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Coalition service members and civilians from (left to right) France, the United States and Mongolia, serve themselves treats at the Thanksgiving lunch, Nov. 24, at Kabul International Airport. Thanksgiving, alt More

A Marine pays his final respects to Gunnery Sgt. Christopher Eastman, an explosive ordnance disposal technician with 1st EOD Company, 7th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group (Forward) who die More

A group of Afghan National Army cadets attend classroom training at Regional Military Training Center-West at Camp Zafar, Herat Dec. 11. They are the first females to attend an ANA training center other than Ka More

Catherine Russell, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues shares a light moment with International Security Assistance Force service members and civilian gender advisors during a Veteran’s Day break More

An Australian soldier raises his country's flag during a service commemorating Anzac Day at Kandahar Airfield in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, April 24, 2013. The observance, which falls on April 25 each year More

Canadian army medical technician, Cpl. Pamela Plante, assigned to 5th Field Ambulance, 5 Area Support Group, based out of Valcartier, Quebec, Canada, provides simulated medical treatment to a mock casualty duri More

Sgt. Maj. Donna King, the Deputy Command-Support Operations, NATO Training Mission Afghanistan’s operations sergeant major, and a native of Monticello, Ark., stands with Command Sgt. Maj. Maryam Tabish, from th More

Maj. Jack Owens, of Moore, Okla., senior instructor assigned to the 162nd Infantry Brigade, based in Fort Polk, La., speaks to a group of officers and non-commissioned officers in a classroom at the Security Fo More

Gul Maqsood Sabit, right, the Afghanistan Deputy Finance Minister for Revenue and Customs addresses the International Security Assistance Force and Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan representati More

(From left to right) Command Sgt. Maj. Marvin Hill, senior enlisted leader for NATO International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan; Gen. David Petraeus, commander of NATO ISAF and USFOR-A; More

Romanian President Traian Basescu is greeted by U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Jeffrey B. Kendall, Kandahar Air Field commander, before his visit of more than 150 Romanian soldiers at Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan More

A group of North Atlantic Treaty Organization-International Security Assistance Force medals are displayed on a table before being presented by senior ISAF officials to service members during a joint presentati More

United States Marine Corps General Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the commanding general of the International Security Assistance Force and United States Forces-Afghanistan, speaks to members of the U.S. Air Force foll More

U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., commander of International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces - Afghanistan, speaks to ISAF, Afghan National Security Force senior leaders and Government of More

U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, shares a light moment with U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Scott Miller, commander, NATO Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan and More

Liaisons from the Pakistani Army, Afghani National Security Forces and International Security Assistance Force officials met to discuss improving border relations along the Afghan-Pakistan border at the Joint B More

Sergeant Alexander Neal, a cannon crewmember assigned to Killer Troop, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment, prepares to fire in support of a combined Afghan National Army live fire exercise. The exercise was hos More

A U.S. Marine color guard composed of Marines with Regimental Combat Teams 5 and 6, await the beginning of a transfer of authority ceremony here, July 5, 2012. Since their activation in 1917, 5th and 6th Marine More

Marine Corps Gen. John R. Allen, commander of NATO and International Security Assistance Force troops in Afghanistan, and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker are greeted by senior Afghan officers upon t More

Regional Support Command (Southwest) [RSC (SW)] conducts a change of command ceremony on Camp Leatherneck, Helmand province, Afghanistan, June 1, 2013. U.S. Marine Corps Col. Frank Arnold relinquished command o More

Members from various Afghan government ministries and departments listen as Wahidullah Halimyav, a legal advisor working with Afghanistan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock, introduces the diff More

Italian Army Lt. Gen. Giorgio Battisti, chief of staff for the International Security Assistance Force, speaks during the Italian Armed Forces Day ceremony held at ISAF Headquarters Nov. 4, 2013. The memorial w More

British army Lt. Gen. John Lorimer, left, deputy commander, International Security Assistance Force, speaks with Afghan National Army Brig. Gen. Muhammad Sharif Sharifi, right, commandant of the Afghan National More

A Turkish service member adjusts the Turkish flag prior to raising it during a Republic Day of Turkey ceremony held at International Security Assistance Force Headquarters Oct. 29, 2013. Turkey will celebrate t More

U.S. Marine Sgt. Maj. Alberto Ruiz, the Regimental Combat Team 5 sergeant major, prepares to take a bite of the birthday cake during a ceremony held in celebration of the 5th Marine Regiment’s 95th birthday her More

Bismillah Khan Mohammadi, the defense minister of Afghanistan, speaks from behind a podium during the International Security Assistance Forces and Afghan National Security Force memorial unveiling ceremony outs More

The Netherlands' military and civilians celebrated Queen's Day, at the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Headquarters April 30, where hundreds of coalition forces military, civilians and contractor More

A Supreme dining facility employee prepares to serve Thanksgiving dinner to a soldier inside the dining facility at International Security Assistance Force Headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Nov. 28, 2013. (U. More

An Afghan National Army instructor speaks to a group of officer candidates as they prepare to conduct physical training exercises inside a gym at the Afghan National Army Officer Academy Oct. 23, 2013. The ANAO More

