Army Spc. Mark Ballinger, a native of Hesperia, California, assigned to the California Army National Guard’s 40th Infantry Division as a cable systems installer-maintainer wears the division’s patch on his right shoulder at Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan, July 21, 2018. Ballinger is part of Train, Advise and Assist Command South and is serving on his first combat deployment. For the Army, a unit patch worn on the right shoulder indicates that a soldier served with that unit in a combat zone. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Neysa Canfield