2nd Lt. Seth Maldonado, 25, of Long Island, N.Y., a soldier with Company C, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, walks through an opium poppy field during a patrol near the villages of Loy Kariz and Sawar Kariz in Maiwand district, Kandahar province, Afghanistan. April 9, 2009. DREW BROWN/STARS AND STRIPES