Jeff Cagle
i am a freelance news and editorial photographer living in the chicago suburbs.
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For the past seven years, David Guttenfelder has witnessed and documented the changing landscape of Afghanistan. Although mostly embedded with coalition troops, he has also covered the presidential elections, bodybuilders in Kabul, the state of Afghan prisons and daily life in the country. Guttenfelder is the chief Asia photographer for The Associated Press and over the past seven years has offered the general public a close-up, intimate look at the lives of troops fighting in the mountains and remote regions of Afghanistan. [via Captured]
Go check out some incredible images.
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On July 2nd, 2009, four thousand US Marines of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade launched a major helicopter assault into a Taliban stronghold in the Helmand River Valley in southern Afghanistan in order to break a military stalemate with the insurgent group.
Independent filmmaker Danfung Dennis was embedded with Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Company, as they were dropped 18 km behind enemy lines to seize a key bridge. Within a few hours of landing, fierce fighting erupted and continued for the next three days, during which Lance Corporal Charles Sharp, from Adairsville, Georgia was shot and killed by a Taliban fighter.
After the initial fighting, the Marines searched for the insurgents who had killed Lance Corporal Sharp. Frustration set in as the Marines tried to fight the elusive enemy whose IED’s cut off their supply lines. The Marines’ objective was to secure and protect the population, but the Afghan villagers complained that the fighting has driven them into the desert, and the bombing destroyed their homes. Can the Marines balance their contradictory roles as warriors and statesmen, as they struggle to win the hearts and minds of the Afghan people?This looks like it is going to be one of the best-shot war docs to come out of Iraq and Afghanistan. And it was only one man with a shooting with a DSLR.
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Two Weeks in Forever
An audio slideshow with the Marines of Echo company in Helmand province, Afghanistan. (via thedief)
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Not a good week for Indiana veterans
The young military veteran who shot and killed himself in a Muncie movie theater late Monday has been identified as Jacob W. Sexton, 21, of Farmland.
Sexton was on leave from serving in the Afghanistan war, but was set to return, according to the coroner’s office.
Sexton was in the movie theater with three companions, two of them his brothers, watching “Zombieland.” […]
Sexton had argued with theater employees after being asked to produce an ID to view the R-rated movie, saying he had killed 18 people in the service of his country, witnesses told police. [via thestarpress]
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An Iraq War veteran accused of firing on Randolph County sheriff’s deputies is expected to make his first appearance in court at 2 p.m. today.
Ward was arrested Friday night after police responded to a 911 call at his sister’s house. [also via thestarpress]]]>
Along with repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the Obama administration needs to address the stigma that plagues the military surrounding PTSD and other combat-related mental illnesses so our veterans get the help they might need and definitely deserve.
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Zoriah recently spent a week sleeping on the streets of Paris with a group of Afghan refugees. It’s estimated that between 150 and 300 refugees sleep in Villemin Square Park each night. The only facilities are these three portable toilets, which are also shared by other local homeless. There are no showers; the men must bathe and do laundry in a park water fountain.
Check out the rest of Zoriah’s Afghan refugee series.
![For the past seven years, David Guttenfelder has witnessed and documented the changing landscape of Afghanistan. Although mostly embedded with coalition troops, he has also covered the presidential elections, bodybuilders in Kabul, the state of Afghan prisons and daily life in the country. Guttenfelder is the chief Asia photographer for The Associated Press and over the past seven years has offered the general public a close-up, intimate look at the lives of troops fighting in the mountains and remote regions of Afghanistan. [via Captured]
Go check out some incredible images.](http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/jeffcagle/231463099/1/tumblr_ksilknmy6b1qz82s5 "http://jeffcagle.tumblr.com/post/231463099/for-the-past-seven-years-david-guttenfelder-has")
