1st Lieutenant Nicholas Smith

Marines with K Company radio back their location in Karmah, Iraq on November 22, 2007. Marines with 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines search farmland and access roads for weapons caches. Regimental Combat Team 6 is deployed with Multi National Forces-West in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Al Anbar Province of Iraq to develop Iraqi Security Forces, facilitate the development of official rule of law through democratic reforms, and continue the development of a market based economy centered on Iraqi reconstruction. (Official USMC photograph by Lance Cpl. Peter J. Thibodeau)