OEF Deployment Photos

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Staff Sgt. Amy Alwood, clarinet player with the 25th Infantry Division (Light) Tropic Lightning band, concentrates on her music as she performs for the Polish contingent at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan on July 26. The Tropic Lightning band is in Afghanistan for a month performing for troops of Combined Joint Task Force 76.


Staff Sgt. Chris Schweigert and Sgt. 1st Class Ken Hall, trumpet players with the 25th Infantry Division (Light) Tropic Lightning band, perform for the Polish contingent at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan on July 26. The Tropic Lightning band is in Afghanistan for a month performing for troops of Combined Joint Task Force 76.


Staff Sgt. John Ellis, trombone player with the 25th Infantry Division (Light) Tropic Lightning band, concentrates on his music as he performs for the Polish contingent at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan on July 26. The Tropic Lightning band is in Afghanistan for a month performing for troops of Combined Joint Task Force 76.


Brig. Gen. Bernard S. Champoux, right, Deputy Commanding General for Operations, Combined Joint Task Force 76, reenlists members of the 25th Infantry Division (Light) Tropic Lightning Band at Bagram Air Field during their one-month visit to Afghanistan to play for the troops.


Soldiers from the 3rd Squadron 4th Cavalry Regiment pull security alongside a road in a small city in the Panjwayi district July 2.  (SSG Twana Atkinson-CJTF-76 Public Affairs Office) 


1st Lt. Mike O'Neil, 3rd Battalion, 7th Field Artillery Regiment, listens intently while talking to village elders in the Panjwayi district of Afghanistan, north of Kandahar.  (SSG Twana Atkinson - CJTF76 Public Affairs Office) 


Local Afghan citizens pass by as Soldiers from 3rd Battalion, 7th Field Artillery Regiment, patrol the Panjwayi district near Kandahar on July 5th.  (SSG Twana Atkinson-CJTF-76 Public Affairs Office) 


"A Soldier from the 706th Explosive Ordinanace Detachment poses near a weapons cache before destroying it. The cache was found near Forward Operating Base Chapman in Afghanistan."  Capt. Todd Schmidt 


"Staff Sgt. David Grotkin, 706th Explosive Ordinance Detachment, investigates a possible improvised explosive device near the village of Qalat."  Capt. Todd Schmidt