Afghanistan, October 2011: Staff Sgt. Donald Thompson of Company F, 4th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, 159th Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, gives a thumbs up to a Black Hawk pilot after being dropped into the Registan Desert for a mission in Kandahar province, Afghanistan.
It's a Sunday in late August, eight days before the last American soldier will leave Afghanistan. Kazim Abdullahi, a community ambassador for the World Relief.