A member of "Sons Of Iraq" guarding a checkpoint in 2008.
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Stuffed Animal Brigade…
This is from Iraq but I don’t know what was going on. It’s a patrol of Iraqi soldiers but notice almost all of them have a stuffed animal strapped to their helmets. I want to guess that this is a “outreach” kind of patrol to befriend the locals and children. Note the underfolding RPK. Quite possibly Bulgarian due to the pistol grip, although it looks like a Yugo M72.
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Sharing literature with the locals… (U.S service member sharing some reading material with an Iraqi elder. Note the fairly stock and standard M16A2.)