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Well, deep into Baghdad we shall go
To route out our elusive foe;
To quell the rebel hearts who dwell
And slither in the slums of Hell,
And sewage spilled in open street.
Plying alleys with our beat
To give the evil eye to those
Who with…

LCpl McMahon from Vermont wrote this on one of the walls of PB Karma. At the time we were the southernmost unit in all of Afghanistan in the green zone.

"When you go home tomorrow,
don't expect anyone to know what you've been through.
Even if they did know, most people probably wouldn't care anyway.

Some of you may get the medals you deserve,
many more of you will not,
but remember this.…

From the album Bagram Aviation 2018 courtesy of Jimmy H. [20 photos]
“Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts” - Cicero

https://www.warmurals.com/bagram-ab-2018

Camp Baker, Kandahar Airfield, AF 2015
It was the Australian compound at KAF.
Photo by 'BunkerWiess'

For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon 1914:

They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and…

Blast wall poem at Balad Air Base, Iraq 2005. Just off Sustainer Circle east of the airfield.

"They arrived from afar at night in the cold
Male and female both young and old

They stayed for a time doing their task
Praying what no one ever…

In the beginning
I believed
But found the time for doubting.
He made no sound,
I heard the devil shouting.

I wanted peace,
I did not want the glory.
I walked in hell,
And now I tell my story.

I sing sad song,
I did not write the…

"Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody,…

We sit and wait everyday and night
For Terry Taliban to come pick a fight
The blokes fight base and show no fear
Shit the bed, the Para's are here.

MFC on the roof watching them die
Women and children tomorrow will cry
He down one barrel…

Watch out Terry
We're hunting you down,
There's nowhere to hide in Sangin Town!

You shit yourself when the .50s are fired,
There's no point in running, your only die tired

Got A10s on call, for brassing you up,
Collateral damage, we don't…

GET UP YOU TERRY

Behind a sanger in Jusalay we sit,
waiting for another RPG or morar hit.

Sometime today it'll happen again for sure,
Terry Taliban will finish second once more.

We'll man our guns and hit him back,
Hoping to put him in a…

The poppies grow…on Bagram Airfield: famed Canadian poem displayed at BAF
TRENTON, ONTARIO, AFGHANISTAN
05.17.2017
Photo by Capt. Keenan Kunst
455th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs
@455thAEW
Royal Canadian Air Force Capt. Damien Miller…