Photo Journal: US reservist

My unit, 411 Civil Affairs, is based here in eastern Baghdad. It's also home for the support units of the 2nd Armoured Cavalry Regiment. The name comes from the days when the cavalry sometimes had to eat their own mules to survive.

We were based at the Canal Hotel compound, where UN headquarters are. But it was the target of two bombings so we had to move.

This was the top military academy under Saddam Hussein's regime, called Rustumia College.