AP Photo/May

United States Army Lt. Gibbons, right, and Capt. Max Hanlin, both of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment of the 5th Stryker Brigade, talk with Afghan men during a patrol to their rural village, Tuesday, May 18, 2010, in Afghanistan's Kandahar province.

Max is the one sitting to the Afghan elder's left looking straight ahead.