A cluster of flowers booming at the foot of a Texas wall painted with the crest and command team of 2nd Battalion, 198th Combined Arms, a Mississippi Army National Guard unit, headquartered in Senatobia, Miss., 13th Expeditionary Sustainment Command. The 2/198th CAB operates the Q-West base defense operations center and fields four line companies, three conducting convoy security missions and one executing the duties of the Q-West force protection company. The recent rains have brought new life to the drought-stricken landscape of northern Iraq.