A Marine with Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, lugs his pack to a tent after arriving in Afghanistan this week. The 24th MEU will deploy approximately 2,400 service members under NATO's International Security Assistance Force command to conduct full-spectrum operations to capitalize on recent ISAF and Afghanistan National Security Force successes in providing a safe and secure environment for the Afghan people in which to rebuild their lives. This deployment, of approximately seven months duration, will temporarily fill a standing ISAF request for a maneuver force in southern Afghanistan.