Pray for their safe return. Note: All pics taken in mid to late April.
First Lt. Neal T. Jones, with Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, searches for enemy spotters during an engagement in Musa Qal’eh, Helmand province, Afghanistan, April 15, 2012. Marines returned small arms fire after they were engaged by enemy combatants. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Chistopher M. Paulton)
Lance Cpl. Travis K. Newton with Combined Anti-Armor Team (CAAT), Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 5, looks through his rifle combat optic during a satellite patrol along a poppy field in Marjah, Afghanistan, April 17, 2012. The CAAT took part in a five day partnered operation to erect Patrol Base Sledgehammer Four and disrupt insurgent activity in the area. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. David A. Perez)
U.S. Marines of Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 365, 3d Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward), pick up coalition forces to insert them further south in the Helmand province, Afghanistan, April 14, 2012. VMM-365 is employed to quickly insert troops in the battlefield to carry out missions throughout Regional Command Southwest. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl Marcus Kuiper)
Airman 1st Class Euris Capellan, a crew chief assigned to the 451st Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, prepares to launch an F-16 Fighting Falcon on April 25, 2012.
Texas Army National Guard Spc. Jose Rivera, 2nd Platoon, Company A, 1st Battalion, 143rd Infantry Regiment, security forces member, stands guard at the Ghazni provincial governor’s compound, as Texas Agribusiness Development Team 5 holds agriculture extension agent training for the Ghazni province DAIL and local agriculture specialists April 18, 2012. Rivera is one of 37 SECFOR members assigned to provide security for PRT Ghazni.
An M4 rifle sits ready in the hands of a 1st Infantry Division soldier during a mission in eastern Afghanistan, April 26. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Roland Hale, RC-East Public Affairs)
Texas Army National Guard Cpl. David Owens, 2nd Platoon, Company A, 1st Battalion, 143rd Infantry Regiment, security forces team leader, gathers his four-man team and prepares to climb to the top of a hill and keep watch over the demo farm in Jungal Baugh, Afghanistan, for Texas Agribusiness Development Team 5 during the final inspection of the farm before handing it over to the Department of Agriculture Irrigation and Livestock in Ghazni province April 16, 2012. Owens is one of 37 SECFOR members assigned to provide security for PRT Ghazni.
U.S Army Soldiers serving with Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Kunar, during a local area foot patrol – April 2012
U.S Army Soldiers serving with Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Kunar, during a local area foot patrol – April 2012
U.S Army Soldiers serving with Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Kunar, during a local area foot patrol – April 2012