Soldiers from 1st Special Troops Battalion, pulls security during Operation Himera, as a UH-60 Black Hawks prepares to land to pick them up during a joint-air assault with Iraqi police in the Salah ad Din province, Iraq Aug. 21, 2008. The early-morning air assault operation was aimed at clearing two known AQI hideouts in two separate locations near Lake Tharthar in the western portion of the province.