English: Rumaylah Oil Fields, Iraq (April 2, 2003) -- A U.S. Army soldier stands guard duty near a burning oil well in the Rumaylah Oil Fields. Coalition forces successfully secured the southern oil fields for the economic future of the Iraqi people. The burning wells were set ablaze by the Iraqi regime at the onset of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Operation Iraqi Freedom is the multi-national coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraqi's weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of Saddam Hussein Iraq. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Arlo K. Abrahamson. (RELEASED)