Today, the thoughts of a 33-year-old Army sergeant on foot patrol in eastern Baghdad.
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The service member was hit by a roadside bomb in Helmand province during a foot patrol, authorities said.
His son was driving his truck around a corner when suddenly he came across a U.S. foot patrol that opened fire.
Sgt Clements was on a routine foot patrol in May when he stepped on what he describes as "the wrong spot".
U.S. soldiers, Marines and Iraqi police set off on a foot patrol.
The British force of some 7, 500 soldiers in Helmand suffered fresh casualties Sunday, when a suicide bomber attacked a foot patrol and killed three soldiers.
The MoD said he had died in Camp Bastion after he was attacked at a checkpoint following a foot patrol in the Nad Ali district of Helmand province.
In the first incident, a soldier from 4th Battalion The Rifles died in an explosion while on foot patrol near Nad Ali on Thursday afternoon, said Britain's Ministry of Defence.
Paralympic rower Captain Nick Beighton, who lost both legs in an explosion during a foot patrol in Afghanistan in 2009, welcomed the micro processor limbs as a "big step up in technology".
Additionally, it noted that more effective body armour has contributed to "a considerable weight for soldiers to carry whilst on foot patrol, making it challenging to move quickly and freely while under fire".
But it is a twitchy Israeli foot-patrol that watches the sightseers, and forbids cross-border sales of ice cream, while the Ghanaians look on unconcerned.
Sometimes it is necessary for the team to patrol on foot and sometimes they use speed boats on the rivers and canals which criss-cross the park.
The U.S. Coast Guard will deploy a Maritime Safety Security Team, akin to a seaborne SWAT team, as well as the 87-foot cutter Albacore to patrol the Potomac River.
Today, police are visible everywhere on bicycles, in patrol cars and on foot.
Jonathan Snyder died while on night patrol, when he accidentally fell into a 60-foot-deep well.
Corporal Meyer maintained security at a patrol rally point, while other members of his team moved on foot with two platoons of Afghan National Army and border police into the village of Ganjgal for a pre-dawn meeting with village elders.
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