Category Page for: Afghanistan

PETA Claims Killing of Sheep Is Next Military Video Scandal, Really?

» by GI Korea January 18th, 2012 at 8:26 am » Comments (15)

Get ready for more righteous outrage and calls for a war crime tribunal: Less than a week after Corps officials were forced to deal with an embarrassing video of Marines urinating ...more »

Allen West On Marines Urinating On Dead Taliban

» by GI Korea January 14th, 2012 at 10:08 pm » Comments (57)

I have to agree with Allen West here for the most part on how to punish these Marines depending on the facts of the Marine investigation: Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), a ...more »

Picture of the Day: Korean Bus In Afghanistan

» by GI Korea September 6th, 2011 at 1:00 pm » Comments (8)

[flickr id="6116426648" thumbnail="medium" overlay="true" size="large" group="" align="none"] This is a picture I took of a Korean bus at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan. For those that don't know there are many vehicles ...more »

Picture of the Day: Taeguki In Afghanistan

» by GI Korea July 13th, 2011 at 12:58 pm » Comments (9)

[flickr id="5932974391" thumbnail="medium" overlay="true" size="large" group="" align="none"] This is a picture I took at a bazaar outside of Kandahar AFB in Afghanistan. Talking to the merchant from what I could understand ...more »

Picture of the Day: Statue of Freedom Cake

» by GI Korea July 5th, 2011 at 1:00 pm » Comments (9)

[flickr id="5904831887" thumbnail="medium" overlay="true" size="large" group="" align="none"] This is a picture of a Statue of Freedom cake on display in a DFAC in southern Afghanistan last year for the 4th of ...more »

Picture of the Day: 4th of July In Afghanistan

» by GI Korea July 4th, 2011 at 12:33 pm » Comments (24)

[flickr id="5900538333" thumbnail="medium" overlay="true" size="large" group="" align="none"] As some of you know who were early followers of me on Facebook, I returned back to the US from deploying to Afghanistan this ...more »

Al Qaeda Leader Osama Bin Laden Has Been Killed In Pakistan

» by GI Korea May 1st, 2011 at 8:31 pm » Comments (183)

If you haven't heard already Osama Bin Laden has finally been killed: The founder and spiritual figurehead for al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, is dead. Several officials confirmed the report ...more »

Kidnapped South Korean Construction Workers Rescued In Afghanistan

» by GI Korea December 16th, 2010 at 11:15 pm » Comments (0)

I think that these two guys have to feel pretty lucky about now: Two South Korean construction workers were rescued after being briefly kidnapped by unidentified assailants in Afghanistan ...more »

Picture of the Day: Taeguki In Afghanistan

» by GI Korea October 2nd, 2010 at 1:00 pm » Comments (9)

Look what Michael Yon found in Afghanistan: Korean Flags -- I see these flags in various provinces. This flag is in Urozgan (am now in Nangarhar). Many Korean missionaries have come to ...more »

Journalist Captured By Taliban Tweets His Location On Twitter

» by GI Korea September 13th, 2010 at 5:09 pm » Comments (14)

This article is interesting not so much in regards to the captured journalist using Twitter to Tweet his location, but it gives a glimpse on who some of the so ...more »