Smokin’
September 15th, 2011 | Photography | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
Charlie Co., 5th Platoon 2nd Lt. Clayton Groover’s M249 SAW machine gun smokes after heavy shooting during a new 8-day training event – a live-fire field operation – in “The War,” during The Basic School, at Quantico Marine Base, Va., September 14, 2011.
Interior Decorating, Kabul
October 26th, 2009 | Photography | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
Vintage British empire weapons, collected from across the Af-Pak region, on sale at the Gandamack Lodge in Kabul. Ask about the WW1-era Morris machine gun in the back, still fresh from the factory, with original grease and oil in the stock. And yes, for a few hundred bucks, they come with bayonets – but do they fit in a Fed Ex box?
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: Entering the Village
October 13th, 2009 | Photography | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
05/25/09: Police Mentoring Team Viper’s XO, Staff Sgt. Sean Tremblay, from Williamsburg, Va., prepares to search a building in Kadu, in Afghanistan’s southern Zabul province. It’s remote even by Afghan standards, where villagers have mistaken U.S. forces for being Russian.
Right after Afghan National Police have swept through the village, Tremblay follows close behind. “It’s their country, we’re just escorting them. I’m going in to double-check,” he said. You look for things that may be out of the ordinary for a village, like binos or two-way radios. There is no law against owning them, but it gives you an idea of what you’re dealing with.”
Tea Time in Qalat
June 10th, 2009 | Photography | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
A local standard – nuts, raisins, and no almonds left during a copious tea time with some Afghans in Qalat.