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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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Sign located near the arrival area of Kandahar Airbase

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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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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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Photos by courtesy of James Von Holland

As troop levels dropped and the base closed the T-Walls began to be painted over and the murals were destroyed. A contractor at Bagram James photographed the remaining walls, memorials, and documented the…

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Mini t-wall from Camp Dahlke (formerly FOB Shank) located in Logar Province Afghanistan 2019.

"The TF Arson wall was given to PLs and PSGs from my company commander and 1SG."
- via @andreson2 on IG
3-121 Infantry, 48th Infantry Brigade Combat…

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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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Replicas of the T-walls blast barriers that were commonly used on FOBs to protect personnel and equipment and frequently used as concrete canvases for troop art and graffiti. These mini walls came in many forms and were often given to troops as gifts…

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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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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…

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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…

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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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Australian Army blast wall art and stencils by Soldier/ artists 'Zerosix' and 'McFly' at Camp Baker- Kandahar Airfield Afghanistan 2013. Additional photos from the Facebook page of Zerosix.



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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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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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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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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"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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