Soldiers from D Company of The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, and officers from the Afghan National Police, are inserted into the area by two CH-47 Chinooks. Nad-e-Ali, 2011
A sniper with an L115A3 rifle checks the ground ahead of a patrol from X Company, 2nd Battalion the Parachute Regiment in Afghanistan.
The patrol was part of Operation Oqab Tsuka which delivered a vital second turbine to Kajaki hydro-electric power station. It was the biggest operation that British Forces had been involved in since being in Southern Afghanistan.
Members of the 2nd Battalion, the Parachute Regiment (2 PARA) pictured on a patrol south of the Kajaki Dam, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, June 2008.
ISAF photo by Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Duran, U.S. Army
After an intense firefight, an Afghan Hazara soldier was shot in the back. The plate barely stopped the projectile and penetrated enough which happens to be a tracer round ended up burning the skin.
A Canadian 3RCR Battlegroup sniper walks up a hill to his position during a long range reconnaissance mission near Kabul Afghanistan Wednesday Aug 27, 2003. (Stephen Thorne/Canadian Press)
A Canadian 3RCR Battlegroup sniper walks up a hill to his position during a long range reconnaissance mission near Kabul Afghanistan Wednesday Aug 27, 2003. (Stephen Thorne/Canadian Press)
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