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Gallery of photos from COP Turbett, Marjah up on the archive. Give them a look.
http://victorblue.photoshelter.com/gallery/Hold-Marjah/G0000pyLn0f._P5s
Afghan cell working again. Go figure. Off to the Arghandab. Hold down the fort.

Just finished 2 weeks with the 2-6 Marines in Marjah. The wild west out here.
Very limited email availability. The Afghan cell phone doesn’t work down here. I can receive calls and text on my US cell-
415.867.9615
Hit me up.

Back in Afghanistan for the next 6 weeks. Embedded with the 3/3 Marines in Helmand, and the 1-71 CAV and 101st Airborne in Kandahar, until the end of August. Gonna be a long hot summer.
Afghan Cell# 079 411 7105
From the US- 011 93 079 411 7105
Holla at me.

Went to West Virginia last month to cover the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster for the Wall Street Journal. Long days,

Starting to catch up. I won a POYI a couple months back for the work I did in Afghanistan last summer. Nice thing to have happen, even nicer to get it in the company of folks like Matt, Brian, Rachel, Marcus, and of course ABD…

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I moved to Ohio back in the fall. Might be time to catch up a little around here.
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After my embed, I spent a few days shooting a story on day laborers in Kabul.  So strange, exactly the same situation as in the US- out of work men, standing on street corners, hoping for just a few hours of work.  The unemployment in Afghanistan is rampant, there is almost no economic development, and [...]

 
 
Pictures from an air assault into the Tangi Valley with 1st Platoon, Charlie Co., 2/87 Infantry, 3/10 Spartan, up on the archive now.  Give them a look.  
http://pa.photoshelter.com/c/victorblue

Currently in Afghanistan.  Embedded with 3/10 Spartan in Wardak and Logar.
Afghan mobile # 0795942678
from US: 01193795942678
Holla.

 
 
Stockton’s annual Sikh parade was last month.  I was excited to get to cover it again.  15,000 Sikh folks parading behind the holy book and handing out food to everyone in south Stockton, what’s not to love.  
So I am following along, trying to find the picture that says what I want it to about [...]