Army Spc. Marisol Landin, right, a health care specialist, Staff Sgt. Christopher Middlebrooks, left, a laundry and showers NCO, and Spc. Theodore Gigrich, a wheeled vehicle mechanic, organize boxes of food at the dining facility at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, Oct. 15, 2011. With the release of food services contractors, Airmen and Soldiers joined together at the dining facility to feed the troops during the closure of JB Balad. Landin and Gigrich are deployed from Fort Hood, Texas. Middlebrooks is deployed from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Cecilio Ricardo)