Today I was looking at photos from my tour in Iraq in 2009-10. Near the end of the tour, the days were shorter and winter sun shone on the aircraft. I took these photos at sunset on the airstrip on Camp Adder, Talil Ali Air Base, Iraq.

Veteran of four wars, four enlistments, four branches: Air Force, Army, Army Reserve, Army National Guard. I am both an AF (Air Force) veteran and as Veteran AF (As Fuck)
Kurds in Iraq, Turkey and Syria have been staunch allies of the US and then we abandon them Wars rarely begin where we think they do. Th...