Zabul Redux: Stay Calm, Boys
October 19th, 2009 | Photography | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
06/11/09: Hundreds of new members of the ANP graduate from a 16-week long training course at Camp Scorpion in Kandahar. They are issued new weapons, a Hungarian rifle similar to AK-47’s.
Zabul Redux: Aftermath
October 14th, 2009 | Photography | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
6/6/09: The end of result of this mission – another angle of the new ANP recruit, Atam, who is helping search the remains of a Taliban KIA from the night before. A planned assault by PMT Viper on village occupied by the Taliban had been called off due to rough terrain – but the helicopter escort intercepted a few Taliban fleeing on motorcycles, still carrying their weapons.
The Graduates
June 14th, 2009 | Photography | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
Hundreds of new members of the ANP graduate from a 16-week long training course at Camp Scorpion in Kandahar.
Search Party
June 5th, 2009 | Photography | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
Sunrise over the mountains in SW Zabul, as the Afghan National Police, escorted by PMT Viper, look for Taliban KIA from a helicopter gunship called in by them the night before.
In the Village of Kadu
May 29th, 2009 | Photography | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
The village of Kadu, at the end of the patrol. As we took up positions overlooking the village, some men took off running. So, the Aghan police spoke with the men of the village – who didn’t explain much. However, they agreed to send some of their men down to the police HQ in the nearest bazaar town in few days – and when the men who had run away were in police custody for questioning, the villagers would return.
Headed South, спасибо!
May 28th, 2009 | Photography | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
PMT Viper (Police Mentoring Team) heads out on a patrol with ANP trucks in southwest Zabul province – going the deepest south they’ve ever been. The trucks have to do some serious off-roading to go a few clicks, often in dried riverbeds – and the some of villages out this way are so remote that they weren’t aware Americans were in the country. In fact, they thought that they were Russians.
The Shura
May 27th, 2009 | Photography | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
Local elders and members of the ANP attend a shura – a weekly meeting of village leadership – at Shari Safa, where the new governor of Zabul province made an appearance for the first time. Let’s just say these sort of things don’t wrap up quickly.