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Aug 18, 2021 – Waiting outside Kabul airport gate for the right time to get into the airport, Kabul, Afghanistan.
August 19, 2021 --Chaos in Kabul
Aug 19, 2021 – With my family inside Kabul airport, right after crossing the airport gate, Kabul, Afghanistan.
A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III safely transported approximately 640 Afghan citizens from Hamid Karzai International Airport Aug. 15, 2021. U.S. Air Force courtesy photo.
Aug 2021 – The hangar and tents where we stayed for one week at US Air Force Base Ramstein, Germany.
Aug 2021 – Inside the hangar where my wife and daughter stayed for one week at US Air Force Base Ramstein, Germany. (My wife took this picture)
Aug 2021 – The hangar for in-processing and out-processing of evacuees at US Air Force Base Ramstein, Germany.
Oct 2021 – Providing voluntary linguistic services for agents of US Chamber of Commerce at US Army Base Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, USA. The agents provided crucial information twice a week to Afghan evacuees on employment opportunities across multiple industries in America.
Aug 31, 2021 – With my family at US Army Base Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, USA. We spent 65 days at Fort McCoy.
Aug 28, 2021 – With my family on board a United Airlines flight from US Air Force Base Ramstein (Germany) to the Dulles International Airport (USA).
Nov 21, 2021 – With my family near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, USA.
2009 – At Qala-e-Naw Airfield, Badghis province, Afghanistan. In the background are two Italian Air Force helicopters known as Agusta.
2009 – US Army General (Four-Star) David Petraeus (left), then-Commander of Central Command (CENTCOM), MG Jalandar Shah Behnam, ANA’s 207th Corps Commander (center) and US Army Col. John Bessler (right), ARSIC-West Commander – during the visit of General Petraeus of the ANA Corps, Herat, Afghanistan.
2009 – With General David Petraeus during his visit at ANA’s 207th Corps, Herat, Afghanistan.
2009 – At the office of ANA’s 207th Corps Commander with Italian Army Col. Ignazio Gamba (right) and four members of ANA (left) who were set free by the Taliban. The Afghan soldiers were captured in a Taliban ambush in Badghis province, Afghanistan, and were released after months-long negotiations brokered by local elders and tribal leaders. Taliban used to make prisoners of war (POWs) grow beard and give them traditional Afghan clothes at the time of their release.
2009 – During the visit of General David Petraeus at the office of ANA’s 207th Corps Commander. The purpose of the visit was to assess security in the region and discuss aspects of counter-insurgency (COIN) on which General Petraeus had written a guidance for Coalition Forces in Afghanistan.
2009 – With US Army Col. John Bessler, Commander of ARSIC-West in Herat, Afghanistan.
2009 – Providing linguistic support to then-MG of the US Army, Richard P. Formica (left), Commander of Combined Security Transition Command – Afghanistan (CSTC-A), and ANA Brigadier General (One-Star) Zeyarat Shah Abed (right), Commander of 1st Brigade of 207th Corps during a visit of MG Formica to Herat, Afghanistan.
