U.S. Army Spc. Samuel Dumas secures the entrance of an Adhamiyah neighborhood apartment complex in Baghdad, Iraq, on Aug. 31, 2006. Dumas' fellow soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, are searching the apartments for weapons and other contraband items during a joint cordon and search mission by U.S. and Iraqi Army soldiers.