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Wednesday, April 06, 2011

FIREFIGHT IN AFGHANISTAN

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Greetings and Salutations to All my Kith and Kin and All the Ships in Outer Space:



For a larger view, please click on the picture.


In this official United States Air Force photograph taken by Technical Sergeant Kevin Wallace on Monday 04 April 2011 of a pair of soldiers in the United States Army, Private First Class Ben Bradley, a Scout in the Seventh Squadron of the Tenth Cavalry Regiment, part of the First Brigade Combat Team of the Fourth Infantry Division from Fort Carson, Colorado, ducks away from small arms fire, as another Scout, Sergeant Jeff Sheppard, launches a grenade at the enemy’s position, during a combat engagement in northern Bala Murghab Valley, in the Baghdis Province of Afghanistan.


Thank you.

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2 comments:

Brock Townsend said...

Good picture.

John Robert Mallernee, KB3KWS, in Vernal, Utah said...

Yes, and notice the photograph was taken by someone in the Air Force, who had to put himself in harm's way, deliberately risking his own life to get that remarkable picture.