Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reporter Margaret Friedenauer is embedded with the men and women of the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team from Fort Wainwright, Alaska to tell the daily stories of their lives while deployed to Iraq.
Staff Sgt. Jamie Schaar, left, and Sgt. Adam Nollette, left, arrange tools in the mechanics area of the motor pool of the 172nd Brigade Support Battalion, Monday, Oct. 9, 2006 at Camp Stryker in Baghdad.