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The iconic welcome sign that troops saw when they first landed at BAF was painted over a few months ago. 2020 photo via Steven Pena. Bagram Airfield: 2018 vs 2020 'Welcome to Fabulous Bagram' 2018 photo via middleagehooah on reddit…

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Featuring a play on Banksy's 'Girl With Balloon' and 'Alleycats'- both appear to be stenciled UK Puma HC.Mk 2

Mongolian Armed Forces T-wall is from New Kabul Compound (NKC), Kabul. 2019

CP Taipan was the British location at HKIA - where the…

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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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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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US Air Force t-wall murals mainly for F-16 and A-10 squadrons that provided close air support for greater Afghanistan out of Bagram Airfield prior to their destruction in the 2021 withdrawal of US and coalition forces. Source was in the USAF…

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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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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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Soldier art in the SF/ SFAB quarters at Camp Marmal 2021: Mazar-e-Sharif Airport, Northern Afghanistan left behind during the withdrawal.
'I don't make threats, I make sincere predictions.' 'Don't thread on me.'
Photos via @fp_dude87…

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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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"We will not forget" Says memorial at protective wall at Bagram Airfield.
On 5/8/2018, three Czech soldiers were killed by Suicide Bomber in city of Charikar, Afghanistan. An American and two Afghan soldiers were injured.

Originally found on…

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ODA (Operational Detachment Alpha)- US Army Special Forces Group (Green Berets)

Memorial to Sgt. 1st Class Antonio R. Rodriguez and Sergeant 1st Class Javier Jaguar Gutierrez.

7 others were wounded in the insider attack on February 8th 2020 in…

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Full article and video of Bahadur in action running into the open during a firefight and disabling an IED in the comments below.

Since joining the Afghan National Police at the age of 15, he had been wounded six times by Taliban bullet and…

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Kandahar Airfield AF 2018. Memorial to SGT James Slape- 430th Ordnance Company (EOD), 60th Troop Command, North Carolina Army National Guard. Photos from his mother Trish Faison Slape: "Although I am thankful that other signs honoring my son, SGT…

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This memorial for USAF Air Advisors killed in green on blue attacks was dedicated by the 738th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group, 438th Air Expeditionary Wing
Kandahar Air Field, 2015
Photo from Bob Sardinia

On April 27th 2011, a colonel and…
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