U.S. soldiers serving with Comanche Company, Team Hatchet, 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment, 4th Airborne Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Task Force Spartan, alongside Afghan Boarder Police officers, talk with local Afghans while patrolling a village in Khowst province, Afghanistan, Jan. 19, 2012. U.S. and Afghan National Security Forces worked together to surprise and corner insurgents with air assault missions in the villages near the Pakistani border.