Photos by Tag: Afghanistan

August 27th, 2021

A tribute to those killed in Afghanistan

Flags fly at half staff around the nation today as a memorial tribute to those lost in terrorist attacks Thursday, August 26 at Kabul Airport in Afghanistan. A tentative death toll reported 169 killed, including 10 U.S. Marines, two U.S. Army soldiers and one U.S. Navy corpsman. The attacks took place during a massive evacuation […]

December 3rd, 2020

USS Nimitz redeployed

U.S. aircraft carrier USS Nimitz was redeployed to the Gulf this week. Reuters reports that Commander Rebecca Rebarich, spokeswoman for the U.S. Navy’s Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet, said the redeployment was related to a U.S. drawdown in Iraq and Afghanistan. Among those deployed on the Nimitz earlier this year is VAQ-139 of NAS Whidbey. (Photo from […]

January 10th, 2005

Photo from Afghanistan

I don’t know who shot this photograph, but I was excited to receive it last week in an email. The photograph was part of an email greeting sent to family by U.S. Marine Lt. Mike Berentson, surrounded here by curious children from an Afghan village. Mike, a graduate of Burlington-Edison High School and Washington State […]

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