Big+Picture+photos

Let's take a close look at some of the pictures in this wonderful series. Many good military pictures in all of these sets. But let's focus on some cultural ones as well:

[] [] Think back to Alexander the Great. Silk Road. Afghanistan's first mosh pit rocks []
 * 1) 3 Afghanistan uses the Persian calendar
 * 1) 8 Landscape scene. What kind of terrain is that.
 * 2) 13 Osprey airplane
 * 3) 16 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) armored vehicle
 * 4) 17 Mud. How it impacts operations.
 * 5) 19 Afghan girl. At what age does a girl need to start wearing a burka?
 * 6) 21 Nurse of the month. All men.
 * 7) 28 Fortress from 5th century.
 * 1) 35 Poppy field
 * 2) 36 Hot room in a hamman
 * 3) 37 Marines playing "Risk"
 * 4) 38 Afghan soldier with a picture of American female race car driver
 * 5) 40 Think of what the eyes of that man has seen during his lifetime
 * 6) 41 Woman interpreter
 * 7) 42 Rock band!!!

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 * 1) 31 Drug addiction among Afghanis
 * 2) 35 Marine with "God" on his helmet
 * 3) 39 Afghan girl gives flower to a Marine

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 * 1) 2 "Jingle" truck
 * 2) 7 Afghan girl
 * 3) 20 Canadian female officer talks to Afghan women
 * 4) 21 "Ricky" the explosive detector dog
 * 5) 27 Paktika province. Make sure to read the caption.
 * 6) 29 Bible verse on gunsight
 * 1) 39 Taliban fighters display their weapons
 * 2) 40 Special Forces men dismount from helicopter on mountain peak

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 * 1) 1 Afghans on a motorcycle
 * 2) 2 Sheep
 * 3) 10 A chaplain at work
 * 4) 15 Marine uses a metal detector
 * 5) 17 Afghan looks up into muzzle of a rifle
 * 6) 18 Marine holds a puppy
 * 7) 20 Men waiting (squatting) for a food distribution
 * 8) 21 Army versus Marines in mud football
 * 9) 23 Afghan kids wait to go skateboarding
 * 10) 25 Soldier holds a Bible
 * 11) 26 Kids watch soldiers on patrol (patrol was hit later)
 * 12) 27 Goat grabbing national sport. Rambo.
 * 13) 30 Bollywood movie star picture on Afghan soldier's rifle
 * 14) 33 Afghan women kiss Shiite religious flags. I thought Afghanistan was Sunni.
 * 15) 34 Afghan Shiite men flagellate themselves
 * 16) 35 Afghan policewoman
 * 17) 37 Afghan kids play with a toy gun!!
 * 18) 39 Afghan landmine victim
 * 19) 40 Anti-American protest
 * 20) 42 Marine tries to keep warm

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 * 1) 3 Hazara people. Silk Road. Be sure to read the caption.
 * 2) 7 Defensive flare fired from helicopter
 * 3) 12 Taliban fighters
 * 4) 24 Afghan kids read from the Koran
 * 5) 27 Soldiers watching movies on their laptops
 * 6) 37 Afghan boy gives thumbs down to French Foreign Legion patrol
 * 7) 40 Afghan girl touches her mother's artificial leg

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 * 1) 1 Prayer beads
 * 2) 3 Medevac helicopter with bullet holes
 * 3) 7 General McChrystal works on his laptop
 * 4) 17 Afghan women
 * 5) 28 Banana vendor
 * 6) 30 German soldier mans a checkpoint. Why no protection for him?
 * 7) 31 Treatment for mental patient
 * 8) 33 Taliban fighters in reconciliation program
 * 9) 35 "We want just Islam"
 * 10) 37 I wonder how many Marines/soldiers read Atlantic magazine
 * 11) 39 School kids

