Lubbock, Texas, native Pfc. Jason Bates, 21, a SAW gunner with 2nd Platoon, Company A, 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, which is attached to 2nd BCT, 1st Inf. Div. pulls security in the Hurriyah neighborhood of the Kadhimiya district of Baghdad Feb. 8. The Paratroopers were deployed to Iraq as part of a 21,000 soldier esclation of forces in Iraq's capital.