1st Sgt. Mohammad Javid, an Afghan Uniformed Police Traffic Bureau first sergeant, holds up his graduation certificate from the AUP property book management course during a ceremony at the Ministry of Interior More

Elements from the Afghan air force and Russian contractors download an Mi-17 helicopter from Antonov An-124 Ruslan heavy lift freighter on the flight line of the Kabul Air Wing at the Kabul International Airpor More

The Persistent Threat Detection System monitors insurgent activity from about 1,000 feet in the sky. The PTDS provides aerial surveillance for coalition forces enabling them to get an exact location of anything More

Macedonian army troops stand behind tables covered with North Atlantic Treaty Organization-International Security Assistance Force medals during a joint presentation ceremony held at ISAF Headquarters, Oct. 20, More

Secretary of the Navy Raymond E. Mabus Jr. speaks with Marine Corps and Navy personnel, during an all-hands call held at International Security Assistance Force Headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan Nov. 19, 2013. More

The Persistent Threat Detection System monitors insurgent activity from about a 1,000 feet in the sky. The PTDS provides aerial surveillance for coalition forces enabling them to get an exact location of anythi More

Loadmasters assigned to the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, 455th Expeditionary Operations Group, Wyoming Air National Guard based in Cheyenne, Wyo., relax on the ramp of a C-130 Hercules transport aircra More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: EDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram Airfield State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: CJTF76 Scene Came More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Bagram Airfield State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: Northeast Scene Camera Operator: SPC Joshua Balog, USA Rele More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: Northeast Scene Camera Operator: SPC Joshua Balog, USA Release Status: Released to Public Combine More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: Northeast Scene Camera Operator: SPC Joshua Balog, USA Release Status: Released to Public Combine More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: Northeast Scene Camera Operator: SPC Joshua Balog, USA Release Status: Released to Public Combine More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: EDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram Airfield State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: CJTF76 Scene Came More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: Northeast Scene Camera Operator: SPC Joshua Balog, USA Release Status: Released to Public Combine More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: Northeast Scene Camera Operator: SPC Joshua Balog, USA Release Status: Released to Public Combine More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram Airfield State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: CJTF76 Scene Cam More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: EDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram Airfield State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: CJTF76 Scene Came More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram Airfield State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: CJTF76 Scene Cam More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: Northeast Scene Camera Operator: SPC Joshua Balog, USA Release Status: Released to Public Combine More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: Northeast Scene Camera Operator: SPC Joshua Balog, USA Release Status: Released to Public Combine More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: EDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram Airfield State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: CJTF76 Scene Came More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: Northeast Scene Camera Operator: SPC Joshua Balog, USA Release Status: Released to Public Combine More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: EDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram Airfield State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: CJTF76 Scene Came More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram Airfield State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: CJTF76 Scene Cam More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: Northeast Scene Camera Operator: SPC Joshua Balog, USA Release Status: Released to Public Combine More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar Army Air Field Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Camera Operator: PFC Leslie Angulo, USA Rele More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar Army Air Field Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Camera Operator: PFC Leslie Angulo, USA Rele More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar Army Air Field Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Camera Operator: PFC Leslie Angulo, USA Rele More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar Army Air Field Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Camera Operator: PFC Leslie Angulo, USA Rele More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar Army Air Field Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Camera Operator: PFC Leslie Angulo, USA Rele More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Kabul Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Camera Operator: PFC Leslie Angulo, USA Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digit More

Air Force Lt. Col. Brett Sharp, incoming commander for Provincial Reconstruction Team Gardez, prepares to receive his unit's guidon from the outgoing commander, Air Force Lt. Col. Randall Gilhart, during a chan More

Soldiers from the Brigade Troops Battalion, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, pose for a picture after completing the 5K Memorial day run at Forward Operating Base Lagman May, 29.

German recce company at Mazar e Sharif, Afghanistan. The recce company is an asset of Regional Command South and are doing reconnaissance mission in the whole RC(S) area. (Photo by Ruud Mol)

A Combined Counter Improvised Explosive Device Exercise is conducted between the ANSF and ISAF.

Canadian LCdr April Inglis, a lawyer with the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team, exchanges information through an interpreter (foreground) regarding issues of the Afghan justice system with Najee Bulah, l More

Chidren of a large returnee camp in Baghlan province receive bundles of blankets and clothes donated by the Baghlan Province Provincial Reconstruction Team along with the department for returnees, the ANP and s More

An International Security Assistance Force soldier from Provincial Reconstruction Team Chaghcharan hands blankets to the students from Sultan Alamadin Ghori high school.

Winter in Afghanistan is generally short but can become extremely cold with temperature up to -20 degrees Celsius. In the mountain areas it can snow heavily, giving all aspects of warfare an extra challenge.

Regional Command Capital's Italian Battlegroup responds to reports of a weapons cache in the Musahi Valley area south of Kabul during a medical assistance visit.

