MICHAEL APPLETON

AFGHANISTAN

Afghan soldiers wait for patrol at Camp Tillman, a U.S. Special Forces firebase two miles from the Afghan-Pakistan border in Afghanistan.
  
Afghan men congregate at a tailor shop in Lwara.
   
     
  
Children play catch with a melon at a reservoir frequented by young Afghans on the outskirts of Kabul.
  
A gunner sits on the back of an Army Chinook helicopter as it flies along the Afghan-Pakistan border.
   
Afghan soldiers stand together in their barracks at a US Army firebase in Eastern Afghanistan.
     
  
An Afghan soldier prays from an observation post overlooking the Afghan-Pakistan border in eastern Afghanistan.
   
An Afghan soldier stands guard at the front gate to Camp Tillman, a Special Forces firebase two miles from the border of Pakistan in eastern Afghanistan.