God bless the United States Marine Corps.

US Marines from 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines Regiment keep watch as others check for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) during a patrol in Garmser, Helmand Province, Afghanistan on March 7, 2011. There are around 140,000 international troops, two-thirds of them from the United States in Afghanistan fighting the militant Islamist Taliban. (AFP PHOTO / ADEK BERRY)

US Marines of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines Regiment patrol in Garmser, Helmand Province, Afghanistan on March 7, 2011. There are around 140,000 international troops, two-thirds of them from the United States in Afghanistan fighting the militant Islamist Taliban. (AFP PHOTO / ADEK BERRY)

US Marines from 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines Regiment patrol in Garmser, Helmand Province, Afghanistan on March 7, 2011. There are around 140,000 international troops, two-thirds of them from the United States in Afghanistan fighting the militant Islamist Taliban. (AFP PHOTO / ADEK BERRY)

Corporal Tom Love, US Marine of the 2nd Battallion, 1st Marines Fox Company talks to an Afghan child during a joint patrol with Afghanistan National Army (ANA) soldiers in Lakari downsouth Garmser, Helmand Province, Afghanistan on March 5, 2011. One in three Afghan soldiers still leave the army each year, but NATO remains on track to raise the number of security forces to 305,000 by October 2011, an alliance general said. Boosting the ranks of Afghanistan’s security forces is a vital element of NATO’s plan to begin handing command of the battlefield to Afghans this year, and start withdrawing some foreign troops, with the goal of giving them full control nationwide by 2014. (AFP PHOTO / ADEK BERRY)

US Marine Tom Love of the 2nd Battallion, 1st Marines Fox Company walks during a joint patrol with Afghanistan National Army (ANA) soldiers in Lakari, Helmand Province, Afghanistan on March 5, 2011. (AFP PHOTO / ADEK BERRY)

US Corporal Ryan Baker of 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines Regiment peers through his rifle scope during a patrol in Garmser, Helmand Province, Afghanistan on March 7, 2011. There are around 140,000 international troops, two-thirds of them from the United States in Afghanistan fighting the militant Islamist Taliban. (AFP PHOTO / ADEK BERRY)

This photo taken on March 5, 2011 shows US Marines of the 2nd Batallion, 1st Marines Fox Company exercising at the Amir Patrol Base’s Iron yard in Lakari, Helmand province, Afghanistan. There are around 140,000 international troops, two-thirds of them from the United States in Afghanistan fighting the militant Islamist Taliban. (AFP PHOTO / ADEK BERRY)

US Marine Sargeant Savanna E. Malendoski from 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines Regiment peers through his rifle scope during a patrol in Garmser, Helmand Province, Afghanistan on March 7, 2011. There are around 140,000 international troops, two-thirds of them from the United States in Afghanistan fighting the militant Islamist Taliban. (AFP PHOTO / ADEK BERRY)