Operation Champion Spear: Paratroopers on Patrol in Paktika
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FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan U.S. Army Paratroopers from 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division are extracted via CH-47 Chinook, outside the Village of Marsac, Paktika province, Afghanistan, during Operation Champion Spear, Sept. 5. Operation [...]
U.S. Army 1st. Lt. Christopher Kittle, left, walks with a community member to the site of a key leader engagement in Tur Kheyl, Afghanistan, April 17, 2009. Kittle is assigned to Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, Task Force Steel. (DoD photo by Sgt. Christopher T. Sneed, U.S. Army/Released)
