"You watch the movies and you think there’s a lot of violence and a lot of bad things happening; but until you’re actually standing there, smoking and joking and talking to your guys and then the world starts to explode around you for no reason, that’s difficult to prepare for."
– Captain James Cobb, Fire Support Officer, 2d Battalion, 2d Infantry, 1st Infantry Division, describing the fighting against Iraqi insurgents during Operation AL-FAJR, the Second Battle of Fallujah, 13 November 2004.
Soldiers of 3d Brigade Reconnaissance Troop, 1st Infantry Division fight in close-quarters in Fallujah, 12 November 2004, during Operation AL-FAJR. (Dvidshub)
