Jack Gruber | Photojournalist EUPHRATES RIVER, IRAQ -- 4/2/03 -- US Army's 11th Engineer Battalion, Alpha Company and Bravo Company 3/7 with the 3rd Battalion, 69th Regiment Armor Task Force cross the Euprates River under fire checking for explosives on the river assualt taking Objective Peach, the key crossing of the Euphrates River just south of Baghdad. © 2003 USA TODAY