Specialist Jacob William Moore, 21, clutches the hand of a seriously wounded comrade, on board a medevac air ambulance racing towards Kandahar Air Field (KAF), in southern Afghanistan. The men, from the 2-502 Infantry's Attack Company were caught in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Zhari district in Kandahar Province, as they carried a stretcher holding a soldier injured in an earlier blast. Two Americans and one Afghan soldier were killed in the Nalgham attacks, four others, including Spc Moore, were wounded. The troops are part of the 101st Airborne Division - known as the screaming eagles - sent to Afghanistan in Jun 2010 as part of Barack Obama's surge. Moore and his comrades paid tribute to their fallen as "phenomenal soldiers". They said the general public in America have no idea what is going on in Afghanistan.