Pictures of Marines in war in Iraq

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An assault convoy of trucks and amored vehicles of the101st Airborne Division's 3rd Brigade Combat Team prepare to cross into Iraq Friday, March 21, 2003. (AP Photo/Robert Woodward, US Army)

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A F/A-18 Hornet launches from the USS Harry S. Truman en route to strike against Iraq, Friday night, March 21, 2003. The Truman on Friday launched its first strikes in support Operation Iraqi Freedom. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

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Iraqi soldiers standing together with their arms raised are silhouetted in a sky covered with black smoke as they surrender to U.S. Marines from the15th Marine Expeditionary Unit in southern Iraq Friday, March 21, 2003. The cause of black smoke is not known. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

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A soldier from the U.S. Army A Company 3rd Battalion 7th Infantry Regiment watches the blur of a convoy of 3rd Infantry Division forces as it passes by, pushing deeper into Iraq from the south Saturday, March 22, 2003.(AP Photo/John Moore)

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U.S. Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit help an Iraqi soldier with water from a canteen in southern Iraq, on Friday, March 21, 2003. Some 200 Iraqi soldiers surrendered to the U.S. 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit just after an hour after it crossed the border into Iraq from northern Kuwait. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

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sand storm before convoying to a position near the Iraqi border Wednesday, March 19, 2003. The commander of the 3rd Infantry Division, Maj. Gen. Buford Blount III, ordered his troops to reposition to locations near the border as Predisent Bush's deadline for Saddam Hussein to leave Iraq approached.(AP Photo/John Moore)

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U.S. Marines from the 3rd Batt., 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division, in background, and surrendered Iraqi soldiers take cover while searching a building near Az Bayr, Iraq on Saturday, March 22, 2003. U.S. -led coalition forces continue their war missions Sunday, with American forces progressing 150 miles (240 kilometers) into Iraq, halfway to Baghdad. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)

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U.S. Marines with 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division, return fire after coming upon a mortar attack during an orange sandstorm on a road south of Baghdad on Wednesday, March 26, 2003. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)

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U.S. Marines with 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division, take cover after coming upon a mortar attack during an orange sandstorm on a road south of Baghdad, Iraq on Wednesday, March 26, 2003. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)

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U.S. marines keep watch during street fighting in Nassiriyah March 25, 2003. A large convoy of U.S. marines forced their way through the city, a key crossing point over the Euphrates river, where stubborn Iraqi resistance had been holding up Western forces for two days. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

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Bodies of apparent Iraqi republican guard soldiers lie on the ground as US Marines search around a bus shot up earlier in Qat'at Sukkar in central Iraq March 27, 2003. Marines treated enemy wounded on Thursday and searched the luggage of Iraqis killed inside a bus by a storm of bullets from advancing armoured units. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

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A U.S. Marine lights up a cigarette to a wounded Iraqi who appeared to be a Republican Guard soldier as others Marines search around a bus shot earlier on the key road in Qat'at Sukkar in central Iraq March 27, 2003. Marines treated enemy wounded on Thursday and searched the blood-stained luggage of Iraqis killed inside a bus by a storm of bullets from advancing armoured units. Reporters counted four corpses outside the bus and marines said another 16 lay inside. All the bodies were adult men, wearing a mixture of civilian and military clothing and had papers that appeared to identify them as Iraqi Republican Guard. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

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U.S. marines take up positions during street fighting in the city of Nassiriya March 25, 2003. A large convoy of U.S. marines forced their way through the city, a key crossing point over the Euphrates river, where stubborn Iraqi resistance had been holding up Western forces for two days. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

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An Iraqi soldier was killed by marines who were ambushed in central Iraq.

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U.S. Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit remove a portrait of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from the wall at the Iraqi Naval base in Az Zubayr, in southern Iraq desert, Sunday, March 23, 2003. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)