2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment on patrol in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, January 2011

Digital photograph by Sergeant Rupert Frere, Royal Logistic Corps, Operation HERRICK 13, 2011.

A soldier from 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, armed with a General Purpose Machine Gun, observes through binoculars, from the cover of a tree line in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, January 2011. The soldier's helmet cover is marked with the graffiti, 'II Utrinque Paratus II', his battalion number and the Latin motto of the Parachute Regiment, 'Ready for Anything'.