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Traveling along a dirt road, Marines with Alpha Company, Second Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) conduct a mounted patrol using a Light Armored Vehicle-25 (LAV-25) near the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

With interperters onboard Marines with Alpha Company, Second Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) conduct a mounted patrol using an LAV-25 (Light Armored Vehicle-25) near the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

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Marine First Lieutenant Lennon with Alpha Company, Second Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) stops to speak with Afghan villagers during a mounted patrol through an Afghan village near the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

Marines with Alpha Company, Second Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) riding in on Light Armored Vehicle-25 (LAV-25), conduct a mounted patrol through an Afghan village near the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

Marines with Alpha Company, Second Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) riding in on a Light Armored Vehicle-25 (LAV-25), stop during a mounted patrol to let a local interpreter speak with Afghans in a village near the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

Raising clouds of dust Marines with Alpha Company, Second Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) conduct a mounted patrol using LAV-25s (Light Armored Vehicle-25) near the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

An Afghan farm near the gate at Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM. PHOTO taken atop a light armored vehicle with Alpha Company, Second Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) while out on patrol

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Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM

Base: Kandahar International Airport

Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

Scene Major Command Shown: 26 MEU

Scene Camera Operator: CAPT Charles G. Grow

Release Status: Released to Public

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label_outline Explore Second Light, Reconnaissance Battalion, Kandahar International Airport

US Army (USA) Soldiers assigned to D/Company 1ST Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion drive their Light Armored Vehicle (LAV-25) across a pontoon bridge into northern Iraq, in support Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The 1ST Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion is assigned with the 1ST Marine Division

Villagers from Nojoy, outside Kandahar International Airport, follow the members of the US Army's Tactical Psychological Operations Team (TPT) 913, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, as they walk toward their vehicles after discussing local issues with the elders during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. The team is armed with 5.56 mm M16A2 rifles

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CPL Joshua McNew, 1ST Marine Division, G-2 slides camouflage "cammy" netting over his High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) to break up the outline of the vehicle. G-2 supported 1ST Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion during the exercise.THERE IS ONLY A SCREEN RESOLUTION IMAGE AVAILABLE

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