Soldiers from 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, Now Zad, Afghanistan, 2006

Digital photograph taken by Corporal Mike Fletcher, Royal Logistic Corps, Helmand Task Force Photographer, Operation HERRICK, July 2006.

Soldiers from 16 Air Assault Brigade wait in the dust thrown up by the downwash from the rotors of a CH47 Chinook helicopter after the completion of a mission in the Taleban stronghold of Now Zad in Helmand Province.

From a collection of images taken during Operation HERRICK IV, the UK's deployment into Helmand Province, Southern Afghanistan.