Boom !

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Comment:  Whatever your thoughts are about the conflict, that is an impressive firepower demonstration.
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Picture Of The Week - No 27 - 'Oopss'

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Comment:  Someone's got some explaining to do...
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U.S Marines make big bang detonating IEDs Afghanistan

Post by War Documentaries.

UK forces' Operational Awards honour battlefield bravery

The mottled green and brown of army fatigues are a great leveller. Line up three rows of soldiers dressed identically, and it's impossible to tell which one helped save an Afghan boy who had his leg blown off or which one narrowly escaped a bullet in the brain. Link to the BBC.
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Chinook Recovers Downed AH-64D

Some great flying here in rough conditions. Respect.
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Afghanistan's 'graveyard of foreigners'

Few countries in the world have been invaded as often, and by so many other nations, as Afghanistan, where many soldiers and civilians of various nationalities are buried in Kabul's Kabre Gora, or "graveyard of foreigners". Link to BBC.
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A Merlin helicopter's journey to Afghanistan

It is two years since the UK sent the first Merlin helicopters nearly 4,000 miles (6,400km) to Afghanistan. It is too far to fly the RAF helicopter. So, how do they get there? Link -

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Richard Johnson: Sketches from our front lines - Afghanistan

This guy is a brilliant sketch artist. Link
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Upper Gereshk: The Helmand Plan Meets Tough Reality

For anyone who might think that after 10 years in Afghan things should be getting easier, this BBC article makes kinda depressing reading... Link
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RAF airman blogging from Afghanistan's front line

There is an interesting article about an RAF man on tour in Afgan who has set up a Blog that has had over 80,000 hits thus far.
Link to the article.
Link to his Blog.
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A month in Helmand: the soldiers' stories

Stumbled across this article at lunch-time called 'A month in Helmand: the soldiers stories' written by The Times war correspondent as he revisits his old regiment and reports on the daily ordeal of life on Afghanistan's bloodiest battlefront. Must confess I found myself choked after reading it, and had to go for a short walk before returning to my desk. Salute to all our guys out in Helmund ! Link
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Afghanistan

I find myself very deeply effected by the sacrifice that our are armed forces are making in this conflict, and as father myself was I very moved by this BBC Audio slideshow about a Soldier and Son.
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Trooper Jack Sadler was killed in December 2007, when a land mine exploded underneath his army Land Rover in the desert of southern Afghanistan.
Jack was Ian Sadler's only child. Here, he pays a moving tribute to his son. Link
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