Fight in Afghanistan

Two V-22 Osprey aircraft prepare for take off from Camp Bastion, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, on August 22, 2011.(Sergeant Mitch Moore/RAF) # 


US soldiers gather near a destroyed vehicle and protect their faces from rotor wash, as their wounded comrades are airlifted by a Medevac helicopter from the 159th Brigade Task Force Thunder to Kandahar Hospital Role 3, on August 23, 2011. Three soldiers were wounded while their vehicle was destroyed up by an Improvised Explosive Devise (IED). (Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images) # 

Spc. Adam Supino, M249 squad automatic weapon gunner attached to Laghman Provincial Reconstruction Team, takes a break while on a security halt during a multi-day operation on August 21, 2011, in Alingar District, Laghman province. The PRT, combined with assets from the 45th Infantry Brigade, conducted a cordon and search in a village thought to be home to IED makers and Taliban fighters.(Staff Sgt. Ryan Crane/Provincial Reconstruction Team Laghman) # 

U.S. Army Corporal Frances Gadiane of Alpha Company 2nd battalion 27th infantry (the Wolfhounds), Task Force No Fear from San Diego, California, take position upon arrival at Observation Post Mace from FOB Bostick in eastern Afghanistan Naray district, on August 26, 2011.(Reuters/Nikola Solic) # 

A US infantryman of Delta Company, 2-87 Infantry Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, prepares his ammunition in the Delta Company barracks at combat outpost Makuan in Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan on August 13, 2011.(Romeo Gacad/AFP/Getty Images) # 


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