U.S. Army Capt. Christopher Brooks (far left) commander

U.S. Army Capt. Christopher Brooks (far left) commander of Company A, 86th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team and a Walpole, N.H., resident conducts a mission brief to inform his Soldiers and the unit that will be replacing them, the 832nd Engineer Company, attached to 1st Squadron, 113th Cavalry Regiment on an upcoming mission, Nov. 22. Brooks uses a sand table to demonstrate the layout of the village where they will conduct a cordon and search mission and which may contain possible homemade explosives and bomb-making materials.