OEF Deployment Photos

LTC Neason and MG Olson patrolling Kandahar City, Afghanistan. 

PFC Shackerer provides Comms for dismounted patrol with MG Olson in Kandahar City, Afghanistan. 

The presence of female Soldiers displays to Afghans, especially the women, America’s resolve as a democracy to give equal rights to all its citizens. This was evidenced when Sgt. Jade Fry, 25th MP Co., met with local Afghan women in a voter registration center in Kandahar city.

Maj. Khan, the executive officer of 2nd Kandak, Col. Gary H. Cheek, the commander of Combined Task Force Thunder, and Mayor Hajji Soorkai walk the streets of Josufkhel with Soldiers from 2-27 Wolfhounds Sunday in Paktika Province.

Col. Gary H. Cheek, commander of Combined Task Force Thunder enjoys dinner with Gov. Mohammad Gullab Mangal and Gen. Mohammad Rahime in Paktika Province Sunday.

Soldiers from Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, Wolfhounds, patrol the streets of a village in Paktika Province Sunday.

Soldiers from Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, Wolfhounds, patrol the streets of a village in Paktika Province Sunday.

Spc. Brandi Clark, a member of LTF-725's rigging team, prepares a rigger's net to secure pallets of supplies for transport to Herat Province. 

Interpretor Namak; Capt. John Sego, the commander of Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment; Yosufkhel Mayor Hajji Soorkai; Yosufkhel Chief of Police Nazar Mohammad; Combined Task Force Commander Col. Gary H. Cheek; and Maj. Khan, the executive officer for 2nd Kandak of 3rd Brigade smile with the new Afghan flag presented to the Mayor on behalf of Coalition Soldiers.

Pfc. Roxanne Diaz, a member of LTF-725's rigging team, shrink wraps a pallet of water that will be transported to the forward logistics element in support of the ANA's mission in Herat
Province.

Lt. Col. Clarence Neason, TF Steel commander, pulls security with his Soldiers during a convoy in Afghanistan. Neason witnessed the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the Pentagon, and has used that experience to reaffirm his commitment to the Army.

Lt. Col. Margaret Sullivan, officer in charge of the Intermediate Care Unit at the CTF 325th Field Hospital on Bagram Air Field talks to Marium, 10. Marium was injured when a suicide militant blew himself up with a grenade in the Kunar Province Monday night. Marium along with six other Afghan children were injured in the blast. (Note: This photo was used with the permission of Marium and her uncle Fazel Allah Hai.)