U.S. Army Spc. David Baxter, a native of Senora, CA, makes friends with Iraqi children by handing a young girl a soda while providing outer cordon security for 1st Battalion, 22nd Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division as they conduct clearing operations of a neighborhood in the Hariyah district, Baghdad, Iraq on Sep. 1, 2008. Baxter is in Mortars, Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division.