
Paratroopers with 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division fire at insurgent forces during a firefight June 15 in Afghanistan’s Ghazni Province. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod.

An Afghan child looks on as U.S. Army Sergeant Andrew McMeley from 4th Platoon, Dagger Company of the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment watches a ridge with his sniper rifle while patrolling the town of Manugay in the Pech River valley of Afghanistan’s Kunar Province June 26, 2012. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson)

Private First Class Ronnie Berryman from 4th Platoon, Dagger Company of the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment monitors a ridge after opening fire on insurgents that had fired on them in the town of Manugay in the Pech River Valley of Afghanistan’s Kunar Province June 26, 2012. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson)

Private First Class Ronnie Berryman (R ) and Sergeant Edward Jackson (2nd R) from 4th Platoon, Dagger Company of the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment open fire on insurgents that had fired on them from a ridge in the town of Manugay in the Pech River Valley of Afghanistan’s Kunar Province June 26, 2012. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson)

Soldiers (L-R) Lieutenant Kenneth Rowe, Sergeant Andrew McMeley, Sergeant Edward Jackson, and Private First Class Ronnie Berryman from 4th Platoon, Dagger Company of the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment watch artillery hit a ridge where insurgents had fired on them from in the town of Manugay in the Pech River Valley of Afghanistan’s Kunar Province June 26, 2012. Picture taken June 26, 2012. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson)

U.S. Army Lieutenant Kenneth Rowe yells as (from L-R) Sergeant Andrew McMeley, Sergeant Edward Jackson, and Private First Class Ronnie Berryman from 4th Platoon, Dagger Company of the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment open fire on insurgents that had fired on them from a ridge in the town of Manugay in the Pech River valley of Afghanistan’s Kunar Province June 26, 2012. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson)
