Sending the round. KIRKUSH MILITARY TRAINING BASE, Iraq – A jundi, Arabic for soldier, with Light Artillery Battery, 19th Brigade, 5th Iraqi Army Division pulls the lanyard on his 120mm mortar, shaking the earth beneath him and sending a round toward a target at Normandy Range near Kirkush Military Training Base, Diyala province, Iraq, May 31, 2011. The mortar crews joined infantry and artillery teams as well as multiple Iraqi Security Forces agencies during exercise as part of Operation Iron Lion, a series of provincial capstone exercises demonstrating the ISF’s ability to independently plan


Sending the round. KIRKUSH MILITARY TRAINING BASE, Iraq – A jundi, Arabic for soldier, with Light Artillery Battery, 19th Brigade, 5th Iraqi Army Division pulls the lanyard on his 120mm mortar, shaking the earth beneath him and sending a round toward a target at Normandy Range near Kirkush Military Training Base, Diyala province, Iraq, May 31, 2011. The mortar crews joined infantry and artillery teams as well as multiple Iraqi Security Forces agencies during exercise as part of Operation Iron Lion, a series of provincial capstone exercises demonstrating the ISF’s ability to independently plan and conduct missions using multiple agencies. ( Army photo by Sgt. David Strayer, 109th MPAD, USD-N PAO) Sending the round by United States Forces - Iraq (Inactive)


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