US Solders In Afghanistan

NURISTAN AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 26: A US Army Protestant Chaplain assigned to the 10th Mountain Division, right, offers an interdenominational Saturday service to soldiers headed on a morning mission Sunday in Kamdesh, Nuristan August 26, 2006, eastern Afghanistan. The Chaplain spoke about forgiveness in a hostile environment, gave readings from the New Testament and offered the Eucharist. The next day the same soldiers were involved in a fire fight with Islamic militants ending with three soldiers wounded. US Army Chaplains travel irregularly to Forward Operating Bases (FOB). The 10th Mtn Division has been in Kamdesh since July 2006. The FOB has come under frequent rifle and rocket fire from the surrounding high ridges launched by Taliban and forces aligned with Gulbaddin Hekmatyar, a former mujihideen commander. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)