Peace through soccer

The sky over Afghanistan is a piercing blue, a stark backdrop to the Black Hawk helicopter skimming over the rough desert terrain. Daily News.

Chief Warrant Officer 4 Princeton Soh grips the controls, his sturdy hands commanding more than 8 tons of green and gray metal. He squints and locates his target

There he is. A boy, working in the fields on his hands and knees.

Soh nods to his gunner, a signal that it's time for him to briefly take his hands off the 27-pound, gas-operated M240D machine gun.