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af-photo-war-03.htm   Afghanistan Photo War 3                          June 22, 2009
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af-photo-war-01.htm   Afghanistan Photo War 1                          May 15, 2009

Afpak Photo War Archive 4

August 23, 2009

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Clinton Nolan takes a quick rest while climbing up a mountainside with a 27-pound machine gun along with members of Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Regiment, 2nd MEB, 3rd MEF, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2009, in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. AP arrives at an observation post on a rocky mountain peak above the village of Dahaneh for a 24-hour observation watch with members of Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Regiment, 2nd MEB, 3rd MEF, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2009, in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. AP U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Jameson Adams of Saratoga Springs, N.Y. looks over the valley of the city of Now Zad during a 24-hour observation watch on a nearby mountainside Saturday, Aug. 22, 2009, in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. AP Lance Cpl. Zachary Swank, left, of Delton, Mich. , offers a hand up to Lance Cpl. Clinton Nolan of Beaumont, Texas as they climb a rocky mountainside with other members from Golf Company 2nd Battalion, 3rd Regiment, 2nd MEB, 3rd MEF to do observation over the area around the village of Dahaneh, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2009, in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. AP Pfc. Oscar Gracia, of Mercedes, Texas, looks through his scope at some movement on an opposing mountainside while doing observation over the area around the village of Dahaneh, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2009, in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. AP U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Lamonte Hammond and Petty Officer 3rd Class Simon Trujillo with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment treat a Marine who was wounded during a firefight in the Nawa district of Helmand province, Afghanistan, on Aug. 14, 2009. DoD photo by Cpl. Artur Shvartsberg, U.S. Marine Corps. (Released) Date Posted: 8/17/2009 U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Lionel Ortiz with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment changes cover position during a firefight in the Nawa district of Helmand province, Afghanistan, on Aug. 14, 2009. DoD photo by Cpl. Artur Shvartsberg, U.S. Marine Corps. (Released) Date Posted: 8/17/2009 U.S. Marines with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment prepare to return fire after being attacked during a security patrol in the Nawa district of the Helmand province of Afghanistan Aug. 14, 2009. (DoD photo by Cpl. Artur Shvartsberg, U.S. Marine Corps/Released) Date Posted: 8/17/2009 A U.S. Marine Corps scout sniper with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment sights in on enemy combatants during a firefight in the Nawa district of Helmand province, Afghanistan, Aug. 14, 2009.(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Artur Shvartsberg/Released) Date Posted: 8/17/2009 A U.S. Soldier watches a 500-pound bomb detonate on an insurgent position during combat operations in the Korengal Valley of the Kunar province of Afghanistan Aug. 13, 2009. A U.S. Air Force F-15 Eagle aircraft dropped the bomb, ending the skirmish between the insurgents and Soldiers assigned to Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division. (DoD photo by Sgt. Matthew Moeller, U.S. Army/Released) Date Posted: 8/17/2009 U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Megan Curtis, a fly away security team (FAST) member, prepares to exit and secure a C-130H Hercules aircraft at Jalalabad Air Field, Afghanistan, Aug. 13, 2009. FAST members are U.S. Airmen with the 455th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron, Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan. They are responsible for the security of an aircraft, it's crew and cargo at unsecured airfields. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Michael B. Keller/Released) Date Posted: 8/21/2009 U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Francis Macale conducts a safety brief with Soldiers and Airmen of the Kapisa-Parwan Provincial Reconstruction Team at Forward Operating Base Morales-Frazier in the Kapisa province of Afghanistan Aug. 13, 2009, prior to a mission. Macale, who is assigned to 1st Squadron, 221th Cavalry Regiment, Nevada Army National Guard, was the mission?s convoy commander. (DoD photo by Sgt. Teddy Wade, U.S. Army/Released) Date Posted: 8/18/2009

