An Iraqi Army Soldier stores a 120mm High Explosive Anti Tank round after a training exercise as part of the M1A1 Tank Familiarization Course Aug. 11 at the Besmaya Combat Training Center, Iraq. Iraqi Army Soldiers are to operate and command M1A1 A...

Iraqi Army Soldiers unload 120mm High-Explosive-Anti-Tank rounds off of an M1A1 tank after a training exercise as part of the M1A1 Tank Familiarization Course Aug. 11 at the Besmaya Combat Training Center, Iraq. Around 500 Iraqi Army soldiers have gr...

Rachel Maddow (lower left), a television host for MSNBC, climbs into an M1A1 tank, as Brig. Gen. Bradley W. May (right), Director, Iraq Training and Advisory Team, United States Forces-Iraq, offers encouragement during a live-fire exercise Aug. 19 a...

Rachel Maddow, a television host for MSNBC, and Brig. Gen. Bradley W. May, Director, Iraq Training and Advisory Team, United States Forces-Iraq, share a laugh as Maddow relates her M1A1 tank exercise experience after a live-fire exercise Aug. 19 at t...

Rachel Maddow (foremost left), a television host for MSNBC, Brig. Gen. Bradley W. May, Director, Iraq Training and Advisory Team, United States Forces-Iraq, and Iraqi Army Col. Abbas Fadhil Sahib (right), Besmaya Combat Training Center commander, wa...

U.S. Army Lt. Col. David Beachman, Senior Advisor with Iraq Training and Advisory Mission - Army at Forward Operating Base Hammer, Iraq, and a Somers, N.Y., native, and Iraqi Army Col. Abbas Fadhil Sahib, commander at the Besmaya Combat Training Cent...

U.S. Army Sgt. Maj. Richard Holladay, Senior Enlisted Advisor with Iraq Training and Advisory Mission - Army at Forward Operating Base Hammer, Iraq, and a Clarksville, Tenn., native, salutes as Brig. Gen. Bradley W. May, Director, Iraq Training and A...