BAGHDAD - Spc. Jon Stricklin, a squad automatic weapon gunner and personal security detail member from Greenville, N.C., assigned to Company A "Anvils," 252nd Combined Arms Battalion, 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team, escorts his company commander to a...

BAGHDAD - Stockbridge, Wis., native, Joseph Vandenboom, an infantryman team leader also assigned as a PSD member, A Co., 252nd CAB, 30th HBCT, talks with an Iraqi teenager in the East al-Rashid District, here, June 9. "We keep the company commander o...

BAGHDAD - Iraqi flags wave in the distance as Greenville, N.C., native, Spc. Jon Stricklin, a squad automatic weapon gunner assigned to A Co., 252nd CAB, 30th HBCT, scans his sector of fire while waiting for his company commander to finish meeting wi...

BAGHDAD - Spc. Jon Stricklin, a squad automatic weapon gunner from Greenville, N.C., is replaced on guard by Spc. Jonathan Hernandez, an infantryman from Bronx, N.Y., both PSD members assigned to A Co., 252nd CAB, 30th HBCT. The Soldiers, assigned to...