Image Gallery 2009
17 February 2009
Rebuilding bridges in Afghanistan
As their Engineer counterparts worked in the freezing valley below, members of the 1st Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force’s, Combat Team Tusk, took advantage of an abandoned security building.
Tasked with providing protection to the reconstruction work, the soldiers made themselves as comfortable as possible as they went about their tasks of redirecting traffic and patrolling the area for insurgent threats.
Their temporary home was the envy of many of their fellow soldiers in the high and freezing altitudes of Zabol Province.
| 20081217ara8502859_0236 Parked in a vehicle shell scrape, an Australian Light Armoured Vehicle watches over Australian engineers from the 1st Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force, as they rebuild a bridge damaged by insurgents in the valley below. The road that winds through the valley is Afghanistan's Highway 1, the country's main supply route. (Date taken: 17 December 2008) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20081217ara8502859_0253 A room with a view - Afghan style. The sand bagged window of a patrol house occupied by Australian Soliders in southern Afghanistan. (Date taken: 17 December 2008) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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| 20081217ara8502859_0265 An Australian Light Armoured Vehicle (ASLAV) provides overwatch to 1st Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force bridging site, in Zabol Province, southern Afghanistan. (Date taken: 17 December 2008) Low-Res | Hi-Res |
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