We’re Still at War: Photo of the Day for October 7, 2011

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US Army Sgt. Andrew Wall, Security Forces team leader attached to Provincial Reconstruction Team Zabul, provides security for his civil affairs teammates during a visit to the district center in Shinkai, Afghanistan, Oct. 4, 2011. Sergeant Wall is deployed from Charlie Company, 182nd Infantry Division, Massachusetts National Guard. (US Air Force photo/Senior Airman Grovert Fuentes-Contreras)