Marines Fight Insurgents, Secure Key Intersection on Road to Marjah [Image 4 of 5]

HELMAND PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN

02.10.2010

Photo by Sgt. Brian Tuthill 

I Marine Expeditionary Force

Lance Cpl. Zachary D. Tutt, a 19-year-old machine gunner with Weapons Platoon, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, runs a wheelbarrow full of gathered cinderblocks back to his gun's location while Lance Cpl. Jutstin Hughes, a radio operator with Weapons Platoon, provides security between firefights with Taliban insurgents Feb. 9 at the "Five Points" intersection. Marines of Charlie Company conducted a helicopter-borne assault earlier that morning to seize the key intersection of roads linking the northern area of the insurgent stronghold of Marjah with the rest of Helmand Province. Tutt is from Kankakee, Ill., and Hughes is from Harrisburg, Pa.

• Date Taken: 02.10.2010
• Date Posted: 02.10.2010 07:33
• Photo ID: 250066
• VIRIN: 100210-M-2934T-003
• Resolution: 4376x2848
• Size: 858.71 KB
• Location: HELMAND PROVINCE, AF