An Afghan boy looks on as Capt. Nicholas Stout of Lake Orion, Michigan (R) hands over money for participating in a jobs program sponsored by the 101st Airborne Division of the US Army that employs local village men and children in manual labor October 9, 2010 west of Kandahar. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

Commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan General David Petraeus (C) is welcomed on the flightline of Forward Base Wilson after he arrived for a brief visit October 7, 2010 west of Kandahar, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

Staff Sgt. Matthew Riegle of Adams-Friendship, Wisconsin with the 1st Battalion, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division sits in the alcove of a mud dwelling doubling as a US Army field base October 8, 2010 in the village of Zoldag Mongah west of Kandahar. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

A soldier with the US Army's 101st Airborne Division takes an afternoon nap as a mud-walled compound converted into a small combat outpost October 13, 2010 in Zhari district west of Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

 An Afghan girl carries a tray holding two bowls of a traditional wheat soup called Ashack October 8, 2010 near Zoldag Mongah west of Kandahar. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

Purple Hearts are lined up to hand to Commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan General David Petraeus to award them to soldiers wounded in battle during a brief ceremony at Forward Base Wilson October 7, 2010 west of Kandahar, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

Members of the US Army's EOD demolition team remotely detonate a Taliban-planted bomb made from a mortar round and a rocket-propelled grenade to neutralize it October 8, 2010 in the village of Zoldag Mongah west of Kandahar. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

Sgt. Curtis Boldman (R) of Las Vegas, Nevada of the US Army's 101st Airborne Division laughs with an Afghan national police chief during an informal Afghan-style lunch October 13 2010 at a field base in Zhari district west of Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

Lt. John Paszterko of Los Angeles, California with the US Army's 101st Airborne Division (R) asks a local Afghan official about a scrap of wire found near his patrol base October 10, 2010 in Zhari district west of Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

Pfc. Michael Huffman (L) of the the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division wades through a creek while on patrol to avoid buried bombs October 15, 2010 in Zhari district west of Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)