Marine Corps Capt. Charles E. Anklam III with Weapons Company, 2D Battalion, 9th Marines, Regimental Combat Team 5 gives an Afghan boy a piece of candy during a satellite patrol in Marjah, Afghanistan May 3, 2012. Weapons Company took part in a fifteen-day partnered operation to erect Patrol Base Sledgehammer Five and disrupt insurgent activity in the area. ( Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. David A. Perez/Released) 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines conduct Satellite Patrol 120503-M-HR724-077

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