Photo by Spc. Ken Scar | 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 09.17.2011
The mail drop point at Combat Outpost Zerok is a beehive of activity after the first mail in three weeks arrived Sept. 17. The word spread through the COP like fire that a mail delivery had finally arrived, bringing dozens of soldiers swarming to the mail point like bees to honey. “I finally got the pair of boots I ordered from Amazon and it feels like Christmas!” hooted one soldier as he......
Photo by Spc. Ken Scar | 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 09.17.2011
Sgt. William Maner of Griffin, Ga., (left), Company B, Task Force 2-28, 172nd Infantry Brigade helps Soldiers sort through boxes of mail at Combat Outpost Zerok that were delivered by helicopter, Sept. 17. “It’s the first mail we’ve had in three weeks,” said Maner. “We never know when we’ll get it, but man it’s good when we do.”...
Photo by Spc. Ken Scar | 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 09.17.2011
Jubilant soldiers express their enthusiasm as they take a load of mail back to their platoon at Combat Outpost Zerok, Sept. 17. Out here, where the living conditions are primitive to say the least, the promise of something tangible from home, something that a soldier can hold in their hands is always a cause for celebration....
Photo by Spc. Ken Scar | 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 09.17.2011
Pfc. Jonathan Martinez, of Brooklyn, N.Y., Company B, Task Force 2-28, 172nd Infantry Brigade, rests his squad automatic weapon on the ground as he searches for mail addressed to him, Sept. 17. It was the first mail in three weeks to arrive at Combat Outpost Zerok and in a day and age where Facebook and cell phones make it easy to stay in contact with loved ones at home, the same scene still......
Photo by Spc. Ken Scar | 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 09.16.2011
Members of Task Force 2-28, 172nd Infantry Brigade prepare their vehicles for a convoy from Forward Operating Base Orgun-E to Combat Outpost Zerok Sept. 16. The convoy took seven hours to make the 20-mile drive over very rugged mountain roads....
Photo by Spc. Ken Scar | 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 09.11.2011
U.S. Army Pvt. Seth Burke Thompson of Miami and Spc. Wade Whiting of Blackfoot, Idaho, both of 2nd Squad, 3rd Platoon, Company C, 3rd Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 172nd Infantry Brigade, man one of the .50-caliber machine guns on Observation Post 1, above Forward Operating Base Tillman, as the sun rises on the tenth anniversary of 9/11....
Photo by Spc. Ken Scar | 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 09.11.2011
Capt. Brad Vance of Stuart, Fla., Commander of Company C, 3rd Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 172nd Infantry Brigade and Pfc. James Dunmire of Blairsville, Pa., salute during a combat patch ceremony for Second Squad, 3rd Platoon, C Company, 3-66 AR at sunrise on Sept. 11. The ceremony was held at Observation Post 1, which sits 1,100 feet above Forward Operating Base Tillman - the station of......
Photo by Spc. Ken Scar | 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 09.11.2011
Capt. Brad Vance of Stuart, Fla., Commander of Company C, 3rd Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 172nd Infantry Brigade (upper left) addresses the members of 2nd Squad, 3rd Platoon after they received their 172 Inf. Bde. combat patches on Observation Post 1 above Forward Operating Base Tillman the morning of Sept. 11....
