 Marines with Scout Sniper Platoon, Alpha Company, First Battalion, First Marines, Regimental Combat Team 6 finished the combat operation in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, August 28th. They were tasked with providing overwatch security as other Marines from Alpha Company disrupted a village of enemy insurgents. Yeah, we were running disruption operations up north of Azan, which we didn't opt previously. As you just go up there and basically disrupt the enemy forces, you can kind of disrupt their supply lines and figure out what they're trying to do to increase our security bubble. The Marines with Scout Sniper Platoon spent most of the two-day, three-night operation on a rooftop keeping watchful eye over the village. As Scout Sniper Team Leader, basically I take my team out and we provide surveillance of the battlefield for intelligence gathering purposes, try to locate where the fire is coming from, and report everything up to the CP. Head pretty good eyes on for a new compound, head good fields of view, good fields of fire. Throughout their time on the rooftop, the snipers would sometimes take accurate small arms fire and indirect fire. As the day progressed, we started taking some pretty accurate small arms fire, a little bit of machine gun fire, some IDF, and they were just attempting to locate the enemy and reduce the targets. As the enemy fire crept closer to their positions, the Marines patiently waited until they had positive identity on where their attacker was. Head all my guys up there, we're just on observation, did our best to locate it when we did, called it up to the CP, let them know what was going on, where it's coming from, and then waited for clearance to fire. With the Scout Sniper's vigilant eyes watching over them, the Marines of Alpha Company were able to successfully complete their operation and provide better security in the area. Corporal Ed Gallo, Aga Aman, Afghanistan.