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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	Smoke covers the presidential palace compound in Baghdad during a massive US-led air raid on the Iraqi capital	A US Navy ordnance handler checks the nose of a laser-guided MK 82 500-pound bomb in the hangar bay of the USS Kitty Hawk, amid 1,000 and 2,000-pound bombs
Soldiers with the US Marine Corp	Police arrest an anti-war protester on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House Friday, March 21, 2003	Smoke covers the presidential palace compound in Baghdad
Friday the troops went in, facing light resistance from Iraqi soldiers on the way toward the strategically important port city of Basra. Here, U.S. Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit take firing position after hearing the sound of gunfire	Marines of the U.S. Marine Expeditionary Unit take cover from Iraqi fire as British artillery rounds explode behind during the early stage of the push into southern Iraq to take control of the main port of Umm Qasr	A U.S. Marine pulls down a poster of Saddam Hussein in Safwan, Iraq
Soldiers from the U.S. 101st Airborne Division rest in foxholes by their convoy in a staging area in the Kuwaiti desert	U.S. Army infantry troops hold a position just 75 feet from the Iraqi border while Kuwaiti bulldozers widen a ditch crossing at a UN border checkpoint in the demilitarized zone between Kuwait and Iraq	Austin resident Dick Underhill, 63, who says he served eight years in the U.S. military, protests with others Friday outside the state Capitol
	Chris Jansing joined NBC News in June 1998 as an NBC News correspondent and anchor for MSNBC. Jansing covered the terrorist attacks on September 11 as the events unfolded.