Reporting From Afghanistan - Day 4

Leatherneck Magazine has posted dozens of slideshows from both Iraq and Afghanistan in our Photos From The Field section.

Afghan National Army’s Jalalabad Garrison, next to Camp Howie. (Photo by Stewart Nusbaumer, Leatherneck Magazine)

We prepare to leave Jalalabad (Photo by Stewart Nusbaumer, Leatherneck Magazine)

The hills of Afghanistan. (Photo by Stewart Nusbaumer, Leatherneck Magazine)

Driving north through Kunar we do Valley and along the Pakistan border. (Photo by Stewart Nusbaumer, Leatherneck Magazine)

Spectacular view near Asmar, not far from FOB Monti. (Photo by Stewart Nusbaumer, Leatherneck Magazine)

FOB A-Bad, at Asadabad. (Photo by Stewart Nusbaumer, Leatherneck Magazine)

Outside A-Bad -- a Wal-Mart! Well, sort of a Wal-Mart. (Photo by Stewart Nusbaumer, Leatherneck Magazine)

Proof that Marines can sleep anywhere, this at Camp Joyce. (Photo by Stewart Nusbaumer, Leatherneck Magazine)

1st Lt Matthew Lamb, PAO for CSTC-Central, and all around good Marine. (Photo by Stewart Nusbaumer, Leatherneck Magazine)

Captain Mix, CSTC-C, gunner on our Humvee. (Photo by Stewart Nusbaumer, Leatherneck Magazine)

Convoy leaving as I remain behind. (Photo by Stewart Nusbaumer, Leatherneck Magazine)

Camp Joyce, my home for almost three weeks. (Photo by Stewart Nusbaumer, Leatherneck Magazine)

ETT 2-7 Sergeant Uselton, who would help me learn the ropes and find the essentials at Camp Joyce. (Photo by Stewart Nusbaumer, Leatherneck Magazine)