Archive photo of the day
ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAYOperation Spotlight, 2006
Stars and Stripes
October 12, 2019
Monte Morin ©Stars and StripesIraq, July, 2006: As the sun rises, Marines with the 1st Combat Engineering Battalion prepare to search the agricultural towns and desert flatlands south of Fallujah for hidden weapons caches. The three-day Operation Spotlight involved three Marine companies and several Iraqi Army squads who detained roughly half a dozen suspected insurgents.