Lance Corporal Chris Sanderson (rear) and Sergeant Travis Dawson (front), U.S. marines from Bravo Company, First Battalion, Sixth Marines, protect an Afghan man and his child after Taliban fighters opened fire in the town of Marjah, in Nad Ali district, Helmand province, Afghanistan, on February 13, 2010. U.S.-led NATO troops had launched an offensive against the Taliban's last big stronghold in Afghanistan's most violent province and were quickly thrown into a firefight with the militants.
