Lt. Col Ed McInnis (back, left), of Mount Pleasant, S.C., Sgt. 1st Class Randy Crocker (back, center), of Conway, S.C., and Capt. Chris Plummer (back, right), of Charlotte, N.C., all of the 1-178th Field Artillery Battalion, South Carolina Army National Guard, give a big thumbs up with Afghan children outside the Familihai Reshkoor School in Kabul province. The three Guardsmen from South Carolina were on a mission with a Camp Phoenix based Civil Military Operations team to review the progress of an excavation project at the school.