U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Chris McCarthy (left), assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division Stryker Brigade Combat Team, and Sgt. Bill Whittaker, assigned to 361st Psychological Operations Company, talk with children near a traffic control zone in Mosul, Iraq, Jan. 12, 2005. The soldiers, with the Iraqi National Guard, man a traffic control zone. While conducting the traffic control zone, they talk with people and search homes along the street. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Jeremiah Johnson