II MEF News

Light armored vehicles with C Company, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, roll through the desert landscape of southern Helmand province, Afghanistan, March 8. During their deployment, 3rd LAR Marines have spent weeks and months at a time roving the open desert conducting interdictions against insurgent narcotics and weapons smuggling. - Light armored vehicles with C Company, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, roll through the desert landscape of southern Helmand province, Afghanistan, March 8. During their deployment, 3rd LAR Marines have spent weeks and months at a time roving the open desert conducting interdictions against insurgent narcotics and weapons smuggling.

Sgt. Jesse Walden, chief scout with C Company, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, prepares to fire a light anti-armor rocket at an insurgent fighting position in the Bahram Chah Valley during Operation Rawhide II in Helmand province, Afghanistan, March 16. During the four-day raid on the key insurgent trafficking hub on the Pakistan border, insurgents fought mainly from hillside fighting positions. The fighters Walden engaged were using a cave a few hundred yards from a Marine position. - Sgt. Jesse Walden, chief scout with C Company, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, prepares to fire a light anti-armor rocket at an insurgent fighting position in the Bahram Chah Valley during Operation Rawhide II in Helmand province, Afghanistan, March 16. During the four-day raid on the key insurgent trafficking hub on the Pakistan border, insurgents fought mainly from hillside fighting positions. The fighters Walden engaged were using a cave a few hundred yards from a Marine position.