Third Place
Victor J Blue
The Stockton Record
"The COIN War"
Pfc. Lonnie Carter of 3rd Platoon Delta Co. of the 2/87 Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade 10th Mountain Division based at COP Sayedabad searches an Afghan man so he and his family can pass through a US position during a mission to the Onkhai Valley in Wardak province, Afghanistan Wednesday June 10, 2009. The 3rd Brigade were the first troops of the "Afghan Surge," sent to implement the military's new counterinsurgency strategy, "the COIN war," to try and turn the tide in Afghanistan in the face of a resurgent Taliban insurgeny.
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