Pfc. Eloy Rosario, a rifleman for 1st Platoon, Company C, 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Task Force Duke and a native of New York, pulls security in Sabari during Operation Maiwan VI, Nov. 3. The operation’s goal was to work alongside Afghan National Army soldiers to disrupt Haqqani operations in the area.

Spc. Kris Goettsche, a rifleman for 1st Platoon, Company C, 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Task Force Duke and a native of Melbourne, Fla., pulls security in Sabari during Operation Maiwan VI, Nov. 3. The operation’s goal was to work alongside Afghan National Army soldiers to disrupt Haqqani operations in the area.

An F-15E Strike Eagle of the 335th Fighter Squadron, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., takes off from Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, Nov. 2.

Texas, native, Lance Cpl. Trey Woodward, a machine gunner with 3rd Platoon, Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, patrols next to a cornfield. The 21-year-old, a graduate of Boswell High School in Fort Worth, is currently serving on his first combat deployment.

Marines with 3rd Platoon, Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, conduct a recent patrol through the area. The Marines of 3rd Platoon go on regular security patrols to give local residents a sense of safety from insurgents in the area.

Petty Officer 3rd Class Cameron Mouer, a corpsman with 3rd Platoon, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, provides security while halted on a patrol.

A severely wounded US Marine hit by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) is carried by his comrades to a medevac helicopter of U.S. Army’s Task Force Lift “Dust Off”, Charlie Company 1-171 Aviation Regiment to be airlifted in Helmand province on October 31, 2011. (AFP PHOTO/BEHROUZ MEHRI)