After months of sitting in the same location in Victory Base, I finally had the opportunity to get out of the office, and make a brief trip to the International Zone in the center of Baghdad. The IZ was once the main hub of the US occupational government, but has been slowly turned back over...
In the three months I’ve been here, I’ve never seen the exterior lights of the palace turned on after dusk. On the 4th however, the I Corps band played a concert for the base, and the lights were turned on.
This is an HDR image, composed of three images bracketed at 1.3 stops each way from...
Since I’ve gotten to Iraq, I’ve been living on an area called the Victory Base Complex. This is a group of several Army “camps” with various patriotic sounding names such as Victory and Liberty, along with several others named after either individual soldiers, or units that served with distinction. Camp Slayer is one of those,...
