Hawk Overhead

2/17/2012 STRATEGY PAGE

U.S. Army Col. Mark H. Landes, Left, and 1st Lt. Josh Kopsie kneel on the landing zone while two UH-60 Black Hawks helicopters begin to land on Command Outpost Nerkh in Afghanistan's Wardak province, Feb. 15, 2012. Landes is the commander of the 1st Armored Division's 3rd Brigade Combat Team. Kopsie is assigned to the same unit, which is conducting a battlefield circulation of the different command outposts around Wardak province. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Austin Berner