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barstoolphilosophy:

All images courtesy of David Gilkey and the WHNPA. Cpl. Andrew Collins springs into action seconds after a rocket is fired at the outpost in Charkh, Afghanistan on April 19, 2011. Combat Outpost Charkh sees as much action as anywhere in Afghanistan, but it’s in Logar province, not far from the capital, Kabul.

All images courtesy of David Gilkey and the WHNPA. Cpl. Andrew Collins springs into action seconds after a rocket is fired at the outpost in Charkh, Afghanistan on April 19, 2011. Combat Outpost Charkh sees as much action as anywhere in Afghanistan, but it’s in Logar province, not far from the capital, Kabul.

militaryandweapons:

Convoy Fights off Insurgent Ambush by The U.S. Army on Flickr.

militaryandweapons:

Securing the Air by The U.S. Army on Flickr.

militaryandweapons:

British special forces firing the 50cal from their Landrover….

militaryandweapons:

Operation Sarak Basta II [Image 6 of 7] by DVIDSHUB on Flickr.

ceebee23:

Kandahar

fuckyeahcanadianforces:

3 December 2011 - LGen Stuart Beare, Commander of Canadian Expeditionary Force Command promotes Sergeant Dave Chrismas of the Third Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry during the General’s visit to Camp Alamo, Kabul, Afghanistan.

fuckyeahcanadianforces:

An injured Canadian soldier is evacuated, August 2006.

delightfullycatawampus:

Tim Hetherington, Untitled, Korengal Valley, Kunar Province, Afghanistan, 2007

semperannoying:

A US Marine guards Combat Outpost 7171 in Helmand Province, Afghanistan on October 28, 2010.

cjchivers:

Soon on the NYT: One colonel’s quest to determine how soldiers are wounded or get sick, and how they fare. And a look at a potential shortfall in military data-keeping that could prevent a full and proper study of more than a decade of American war.

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An Afghan soldier, wounded when a van packed with explosives detonated at a joint U.S.-Afghan outpost in Sangsar, Afghanistan. Dec. 2010. By Tyler Hicks.

thepoliticalnotebook:

Picture of the Day: Logar province, eastern Afghanistan. During a helicopter transport, a US Army medic attends to an Afghan National Army soldier injured with a gunshot wound.

Semi-related (geographically) longread of the day: A piece in yesterday’s New York Times by Rob Nordland about the first bowling alley in Afghanistan opening in Kabul: “Behind the black door in downtown Kabul is a place unlike any other in this city, even in the whole country.”

Credit: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters. Via.

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militaryandweapons:

Guard mount by The U.S. Army on Flickr.