Line of Sight

Need a Lift?

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Staff Sgt. Hasaan Jones, from the D.C.’s Guard medical detachment, waits at the 6th district police station. The Guard gave rides to critical personnel during the snow emergency in D.C.

It happens in Haiti, too

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    Soldiers from 1st Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, replace the right windshield on a Humvee after a Haitian child threw a rock at it. The Soldiers are in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to help provide earthquake relief.

Soldiers from 1st Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, replace the right windshield on a Humvee after a Haitian child threw a rock at it. The Soldiers are in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to help provide earthquake relief.

The phone call home

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Staff Sgt. Levar Francois, newly stationed at Qalat, spends some time talking to wife before dinner at FOB Lagman.

It’s 4:40am, Still No Sleep

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PMT Viper Staff Sgt. Milo Wurth, from McClean, Ill., gets ready to leave his overwatch position on a night patrol in SW Zabul. It’s shortly after dawn and he still hasn’t slept from the day before.

Headed South, спасибо!

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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.