(Matt Millham/Stars and Stripes)

Matt Millham/Stars and StripesAfghanistan, July, 2011: A member of Company C, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, patrols the Safar Bazaar, Afghanistan, after dark. Marines had jumped to get ready after an alert was issued on a suspicious car, then had to wait for more than half an hour as their Afghan counterparts got ready for what was supposed to be a quick-reaction force mission.