Pfc. Daniel Gentle, an infantryman assigned to Company A, 252nd Combined Arms Battalion, 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team, scans the horizon from a guard tower at Joint Security Station Doura, June 12. Gentle, who is serving his first tour in Iraq with the North Carolina National Guard, is a police officer in his native town of Winston-Salem, Gentle said his job pulling guard watch in the tower involves access to JSS Doura's main gate and monitoring for any suspicious activity. Old Hickory Soldiers keep watch 179687

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