Dawn Blitz 2011

October 14, 2011

  ­ Dawn Blitz 2011 ­­ CAMP PENDLETON— In the gray, predawn light the USS Rushmore idles a few miles offshore of Gold Beach in Southern California. A thin fog veils the rising sun, the 610-foot Rushmore looking ghostlike on the dark sea. Small vessels slowly debark from the well deck Rushmore and string out to the south. The dark, low-riding ships disappear behind swells as they form into a line nearly a mile long. They cough black exhaust and...

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Running The Gauntlet – Baghdad 2004

May 05, 2011

It’s a typical crisp winter day in Baghdad’s Green Zone.  Between runs to the airport  the Blackwater team kills time in between runs by shooting the shit.  Shooting is what Blackwater is all about. Whether its their 7500 acre training facility in North Carolina or out here doing what was at the time the most dangerous ten minute run in the world. Lounging on the fenders of the armored Mamba vehicles, we do the thumbs up suspender thing, lift up...

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