Al Dalham Company, a Basrah-based company, operates over 185 vehicles at Contingency Operating Base Basra, including the familiar short and egg-shaped buses that ferry Soldiers around the base. At any given moment, there are 14 of these buses in circuit around COB Basra: seven even-numbered buses traveling clockwise and seven odd-numbered buses traveling counterclockwise. (U.S. Army Photo by Spc. J. Princeville Lawrence)