A walk on the green side
May 14th, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Thomas Brown
A Marine casts a long shadow on a green bed a grass lined with marijuana along a road in Marjah, Afghanistan while on patrol Friday May 14th. With poppy season over one doesn't have to look far to see numerous plots of Marijuana growing near compounds in the area. Thomas Brown/Staff
So Tired
May 11th, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Thomas Brown
Marine Lance Corporals (LtoR) Joshua Wilcox, Salvador Delatorreahumda, and Charles Graham find a comfortable spot in the shade of their LVSR vehicle used to bring the traveling PX to Marines at combat outposts in the Marah, Afghanistan area The stop of the rolling PX to Camp Yazzie was a much anticipated event for Marines who missed two previous attemps by the "roadshow" to get to them. Thomas Brown/Staff
3/6 Marjah Ridge Patrol
May 11th, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Thomas Brown
Marines and Afghan National Army soldiers patrol along a ridge line that overlooks 3/6 India Co. area of operation during a patrol in Marjah, Afghanistan. Marines have been receiving fire from the ridge which has been used by Taliban fighters to fire on foot patrols below. Thomas Brown/Staff
Fortifying gains in Marjah
March 18th, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
Afghanistan-Fear Campaign– In this image taken Monday, March 15, 2010, in Marjah, marines of the First Battalion, Sixth Marine Regiment build a barrier around their base. Taliban insurgents are conducting a fear and intimidation campaign against residents of the southern Afghan town of Marjah, which international forces just wrested from insurgents. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)
Marjah cemetery
March 10th, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
A U.S. Marine from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment walks past an Afghan cemetery in Marjah in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
Windows
February 28th, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
A U.S. Marine from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment walks through a farm compound where his company stopped to rest for the night in Marjah in Afghanistan’s Helmand province on Wednesday Feb. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
Counter-sniper
February 17th, 2010 | From the Ranks | Posted by Alan Lessig
A Marine with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, attempts to draw fire from a Taliban sniper who had Marines pinned down Feb. 15 in Marjah, Helmand province, Afghanistan. Marines with Bravo and Alpha Co., 1/6 inserted into the city at night by helicopters as part of a large-scale offensive aimed at routing the Taliban from their last-known stronghold. (Photo by Lance Cpl. James Clark)
February 17th, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
Airborne in a Black hawk helicopter on a U.S. Army medevac misssion, a Marine MP, left, guards a Taliban fighter who is wounded, along with two other seriously wounded Taliban fighters captured after a firefight, according to the Marines on the ground, over Marjah, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Saturday Feb. 13, 2010. Aero-medical crews of Task Force Pegasus are positioned throughout southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Medevac in Marjah
February 16th, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
After jumping off his helicopter at a landing zone marked with a smoke grenade, Army flight medic Staff Sgt. Robert B. Cowdrey, of La Junta, Colo., right, with Charlie Company, All American Dustoff, carries a stretcher to evacuate a Marine wounded in a rocket-propelled grenade attack, in Marjah, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, on Feb. 13. Aero-medical crews, assigned to the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, Task Force Pegasus, are positioned throughout southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)