Gunnery Sgt. Jose Trejo (right), staff noncomissioned officer in charge for the Police Advisory Team, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, Regimental Combat Team 8, works with local Afghan Uniformed Police to inventory weapons and equipment at the Kajaki District police headquarters April 20, 2011, in Helmand Province, Afghanistan as Haji Faziullah Ahakizad (center, in black turban), district chief of police, looks. (Official USMC photo by Staff Sgt. Jeremy Ross) - Gunnery Sgt. Jose Trejo (right), staff noncomissioned officer in charge for the Police Advisory Team, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, Regimental Combat Team 8, works with local Afghan Uniformed Police to inventory weapons and equipment at the Kajaki District police headquarters April 20, 2011, in Helmand Province, Afghanistan as Haji Faziullah Ahakizad (center, in black turban), district chief of police, looks. (Official USMC photo by Staff Sgt. Jeremy Ross)

An Afghan boy shares a laugh with Lance Cpl. Kyle L. Ellis (left), a Louisville, Kent., native and a provisional rifleman with Battery B, 1st Battalion, 10th Marines, Regimental Combat Team-8, and Cpl. John T. Gizzi, a Tuckerton, N.J., native and an assistant squad leader with Bravo Battery, during a patrol through the Kajaki green zone in Helmand province, Afghanistan, April 18, 2011. Marines with Bravo Battery say seeing children on patrol is often a sign that insurgent fighters and improvised explosive devices are not nearby. (Official USMC photo by Staff Sgt. Jeremy Ross) - An Afghan boy shares a laugh with Lance Cpl. Kyle L. Ellis (left), a Louisville, Kent., native and a provisional rifleman with Battery B, 1st Battalion, 10th Marines, Regimental Combat Team-8, and Cpl. John T. Gizzi, a Tuckerton, N.J., native and an assistant squad leader with Bravo Battery, during a patrol through the Kajaki green zone in Helmand province, Afghanistan, April 18, 2011. Marines with Bravo Battery say seeing children on patrol is often a sign that insurgent fighters and improvised explosive devices are not nearby. (Official USMC photo by Staff Sgt. Jeremy Ross)

Lance Cpl. Zach R. Mullin, a team leader in 1st Platoon, E Company, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, and native of Clio, Mich., communicates through an interpreter with a local Afghan, April 15. Mullin knows enough of their language to give basic commands and courtesies. -

Petty Officer 3rd Class Rogelio Saldana, a combat corpsman for E Company, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, and native of El Paso, Texas, demonstrates how to secure a neck brace with the assistance of Lance Cpl. Daniel A. Vreeland, a light armored vehicle crewman for E Company’s headquarters platoon. Saldana teaches other Marines combat life saving skills so they provide aid to each other as well. -

Lance Cpl. Nicholas W. Sainz, an assistant team leader in 1st Platoon, E Company, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, and native of La Habra, Calif., provides security April 16. Sainz stood watch while other Marines conducted a search. -

Lance Cpl. Matthew C. Rehbein (right), a section leader in 1st Platoon, A Company, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, and Lance Cpl. Justin D. Batterson, a designated marksman for 1st Platoon, sit in the turret of their Light Armored Vehicle 25 at Firebase 0/0 in Helmand province, Afghanistan, April 21. Rehbein and Batterson joined the Marine Corps together in 2008 after growing up with each other in Rochester, Minn. -