I don’t even know what this one stands for. But it was a combined live fire exercise led by Afghan Tactical Air Controllers (ATACs). ATACs are trained by coalition JTACs to be the eyes on the ground and call in air strikes. In this exercise, it was the first time they were tasked with also…
Puma
or Pew-muh as the Brits call them. I got to spend two days with the Puma pilots and aircrew, harnessed in and shooting pictures out of the open doors of the British workhorse. The assignment was to take photos of landmarks around Kabul for a comparison to archived images, showing the growth and development that…
Race Report: Desert Tri, 2018
Desert Tri, Lake Cahuilla, La Quinta , CA March 4, 2018 Expo/Packet Pickup/Wetsuit decontamination: After a lunch visit with my wife’s grandparents who live about 30 minutes away from the race site, I got to the expo just in time for the final course talk and wetsuit dunk. By this point in the afternoon, the…
New blog category: Triathlon
As I described on the about me page, I started this blog at the beginning of my deployment to Afghanistan in 2016. But, by the time I reached the second half of my time there, I was too busy to stop and write about my experience. Now that I have been home for almost a…