CAMP TAJI, Iraq -- As his fellow 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division comrades surround him, Salem, S.C. native Pfc. Justin Hines (third from left), a 2nd BCT mechanic, says hello to his mother, during a New Year's Eve celebration at Camp ...

CAMP TAJI, Iraq -- St. Clair Shores, Mich. Spc. Ryan Hedblad, a mechanic for Headquarters Company, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division participates in a hula hoop competition during New Year's Eve festivities at the mayor cell on Camp Taj...

CAMP TAJI, Iraq - At exactly one minute to midnight, military service members take photographs and countdown to 2008 as a ball decorated with multi-colored lights is lowered from a crane over the mayor's cell parking lot at Camp Taji, Iraq Dec. 31, s...