Lance Corporal Lara Grayson, or Gray to her brothers, has been stationed at a base camp in Jelawur, Afghanistan. She's a dog handler, her partner, a German Shepard named Zabba, tracks down Taliban insurgent fighters and IEDs. They take daily patrols, and when engaged in a firefight, they're usually short lived. But not everyone on either side will come out alive.Tabatha Steel, a war reporter has been captured by the Taliban, and when the patrol rescues her and her cameraman, tension builds. Their meeting is a game changer in more ways than one.Jelawur, just outside the Green zone, is surrounded by miles of desert, and a small population living alongside a river. Marines take the ground inch by inch to infiltrate the defense range. At times, they can klick out completely without being harassed, and can move about freely, resulting in a faster process, and Taliban insurgent fighters having less time to set up traps and ambushes. This means being engaged in firefights with only three or four fighters at a time as opposed to a mass before their presence.Their mission is to ruin the enemy maneuvering from place to place and setting up IEDs and to catch them in the act, and to establish friendships with the locals. So far, Alpha Company has managed to stay safe, but even with the coalition's presence, there's still a lot of work to do.