Marines with Bravo Company, Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, fire on enemy insurgents who are attacking them with indirect and small-arms fire in the town of Jurf as Sakhr, Iraq, Dec.1, 2004. The mission is part of an operation by Iraqi, U.S., and British Forces to root out anti-Iraqi elements in the Northern Babil Province. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Zachary R. Frank