English: Collage of images displaying the following, from left to right:

1. A Romanian Army TAB-77 Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) leads a convoy of multi-national vehicles from Kandahar Airfield to Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. The purpose of the convoy is to gather information and to help with a road reconstruction project in Afghanistan during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. (May 14, 2003, photo by Sgt. Vernell Hall)

2. Chief Justice Shinwani from the Supreme Court of Afghanistan (right) administers the Oath of Office for the Presidential Inauguration to Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec 7, 2004. Defense Dept. (Photo by U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. James M. Bowman)

3. President George W. Bush gives the thumbs-up after Air Force One landed at Bagram Air Base near Kabul, Afghanistan Wednesday, March 1, 2006. The five-hour surprise visit included a meeting with Afghan President Karzai, a ceremonial ribbon-cutting at the U.S. Embassy, and a visit to the troops at Bagram. (Photo by Eric Draper)

4. U.S. Army Sgt. Joseph Chmielewski, from Bravo Company, Division Special Troops Battalion, Task Force Gladius, pulls security during a key leader engagement at the Jalokheyl village on main supply route Vermont in the Kapisa province of Afghanistan Feb. 5, 2008. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Johnny R. Aragon)