Marines with Firepower Control Team Alpha, 1st Brigade Platoon, 2nd Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Marine Expeditionary Brigade-Afghanistan, sit around a campfire with U.K. soldiers from Number IX Company, 1st Battalion, Welsh Guards, after a patrol, Sept. 23, near Checkpoint North in Helmand province, Afghanistan. Insurgents launched a small-arms attack on the checkpoint from the north and northeast shortly afterward.