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Lance Cpl. Zackery J. Jackson, a Marine Corps combat engineer with Combat Service Support Battalion 7, provides security as his fellow engineers construct a gate Jan. 4, 2004, at Turaybil, Iraq, near the Iraqi-Jordanian border. After a suicide bomber killed two Marines and injured six others early last month, combat engineers from CSSB-7 have spent the past three weeks fortifying the camp. The Marines have worked daily to emplace barriers, elevate watch towers, set concertina wire, and install steel gates so the Marine provisional infantrymen who operate here can better control traffic. Jackson is a 20-year-old native of Pontiac, Ill. The combat engineers are reserve Marines from the Peoria, Ill.-based Charlie Engineer Company activated for service in Operation Iraqi Freedom.