God bless them.

Combat engineer, Sgt. Daniel Ritchie, detonates an insurgent’s improvised explosive device while conducting route clearance along Highway 1, July 23, 2012, in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. Ritchie serves with 1st Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division. (U.S. Army photo by Capt. Thomas Cieslak, Task Force 1-82 PAO)

A medical evacuation helicopter flown by Soldiers of the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade lands as paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team secure the area, July 23, 2012, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. The paratroopers were evacuating an insurgent who was wounded and required medical care. (U.S. Army photo by Capt. Thomas Cieslak, Task Force 1-82 PAO)

A sharpshooter and other paratroopers from the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, provide security during a route clearance patrol along highway one in Ghazni, Afghanistan.

A Paratrooper from the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, searches for improvised explosive devices along Highway 1, July 23, 2012, in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. Dismounted troops are often better at finding wires leading to IEDs. (U.S. Army photo by Capt. Thomas Cieslak, Task Force 1-82 PAO)

U.S. paratroopers cross the Tarnak River as they return from a partnered patrol in southern Afghanistan’s Ghazni province.

Sgt. 1st Class Allen Sutton, platoon leader for the brigade’s Protective Services Detail, scans for an insurgent while on patrol in Ghazni, Afghanistan.