Out of breath, US Army Spc. Larry Bowen age 26, sits shellshocked in a ditch next to his machine gun after a frontal assault on an insurgent position in close quarter fighting during an operation in the Taliban stronghold of Siah Choy in Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. LIke so many foreign armies in the past the very nature of the land, weather and fighting has exhausted many armies that have come through this region.