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Marines See Progress in Afghanistan

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• April 25: LCPL Jordan Mitchell of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit plays a handheld video game while lying under the stars on his cot next to his Humvee at forward operating base Dwyer in the Helmand province of southern Afghanistan.
• April 30: Marines from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit are seen through a dust- and mud-splattered Humvee window during a re-supply convoy in the Helmand province of southern Afghanistan.
• April 24: Cpl. James Davis of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit is covered in desert dust after dismounting from the gun turret of his vehicle as a convoy arrives at a forward operating base in southern Afghanistan.
• May 4: Marines’ weapons and body armor rest against a mud wall of a chicken and pigeon hutch inside an Afghan farmer’s family compound where a platoon of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit based themselves in Helmand province of southern Afghanistan.
• May 2: U.S. Marines from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit return fire on Taliban positions near the town of Garmser in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
• April 30: A man who was detained in the town of Garmser sits blindfolded and handcuffed in a Humvee of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
• April 30: A U.S. Marine Humvee passes through a British NATO checkpoint near Garmser in the Helmand province of southern Afghanistan.
• April 22: The helmets, weapons, dogtags and boots of two fallen U.S. Marines stand at the end of a ceremony in their honor at Camp Bastion, in southern Afghanistan. First Sgt. Luke Mercardante, 35, of Athens, Ga., and Cpl. Kyle W. Wilks, 24, of Rogers, Ark., died on April 15 when their vehicle, the fourth of 36 vehicles in their convoy, struck a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan.
• April 27: U.S. Marines from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit play football at dusk inside a forward operating base in southern Afghanistan.
• May 3: U.S. Marines from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit search for Taliban militants they fired on and believe to have killed near the town of Garmser in the Helmand province of Afghanistan.
• May 4: U.S. Marines from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit fire mortars on a Taliban position near the town of Garmser in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
• April 28: U.S. Marines from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit gather together, using a re-supply airdrop parachute for shade, outside a forward operating base in southern Afghanistan.
• May 2: U.S. Marine Jonathon Protzman, from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, uses an axe handle as a crutch after falling and breaking his leg near the town of Garmser in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
• May 5: Marines play cards inside a mud house during a lull in the fighting with Taliban positions in the Helmand province of southern Afghanistan.
• April 27: Members of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit walk to their vehicles as they prepare to head to the front line from a forward operating base in Dwyer, in the Helmand province of southern Afghanistan.