July to August



Due to constraints from our chain of command, we have been unable to update the webpage for the last month. However, I just got the go ahead. This page contains photos from missions over the past 2 months, since the last update. Enjoy!

 

Lilley in a gun turret

A Chinook picking us up

SSG Pratt winning hearts and minds

Another view of SPC Myers

1st squad looking for an enemy ambush

1st squad securing the area

1st squad, after the area is secured

1st squad, debating how to extract their stuck vehicle.  Mud in Afghanistan?

The stuck vehicle

Getting the locals to help with the vehicle

PFC Bestul after a dusty mission

PFC Byrd, after that same mission

A huge mountain that 1st squad and weapons squad climbed down

A great view of a volcanic-formed valley

Some of the ANA (Afghanistan National Army) soldiers we've been training

SPC Harper manning the 240 in a truck

2nd Squad, conducting the Special Forces mission: Foreign Internal Defense (Training ANA)

Espinosa and Johnson

Espinosa demonstrating mine field clearing techniques

SSG Choay and PFC Johnson

SGT Smith executing his SOG duties

1st platoon preparing to Air Assault into an objective

SGT Smith doing some shopping

SSG Choay doing vehicle maintenance, really

SSG Dzwik

SPC Marrerro pre-dawn

PFC Remmel manning the gun

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