Pre-departure briefing inside a Rhino Runner (armoured bus) on route from Camp Victory to the ...

Pre-departure briefing inside a Rhino Runner (armoured bus) on route from Camp Victory to the Green Zone in Baghdad along Route Irish. Australian artist and cinematographer George Gittoes can be seen on the right of the image. One of a series of photographs taken in the Middle East Area of Operations (MEAO) by Mal Booth, Head of the Australian War Memorial's Research Centre, as part of the Memorial's Curators in the Field program. This program continues the Memorial's tradition of documenting Australia's experience of war, through observing the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and collecting records, photographs, oral histories and objects for the Memorial's National Collection.