Abu Hussein's weapon lies on a couch at his home in Benoun, Syria, on June 19, 2013. Hussein is an artist who joined the Free Syrian Army to fight against government forces during the Syrian revolution. He has taped two magazines together for quicker ammunition changes and a laser pointer for faster aiming.

Two Free Syrian Army fighters stand guard in a building that is right next to a regime fighting position on June 27, 2013. The distance between rebel and government forces is so small that the combatants yell at each other, provoking attacks.

Senior Oklahoma State University wrestler Chris Chionuma attempts to take down a Kent State University wrestler during the NWCA National Duals regional on Sunday Feb. 17, 2013. OSU powered through KSU and Northen Iowa to advance to the finals in Minnesota on Feb. 22 and 23.

Kent State Golden Flashes celebrate after Melanie Kahn scores the final goal to defeat Ohio University Bobcats in overtime, on September 21, 2012. The Flashes’ fell to the Bobcats in the final game of the MAC Field Hockey Championship the year before.

“Man, I was the dumbest man in the U.S. Army,” said Roy Schott, 85, while talking about being drafted into the military, on Oct. 26, 2012. One year after being drafted SGT. Schott was put in charge of a motor pool in Korea.

Schotts Auto Service in London, Kentucky was first opened in 1955 when Roy Schott returned from the Korean War. In 1964, Schott relocated his shop to 711 North Main Street, where it has been ever since.

Jim Schott changes the brakes on a customer’s car on October 25, 2012. Jim, Roy’s nephew, has been working at Schott’s Auto Service since high school, when he would take the bus straight to the shop after school and work until closing time.

Roy writes out a customer’s bill on October 25, 2012. Other than replacing one of his lifts and the addition of a computer, Roy’s shop is almost the same as it was in 1964.

Roy and Jim work side by side in the small two-car garage where they service vehicles Monday through Saturday, on October 26, 2012. Roy and his employees often disagree about how things should be done, but in the end it’s Roy’s way or the highway.

Jim fills out paper work on the business’ computer on October 25, 2012. As time passes the use of a computer becomes a bigger part of Schott’s Auto Service. Roy has a hard time using a computer so Jim is in-charge of any paper work that has to be done digitally.

Jim, and Virgil McWhorter, 48, starts to change the oil on a customer’s car on October 25, 2012.

Roy talks with a regular costumer early in the morning on Oct. 27, 2012. As Roy gets older his participation in the business starts to get smaller but he has no plan to retire. “What’s the use of retiring? Once a grease monkey, always a grease monkey.”

A young worker grinds off the sharp edges from a mortar shell that will be filled, assembled and shipped to the front lines from this location on June 22, 2013, northern Syria. This young laborer works in an underground factory that produces munitions for one of the most powerful Free Syrian Army brigades in the area, the Ahrar Suriyah. This factory is so secret that most of the fighters have no clue that it exists.

Abu Ala, 23, works on machine a mortar shell as his older brother manages other workers in the factory on June 22, 2013. Abu Ala and his three brothers run this secret weapons factory for the Ahrar Suriyah brigade. Abu Ala and his brothers were foremen in a factory in Beirut before coming back to Syria to support the revolution.

Unloaded shotgun shells are placed in the mortars and used to ignite the propellant packs that are wrapped around the base of the mortars before they are fired on June 22, 2013. These mortars are hand assembled in this factory and shipped out to fighters all over northern Syria.

A young factory worker machines small fuses for the mortars on June 22, 2013. This factory, with its outdated equipment, can manufacture around 50 shells in a 14-hour-period.

Syrian-made grenades made from salvaged water pipes and sealed with yellow wax, lay on the ground next to explosive mixture that they are packed with, in a secret arms factory in northern Syria on June 22, 2013. This factory is able to produce 1000 of these grenades a day.

Abu Abdul, 30, assembles the bodies to what will eventually become prototype rockets that the Free Syrian Army has started to manufacture and test, in Aleppo, Syria on June 22, 2013.

A Free Syrian Army fighter, formerly an officer in the Syrian Army, takes cover as he prepares to fire a mortar at a regime-held position in northern Syria on June 22, 2013.

A spotter watches for the impact of the mortar shell as other fighters take cover and prepare for the regime to retaliate in northern Syria on June 22, 2013. Without the help of the international community, the Free Syrian Army and other rebel groups have used what resources they have available to them to match firepower with the Russian, Iranian and Hezbollah-backed regime forces

A Syrian man and his neighbors work to clean up what is left of his house after government jets dropped bombs on an area populated with civilians on June 20, 2013. People were reportedly killed and many injured including this man’s son.

A young child plays in his family's yard in Benoun, Syria on June 22, 2013. Mortars and rockets fly over this city every day, sometimes even striking targets in the city, but that does not stop children from being children.

A boy walks down the median of a road as others sweep the street and help water the plants in northern Syria on June 20, 2013. Every able-bodied person does his or her part to help with the revolution. These children volunteer to help keep their village clean.

A makes-shift refinery in northern Syria on June 19, 2013. The Syria government controls all of the refineries in Syria so in order to get fuel, groups of rebels set up their own refineries throughout the country.

A Free Syrian Army peeks out of a building looking for a regime sniper that is active in the area on June 23, 2013. Snipers in Aleppo are not only a problem for fighters but for civilians as well. Walking down the wrong side of the road on certain streets could mean your death.

A Free Syrian Army brigade commander and one of his soldiers look out of fighting position while they search for regime positions in a nearby village on June 21, 2013. Snipers own the battlefield during the day and make it almost impossible for fighters from either side to launch an attack.

Young Free Syrian Army fighters throw grenades into the neighboring building, where regime troops have taken control, in Aleppo on June 27, 2013. As the fighting in Aleppo intensifies, the front lines disappear and combatants are forced to fight building to building.

The view of a regime controlled building, riddled with bullet holes, from a Free Syrian Army fighting position on June 26, 2013. The constant and intense fighting has decimated the city.

A Free Syrian Army fighter, who defected from the Syrian Army, looks out of a window trying to spot enemy fighters in the neighboring buildings, on June 27, 2013. As the fighting in Aleppo intensifies, the front lines disappear and combatants are forced to fight building to building.

A Free Syrian Army fighter waits outside a house where a meeting is being held with elders from the area in northern Syria on June 20, 2013. Elders in the area are trying to unite smaller factions of fighters to create a unified fighting force to battle the regime.

Muhamed Haelal, 59, and his grand children pose for a portrait in Benoun, Syria on June 21, 2013. Haelal has lost all four of his sons since the war broke out. His wife and him are the only family that his two grandchildren have left.

A child sits in the arms of a Free Syrian Army fighter on June 20, 2013. This boys parents were killed by regime forces and with no one left to take care of him a local FSA brigade adopted him and now raise him as if he was their child.