
US Army soldiers from the 2nd Platoon, B battery 2-8 field artillery, fire a howitzer artillery piece at Seprwan Ghar forward fire base in Panjwai district, Kandahar province southern Afghanistan on June 12, 2011.

Captain Melvin Cabebe with the US Army's 1-320 Field Artillery Regiment, 101st Airborne Division stands near a burning M-ATV armored vehicle after it struck an improvised explosive device (IED) near Combat Outpost Nolen in the Arghandab Valley north of Kandahar on July 23, 2010.

An Italian soldier (C) from the NATO cries as he carries a casket which contains the body of one of the six Italian soldiers killed in Kabul, during a repatriation ceremony at the Kabul international airport on September 19, 2009.

A Canadian soldier takes a nap after taking part in a search operation for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Kandahar on May 21, 2009.

Spanish soldiers carry the casket of a soldier who died in a helicopter crash, at Herat airport in western Afghanistan. Spanish soldiers carry the casket of a soldier who died in a helicopter crash, at Herat airport in western Afghanistan on August 18, 2005.