An Iraqi child sits next to U.S. Army Sgt. Sean Bortle, of Hornonel, N.Y., assigned to Alpha Battery, Task Force 2-82nd Field Artillery Battalion, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, while Bortle and his platoon wait for their vehicles to arrive after completing a joint inner city patrol with Iraqi soldiers in Qadussya, a neighborhood in Mosul, Iraq, Sept. 28, 2009.