International Security Assistance Force service members are assisted by the Ghazni City Fire Brigade, who offered assistance to their coalition partners and were able to quickly contain the fire and preventing More

Notes from home is a memory book that was circulated all across Canada to provide Canadian forces members and others the opportunity to send greetings to our Canadian soldiers and civilians serving abroad. The More

Afghan and International Security Assitance Force medical personnel treat Afghan civilians wounded in an explosion that occurred north of Kandahar City, Feb. 17.

An International Security Assistance Force Soldier clears a weapons cache found recently in Gulistan Valley, Farah province, containing 39 mortar bombs.

International Security Assistance Force soldiers from the Kunduz Provincial Reconstruction Team hand out food during a winter relief mission conducted in Lala Maydan recently.

Ghulam Hadiar, Mayor of Kandahar helps Captain Tyler Couture, Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team, officially open the Saddaqat Bridge in Kandahar City, March 2.

Marines with MWSS 271, attached to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (24th MEU), NATO International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), lay down AM2 matting while in the Kandahar province, Afghanistan. This AM2 More

A Marine Corps KC-130J cargo plane from Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 365 (Reinforced) taxis back to its hangar in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, March 15. The Marines have flown passengers and cargo from More

Marines with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit arrived in southern Afghanistan March 15. The 24th MEU will deploy approximately 2,400 service members under NATO's International Security Assistance Force comm More

Marines from Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 365 (Reinforced), 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, NATO International Security Assistance Force, test the controls of a KC-130J prior to a flight. The KC-130J pilot More

Marines from Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 365 (Reinforced), 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, ISAF, review the day's mission and the status of their KC-130J cargo plane in Kandahar, Afghanistan March 13.

Marines with Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment (BLT 1/6), 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (24th MEU), NATO International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), utilize the Field Food Service C More

Sgt. Cody Gaeta, radio operator, Personal Security Detachment, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, NATO International Security Assistance Force, monitors h More

1st Lt. Leotta, Regional Command Capital, and his interpreter supervise Afghan policemen during a practical exercise on improvised explosive device incident management training recently.

Assadullah Khalid, the governor of Kandahar province, shovels gravel at the groundbreaking ceremony for a road construction project in Panjwayi Monday. The project will employ nearly 500 Afghan workers from Pan More

Marine dentists assigned to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (24th MEU) International Security Assistance Force, NATO, conduct medical and dental training with the Afghanistan National Army. (U.S. Marine Corp More

Minnesota Viking cheerleader Bailey performs a dance routine during the Viking cheerleaders’ tour at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, May 19. Bailey and four other cheerleaders visited BAF with a promise to give More

Lt. Dana Cash, a medical officer with Combat Logistics Battalion 24, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, NATO International Security Assistance Force, hands out school supplies to local children outside the hospita More

Canadian Master Bombardier Clint Godsoe, Kandahar provincial reconstruction team, patrols Kandahar on Aug. 26, 2008, on the way to deliver donated school supplies to a local school. The Kandahar PRT has worked More

Spanish army Staff Sgt. Ivan Calzado, CH-47 Chinook helicopter pilot, flies over western Afghanistan on an International Security Assistance Force mission, Sept. 27, 2008. ISAF is assisting the Afghan governmen More

Lithuanian army 1st Lt. Ruta Gaizetute, public affairs officer for International Security Assistance Force Provincial Reconstruction Team Camp Whiskey, meets with local villagers during a Civilian Military Coop More

U.S. Air Force 1st Lt.Shawn Allen, left, International Security Assistance Force physician's assistant, provides medical care to a local villager at Forward Operating Base Bala Murghab, Oct. 4, 2008. ISAF is as More

An Italian air force AB-212 helicopter flies over Afghanistan's Ring Road in Farah province during an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) mission, Oct. 6, 2008. ISAF is assisting the Afghan governmen More

An Italian air force AB-212 helicopter releases flares prior to landing during an International Security Assistance Force mission, Oct. 6, 2008. ISAF is assisting the Afghan government in extending and exercisi More

Canadian army soldiers assigned to the 1st and 2nd Royal Canadian Regiment from the International Security Assistance Force take a break from routine maintenance at Camp Tombstone, Oct. 17, 2008. The soldiers a More

Canadian army soldiers assigned to the 1st and 2nd Royal Canadian Regiment with the International Security Assistance Force perform operational checks of their vehicles and equipment during routine maintenance, More

An Afghan English translator for the American forces rests in the backseat of a HMMWV during the International Security Assistance Force mission, Operation Eagle, Oct. 18, 2008. The operation was conducted Oct. More

Lt. Darren Thompson, British Territorial Army, 4th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment, conducts an International Security Assistance Force patrol around Kabul, Oct. 24, 2008. ISAF is assisting the Afghan government More

Members of the British Territorial Army 4th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment, prepare for an International Security Assistance Force patrol around Kabul, Oct. 24, 2008. ISAF is assisting the Afghan government in e More

Marines from Combat Logistics Battalion, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, returned home from a seven-month deployment in southern Afghanistan, Oct. 27, 2008. Families braved the cool, winter temperatures to reun More

An Afghan national army commander talks on the radio during a foot patrol with the French Operational Mentor and Liaison Team, Nov. 4, 2008. The French are helping the International Security Assistance Force in More