A Coyote armoured vehicle on patrol near Kandahar Airfield.
A Canadian surveillance post in the mountains outside Kabul.
An armoured car from Lord Strathcona's Horse keeps an eye on the crowd at a football
match between Canadian troops and a local side from Kandahar shortly after the Taliban
were first expelled from the city.
A member of the Lord Strathcona's Horse prepares to mark with spray paint the location of a
cache of rocket propelled grenades found in a road culvert.
A Soviet-occupation era barracks block near Kandahar Airport. An aircraft fuselage is lodged in one of the top floor rooms
A Canadian soldier applies some "war paint"
A Canadian soldier applies some make-up.
A foot patrol from the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry near Kandahar Airfield.
An Afghan village.
A bomb damaged home in the village.
Captain Alex Watson of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry inspects a well supplied by the
Canadian Forces to a village near Kanadahar Air Field. The man in the baseball cap is an Afghan translator.
Canadian Soldiers let some Afghan boys try on their helmets for size.
Canadian and US combat engineers find a booby-trap based on a grenade wired to a box
of old Soviet ammunition at Kandahar Airfield.
This cache of abandoned Soviet ammunition near Kandahar Airfield has been doused with
diesel by Canadian and US combat engineers shortly before they blew it up.
The building containing the booby-trapped ammunition cache is prepared for demolition.
The building is blown up.
A dense cloud of smoke drifts from the site of the explosion.
Many combat photos over the past century have in fact been taken during training exercises.
Think about it, what kind of crazy photographer would actually place themselves in front of
their own side with their back to the enemy.
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A soldier from the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry takes aim with a General Purpose
Machine Gun at a target during a live-fire exercise near Kandahar Airfield.
Two members of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry train with a 60mm mortar during a life-fire exercise.
A Canadian Carl Gustav anti-tank crew at work during a live-fire exercise. Machine gun crews can be seen in the background. A week later a US jet pilot attacked a night-time live-fire exercise believing that the Carl Gustav was an anti-aircraft missile. He missed the CG crew but killed four machine gunners.
The covered walkway leading from the main Kandahar Airport building to the runway.
An off-duty Canadian soldier working out with improvised weights at Kandahar Airfield.
Kosovo
A Canadian combat engineer is presented with a rose by one of the oldest inhabitants of a village in Kosovo in 1999.
Two Canadian combat engineers decorate the cab of their lorry with roses presented to them by Muslims as they drove into Kosovo in 1999.
I took this photo while lying under a Canadian truck after shots were heard. I was trying
for a picture of one the Canadians pointing to where he thought the shots were coming from
but the auto-focus on the camera captured a blade of grass in front of the lens in exquisite detail instead.
After I sorted out the auto-focus I took this picture of some of the soldiers at their stand-to
positions. The very sharp-eyed will spot that the soldier with the light machine gun under
the tailgate of the truck is wearing a British helmet. He was the driver for the British officer
who was acting as a Nato liaison with the Canadian combat engineers.
Gurkha troops guarding the main road on the Kosovo side of the province's border with
the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
The NATO advance into Kosovo was delayed when a British armoured bulldozer got stuck
or broke down in the the road tunnel leading from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
I think this is the bulldozer.
Scotland
The view from the back seat of Jaguar training jet near the Tain Bombing Range north of Inverness.