Asadabad, Afghanistan, Oct. 15, 2004: Soldiers with the 82nd Airborne Division climb aboard a CH-47 Chinook on their way to an air assault. Helicopters inserted the soldiers onto a hilltop 8,000 feet into the mountains near the Afghanistan/Pakistan border.

Read Terry Boyd’s story on the air assault here https://www.stripes.com/news/troops-stage-assaults-on-insurgents-in-afghanistan-1.25112