THE TENSION: Combat Camera: 10th Mountain Soldiers Patrol Kunar Province, Afghanistan

Spc. Rufino Persaud, a native of Jacksonville, Fla., watches over the Afghan country side while fellow members of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, speak with members of the Afghan border police, at an Afghan border patrol outpost, June 30. The 10th Mountain Division Soldiers work closely with their ABP counterparts in order to help stop illegal activity along the border with Pakistan. (Photo by Sgt. Matthew Moeller, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment.)

Spc. Rufino Persaud, a native of Jacksonville, Fla., scans for suspicious activity from an Afghan border police outpost while fellow members of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, speak with members of Afghan border police, June 30. 1st Bn., 32nd Inf. Regt., Soldiers work closely with their Afghan counterparts, in Kunar province, in order to help stop illegal activity along the border with Pakistan. (Photo by Sgt. Matthew Moeller, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment.)

U.S. Army officers with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, set up a defensive position with a M-240B Machine Gun on a road outside Forward Operating Base Joyce, June 30. (Photo by Sgt. Matthew Moeller, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment.)

Army Capt. Christian Lightsey, of Jacksonville, Fla., looks out over the village of Sarhani during a patrol, June 30. Lightsey, and fellow Soldiers with 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, have been patrolling Afghanistan's volatile Kunar province since arriving in early January. (Photo by Sgt. Matthew Moeller, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment.)

Soldiers with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, patrol the rocky cliffs near Forward Operating Base Joyce, in Kunar province, June 30. (Photo by Sgt. Matthew Moeller, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment.)

Soldiers with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, patrol outside Forward Operating Base Joyce, in Kunar province. During the Patrol, the Soldiers met with Afghan border police officers to discuss continued security along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. (Photo by Sgt. Matthew Moeller, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment.)