THE TENSION: Combat Camera: Uprooting Taliban from Helmand

American and British Soldiers make a security halt during a combat patrol in Sangin District. Photo by Spc. Daniel Love, May 09, 2007

British Soldiers patrol Helmand Province. Photo by Spc. Daniel Love, May 09, 2007

A Special Forces sergeant issues guidance to a squad of Soldiers assigned to the 1st Kandak, 209th Afghan National Army Corps. Photo by Spc. Keith D. Henning, May 09, 2007

Soldiers patrol Sangin City. Photo by Spc. Daniel Love, May 09, 2007

A paratrooper from the 82nd Airborne Division keeps a lookout over a main avenue of approach in the Sangin City District Center. Photo by Spc. Daniel Love, May 09, 2007

A Special Operations physical therapist examines an Afghan child's wrist during a medical relief mission in Sangin City. Photo by Spc. Daniel Love, May 09, 2007

Not all of the work is fighting. A 1st Kandak, 209th Afghan National Army Corps Soldier greets two children who came to a scheduled medical civil assistance program relief mission at Sangin City. Afghan and coalition forces treated more than 500 adults and children during a 3-day period. Photo by Spc. Daniel Love, May 09, 2007

Special Forces Soldiers engage Taliban extremists. Photo by Spc. Daniel Love, May 09, 2007

A Special Forces medic treats another Soldier who received shrapnel wounds from a rocket-propelled grenade explosion while battling Taliban fighters. The Soldier was able to continue fighting minutes later. Photo by Spc. Daniel Love, May 09, 2007

A Special Forces Soldier (identity disguised), mans a machine gun during 96-vehicle, 172-kilometer convoy from Kandahar Army Air Field to the Sangin District Center. Photo by Spc. Keith Henning, May 09, 2007

Special Forces Soldiers arrive for the day's mission in a Family of Medium Tactical Vehicle at a staging area on an undisclosed forward operating base as two CH47 Chinook helicopters fly overhead. Photo by Spc. Daniel Love, May 09, 2007