U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Christopher Mullins, with Headquarters and Service Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, patrols through the Nawa bazaar with an Afghan boy in the Nawa district of Helmand province, Afghanistan, on Sept. 8, 2009. The Marines are deployed with Regimental Combat Team 3 to conduct counterinsurgency operations with Afghan National Security Forces in southern Afghanistan.