AR RAMADI, Iraq (May 7, 2005) - Armed with his weapon and metal detector, 20-year-old Lance Cpl. Robert O. Page from Nashville, Tenn., and a combat engineer with 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, walks quickly alongside a street here as he heads to his next position. Corporal Jason T. Ekeland, 22, of Newton, Kansas, and a fellow combat engineer with 1st CEB, follows closely behind. The two blast masters assisted Marines with 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, in conducting "Operation Weston." The infantry battalion's Company's A, C and W conducted the operation, which was a three-hour cordon and search mission of a neighborhood. The purpose of the mission was to eradicate the area of insurgents and inform the people living there of the consequences for harboring terrorists. The Marines hit three improvised explosive devises and found one 155 mm shell. One Marine received minor shrapnel wounds, and no insurgents were captured. Photo by Cpl. Tom Sloan