Pat Dollard

A AH-64 Apache helicopter of the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Calvary division rests on the flight line early in the morning after a snow storm the night before here Dec. 21.

A UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter from the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Calvary division, takes flight, stirring up the snow as it passes over another UH-60A Black Hawk helicopter here Dec. 21. The helicopters went out on mission the morning after an over-night snow storm.

A CH-47 Chinook helicopter of the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Calvary division rests on the flightline early in the morning after a snow storm the night before here, Dec. 21.

U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond T. Odierno thanks the medical staff at SSG Heathe N. Craig Joint Theater Military Hospital at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, for everything they do to save service members lives Dec. 20, 2011.

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Casey Wolfe from C Troop, 4th Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, shakes hands with Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond T. Odierno at SSG Heathe N. Craig Joint Theater Military Hospital in Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, Dec. 20, 2011.