Posts Tagged With: 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 »

Soldiers To Be Tried For Negligent Homicide After Suicide In Afghanistan

» by GI Korea January 9th, 2012 at 3:33 am » Comments (18)

Here is another example of failed leadership: Asian-American advocates and the family of a Chinese-American Army private believed to have committed suicide in Afghanistan after alleged hazing by his fellow soldiers called Thursday for the eight ...more »

Picture of the Day: Farewell

» by GI Korea November 17th, 2011 at 1:08 pm » Comments (13)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="499" caption="Capt. Heo Geol kisses his daughter goodbye during a ceremony in Incheon, west of Seoul, on Nov. 17, 2011, to send a 350-strong contingent to Afghanistan. ...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 »

Former Marine Dakota Meyer To Receive the Medal of Honor

» by GI Korea July 21st, 2011 at 9:13 am » Comments (3)

Here is someone very deserving to be recognized with the Medal of Honor: A Marine who braved intense enemy gunfire in Afghanistan to recover the bodies of four fallen comrades will ...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 »

More Details Released About Intelligence Gathering & Operation That Killed Osama Bin Laden

» by GI Korea May 2nd, 2011 at 5:34 pm » Comments (26)

A lot more details today is coming out about the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden. The intelligence that led to the raid actually happened years ago when Khalid Sheikh ...more »