"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.
Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell
Taken on 18 August 2009
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