A heavy equipment operator from Bridge Platoon, Alpha

A heavy equipment operator from Bridge Platoon, Alpha Company, 9th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group (Forward) unloads excavated soil from a construction site near the town of Shir Ghazay during a bridge replacement project, Feb. 29. The harsh weather had made the old bridge unsafe, so the Marines went to work replacing it with a long term solution that would ease traffic in the local bazaar.