Cpl. Anthony Gomez, field artillery tactical data systems specialist assigned to 1st Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, ‘Top Guns’, currently attached to 1BCT, 4th Inf. Div., shakes the hand of a young resident of Tarok Kolache, April 1, while Pfc. Roy Heggernes, infantryman assigned to ‘Tog Guns’, interacts with a young boy during a ribbon cutting ceremony for a new village mosque. Gomez and Heggernes, both natives of Saint Paul, Minn., interacted with village residents who participated in celebrations during the event. The mosque is the first complete


Cpl. Anthony Gomez, field artillery tactical data systems specialist assigned to 1st Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, ‘Top Guns’, currently attached to 1BCT, 4th Inf. Div., shakes the hand of a young resident of Tarok Kolache, April 1, while Pfc. Roy Heggernes, infantryman assigned to ‘Tog Guns’, interacts with a young boy during a ribbon cutting ceremony for a new village mosque. Gomez and Heggernes, both natives of Saint Paul, Minn., interacted with village residents who participated in celebrations during the event. The mosque is the first completed structure in a massive joint reconstruction effort by Tarok Kolache landowners and International Security Assistance Forces since the village, previously a Taliban stronghold, was destroyed October 2011, in an effort to rid it of insurgents. Sgt. Breanne Pye Flickr - The Army - Afghanistan handshake


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