(Right) U.S. Army Maj. Robert Watras, Joint Sustainment Command – Afghanistan battle major, hands a backpack filled with school supplies to a local Afghan boy attending the Kandahar Airfield Bazaar School on June 25. Watras is a member of the Mississippi Army National Guard’s 184th Expeditionary Sustainment Command, which has been deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom since early October. The school supplies were provided through a unique collaboration between Mid Gulf Forestry Inc. and students from Parklane Academy in McComb, Miss.