U.S. Army 1st Lt. Clayton Smith, from Oxford, Maine,

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Clayton Smith, from Oxford, Maine, Scout Platoon Leader, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment, Task Force Spartan, looks on as an Afghan Uniform Police chief gestures to where his policemen discovered an improvised explosive device in a street near the Gardez wood market the morning of Feb. 18. This was the first time an ANA explosive ordinance disposal unit was called on to destroy an IED by the Afghan Uniform Police without assistance from coalition forces in this area.