Photo by Staff Sgt. Zachary Holden | 115th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 10.09.2012
U.S. Army Spc. Casey Bates, of Yakima, Wash., a dog handler with Route Clearance Patrol-29, Alpha Company, 4th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, and his tactical explosives detection dog, Argo, secure an area in the mountains of Paktika province, Oct. 9, 2012. RCP-29 spent three days and three nights working nonstop to clear the route of......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Zachary Holden | 115th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 10.09.2012
U.S. Army Spc. Jose Gamez, of Laredo, Texas, with Route Clearance Patrol-29, Alpha Company, 4th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, watches the screen of his crew remotely operated weapon system during a mission in Paktika province, Oct. 9, 2012. Gamez spent nearly 70 straight hours in his gunner seat while RCP-29 cleared the route of......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Zachary Holden | 115th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 10.09.2012
U.S. Army Pfc. Jakob Patch, of Syracuse, N.Y., with Route Clearance Patrol-29, Alpha Company, 4th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, drives his Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle through the night in the mountains of Paktika province, Oct. 9, 2012. Patch spent nearly 70 hours in his driver's seat while RCP-29 cleared the route of......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Zachary Holden | 115th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 10.07.2012
U.S. Army 1st Lt. Preston Phan, of Plano, Texas, platoon leader for Route Clearance Patrol-29, Alpha Company, 4th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, gives a pre-mission brief to his men in the early hours of the morning at Forward Operating Base Orgun-E, Oct. 9, 2012. RCP-29 spent three days and three nights working nonstop to clear a......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Brendan Mackie | 117th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment (Hawaii) | 09.07.2012
Pfc. Forrest Myers, an engineer and radio telephone operator with the 569th Engineer Company enters information in a radio while on a route clearance mission during Operation Southern Strike III in the district of Takhteh Pol, Kandahar province, Afghanistan, Sept. 7, 2012. Myers is from Hanford, Calif....
Photo by Staff Sgt. Brendan Mackie | 117th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment (Hawaii) | 09.07.2012
Pfc. Forrest Myers, combat engineer and radio telephone operator with the 569th Engineer Company, pauses while entering information on a radio while on a route clearance mission during Operation Southern Strike III in the district of Takhteh Pol, Kandahar province, Afghanistan, Sept. 7, 2012....
Photo by Sgt. Mike MacLeod | 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division Public Affairs | 06.30.2012
Afghan National Army soldiers fire an M2 .50-caliber heavy machine gun during a firefight with insurgents June 30, 2012, outside of Muqor, Ghazni province, Afghanistan. The soldiers are on a partnered patrol with paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team....
Photo by Spc. Evangelia Grigiss | VIPER COMBAT CAMERA USAREUR | 03.14.2012
U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawks land on an airstrip during a training exercise at the Grafenwoehr Training Area in Grafenwoehr, Germany, March 14, 2012. The U.S. Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, Europe's rapid-reaction force, is conducting a mission rehearsal exercise at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in preparation for an upcoming deployment to Afghanistan. The exercise is......
