Sgt. Eddie Mathis, with Alpha Battery, 1st Battalion, 278th Regimental Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, pulls security with his M-21 Sniper Rifle during a patrol through Balad Ruz, Iraq, Dec. 31, 2004. A Battery is conducting the patrol to gather intelligence, discourage anti Iraqi forces and to maintain a presence in the city. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Shane A. Cuomo)


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MOSUL, IRAQ: U.S. soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, run in the street as others patrol the cemetery looking for illegal weapons hidden on graves, in the northern city of Mosul, 370km from Baghdad, 08 January 2005. U.S. troops found a ready-to-use car bomb and a large weapons cache hidden in a building, including artillery shells, land mines, rocket-propelled grenade, improvised explosive devices, AK-47 rifles and few new motorcycles. In another incident, two Iraqi insurgents were killed after both of them blew up a roadside bomb and ran away. U.S. troops opened fire, killed them and nobody was injured after the large explosion targeted one of a six Stryker vehicle convoy. AFP PHOTO/Mauricio LIMA (Photo credit should read MAURICIO LIMA/AFP/Getty Images)


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MOSUL, IRAQ: A U.S. soldier from the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment kicks away pigeons as his comrades prepare a car bomb for explosion (behind), in the northern city of Mosul, 370km from Baghdad, 08 January 2005. (MAURICIO LIMA/AFP/Getty Images)


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MOSUL, IRAQ: U.S. soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment patrol the cemetery looking for illegal weapons hidden around graves, in the northern city of Mosul, 370km from Baghdad, 08 January 2005. (MAURICIO LIMA/AFP/Getty Images)


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MOSUL, IRAQ: U.S. soldiers from th 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, search for the identification card of one of two Iraqi insurgents who is still alive and later died, after both of them blew up a roadside bomb and ran away, in the northern city of Mosul, 370km from Baghdad, 08 January 2005. U.S. troops opened fire and killed two insurgents and nobody was injuried after the large explosion targeted one of a six Styker vehicle convoy. AFP PHOTO/Mauricio LIMA (Photo credit should read MAURICIO LIMA/AFP/Getty Images)


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MOSUL, IRAQ: U.S. soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, collect an AK-47 rifle, in the northern city of Mosul, 370km from Baghdad, 08 January 2005. U.S. troops found a ready-to-use car bomb and a large weapons cache hidden in a building, including artillery shells, land mines, rocket-propelled grenade, improvised explosive devices, AK-47 rifles and few new motorcycles. In another incident, two Iraqi insurgents were killed after both of them blew up a roadside bomb and ran away. The troops opened fire, killed them and nobody was injured after the large explosion targeted one of a six Styker vehicle convoy. AFP PHOTO/Mauricio LIMA (Photo credit should read MAURICIO LIMA/AFP/Getty Images)


A US Marine from Lima Company passes a leveled house on patrol in the devastated city of Fallujah.(AFP/Hrvoje Polan)


Iraqi policemen inspect a damaged police vehicle after it came under attack when a roadside bomb exploded and injured two of their colleagues in the southern city of Basra, January 8, 2005. U.S.-led multinational forces have detained a key leader in the Muslim militant network in Iraq (news - web sites) headed by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the U.S. military said Saturday. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani


Israeli soldiers at a military roadblock in the Gaza Strip (news - web sites). Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian police colonel at a roadblock in Abu Gholi, near the Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis.(AFP/File/Mohammed Saber)


An Israeli border guard checks the ID of a Palestinian man at the Salem checkpoint in Izmut north of the West Bank city of Nablus.(AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh


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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: Turkish soldiers of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) stand guard as distribution of ISAF newspapers with news of Afghanistan's new government takes place in Kabul. 08 January 2005. There are over 8000 NATO-led peacekeeping troops patrolling Kabul and Afghanistan's quieter northern provinces. AFP PHOTO/ SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)


An Indian soldier comes out of the government building in Srinagar, India, Saturday, Jan. 8, 2005, after prolonged encounter with three militants who attacked it on Friday. Three militants, three security force personnel and two civilians have died in the gunbattle that lasted for 25 hours. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)


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BANDA ACEH, INDONESIA - JANUARY 7: Indonesian troops guard the entrance to the central mosque as people gather for Friday prayer January 7, 2005 in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. According to reports, more than 100,000 people in Indonesia are now feared to have been killed in the tsunami of December 26, 2004. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)


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PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI: A Haitian man carries 07 January 2005, some wood on his head as he passes a Brazilian patrol of UN peacekeeping (MINUSTAH) soldiers in the commercial center of Port au Prince. The commercial center of the Haitian capital has been calm after weeks of violence by supporters of ousted Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. AFP PHOTO Thony BELIZAIRE. (Photo credit should read THONY BELIZAIRE/AFP/Getty Images)


Venezuelan Police officers arrive at the cattle ranch, El Charcote, run by a British-owned company to begin an evaluation of the property to determine whether some of the land will be turned over to poor farmers as part of an agrarian reform effort in El Charcote, Venezuela, Saturday, Dec. 8, 2005. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)


Venezuelan National Guard soldiers take position on the El Charcote ranch in el Charcote Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 8, 2005. Government officials escorted by troops arrived at a cattle ranch run by a British-owned company and began an evaluation of the property to determine whether some of the lands may be turned over to poor farmers as part of an agrarian reform effort. (AP photo/Fernando Llano)

BTT for the evening crew.

Quoted: Is that an TA31 ACOG on a U.S. Army M4? Lumpy, thanks for the photos.

Yes it is.  I have quite a few pics of TA31s on Army M4s going all the way back to the initial invasion.

BTT last time for the late night crew.