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Former Soviet stronghold at Bagram Airfield, shelled heavily during the Soviet retreat.
Main gym at Bagram, retractable steel ribbed tent for cheap A/C in the Afghan heat.
Garrison OPS on Bagram, with antique Soviet and Mujahadeen weapons on top of the awning.
Old Soviet control tower. Not in use.
ISAF tower.
Mosque Dome on the other side of Bagram T-Walls, mostly for contracted nationals that work on the AF.
I love Defenders, no other reason for this one.
On tour around AO with OGAs, saw this cool door in walled compound wall.
This is where the Quaran was burned that created such an issue. The truth is much more benign than media would have you think but I digress.
Waiting...
Tons of EM waves from SAT comms etc in the AO.
Transition of the sky from night... to...
And just like that Apollo and his horses breach the mountain range and the low humidity Afghan air is warmed as if under a hot lamp at your local fast food chain.
Geologic beauty everywhere...
Foreal.
But I have things to do here in this wildest of wild lands....
This really hits home...I don't like advertising it these days, but my mother is actually from Kabul. She left before the war broke out and hasn't been back since, what has happened to the country is so heartbreaking.
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"The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The realist adjusts the sails."
-William A. Ward
The man-made stuff looks like Iraq. The God-made stuff looks like Colorado. Keep them coming, and stay safe!
That's what I was thinking. It looks like southwestern and south central Colorado to me. It's really a pretty place. It's too bad they're trying to kill each other.
Cool pics. Especially of the Hungarian PSYOP element.
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All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. ~Albert Einstein
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