Edward A. Ornelas is reporting from Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan along with San Antonio Express-News military reporter Sig Christenson.
Ornelas, who served as a photographer for The Ranger and The Fourth Write, shows sides of the war zone that are often overlooked.
In "Letting her hair down," Fawzia Koofi, the first female deputy speaker of Afghanistan's lower house of parliament, is the subject of the story.
Fawzia Koofi, (right) at her home in Kabul, is one of 91 women in the Afghan parliament.
Here is the most recent story: "Doctor from S.A. knows the true trauma of war"
Dr. John Kennedy Bini of San Antonio (center) checks on an Afghan man who'd been injured by gunfire and had his abdomen wall reconstructed at the Staff Sgt. Heathe N. Craig Joint Theater Hospital at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan.