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Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Home As the sun begins to rise, U.S. Army 1st Lt. Alex R. Pruden, a platoon leader from Tuscon, Ariz., assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment (Task Force Bulldog), 101st Airborne Division, shakes hands and chats with locals during a patrol in the Pech River Valley in eastern Afghanistan’s Kunar Province Nov. 20th. (Photo by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell, Task Force Bastogne Public Affairs) As the sun begins to rise, U.S. Army 1st Lt. Alex R. Pruden, a platoon leader from Tuscon, Ariz., assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment (Task Force Bulldog), 101st Airborne Division, shakes hands and chats with locals during a patrol in the Pech River Valley in eastern Afghanistan's Kunar Province Nov. 20th. (Photo by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell, Task Force Bastogne Public Affairs)

As the sun begins to rise, U.S. Army 1st Lt. Alex R. Pruden, a platoon leader from Tuscon, Ariz., assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment (Task Force Bulldog), 101st Airborne Division, shakes hands and chats with locals during a patrol in the Pech River Valley in eastern Afghanistan’s Kunar Province Nov. 20th. (Photo by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell, Task Force Bastogne Public Affairs)

As the sun begins to rise, U.S. Army 1st Lt. Alex R. Pruden, a platoon leader from Tuscon, Ariz., assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment (Task Force Bulldog), 101st Airborne Division, shakes hands and chats with locals during a patrol in the Pech River Valley in eastern Afghanistan's Kunar Province Nov. 20th. (Photo by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell, Task Force Bastogne Public Affairs)

As the sun begins to rise, U.S. Army 1st Lt. Alex R. Pruden, a platoon leader from Tuscon, Ariz., assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment (Task Force Bulldog), 101st Airborne Division, shakes hands and chats with locals during a patrol in the Pech River Valley in eastern Afghanistan’s Kunar Province Nov. 20th. (Photo by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell, Task Force Bastogne Public Affairs)

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. McCarthy Phillip, an infantry squad leader from Decatur, Ga., assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment (Task Force Bulldog), 101st Airborne Division, searches a room during a patrol in the Pech River Valley in eastern Afghanistan’s Kunar Province Nov. 20th. (Photo by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell, Task Force Bastogne Public Affairs)

Taking a look through his scope, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Kimo L. Griggs, an infantry squad leader from Maui, Hawaii, assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment (Task Force Bulldog), 101st Airborne Division, scans the Pech River Valley for insurgent movement in eastern Afghanistan’s Kunar Province Nov. 20th. (Photo by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell, Task Force Bastogne Public Affairs)