7/12/2012 - Sgt. Eric Rothenberger, a native of Phoenix, and team leader assigned to A Battery, 2nd Battalion (Airborne), 377th Parachute Field Artillery Regiment, Task Force Spartan Steel, checks his sights while pulling security at an alleyway in the village of Kunday July 7. The unit’s mission was to facilitate members of the 2-377th PFAR Female Engagement Team as they conducted key leader engagements to promote a female health-education program. (U.S. Army photo/Staff Sgt. Jason Epperson)

7/12/2012 - Paratroopers of A/2-377th PFAR conduct a security patrol outside of Forward Operating Base Salerno July 7. (U.S. Army photo/Staff Sgt. Jason Epperson)

7/12/2012 - Army 1st Lt. Greg Lins, a native of Point Pleasant, N.J., 3rd Platoon leader, A/2-377th PFAR, and Army 1st Lt. Kelsie August, a native of Petoskey, Mich., part of the PFAR Female Engagement Team show off the flowers August received during a meeting with the women’s school in Mangus July 7. (U.S. Army photo/Staff Sgt. Jason Epperson)

7/12/2012 - Lins greets a local Afghan boy inside a qalat of a female school in the village of Mangas July 7. (U.S. Army photo/Staff Sgt. Jason Epperson)

7/12/2012 - Rothenberger hydrates while pulling security at an alleyway in the village of Kunday July 7. PFAR’s mission was to facilitate members of the female engagement team as they conducted key leader engagements to promote a female health education program.. (U.S. Army photo/Staff Sgt. Jason Epperson)