"It also shows security is improving; if that wasn't the case, you sure couldn't go out and buy watermelon," said Staff Sgt. Omar Jackon (left), an infantry section leader from Newark, N.J., as he holds a watermelon and Staff Sgt. Stephen Graham, a platoon sergeants from Greenville, S.C., pays an Iraqi teenager for the fruit during a joint patrol in a market in southeastern Baghdad, Aug. 18. Both paratroopers are assigned to to Company D, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division.