Story and Photos by Spc. Mike Alberts
3rd Brigade Public Affairs
KIRKUK — As the first morning light peaked over the desert horizon helicopters landed on fields outside their objective. Simultaneously, dozens of tactical vehicles crawled into position. The air and ground assault into this deceptively quiet region of the Kirkuk Province was underway, and would yield impressive results.
Recently, hundreds of Iraqi Security and Coalition Forces isolated, cleared and assessed eight villages in the northern part of the Rashaad Valley just outside of Kirkuk, Iraq, during a joint, coordinated air and ground operation.
The Rashaad Valley borders the southern end of the city of Kirkuk. The valley is home to thousands of Iraqis in dozens of small villages.
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(Photo: Iraqi police officers with Kirkuk’s Emergency Services Unit mobilize outside of two villages in the Rashaad Valley as part of a combined Iraqi Security Force and Coalition Force air and ground operation outside of Kirkuk, Iraq. The mission resulted in the detention of several anti-Iraqi forces involved in IED cells and the confiscation of significant amounts of bomb-making materials.)
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