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A shelter against rockets and mortar attack, Camp Leatherneck, Helmand.

Simon Norfolk
2011
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Preparations for a sexy dancing and comedy show organised by the Morale, Welfare and Recreation unit at Camp Leatherneck.

Simon Norfolk
2011
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Waiting for a helicopter, Camp Bastion, Helmand.

Simon Norfolk
2011
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Some of the palletized, instant-build accommodation blocks at Camp Leatherneck, Helmand.

Simon Norfolk
2011
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A newly established Afghan National Army camp, close to the massive NATO base at Kandahar Air Field.

Simon Norfolk
2011
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The Museum of the Jihad, Herat. A diorama illustrating the city rising up against the Soviets.

Simon Norfolk
2011
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There are 16,000 US Marines aboard Camp Leatherneck spread over 1,600 acres. Empty shipping containers are used as storage, wind breaks or blast walls. In May 2010 a mysterious fire, that may have been sabotage, destroyed 9 acres of containers. It burned

Simon Norfolk
2011
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The seemingly endless number of helicopter pads and hangars at Camp Bastion.

Simon Norfolk
2011
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One of the huge logistics compounds at Camp Leatherneck. A modern, technological army needs hundreds of thousands of different kinds of objects in order to keep it working. A $100m warplane can be grounded for the want of a $1 part. Supplying these things

Simon Norfolk
2011
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Security lights and communications antennae at Camp Leatherneck.

Simon Norfolk
2011
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A storage yard at Kandahar Air Field looking out beyond the wire, back into ‘Afghanistan’.

Simon Norfolk
2011
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The tennis court of the British Embassy.

Simon Norfolk
2011
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A shaded rest area built by helicoptor re-fuelling crews at Camp Bastion.

Simon Norfolk
2011
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Watchtowers on the perimeter of Camp Bastion.

Simon Norfolk
2011
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The armoury of the British Embassy. The Embassy has a guard force of five hundred.

Simon Norfolk
2011
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Accommodation units, known as ‘pods’, for lower ranking diplomats of the British Embassy.

Simon Norfolk
2011
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Pakistani ‘Jingle Trucks’ end their long journey up from Karachi at the gates of Kandahar Air Field where they wait to be scanned, x-rayed and searched. Only people, ammunition and emergency requirements come by aircraft. Warlord-owned security companies

Simon Norfolk
2011
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Afghan police trainees being taken to the firing ranges by US Marines, Camp Leatherneck, Helmand.

Simon Norfolk
2011
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Kandahar Air Field.

Simon Norfolk
2011
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Her Britannic Majesty’s Ambassador Sir William Charters Patey KCMG, his private secretary and his Nepalese mercenary security guards.

Simon Norfolk
2011
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