Posted: 08/01/2009
U.S. Army Sgt. Dustin Kaminiski, of Chicago, Ill., team leader, 1st platoon, Company A, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, assigned to Task Force Mountain Warrior, and U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Johnny L. Bates, of Winchester, Ky., the squad leader for weapons squad, 1st platoon, stand guard in a small village in the Kunar province. Bates and Kaminiski were part of a reconnaissance operation their platoon was conducting in support of larger combat operations planned for the near future. Photo by Spc. Eugene Cushing