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The Mario Wall at COP Shukvani aka "Shuk Vegas" aka FOB Judah
Sangin District, Helmand province, Afghanistan 2013
Photo via William Phillips
Fox Company "Jigsaw Dustoff" [Possibly by Charlie Co], 1st Battalion, 169th Aviation Regiment, New York…

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OP Pirtle King, Kunar Afghanistan 2012
'Bet U Can't Do It Again'
"RPG hit our beehut, giving me a TBI, but a day later, I patched it up and added this little artwork."
2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th…

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Pools that regularly flooded the tent city site at K2 base were known as 'Skittles' because they glowed green at night and sometimes turned other colors. The area was found to be heavily contaminated and radioactive.
The ongoing Congressional and…

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Archway at the HHC of C Co 2-211 GSAB, Northstar Dustoff, at Shindand Airbase, Afghanistan.

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Sign located near the arrival area of Kandahar Airbase

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Pedro 66 Memorial
' These things we do that others may live.'
Pirinçlik Air Base- Diyarbakır, Turkey 2017
Photo via Andreas Sanchez

HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter of the 66th Rescue Squadron, 563rd Rescue Group, US Air Force call sign Pedro 66,…

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Photos by courtesy of Andrew Noble who was with the 112th Fighter Squadron (112 FS), 180th Fighter Wing, Ohio Air National Guard in Bagram. Base leadership ordered the walls to be painted over and smoke shack gazebos burned down as they were one of…

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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.

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The Memorial to 11 USAF Air Advisors killed in green on blue attacks was originally established at FOB Oqab, at the Kabul International Airport by members of the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing. At some point it was transported from Kabul and set up at…

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'These are from Herrick 20 camp bastion 2014 on MERT I was FP force protection on medical emergency response team I was a LMG gunner.'

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Mini t-wall from 2014
Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan
Photos via Ski @breachandclear:
" Part of my end of tour award for my 12 month deployment- signed by members of my squad/ battalion."

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T-wall art from Forward Operating Base Oqab (Translates to 'Eagle' in English)- an ISAF/ NATO Air Advisory Base within the grounds of Kabul International Airport (HKIA). This is the state of the walls shortly being painted over and destroyed before…

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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…

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"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,…

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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…

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On November 5, 2009, a mass shooting took place at Fort Hood, near Killeen, Texas. Nidal Hasan, a U.S. Army major and psychiatrist, fatally shot 13 people and injured 31 others. It was the deadliest mass shooting on an American military base. Hasan…

Kandahar, You're F**in out!
KAF, 2020, before they slathered pink paint over every single piece of graffiti on post. It’s all gone now.

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On May 28, 2014, the 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Fort Wainwright, Alaska established a memorial to the fallen Bobcats from Operation Enduring Freedom ’11-‘12. The memorial t-wall…

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Memorial by British Armed Forces for Lance Bombardier James Dwyer of 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery, aged 22. L/Bdr Dwyer died whilst on a patrol in Southern Helmand province when the vehicle he was driving struck an anti-tank mine on December…

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On May 28, 2014, the 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment established a memorial to the fallen Bobcats from Operation Enduring Freedom ’11-‘12. The memorial t-wall itself was part of the command bunker at Combat Outpost Shoja and was a functional…

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Faded mural at Al Jaber Air Base Kuwait by the 129th Rescue Wing, 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing (332 AEW) for TSgt Johnny "Luv" Horton.
TSgt Horton was a National Champion Skydiver, Pararescue Trainer, Combat Medic, Combat Scuba Diver, and Senior…

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Soldier visits outpost named after fallen brother in Afghanistan:KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan -- Specialist Christopher Honaker and Pfc. Joseph Miracle were two young troopers assigned to the 173rd Brigade Combat Team when they were killed in action…

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Memorial Day in Afghanistan pays tribute to American war deadBAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — A field of lights and a display of names and photos projected on a blast wall here Monday night paid tribute to more than 8,000 Americans and their allies…

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Photo: Jon DuMond 2010 https://www.flickr.com/photos/9one5/6562575791

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Operation Afghanistan: Forward Operating Base Fenty Memorial
By Blake Essig
Published: Feb. 2, 2018

Across Afghanistan, at different U.S. military outposts, there…

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Memorial for those lost when a C-130J Super Hercules, call-sign TORQE 62, crashed on departure from Jalalabad Airfield, Afghanistan one year ago. Six Airmen and five contractors were lost on Oct. 2, 2015.

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- Airmen…

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Memorial to Marine Lance Cpl. Thomas E. Rivers Jr. KIA 28 April 2010.
PB Sofla, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. 32.469966,64.476939

Photo via @ _dhuddy in IG
Marine Lance Cpl. Thomas E. Rivers Jr., 22, of Birmingham, Ala.; assigned to 1st…

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Patrol Base Poole- Nawa, Helmand Province, Afghanistan
1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment
What's in a name? Marines of 1/3 in Nawa honor fallen brothers

Since their deployment to Afghanistan began in November, the Marines of 1st Battalion, 3rd…

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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…

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FOB Frontenac, Afghanistan 2009

U.S. Army Sgt. Michael Shell draws a mural to memorialize the 20 fallen Soldiers of 1-17th Infantry "Buffalos", 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division · JBLM

Photo by: Tech Sgt. Francisco V. Govea…
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