Reporting From Afghanistan - June 2009

The Cook Is On Fire!

Missed Day 1? Missed Day 2? Missed Day 3? Missed Day 4?

Leatherneck Magazine has posted dozens of slideshows from both Iraq and Afghanistan in our Photos From The Field section.

Want more? Check out our Daily Corps News, more photos, some cartoons, or the best of 1969.

This member of the uniformed Afghan National Police is also firing the grenade launcher attached to his Soviet Union-era rifle-a version of the AK-47. (Photo by Stewart Nusbaumer, Leatherneck Magazine)

Marines patrol near Forward Operating Base Golestan, Afghanistan. (Photo by Stewart Nusbaumer, Leatherneck Magazine)

FOB Golestan is in a remote area of Afghanistan--almost scenic in its beauty if people didn't try to kill you. (Photo by Stewart Nusbaumer, Leatherneck Magazine)

The entrance to FOB Golestan. (Photo by Stewart Nusbaumer, Leatherneck Magazine)

Inside the FOB are the tents used for sleeping and eating and the various containers and supplies necessary to run the forward operating base. The mess tent is farthest to the right. (Photo by Stewart Nusbaumer, Leatherneck Magazine)