U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Matt O. Muldoon, an M249 light machine gunner with Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, takes a knee during a patrol through the fields and town of Loy Darwayshan in the Garmsir district, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Dec. 4, 2009. Marines with the unit patrolled with Afghan Border Police officers and found one improvised explosive device (IED) and two bags of materials used to make IEDs.