I'm a Black Hawk helicopter crew chief on my second deployment to Afghanistan. The mission is a painful bad joke, and I have long been ambivalent about the war.

I love flying, and I love my brothers in arms. But I miss my girlfriend and my family and friends back home.

This blog is my attempt to share with my friends and loved ones (and anyone else who cares to look) any beauty I can find in what is otherwise just another shitty year in another shitty place.

22nd May 2012

Link reblogged from Everything Afghanistan with 21 notes

Everything Afghanistan: First-ever women’s library opens in Ghazni →

watanafghanistan:



A new-established library for woman, the first of its kind, was inaugurated in southern Ghazni province on Tuesday, an official said.

Women Affairs Director Shkuria Wali told the inaugural ceremony the library had eight rooms and cost six million afghanis ($119,570), provided by the…

Source: pajhwok.com

18th May 2012

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This house belongs to an ANA general. It is easily one of the very nicest houses I have seen out here.

This house belongs to an ANA general. It is easily one of the very nicest houses I have seen out here.

18th May 2012

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I have no idea what this means.

I have no idea what this means.

18th May 2012

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something is missing…

something is missing…

18th May 2012

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7th May 2012

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7th May 2012

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Not all of Afghanistan is desert. Here’s another rainstorm moving in.

Not all of Afghanistan is desert. Here’s another rainstorm moving in.

3rd May 2012

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I found this in my bag yesterday. I have no idea who put it there, or when. I put it in someone else’s bag. When he eventually finds it, he will secretly give it to someone else. The game must go on…

I found this in my bag yesterday. I have no idea who put it there, or when. I put it in someone else’s bag. When he eventually finds it, he will secretly give it to someone else. The game must go on…

3rd May 2012

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3rd May 2012

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Our XO does what he can to improve morale.

Our XO does what he can to improve morale.