Achin DC
A well we (the PRT, not me) built.
ANP at the DC
Looks like a cistern, nasty though. They had a pump running from it, don't know where it went to.
View from the DC
Just outside the old DC. The new DC building in the background.
We caught the guy in the white video taping us. That's a no-no.
Goats!
Kids. This is the day my knife got jacked. Little bastards.
Dirty Kid
Used to be a dog.
CAS
Kiowa Warrior
More kids.
Civil Affairs was giving out radios, it drew a crowd.
Broke HMMWV
Doggie laying like Maci does.
Achin foot patrol, this was a fun one.
Looking for explosives :)
Hard to keep a secure perimeter with all the effing kids.
Shops
I always see these 2 when we come here. The guy with the blue shirt speaks good English, he always tells me to say hi to one of the female captains we work with for him.
We covered some rugged terrain this day. I was getting bounced around pretty good in the turret.
We always draw a crowd.
Rock-eating donkies!
Good thing there's lots of rocks for them to eat...
One of the guys saw this cave and thought we should check it out...
“Nope, Bin Laden's not here...”
It looked much bigger from 600 yards away...
Looking back from the cave to where we came from. That climb SUCKED.
We took a medic, a SAW gunner, a 203 gunner (ME!) and 2 riflemen. It was quite a trek.
View from one of the clinics we stopped to check out.
Going up the mountain, scary ride.
Dry river bed in the valley.
Looking back the way we came.
Pretty hairy.
All that just to check out this clinic.
Graveyard on a mountain...
Closeup of the graveyard.
The view from where we stopped.
Me!
Even up here in the middle of nowhere we still draw a crowd.
Rugged terrain.
First village we stopped at in Achin
Capt Hart's a super star.
The dog's name was Mazique. He was really sweet but very skittish, I could tell he'd been beat up on :(
Heading up into the mountains.
Village on the mountainside.
Terraced fields.
“We want to be over there...”
We got a little lost. These folks hadn't seen Americans in a loooong time.
We were at 1700 meters elevation. It was cold.
Engineers inspecting a culvert on a road project.
Asking the locals how to get to the school we were looking for.
Poop patties drying on a rock.
It was 85 degrees where we were but there was still snow on the mountains.
It was 85 degrees where we were but there was still snow on the mountains
We hit this car leaving the DC.
