ordnance found in an abandoned building in Tikrit
that once belonged to Saddam Hussein's Fedayeen militia.
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MAJ Luke looks over the cache. Some 40 anti-tank mines were discovered.
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Specialists Nathan Herbert and AJ Hayden, both with C Co., 1-22 Infantry,
secure a road during a raid on the town of Mosem, Iraq.
(U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Craig Pickett)

U.S. Army soldiers from the 1st Battalion 22nd Infantry Regiment take positions prior to a pre-dawn raid at a home in Tikrit, some 180 kms northwest of Baghdad, Iraq Tuesday July 29, 2003. American soldiers captured one of Saddam Hussein's bodyguards and at least two other suspected associates in the raids.
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Soldiers from 1-22 Infantry speak to the family of Iraqi Brig. Gen. Daher Ziana, the man in charge of Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, after he was taken into custody in the early morning hours of Tuesday July 29, 2003.
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Brig. Gen. Daher Ziana, former security chief for Saddam Hussein's palaces in Tikrit in custody of 1-22.
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Adnan Abdullah Abid Al Musslit, one of Saddam Hussein's top bodyguards, sits on the floor of his home in Tikrit, after being taken into custody by 1-22 Infantry, in the early morning hours of July 29, 2003.
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Musslit is taken into custody by soldiers of 1-22.
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A Regular guards Adnan Abdullah Abid Al Musslit, who according to the Army was one of Saddam Hussein's top bodyguards, taken into custody during an early morning raid at a home in Tikrit, Tuesday July 29, 2003.
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GEN John Keane, Acting Army Chief of Staff, pins a Purple Heart on the uniform of SFC David White.
SGT Charles Meyers stands next in line to receive his. Both soldiers are from
1st Battalion 22nd Infantry.

4th Infantry Division soldiers receive the Purple Heart Medal, July 6, 2003 in Tikrit, Iraq.
Front Row from L to R: SFC David White 1-22 Infantry, SPC Hector Lopez, Pfc Sergio Cardenas, Spc Juan Cabral,
SFC Joseph Walden, Sgt Charles Meyers 1-22 Infantry, Spc Joshua Whitson

Rear Row L to R: SSG Roger Garcia 1-22 Infantry, SSG James Parker, SPC William Velez,
Spc Devon Pierce, SSG John Lewis.

Iraq June 11, 2003

Col Donald Campbell, former 1st Brigade Commander and current 4ID Chief of Staff,
passes the unit colors to Lt Col Steven Russell, incoming commander of 1-22 Infantry
at a change of command ceremony. Lt Col Mark Woempner was the departing commander of 1-22 Infantry.