Dust Up

U.S. soldiers from the 82nd Airborne protect themselves from a dust storm kicked up by a Chinook helicopter dropping off supplies at a forward operating base Diablo in Ghorak district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Thursday, March 15, 2007. Soldiers of the 82nd Airborne are providing a security cordon around the heart of NATO's Operation Achilles.

Credit: AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool