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.

ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPH

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.

millitaryandweapons:

Joint Effort Opens Road in Gor Tepa [Image 6 of 8] by DVIDSHUB on Flickr.

As a concussion rocks the ground a ball of smoke and flame and debris erupts into the air after a mine-clearing line charge detonates as Army combat engineers clear a section of road in the Gor Tepa region of the northern Afghanistan province of Kunduz.
1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division Public Affairs
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class John Queen
Date Taken:12.28.2010
Location:GOR TEPA, AF

On the 21 December 2009, the British and ANA soldiers from the OMLT in Musa Qala, northern Helmand, set off at dawn on a operation to clear a string of compounds used by the Taliban to lay IEDs. The British soldiers in the OMLT are members of the Yorkshire regiment.

On the 21 December 2009, the British and ANA soldiers from the OMLT in Musa Qala, northern Helmand, set off at dawn on a operation to clear a string of compounds used by the Taliban to lay IEDs. The British soldiers in the OMLT are members of the Yorkshire regiment.

On the 21 December 2009, the British and ANA soldiers from the OMLT in Musa Qala, northern Helmand, set off at dawn on a operation to clear a string of compounds used by the Taliban to lay IEDs. The British soldiers in the OMLT are members of the Yorkshire regiment.

On the 21 December 2009, the British and ANA soldiers from the OMLT in Musa Qala, northern Helmand, set off at dawn on a operation to clear a string of compounds used by the Taliban to lay IEDs. The British soldiers in the OMLT are members of the Yorkshire regiment.

On the 21 December 2009, the British and ANA soldiers from the OMLT in Musa Qala, northern Helmand, set off at dawn on a operation to clear a string of compounds used by the Taliban to lay IEDs. The British soldiers in the OMLT are members of the Yorkshire regiment.

On the 21 December 2009, the British and ANA soldiers from the OMLT in Musa Qala, northern Helmand, set off at dawn on a operation to clear a string of compounds used by the Taliban to lay IEDs. The British soldiers in the OMLT are members of the Yorkshire regiment.

On the 21 December 2009, the British and ANA soldiers from the OMLT in Musa Qala, northern Helmand, set off at dawn on a operation to clear a string of compounds used by the Taliban to lay IEDs. The British soldiers in the OMLT are members of the Yorkshire regiment.

On the 21 December 2009, the British and ANA soldiers from the OMLT in Musa Qala, northern Helmand, set off at dawn on a operation to clear a string of compounds used by the Taliban to lay IEDs. The British soldiers in the OMLT are members of the Yorkshire regiment.

On the 21 December 2009, the British and ANA soldiers from the OMLT in Musa Qala, northern Helmand, set off at dawn on a operation to clear a string of compounds used by the Taliban to lay IEDs. The British soldiers in the OMLT are members of the Yorkshire regiment.

On the 21 December 2009, the British and ANA soldiers from the OMLT in Musa Qala, northern Helmand, set off at dawn on a operation to clear a string of compounds used by the Taliban to lay IEDs. The British soldiers in the OMLT are members of the Yorkshire regiment.

On the 21 December 2009, the British and ANA soldiers from the OMLT in Musa Qala, northern Helmand, set off at dawn on a operation to clear a string of compounds used by the Taliban to lay IEDs. The British soldiers in the OMLT are members of the Yorkshire regiment.

On the 21 December 2009, the British and ANA soldiers from the OMLT in Musa Qala, northern Helmand, set off at dawn on a operation to clear a string of compounds used by the Taliban to lay IEDs. The British soldiers in the OMLT are members of the Yorkshire regiment.

On the 21 December 2009, the British and ANA soldiers from the OMLT in Musa Qala, northern Helmand, set off at dawn on a operation to clear a string of compounds used by the Taliban to lay IEDs. The British soldiers in the OMLT are members of the Yorkshire regiment.