U.S. Army Soldier Brent Whitsitt, a native of Galesburg, Ill., provides security as young girls have a picture taken of them, while on patrol in the Sheik Marouf District of Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 17, 2008. Whitsitt is in Green Platoon, Alpha Battery, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division attached to 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division.