Lance Cpl. Sam Genovese, a 24-year-old Reserve Marine with Headquarters and Service Company, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 8, enjoys his first ride in a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter over Iraq’s al-Anbar desert Jan. 22. Genovese, a Plymouth, Mass., native, is serving as an operations clerk in the battalion’s command operations center. Minnesota National Guardsmen from Company C., 2nd Battalion, 211th Aviation Regiment, co-located with the Reserve Marines of 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment at Camp Korean Village, routinely give their Marine counterparts the opportunity to experience flight in the nimble Blackhawk. The Marine Corps currently has no operational UH-60 aircraft in their inventory. (Official Marine Corps photo by Capt. Paul L. Greenberg) - Lance Cpl. Sam Genovese, a 24-year-old Reserve Marine with Headquarters and Service Company, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 8, enjoys his first ride in a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter over Iraq’s al-Anbar desert Jan. 22. Genovese, a Plymouth, Mass., native, is serving as an operations clerk in the battalion’s command operations center. Minnesota National Guardsmen from Company C., 2nd Battalion, 211th Aviation Regiment, co-located with the Reserve Marines of 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment at Camp Korean Village, routinely give their Marine counterparts the opportunity to experience flight in the nimble Blackhawk. The Marine Corps currently has no operational UH-60 aircraft in their inventory. (Official Marine Corps photo by Capt. Paul L. Greenberg)

Capt. William Steuber (center), the 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment’s lines of operation (LOO) manager, facilitates at a meeting between Coalition leaders and Sheik Fadil Isma’il, a Rutbah-area tribal leader and city councilman, during the sheik’s visit to Camp Korean Village, Iraq, Jan. 3. As the LOO manager, Steuber works hand-in-hand with Jerry Calhoun (left of Steuber), a senior governance advisor and embedded provincial reconstruction team leader for the United States Agency for International Development, a federal organization which is currently operating in Iraq under the direction of the U.S. State Department. Official USMC photo by Capt. Paul L. Greenberg - Capt. William Steuber (center), the 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment’s lines of operation (LOO) manager, facilitates at a meeting between Coalition leaders and Sheik Fadil Isma’il, a Rutbah-area tribal leader and city councilman, during the sheik’s visit to Camp Korean Village, Iraq, Jan. 3. As the LOO manager, Steuber works hand-in-hand with Jerry Calhoun (left of Steuber), a senior governance advisor and embedded provincial reconstruction team leader for the United States Agency for International Development, a federal organization which is currently operating in Iraq under the direction of the U.S. State Department. Official USMC photo by Capt. Paul L. Greenberg

Tamer Talal Hammad, a satellite communications expert and Arabic interpreter from Jordan, assists Lance Cpl. Michael Johnson (left) and Cpl. Martin C. Conroy from Communications Platoon, Headquarters and Service Company, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment in conducting a site survey for installation of a radio station antenna on the roof of the Rutbah City Council building in western Iraq, Dec. 2. The Reserve Marines of 2/25 worked with local Iraqi technicians to set up the first-ever radio station in Rutbah during the month of December. Official Marine Corps photo by Capt. Paul L. Greenberg - Tamer Talal Hammad, a satellite communications expert and Arabic interpreter from Jordan, assists Lance Cpl. Michael Johnson (left) and Cpl. Martin C. Conroy from Communications Platoon, Headquarters and Service Company, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment in conducting a site survey for installation of a radio station antenna on the roof of the Rutbah City Council building in western Iraq, Dec. 2. The Reserve Marines of 2/25 worked with local Iraqi technicians to set up the first-ever radio station in Rutbah during the month of December. Official Marine Corps photo by Capt. Paul L. Greenberg

Lance Cpl. Benjamin Hines (second from left), a Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected vehicle operator with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 8, celebrates as James Harrison of the Pittsburgh Steelers runs back an interception 100 yards for a touchdown at the close of the second quarter of Superbowl XLIII. The Camp Korean Village, Iraq, dining facility showed the game, aired live on Armed Forces Network, the morning of Feb. 2. Hines, a 21-year-old Reserve Marine and die-hard Pittsburgh Steelers fan, is a full-time university student from York, Pa. (Official USMC photo by Capt. Paul L. Greenberg) - Lance Cpl. Benjamin Hines (second from left), a Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected vehicle operator with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 8, celebrates as James Harrison of the Pittsburgh Steelers runs back an interception 100 yards for a touchdown at the close of the second quarter of Superbowl XLIII. The Camp Korean Village, Iraq, dining facility showed the game, aired live on Armed Forces Network, the morning of Feb. 2. Hines, a 21-year-old Reserve Marine and die-hard Pittsburgh Steelers fan, is a full-time university student from York, Pa. (Official USMC photo by Capt. Paul L. Greenberg)