Just thought I would share a few of the photos from the last week that I have found while looking for photos of soldiers for their families.This is good stuff.

Pfc. Roger Montague, a Ramah, N.M., native with Troop A, 1st Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, attached to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, hangs out with a new buddy during a joint patrol in Baghdad's Karkh District on Aug. 2.

Pvt. Francis Kianco, a San Jose, Calif., native with Troop A, 1st Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, attached to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, prepares to redress a young boy's wounds caused by a car bomb. Kianco and members of the "Death Stalker" Platoon found the boy in his home during a joint patrol with Iraqi army troops in Baghdad's Karkh District on Aug. 2.

Pfc. Roger Montague, a Ramah, N.M., native with Troop A, 1st Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, attached to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, escorts a toddler down the street during a joint patrol in Baghdad's Karkh District on Aug. 2.

Staff Sgt. Craig Patterson, a Carnesville, Ga., native of the Fort Stewart, Ga.,-based A Troop, 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, reads a children's book to four-year-old Rusil, an Iraqi girl living in the Suleikh neighborhood of Adhamiyah, during a visit to her home Aug. 7. The girl's injured leg was apparently the result of a stray U.S. bullet, and the Soldiers from A Troop have made it their mission to make sure she gets proper medical attention.

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Andrzej Wojcicki (left), a member of the Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A) greets an Afghan child after convoying to an Internal Displaced Persons (IDP) camp outside of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Friday, July 27, to deliver donations sent from the United States. The camp is home to approximately 585 families. The CSTC-A members, made up of joint and international military members, civil servants and contractors based at Camp Eggers, gather every two weeks under the Volunteer Community Relations (VCR) program to deliver the clothing, toys, school supplies and toiletries to the needy in the Kabul area. U.S. Air Force chaplain Lt. Col. Michael Weber manages the VCR program. He works with Afghan Religious and Cultural Affairs (RCA) Officers to determine where the donations are most needed. Once the donations are packaged for distribution Lt. Col. Weber organizes a convoy to take the VCR program volunteers out into the local community to distribute the donations and to interact with the Afghan citizens. Lt. Col. Weber recently deployed to Afghanistan's capital city from Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. He is the first Catholic priest to serve at this location in many months. He volunteered to deploy here replacing an Army chaplain who had to leave due to illness. Besides providing the various chaplain services to the joint military community at Camp Eggers Lt. Col. Weber also serves as a mentor to the RCAs who are the Afghan equivalent to U.S. military chaplains. CSTC-A, headquartered on Camp Eggers in the nation's capital, partners with the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the international community, to plan, program, and implement structural, organizational, institutional and management reforms of the Afghanistan National Security Forces. The 500+ military members assigned to CSTC-A provide mentorship and training to the Afghan National Army and to the Afghan National Police.

U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Clifford Foster (right), a member of the Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A) talks with a group of children after convoying to an Internal Displaced Persons (IDP) camp outside of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Friday, July 27, to deliver donations sent from the United States.

Communicating through means other than talking, Sgt. 1st Class Matthew S. Parrish, mortar platoon sergeant for Troop A, 4th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, demonstrates the art of "high-fiving" to a group of Afghan children July 16 while visiting Hassan village in the Gelan District, Ghazni province, Afghanistan.