Staff Sgt. Derek Leach of 1st Platoon 1-75 Cavalry sights his rifle down the grape rows as other soldiers move through them.
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A U.S. soldier scales the middle of the grape wall. Soldiers prefer going the "hard way" over the grape wall because they feel there's less risk of stepping on improvised explosive devices, or IEDs.
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In their effort to avoid IEDs, U.S. soldiers struggle through the thick marijuana fields on a mission to surround a hostile town.
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Soldiers discovered IED-making materials buried under some trees. They believed it was another Taliban "bed down" site hidden from their electronic surveillance.
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A bomb robot is deployed to search for an IED in a dirt intersection where a bomb had been planted on three successive days.
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An Army vehicle after it hit an IED on a heavily mined dirt road that 1-75 Cavalry had started pushing down only weeks before, killing the driver and truck commander and wounding the other passengers.
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A soldier holding guard position is outlined by an illumination flare shot by another unit.
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The hole indicates the size and position of the IED that killed two and wounded three soldiers.
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A local Afghan boy watches U.S. soldiers passing through his village for the first time.
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A Bravo Company soldier emerges from an abandoned compound once crawling with insurgents.
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An Afghan soldier lowers himself into a hole U.S. soldiers suspect is a Taliban hiding spot.
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An Afghan man after being shot dead from the roof by U.S. soldiers who he had been signaling insurgents.
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Capt. Mike Gold of Charlie Company, 1-75 Cavalry, listens to claims for damages from villagers ranging from knocked-down trees to blown-up compounds after a recent operation to take control of problem areas in Zhari district.
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A soldier from 1st Platoon after a running firefight and finding several IEDs in an unexplored territory.
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The 1-75 Cavalry leadership says their goodbyes to two soldiers killed in a catastrophic IED blast.
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