From Liisa, SMSgt Temple’s wife: Here are all the pictures from Rex’s recent village medical mission to Charkh.
Filed under: Photo slide shows | Tagged: Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, ANA, Charkh District Center, Deployment, ETT, FOB, FOB Altimar, HMMVW, humanitarian mission, Taliban, U.S. Air Force | 1 Comment »
Two days ago, we were supposed to visit this village, but didn’t and had to reschedule for today. Only a handful of my teammates would accompany me on this visit as we joined forces with the camp medical personnel. Even though the village was friendly and the camp has been supplying clothing, food, hygiene items, [...]
Filed under: Missions, Photo slide shows | Tagged: Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, ANA, Deployment, ETT, humanitarian mission, U.S. Air Force, war | 1 Comment »
From SMSgt Temple’s wife: Rex is too tired to write tonight. So I am using the space instead. As many of you know Captain Matthew Freeman’s Annapolis service is today. This is a link to photos from that service: Naval Academy says Goodbye to Capt. Matthew Freeman Here is what the Academy wrote about him: [...]
Filed under: Photo slide shows | Tagged: Afghanistan, Annapolis, Deployment, ETT, Marine Captain Matthew Freeman, memorial service, news, photography, photos, pictures, U.S. Marines, WSAV-TV | Leave a Comment »
From SMSgt Temple’s wife Liisa: Rex and his team continue on their elections mission which means Rex can’t post new blog entries for a few days. Meanwhile, this caught my eye on a local news website. It’s an in-depth photo slide show of U.S. troops in Afghanistan compiled by the Associated Press. US soldiers in [...]
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The rest of Captain Freeman’s team finally arrived in country. Captain Freeman arrived several weeks ahead as part of the advance team. Instead of a being a reunion of Marines, they would attend their teammate’s memorial service. Unlike some of the previous services held here, this one was a bit different. To begin the service, [...]
Filed under: Photo slide shows | Tagged: Afghanistan, Deployment, ETT, Marine Captain Matthew Freeman, memorial service, multimedia, photography, U.S. Marines, war | 15 Comments »
It’s not too often you get to meet a hero in person, but I’ve been fortunate to meet several of them since being here. You won’t see this in the newspaper, because the media is narrowly focused on fatalities and this hero survived his wounds. But today you can read about a hero I would [...]
Filed under: Missions, Photo slide shows | Tagged: 48th Brigade, Afghanistan, Apha Troop, Deployment, Georgia Army National Guard’s 108th BCT, Kapisa Province, Marine Captain Matt Freeman, military combat patrols, SPC Christopher Santiago Lowe, U.S. Army, U.S. Marines, war | 24 Comments »
It was a somber morning; all of the US flags on the camp were flying at half staff in honor of our latest fallen warrior, SGT Raymundo Morales. SGT Morales died from his injuries when the HMMVW he was riding in rolled over near Methar Lam. Today we would honor Raymundo Morales who was posthumously [...]
Filed under: Photo slide shows | Tagged: 148th Brigade Support Battalion, Afghanistan, Cedartown, Deployment, GA National Guard, HMMVW, memorial service, Methar Lam, photography, SGT Raymundo Morales, U.S. Army, war | 13 Comments »
From Liisa, SMSgt Temple’s wife: Rex is still out on his mission and asked that I make a slide show of all of his photos from July 5 until July 19, 2009. Majority of this slide show is made up of Rex’s trip to investigate what caused a massive food poisoning among Afghan National Army [...]
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On July 5, The (Washington) Post published a letter from Martha Gillis of Springfield, whose nephew, Lt. Brian Bradshaw, was killed in Afghanistan on June 25, the day that Michael Jackson died. The letter criticized the extensive media coverage of Jackson’s death compared with the brief coverage of Lt. Bradshaw’s death. Among the responses was [...]
Filed under: Photo slide shows | Tagged: Afghanistan, Bagram, Deployment, FOB, Lt. Brian Bradshaw, U.S. Army, war | 1 Comment »
Here are all the photos from the Peachtree Road Race in Afghanistan; the slide show has been updated to include the “end of the race” photos with race T-shirts. You can read all about the race in yesterday’s blog entry. Again, if you’d like to have the slide show move faster, click on the “+” [...]
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