When someone enlists in the armed forces, they can never truly know where the future will take them. Once basic training is over many find themselves far away from home overseas and some end up in combat.
William Kyle Carpenter was a soldier who had been deployed to Afghanistan in 2010. He had joined the US Marines after graduating high school and knew full well the risks and danger his job and position entailed.
William and his squad had been sent to Helmand Province, Afghanistan’s most dangerous area due to high insurgent activity, with orders to set up a patrol base in a small village. Read the full story here ▶
