Afghan Eye
Afghan Local Policeman Abdul Salaam provides security along the edge of a compound while fellow policemen and Marines with 1st Platoon, Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, search the compound for possible insurgent materiel during Operation Zema Parma Sar Tera (Don’t Tread On Me) here, April 14, 2012. Afghan National Security Forces and ‘America’s Battalion’ Marines are conducting a variety of missions throughout Helmand province’s Garmsir district ahead of the annual fighting season surrounding the harvest of illicit poppy crops.
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Reece Lodder). Original public domain image from Flickr