Illuminated by the taillights of her armored vehicle, Lt. Katherine Vanier, the military police platoon leader assigned to Headquarters Company, 2nd Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, gives a convoy brief to her soldiers before leaving Camp Taji, Iraq, Dec. 2. The MPs rolled out long before sunrise to patrol roads outside the camp to ensure the safety of 2/82 convoys traveling through the area from Baghdad. The 2nd Brigade is the last brigade in Baghdad and is facilitating the withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Iraq. Vanier is a native of Minocqua, Wis.