Iraq: Iraq From The Sky

From August 2006 to October 2007, I deployed to Iraq with the 10th Mountain Division to fight a counterinsurgency battle. During the 15-month deployment, we moved around the southwest Baghdad area quite a bit.  

In May of 2007 I flew over the western edge of the Sunni Triangle of Death. This was part of the reconnaissance mission to determine if moving our base to an abandoned Russian power plant was feasible. 

This is what I saw.