Spc. Eynar Ayupov, personnel clerk, Headquarters Support Company, 404th Aviation Support Battalion, Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division - Baghdad from Ufa, Russia, cleans his M16A2 rifle while sitting at his desk at Camp Taji Oct. 14, 2008. Ayupov was born and raised in Russia and has been in the U.S. Army since November 2006. He is scheduled to become a U.S. citizen while deployed to Iraq.