What's on Your Helmet?

Warriors are paid to fight -- but that doesn't mean that they always have to be happy about it, or that the fight is the only thing on their minds. One way for otherwise voiceless troops to express their feelings about the often-bloody task at hand is to literally write it out -- on their helmets.

Above: Lyrics from a Misfits song, "Mommy, Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight?" decorate the helmet of Marine Cpl. Jonathan Eckert of Oak Lawn, IL, on patrol, October 2010, in Kajaki, Afghanistan.