CAMP BAHARIA, IRAQ - Breath, relax, aim, shoot, squeeze. He takes aim and fires a single shot. Goal!

HUSAYBAH, Iraq - It's midday in this farming-and-smuggling town on the Syrian border, and the market square is bustling.

CAMP BAHARIA, Iraq  - "The AK-47 assault rifle: the preferred weapon of our enemy. It makes a distinctive sound when fired at you."

DOSS keeps safety top priority for Marine aviation  -- Marine Corps aircraft conducting operations in Iraq are worth tens of millions of dollars.

CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq  - Regimental Combat Team 5 assumed tactical control of 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment (Airborne) Dec. 25 and established the unit's battlespace in the Gharmah region Jan. 2.

 GHARMAH, Iraq  - Snipers from 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment are planting fear into the hearts of insurgents.

FALLUJAH, Iraq  - Marines with 1st Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment paused to honor three Marines who gave their lives for the cost of freedom.

HADITHA, Iraq  - Adapting ideas tracing back from ancient history to modern Israel, US Marines have sealed off flashpoint towns with sand walls in a new counter-insurgency tactic to quell the wilds of western Iraq.

President Bush's plan to send tens of thousands of U.S. and Iraqi reinforcements to Baghdad to jointly confront Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias is likely to touch off a more dangerous phase of the war, featuring months of fighting in the streets of the Iraqi capital, current and former military officials warned.