Photos: 82nd Airborne in Afghanistan

I saw some of these photos the other day when preparing the post on multicam, but I couldn't tell what camo pattern they were wearing. I found some close-ups today. It looks like USP-D. (Which is like the more familiar USP, except some brown has been added.)

A U.S. Army soldier with 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the 82nd Airborne Division stands at an outpost atop a mountain overlooking the Arghandab valley in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 7, 2010. (Reuters/Daylife)

An U.S. Army soldier with 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the 82nd Airborne Division, secures a pomegranate orchard during a patrol in Arghandab valley near Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan May 5, 2010. U.S. forces are massing on the outskirts of Kandahar for the biggest military offensive of the nearly nine-year-old war, in the hope of turning the tide against a strengthening Taliban insurgency. (Reuters/Daylife)

An U.S. Army soldier with 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the 82nd Airborne Division, jumps over a wall during a patrol in Arghandab valley near Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan May 5, 2010. U.S. forces are massing on the outskirts of Kandahar for the biggest military offensive of the nearly nine-year-old war, in the hope of turning the tide against a strengthening Taliban insurgency. (Reuters/Daylife)

Sarge says the a battalion of the 82nd was testing out the USP-D during the trial last year determining what new camo pattern would be adopted.