Their bear-skin hats are soaked through - "nothing that a spell under a hair-drier won't sort" - but the band of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards play on for the photographers in the pouring rain.
It's in marked contrast to the weather in which they recorded the album they're launching - Spirit of the Glen: Journey.
They were half way through the recording of the album in Edinburgh earlier in the year when they were called on a six-month tour of duty in Iraq.
As soldiers first and musicians second, they had no option but to abandon recording.
But they didn't bank on record producers Tom Lewis and Jon Cohen following them to Basra.
When the producers first approached record company Universal, they were refused permission. Insurance, they were told, would be impossible to arrange.
But the duo were persistent and in August this year, persuaded all involved to allow them to set up a mobile recording studio in the camp at Basra.
The biggest problem once there was the heat - for both equipment and personnel, particularly the pipers.
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