Firefight in the Watapur Valley

KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – U.S. Army Pvt. John Stafinski, a native of Seville, Ohio, fires his M-249 squad automatic weapon during a three-hour gun battle with insurgent fighters in Kunar province, Afghanistan's Waterpur Valley, Nov. 3. Stafinski in an infantryman with Company C, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, based out of Fort Carson, Colo. Photo by U.S. Army Sgt. Matthew Moeller, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment.