The Wait

Marines and Corpsman attached to India Battery, 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment wait to aid wounded arriving back from a patrol at FOB Zeebrugge on October 5, 2010 in Kajaki, Afghanistan. Eleven Marines and one of their IED sniffing dogs were transported by MEDEVAC helicopter from the patrol after being hit by rocket propelled grenade fire. The Marines at the FOB are responsible for securing the area near the Kajaki Damn on the Helmand River. Getty Images.