Hunting The Insurgency

These photos were taken by CBS News correspondent Cami McCormick, embedded with U.S. forces in Baghdad.

Members of the Charlie Company, 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment, set out on foot patrol along the eastern banks of the Tigris River on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2007.

1st Squadron 40th Cavalry's Charlie Company is specially trained to conduct reconnaissance missions on foot. Here soldiers based out of Anchorage, Alaska, search for gunmen and weapons caches on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2007, in south Baghdad.

A dismount patrol of Charlie Company, 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment, based out of Anchorage, Alaska, makes its way through the fertile area along the eastern bank of the Tigris River in southern Baghdad Jan. 16, 2007

A dismount patrol of Charlie Company, 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment, based out of Anchorage, Alaska, makes its way through the fertile area along the eastern bank of the Tigris River in southern Baghdad Jan. 16, 2007.

U.S. Army 1st. Lt. William Mach, left, and Capt. Jason Good, center, of Charlie Company, 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment, stay in communication with their command along the eastern bank of the Tigris River on Jan. 16, 2007.

Col. Michael X. Garrett, Commander of the 4th Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, center, watches the progress of his troops in southern Baghdad, Jan. 16, 2007.

U.S. Army Sgt. Tom Donaldson, 4th Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, watches for snipers in the Tigris River valley, southern Baghdad, Jan. 16, 2007.

U.S. Army Sgt. Jason Brock, right, and another member of the Charlie Company, 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment, are shown along the eastern bank of the Tigris River, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2007. The troops conduct reconnaissance missions on foot in the search for gunmen and weapons caches.

Sgt. Jason Brock of Charlie Company, 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment, is shown on duty along the eastern bank of the Tigris River Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2006.

Capt. Jason Good, left, commander of the U.S. Army's Charlie Company, 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment, is shown on patrol Jan. 16, 2007, in southern Baghdad.

Making their way through the reeds along the banks of the Tigris River are members of the 4th Brigade, 25th Infantry and Charlie Company, 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry, Tuesday Jan. 16, 2007, in southern Baghdad.

Members of the specialized dismount unit, Charlie Company, 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment, head toward a farm in Arab Jabour, a Sunni enclave along the Tigris River on Jan. 16, 2007. The regiment is based out of Fairbanks, Alaska.

Two members of the 1st Squadron 40th Cavalry's Charlie Company, based out of Fairbanks, Alaska, are shown on the lookout for a gunman while on foot patrol along the Tigris River on Jan. 16, 2007.

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