The ever popular U.S. Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division and Bravo Company, 414th Civil Affairs Battalion attract a large following of children as they visit Shwan, a village near Kirkuk, Iraq, May 8. Soldiers and the local Iraqi police visited villages around Kirkuk to gather atmospherics by meeting and speaking with the locals about current conditions in the area.