Downrange: Camp Bastion Afghanistan, part 2
January 26th, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Erik Hildebrandt
There is so much material from the last 2 weeks that it will be hard to upload single edits from each place I visit. This next post is a follow up to the 2 nights I spent with the Marines at Camp Bastion. Part one showed some of the helicopter ops flying with the UH-1Y over the live-fire ranges. These next images are from the same flight where we were able to shoot Zuni rockets and the GAU-17 mini-gun. In one of the shots, look close at the locals on the ground. As we flew our attack runs over the range, these guys, some on motorcycles would scramble out of the dry creeks and waddies to gather up the brass falling from the helos. You would think they could wait until we were cleared off and the range was cold again, but they were literally on the active hot range with weapons firing overhead … how much could the brass really be worth?
More to come.
EROK
