Corporal Bryce Bowman, a team leader with Bravo Company,

Corporal Bryce Bowman, a team leader with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, and a native of Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, waits anxiously inside a CH-53E Super Stallion with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 466 while being transported to an objective during a mission in Helmand province, Afghanistan, June 5, 2014. The company conducted disruption operations in a known Taliban bed-down location for two days. During the previous mission May 29, the company discovered a drug production lab and removed more than one metric ton of narcotics from the battlefield. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Joseph Scanlan / released)