Archive photo of the day
Foot patrol, 2006
Stars and Stripes
October 28, 2025
(Ben Murray/Stars and Stripes)
Samarra, Iraq, Oct. 20, 2006: Specialist Ryan Drewry, 21, from Cincinnati, Ohio, kneels in front of a gate in Samarra, Iraq, on a dismounted patrol through the city while a young Iraqi girl looks out. Soldiers in Company C, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division have been in Samarra since August 2006, trying to curb the violence and train Iraqi police.