The Shabakar Market aka The Fish Market

When Lt. Larry Pitts and other soldiers from the 2nd Battalion of the 82nd Airborne Division’s 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment arrived a year ago, the market area was a place to get killed. Criminals and insurgents terrorized the neighborhood. Over the next several months, the soldiers raided hideouts and rid the area of gangs and terrorists. Once the market was cleared, it became the center of the soldiers’ reconstruction effort.