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A helicopter lands to remove wounded soldiers of the U.S. Army's Apache Company, 2nd Battalion 87th Infantry Regiment, part of the 3rd Combat Brigade 10th Mountain Division based out of Fort Drum, N.Y. , after their armored vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device in the Tangi Valley of Afghanistan's Wardak Province, Wednesday Aug. 19, 2009. AP Soldiers of the U.S. Army's Apache Company, 2nd Battalion 87th Infantry Regiment, part of the 3rd Combat Brigade 10th Mountain Division based out of Fort Drum, N.Y. , evacuate a wounded soldier after their armored vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in the Tangi Valley of Afghanistan's Wardak Province, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009. AP Soldiers of the U.S. Army's Apache Company of 2nd Battalion 87th Infantry Regiment, part of the 3rd Combat Brigade 10th Mountain Division based out of Fort Drum, N.Y. , evacuate wounded soldiers after their armored vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in the Tangi Valley of Afghanistan's Wardak Province, Wednesday Aug. 19, 2009. AP Spc. Paul Pickett, 22, of Mendon La. , right, of the U.S. Army's 3rd Platoon Apache Company, 2nd Battalion 87th Infantry Regiment, part of the 3rd Combat Brigade 10th Mountain Division based out of Fort Drum, N.Y. , helps evacuate a wounded soldier after their armored vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in the Tangi Valley of Afghanistan's Wardak Province Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009. AP Pfc. Irving Pena, 20, of Eagle Lake, Texas, of the U.S. Army's 1st Platoon Apache Company, 2nd Battalion 87th Infantry Regiment, part of the 3rd Combat Brigade 10th Mountain Division based out of Fort Drum, N.Y. , returns fire after his convoy was hit with an improvised explosive device and gun fire by insurgents in the Tangi Valley of Afghanistan's Wardak Province Wednesday Aug. 19, 2009. AP Staff Sgt. Cody Anderson, left, and Capt. Andy Harris, of the U.S. Army's Apache Company, 2nd Battalion 87th Infantry Regiment, part of the 3rd Combat Brigade 10th Mountain Division based out of Fort Drum, N.Y. , look to a hillside for a shooter after receiving gunfire following an improvised explosive device attack on their convoy in the Tangi Valley of Afghanistan's Wardak Province Wednesday Aug.19, 2009. AP Afghan counter-terrorism soldiers drag the dead body of a militant from a bank in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009 after gun battles broke out between Afghan forces and three militants with AK-47 rifles and hand grenades who overran the bank. Police stormed the building and killed the three insurgents. ** MAGAZINES OUT. AP (EDITORS NOTE: THIS IMAGE CONTAINS GRAPHIC CONTENT) The body of a Taliban gunman lays at the site of a bank building where gunmen attacked on August 19, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. According to Police, Taliban gunmen stormed a bank building battling Police for hours, a day before the elections. Security forces are on high alert as the Taliban have vowed to disrupt the Afghan elections. Getty (EDITORS NOTE: THIS IMAGE CONTAINS GRAPHIC CONTENT) The bodies of two Taliban gunman lay in the back of a truck at the site of a bank where Taliban gunmen battled with Police on August 19, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. According to Police, Taliban gunmen stormed a bank building battling Police for hours, a day before the elections. Getty An Afghan National Policemam argues with a photographer denying him access to the site of a bank where gunmen attacked on August 19, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. According to Police, Taliban gunmen stormed a bank building battling Police for hours. Security forces are on high alert as the Taliban have vowed to disrupt the Afghan elections. Getty

August 18, 2006

Pam Ferrell, center, the mother of Marine Lance Cpl. Bruce E. Ferrell is supported as she is led to graveside services at Bryars-McGill Cemetery Monday Aug. 17, 2009 in Perdido, Ala. According to the Department of Defense, 21-year-old Lance Cpl. Bruce E. Ferrell of Perdido, Ala. , died Monday Aug. 10, 2009 in Helmand province, Afghanistan. AP A woman counts portraits of British soldiers killed in the conflict in Afghanistan, at a demonstration in central London August 17, 2009. Stop the War Coalition on Monday held a roll call of names of all the British soldiers who have died since the beginning of the war in Afghanistan. Reuters A U.S. soldier and an Afghan National Army soldier walk in front of a convoy of armoured vehicles during a patrol near a polling station at the village of Mangwal, Afghanistan's Kunar province, August 18, 2009. Reuters Soldiers with the U.S. Army's 1st Platoon Apache Company of 2nd Battalion 87th Infantry Regiment, part of the 3rd Combat Brigade 10th Mountain Division based out of Fort Drum, N.Y. , gather for a briefing before embarking on a night patrol from Combat Outpost Tangi in Afghanistan's Wardak Province, Monday Aug. 17, 2009. AP Spc. Josh Edwards, 33, of Coldwater Mich. , of the U.S. Army's 2nd Platoon Apache Company of 2nd Battalion 87th Infantry Regiment, part of the 3rd Combat Brigade 10th Mountain Division based out of Fort Drum, N.Y. , talks with his wife via instant messaging from his bunk at Combat Outpost Tangi, in Afghanistan's Wardak Province, Monday Aug. 17, 2009. AP U.S. Marines with Truck Company, supporting 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, prepare to embark on a resupply mission from Patrol Base Jaker in the Nawa district of Helmand province, Afghanistan, Aug. 6, 2009. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Phillip Elgie/Released) Date Posted: 8/14/2009 British army Lance Cpl. James Oakley, assigned to the 209 Signal Squadron, 19 Light Brigade Headquarters with the 4th Operational Mentor Liaison Team (OMLT), provides security during a patrol in the Nawa district of Afghanistan's Helmand province Aug. 6, 2009. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. James Purschwitz/Released) Date Posted: 8/14/2009 British army Pvt. Jez Harris, a member of the 4th Operational Mentor Liaison Team (OMLT), provides security during a patrol in the Nawa district of Helmand province, Afghanistan, Aug. 6, 2009. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. James Purschwitz/Released) Date Posted: 8/14/2009 British army Pvt. Jez Harris, with Sniper Platoon, D Company, 2nd Battalion, 19th Light Brigade, Mercian Regiment, provides security during a patrol with U.S. Marines with 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment and Afghan National Army soldiers in the Nawa district of Helmand province, Afghanistan, Aug. 4, 2009. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. James Purschwitz/Released) Date Posted: 8/11/2009 U.S. Marine corps Staff Sgt. Jonathan Collins, right, and Lance Cpl. Michael Turpin, both with Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, look at a map during a census patrol to the Marjan Kalay market in the Nawa district of Afghanistan's Helmand province Aug. 6, 2009. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Jeremy Harris/Released) Date Posted: 8/14/2009

