During Operation Iraqi Freedom II, my first tour in Iraq, I was an engineer company commander in the Nineveh Province. My company was administratively assigned to an infantry battalion.
My unit had an important job. It was responsible for operational level logistics planning for Central Command's (CENTCOM) war fighting mission. Unfortunately, some of its leaders seemed to take advantage of their deployed situation by focusing on their own personal interests rather than on the mission.
SPC Joe Darby was from an Army Reserve unit from a small town. SPC Darby had been in Iraq for seven months when he was first handed the photographs on a CD. It was lent to him by a colleague, Charles Graner.