A Year In The Sandbox

I’ve posted links to a lot of articles reporting positively about the PRTs and what we’re doing here. I came across one today that wasn’t so positive. The author makes a lot of good points and there’s really nothing in the article I can argue against based on my experience here. I don’t really have [...]

We have a couple Chicago Tribune reporters embedding with us for a while and they did a story about our 4th of July celebration here. 4th of July in Nangarhar Everything’s going fine here. If everything goes the way it should I’ll be back in San Antonio before August!

A while back I received an email from a film maker about an upcoming documentary on Afghanistan. The film is almost completed and there’s a trailer up for it. Below is a short blurb about the film from Anthony Hornus, the man behind the project: …in Feb. and March of 2008 I traveled with a [...]

Here are the rest of the videos that don’t really fit in any one theme. This is a view of Torkham Gate panning from the Pakistan side to the Afghanistan side.

Took me a little while to get around to it, but here are the videos of kids I’ve taken here. This one is at a school here in Jalalabad, we were walking back to the trucks and I was trying to get the kids to steal Cal’s pen.