From left, U.S. Army Capt. Weston Williams, the company commander of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 82nd Special Troops Battalion, presents a combat patch to 1st Lt. Ashley Gerdts, an enabler, while 1st Sgt. Edward Elliott presents the patch to Spc. Marilyn Malcolm, far right, a human resources specialist, during a patching ceremony at Kandahar Airfield in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, Jan. 7, 2014.