August 16, 2009

Spc. Tyler Jones, left, and Pvt. 2nd Class Joshua Shonert, of the U.S. Army's 2nd Platoon Apache Company of 2nd Battalion 87th Infantry Regiment, part of the 3rd Combat Brigade 10th Mountain Division based out of Fort Drum, N.Y. , have a quick nap in the back of an armored vehicle while heading out to a patrol in the Tangi Valley in Afghanistan's Wardak Province Sunday Aug.16, 2009. AP A U.S soldier gets out of an armored personal carrier vehicle near the site of a rocket attack in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 16, 2009. A rocket attack in Afghanistan's south wounded two children Sunday, a reminder of militant violence threatening the country as the presidential election approaches. AP Pfc. John Eichenberger, 30, of Portland, Ore. , helps Staff Sgt. Cody Collins, 25, left, of Joy, Ky, of the U.S. Army's 2nd Platoon Apache Company of 2nd Battalion 87th Infantry Regiment, part of the 3rd Combat Brigade 10th Mountain Division based out of Fort Drum, N.Y. , out of a ditch while patrolling for roadside bombs in the Tangi Valley in Afghanistan's Wardak Province Sunday Aug.16, 2009. AP Sgt. 1st Class Rob Toomey, 33, of Tidoute Pa. , left, and Sgt. Jacob Hayes, 25, of Welcome Md. , of the U.S. Army's 2nd Platoon Apache Company of 2nd Battalion 87th Infantry Regiment, part of the 3rd Combat Brigade 10th Mountain Division based out of Fort Drum, N.Y. , dig for a roadside bomb after disarming the trigger wire during a patrol in the Tangi Valley in Afghanistan's Wardak Province Sunday Aug.16, 2009. AP U.S. Marines from Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Regiment, 2nd MEB, shoot mortars on Taliban positions in the mountains behind them after Taliban mortars had hit just outside the walls of their forward operating base in Now Zad Sunday, Aug. 16, 2009, in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. AP U.S. Marines from Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Regiment, 2nd MEB, prepare to shoot mortars on Taliban positions in the mountains behind them after Taliban mortars had hit just outside the walls of their forward operating base in Now Zad Sunday, Aug. 16, 2009, in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. AP U.S. Marines with Headquarters and Service Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment read magazines during downtime at Patrol Base Jaker in the Nawa district of Afghanistan's Helmand province Aug. 13, 2009. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. William Greeson/Released) Date Posted: 8/14/2009 U.S. Marines with Headquarters and Service Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment rest at Patrol Base Jaker after returning from a six-hour security patrol in the Nawa district of Helmand province, Afghanistan, Aug. 11, 2009. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. William Greeson/Released) Date Posted: 8/14/2009 U.S. Marines with the operations section of Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment develop plans for a future operation at Patrol Base Jaker in the Nawa district of Helmand province, Afghanistan, Aug. 11, 2009. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. William Greeson/Released) Date Posted: 8/14/2009 A view from the southwest guard post on Patrol Base Jaker in the Nawa district of Helmand province, Afghanistan, Aug. 11, 2009. This post has a MK-19 automatic grenade launcher mounted and facing west in preparation for enemy contact. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. William Greeson/Released) Date Posted: 8/14/2009