Spc. Nicholas Pappe, of Adair, Okla., descends a ridge looking for anything suspicious during Operation Mufa-Ja'ah, a combined air assault mission, July 31, in the small town of Shakkat, Iraq, located in the Ma'dain region outside of eastern Baghdad. More than 50 Iraqi army soldiers and paratroopers conducted the mission in order to seize potential weapons caches in the region and deny enemy forces the ability to store or smuggle weapons into Baghdad. Pappe serves as an infantryman for Company D, 1st Battalion 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Multi-National Division – Baghdad.