U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Nickolas Franklin, a data network

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Nickolas Franklin, a data network specialist from Richmond, CA., and assigned to Headquarters Company, Regimental Combat Team 7, conducts an operations check on a Secure internet protocol and Non-secure Internet Protocol Router Access Point (SNAP) satellite communications system on Camp Leatherneck, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, March 18, 2013. Franklin was ensuring that the SNAP system worked properly before shipping it off to Forward Operating Base Kajaki. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Ezekiel R. Kitandwe/Released)