Tag: big picture

  • Photos From Afghanistan – February 2012

    Check out the full photo sets over at The Atlantic and a similar one at The Big Picture. Most of the time when I see pictures of Afghanistan I think “Wow that really looks like it sucks there”.   I see it’s winter there now though, and it appears to suck even more than usual.

  • Photos From Afghanistan – September 2011

     A US soldier observes a bombing strike from a US fighter jet during a firefight at Outpost Bari Alai in Kunar on Sept. 15. 53 more photos over at the Big Picture – HERE I can’t get enough of these pics every month.

  • Photos From Afghanistan (April 2011)

    A U.S. soldier controls the area outside the gate of a U.S. base after an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, April 2, 2011. Three insurgents attacked a NATO base on the outskirts of Afghanistan’s capital Saturday but were killed by coalition forces before they could enter the compound, NATO and Afghan police said. (AP Photo/Musadeq…

  • Photos From Afghanistan (March 2011)

    Full photo set – HERE The pictures look a lot happier this month for some reason. It almost makes it look like a decent place to live. Hardly any military/gun related pics, I was almost tempted to not post about it.

  • Photos From Afghanistan (February 2011)

    James Edward Orr, 20, from the First Battalion Eighth Marines Alpha Company, lifts weights made from barbed wire at a makeshift gym at an outpost in Kunjak in Helmand province, Feb. 17. (Finbarr O’Reilly/Reuters) And I thought prison gyms on TV shows looked badass!  You can’t get much more badass than lifting spooled up barbed…