Combat engineer Lance Cpl. Stanton Cromer provides security during an evening patrol with the Afghan Border Police on Dec. 09, 2011. Cromer is part of Operation Eagle Hunt, an operation led by Afghan security forces to clear the Taghaz area of southern Helmand in preparation for future counterinsurgency operations to expand Afghan-led security. Cromer and the other combat engineers focused their efforts in leading the many security patrols the Marines went on.