THE TENSION: Combat Camera: Air Drop Resupplies Marines at Fire Base Fiddlers Green, Afghanistan

Marines from 3rd Battalion, 11th Marines and soldiers from Afghan national army rush back to their vehicles to pick up supplies from an air drop, July 5, outside Fire Base Fiddler Green. A KC-130 dropped 12 pallets of fuel, food and water to support the personnel at the fire base. (Photo by 1st Lt. Kurt Stahl, Regimental Combat Team 3.)

A CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter from Marine Aircraft Group 40 flies over Fire Base Thunder after dropping off supplies for the artillery Marines here. Marines from 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, Battery I - part of Regimental Combat Team 3 - stand by for fire support missions and can precisely reach targets up to 18 miles away. (Photo by 1st Lt. Kurt Stahl, Regimental Combat Team 3.)

A soldier from the Afghan national army greets a local man who was herding goats near a supply drop zone outside Fire Base Fiddlers Green. Marines from 3rd Battalion, 11th Marines were on site to retrieve the supplies and provide security. (Photo by 1st Lt. Kurt Stahl, Regimental Combat Team 3.)

Lance Cpl. Stephen Jones, 23, cannoneer, Battery I, 3rd Battlion, 11th Marines, provides security during a resupply air drop outside Fire Base Fiddler's Green, July 4. Jones, a Blackville, S.C., native and Blackville Hilda High School graduate is a member of Gun 6 and played drums in his high school band. (Photo by 1st Lt. Kurt Stahl, Regimental Combat Team 3.)