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Sgt. Michael Kasper and Staff Sgt. Roy Starbeck, Soldiers with 2nd Platoon, Company A, 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, pull bags filled with bottled water from a Blackhawk helicopter in a field in southern Baghdad, March 9. The water was a re-supply for Stryker Soldiers walking along numerous farmland roads during a mission to find and secure areas suspected of being insurgent training camps. https://www.dvidshub.net/image/37677/tomahawk-troops-trade-strykers-marching-boots

By Pfc. William Hatton 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment CAMP LIBERTY, Iraq – In the marsh farmlands south of Baghdad, coalition forces aren't a typical presence from day to day. Most Iraqis in this area work hard farming the land and trying to make a decent living; others have more malicious intentions. When information came in that insurgents are possibly running training camps in this rural area, Tomahawk Soldiers from Company A, 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, along with Iraqi soldiers didn't hesitate making their presence known as they searched the farmland for potential threats, March 9. For Tomahawk Soldiers, a Stryker means a lot of things. It's often a second home, a cafeteria, and living room as troops sometimes live, eat and sleep in their Strykers. In this rural farmland however, troops left their wheels behind. The took off hiking throughout the marshland with only their marching boots and assaul