Two Marines, not seen, are worked on at Camp Viper in Kuwait after being wounded in battle in an-Nasiriyah, southern Iraq, March 23, 2003. The Marines were in an armored personnel carrier that was struck by a rocket propelled grenade. Working on the wounded are, from the left; HM1 Phil Confer, Cmdr. Brendon Gelford, Lt. Cmdr. John Uecker.
Brian Krause, president of Boots and Coots International Well Control, watches a burning oil well at the Rumeila Oil fields March 23, 2003 in Iraq. Several oil wells have been set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops in the Rumeila area, the second largest offshore oil field in the country, near the Kuwaiti border.
A U.S. Marine is carried on a stretcher from a Marine CH-46 helicopter, Sunday, March 23, 2003, after arriving at Camp Viper, in Iraq. Two Marine casualties arrived at Camp Viper, one with minor injuries and the other with life threatening injuries. The injuries were sustained during a battle outside of the city of An Nasiriyah, northwest of Basra.
A U.S. soldier from the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force stands guard at a burning oil well at the Rumeila Oil fields March 23, 2003.
An Iraqi soldier screams as he searches through sugar cane ingrowth along the banks of the Tigris river in Baghdad March 23, 2003, after Iraqi reports that a U.S. aircraft was allegedly downed and that the pilot parachuted into the river. A U.S. Central Command spokesman in Qatar said no coalition aircraft was shot down and no pilot was missing.
United States Marine Sgt. Michael Brady of El Paso, Texas mans the tail gunner position with an M-16 A2 service rifle while on a mission aboard a CH-53E Sea Stallion helicopter to deliver ammunition supplies to a staging point in Iraqi territory, March 23, 2003.
Either waving to be friendly or signaling that they are unarmed, Iraqis wave at U.S. soldiers with Task Force 369 as the 3rd Infantry moves north through the central farmlands of Ah Najaf, Iraq, March 23, 2003.
A U.S. aircraft security soldier looks at the skies over Iraq darkened with smoke from burning oil fields, from an airbase in Kuwait, Sunday March 23, 2003.
A U.S. Marine M1A1 tank, part of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit in this image from video, takes position near the port city of Umm Qasr, Iraq, during a battle with Iraqi forces Sunday, March 23, 2003. Smoke billows into the sky from a burning building.
A U.S. Marine from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit is shown in this image from video as he takes position near the port city of Umm Qasr, Iraq, during a battle with Iraqi forces Sunday, March 23, 2003.
A house in the Al-Khadra'a district of Baghdad is seen early Sunday, March 23, 2003, after it was his in Saturday's air strikes on the Iraqi capital. The one-story house suffered serious damage in the bombing.
Soldier being carried on stretchers after attack at Camp Pennsylvania, Kuwait. A disgruntled G.I. is being held in the attack.
Wreckage of a downed British RAF Tornado fighter Jet lies in the Kuwaiti desert. The plane is believed to have been accidentally shot down by a U.S. missile patriot battery.
A Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM) is launched from the guided missile cruiser USS Cape St. George in the eastern Mediterranean Sea Sunday, March, 23, 2003.