Story by Spc. Ken Scar | Combined Joint Task Force 1 - Afghanistan | 10.13.2011
Ernest Hemingway said, “Courage is grace under pressure.” If that is true, then there is no deeper pool of courage than that at Combat Outpost Red Hill, and no more stalwart a soul than Spc. Brett Waller, a Soldier with Task Force Maverick, 1st Cavalry Division....
Story by Spc. Ken Scar | Combined Joint Task Force 1 - Afghanistan | 09.28.2011
To the U.S. infantry soldier north-eastern Afghanistan is unforgiving on many levels - extreme weather, isolation and xenophobic tribes ... but the true suffering begins and ends with the rugged, soul-sapping terrain. It is a country of severe alpine landscapes that seem to go on forever in merciless, jagged waves of cliff faces, boulder fields and stony hillsides – and yet somehow life took......
Story by Spc. Ken Scar | 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 09.17.2011
Imagine driving a tractor-trailer up the roughest jeep trail in the Rocky Mountains ... that’s the challenge facing Soldiers when navigating the rocky terrain in eastern Afghanistan. ...
Story by Ken Scar | 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 09.13.2011
In the canyon below Forward Operating Base Tillman two streams converge. One leads across the border into Pakistan and one comes down the mountain, from the small villages to the north. The rocky beds of the two streams serve as roads and have probably served as roads for centuries. It’s rough going, but an amazing variety of vehicles ferry passengers and goods past this point every day....
Story by Spc. Ken Scar | 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 09.12.2011
Sgt. Jeremy Truelove is teaching Afghan soldiers everything he knows about vehicle repairs. His goal - work himself out of a job so that he and his fellow American service members don’t have to come back to Afghanistan....
Story by Spc. Ken Scar | 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 09.07.2011
For the vast majority of Americans the War on Terror is a decade old and a world away, but for the soldiers living and fighting on Forward Operating Base Tillman, a small fortress etched into a high mountain valley near the Pakistan border, it is on their doorstep every minute of the day, every day....
Story by Spc. Ken Scar | 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 09.03.2011
Ten years ago, U.S. Army Pfc. Erik Park was 12 years old growing up in San Mateo, Calif. When his father told him one September morning that the World Trade Center had gone down, he only had one response: “What’s the World Trade Center?”...