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 * 1) 1 Dust devil
 * 2) 6 What equipment is the Special Forces soldier wearing.
 * 3) 7 Armored vehicle damaged by an IED
 * 4) 8 Heavy traffic in Kabul
 * 5) 11 Hazara people. Giant Buddhas.
 * 6) 19 Afghan female police trainee
 * 7) 26 Soldier playing his guitar [This is for Eric!!]
 * 8) 27 A bittersweet birthday
 * 9) 28 Saying farewell to a Dad
 * 10) 29 Really saying farewell
 * 11) 31 Wonder what each of them is thinking
 * 12) 33 Two tattoos: Death and Life
 * 13) 39 Afghan boy on a merry-go-round with a toy gun
 * 14) 40 Lifting weights
 * 15) 41 More on the weight room. Interesting wall decorations.
 * 16) 43 Afghan man who had fought against the Soviets

Big Picture (Boston Globe) []
 * 1) 6 Help me interpret this ballot picture
 * 2) 8 Mobile phones
 * 3) 9 TV
 * 4) 15 Afghan soldiers during Ramadan
 * 5) 22 Dust
 * 6) 25 Beautiful mosque: Heart
 * 7) 26 Taliban fighters
 * 8) 36 Girl with a puppy
 * 9) 39 High-tech Afghanistan

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 * 1) 2 Aerial view of a Kandahar neighborhood. [this is terrific]
 * 2) 4 British army nurse
 * 3) 5 Embroidery
 * 4) 8 Soldier's iPod. Wonder if he is paying attention to his work.
 * 5) 12 Marine throwing a hand grenade
 * 6) 15 Afghan DJ
 * 7) 17 Tired Marines
 * 8) 24 Pashtuns displaced by Tajiks
 * 9) 25 Place where the giant Buddhas were located
 * 10) 26 Marine lifting weights
 * 11) 28 Marksmanship training for the Afghans
 * 12) 29 Burka shop. Do you have anything in blue?
 * 13) 31 The patrol is not spread out as much as one would think they should be

Big Picture (Boston Globe) []
 * 1) 3 Why would they be standing outside a wall
 * 2) 4 Taliban fighters marksmanship training
 * 3) 5 Taliban fighters on motorbikes
 * 4) 9 Photo collage of Afghan soldiers
 * 5) 13 Mr. Afghanistan contestants
 * 6) 18 Extensive tattoo on a Marine
 * 7) 22 Marine sniper
 * 8) 23 Sad picture. British nurse and Afghan girl.

[] Big Picture (Boston Globe)
 * 1) 1 Aerial view of an Afghan village
 * 2) 3 Vehicles on patrol in dangerous mountain territory
 * 3) 5 Marine launches a drone
 * 4) 6 Burqa-clad woman
 * 5) 8 Opium poppy farmer. Read this caption carefully.
 * 6) 14 Afghan boy offering balloons for sale
 * 7) 15 Afghan woman builds a prosthetic limb
 * 8) 20 Gurkha soldier
 * 9) 29-#30 Door gunners in a helicopter
 * 10) 31 Heroin addiction
 * 11) 33 Afghan horsemen competing in national sport of "goat grabbing"
 * 12) 35 Soldier in a poppy field
 * 13) 40 Afghan girls attend school
 * 14) 41 Snowballs in Kabul
 * 15) 43 Patrol during a sandstorm

[] This issue has great battle shots. Plus these:
 * 1) 3 and #7 Tough climb
 * 2) 5-#6 Unit of 155mm howitzers
 * 3) 8 Monkey mascot
 * 4) 12 Looks like the village elder is sending a non-verbal signal

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 * 1) 4 Night vision goggles
 * 2) 7 Afghan boy with toy AK-47
 * 3) 27 Soldiers pilot a UAV

[] Pictures are not numbered Marine has a close call (two pictures) Taliban fighters Afghan boy on a donkey

Iraq Photoblog: "The Big Picture" from the Boston Globe

Work through all the pictures in these two photoblogs: 1. [] 2. []