VANTAGE POINT � U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Chuck Hipple cleans his weapon on a Stryker vehicle prior to providing an overwatch for U.S. Army soldiers and U.S. Marines searching for weapons caches and insurgents east of the Syrian border by the Euphrates River in Iraq, Oct. 1, 2005. Hipple is assigned to the 4th Battalion, 14th Cavalry, 2nd Platoon, Fort Wainwright, Alaska. Defense Dept. photo by U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Andy Dunaway