THE TENSION: Combat Camera: Charlie Company Soldiers Patrol Maywand District, Afghanistan

U.S. soldiers with Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment video a controlled explosion of a compound near Forward Operating Base Ramrod, Sept. 7, in the Maywand District. Soldiers routinely patrol the Maywand District in search of insurgents and enemy activity. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Justin Weaver, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment.)

Sgt. Matthew Nystrom, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment uses a Defense Advanced GPS Receiver to pinpoint his location at a compound near Forward Operating Base Ramrod, Sept. 7, in Southern Afghanistan. Nystrom is a native of Lowell, Massachusetts. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Justin Weaver, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment.)

A bomb dog investigates the camera during a routine patrol of a compound, Sept. 7, near Forward Operating Base Ramrod in the Maywand District. Increasingly, insurgents are using homemade explosives -- which can be as simple as buried plastic jugs packed with a deadly mix of fertilizer and fuel, and contain little metal. The keen nose of a trained dog can find the bombs that a metal detector cannot. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Justin Weaver, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment.)

U.S. soldiers with Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment prepare to search a compound near Forward Operating Base Ramrod Sept. 7 in the Maywand District. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Justin Weaver, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment.)

A U.S. soldier with Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment patrols a compound near Forward Operating Base Ramrod, Sept. 7, in the Maywand District. The 1-12 Infantry is one of six battalions of the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (L), 4th Infantry Division and has been placed under Task Force Kandahar's control for their 12-month rotation in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Justin Weaver, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment.)

A U.S. soldier with the 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment from Charlie Company, ground guides a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected truck outside of a compound near Forward Operating Base Ramrod, Sept. 7, in the Maywand District. The MRAP is designed to withstand ambushes and improvised explosive devices and can travel up to 30 mph on two flat tires. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Justin Weaver, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment.)

Specialist Bryan Glidden, a U.S. soldier with the 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment Charlie Company, radios in a report during a search of a compound, Sept. 7, near Forward Operating Base Ramrod located in the Maywand District. Glidden is from Highland, Mich. and is assigned to the 1-12 IN based at Fort Carson, Colo. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Justin Weaver, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment.)