By David Mac Dougall, Baghdad Bureau

We spent most of last week in Fallujah, arriving back in Baghdad yesterday (Saturday); and now we’re preparing to go out again on Tuesday afternoon.  That means preparing equipment, washing clothes, finding cold-weather gear, packing the satellite, editing gear, cameras and back-up equipment too.  Lots to keep us busy!

This coming week marks one of the big dates in the Baghdad Bureau calendar: Thanksgiving.  It might be the time when people back in the US tuck into turkey, but in Iraq we traditionally try to get out and broadcast live with troops, putting as many of them as possible on TV and on the internet.

For the past few weeks we’ve been doing Thanksgiving “shout-outs” giving soldiers and marines we meet the chance to say hello to their friends and families back home, to be broadcast this week on FOX News.  So far I’d say we’ve recorded close to a hundred of them – in Kirkuk, Baghdad and Fallujah.  If you see military personnel on TV from Iraq this week, chances are we met them and had some fun in front of the camera.

Here’s a few final photographs from our embed with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines in Fallujah last week: watch out online Monday for a special KFC “webisode” which we’re putting together exclusively for the On The Scene blog… and of course, watch out for our Fallujah stories to air this week in the run-up to Thanksgiving on FOX News Channel.