FROM: U.S. DEFENSE DEPARTMENT
An Afghan army commando bounds toward a compound after taking enemy fire during a clearing operation in the Khogyani district of Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, March 20, 2014. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Connor Mendez.
The sun rises off the tail of an AH-64E Apache Guardian helicopter as U.S. soldiers slowly guide it off the ramp of an U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft on Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, March 17, 2014. U.S. Army photo by Capt. Andrew Cochran.