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This is where I slept for a few days, among some rocks on the side of a mountain during our blocking operation:
I had never been so cold in my life and I'm from Chicago. I would just wake up in the middle of the night shaking from the cold. I slept in my full uniform, which I usually do not do, and I was still freezing.
A few nights ago I got a red sky while waiting on the subjects to arrive. I toyed with it in Photoshop to get the image, not exact photo, I wanted. More of a statement than photo as was. So here is my Burning Sky:
Afghanistan has some of the most incredible sights that you can see. Another shot in Charkh, Afghanistan:
We always dreaded going into Charkh because we knew that you would make contact with the enemy and they knew the land and terrain better than you so they always got the jump on you. Unlike a lot of other parts of eastern Afghanistan, Charkh had some areas that were somewhat urban and unlike the movies, when people shoot at you in an urban environment, it makes tracking the origin of the shot difficult with the way the sound bounces off the walls.
There is nothing more frustrating than getting shot at and not knowing where it's coming from. There were instances where we had no choice but to bed down until dark so we could move out of the area.
We had a talk with a new LT a few weeks ago, we told the kid, fresh out of college in May, that when you're getting shot at, there's an easy way to tell how close it is: if it's a zing, it's not close enough to take cover but if it's a crack, that means it's close. He gave us the look.
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