Capt. Jesse Hills, the team leader of Team 3, Civil

Capt. Jesse Hills, the team leader of Team 3, Civil Affairs Detachment 11-2, peeks through a newly placed culvert in a road just outside of Combat Outpost Castle in Khan Neshin, Afghanistan, Feb. 29, 2012. Travis Burke, a United States Agency for International Development field program officer, and Sgt. Andrew Sanford, a member of Team 3, inspected the canal the culvert will serve during the site survey patrol. The culvert is part of a road-paving project initiated by Team 3. Hills is a 28-year-old from Terre Haute, Ind., Burke is a native of Reno, Nevada, and Sanford is a 24-year-old from Costa Mesa, Calif.