The Things They Carried: A Photo Essay
www.popularmechanics.com: Early in the morning of January 13th, news cameras began to roll, capturing the magnitude of the January 12th earthquake in Haiti. Little did the public know, nearly half a day earlier, senior military leadership was already huddled in an upstairs meeting room at US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), on the phone with the US [...]
Children at the Gate
Children at the Gate, originally uploaded by Benjamin Chertoff. Moving on… Something non-Penn related. Delmas, HAITI — Deep within the winding, steep, unpaved blocks of Delmas, an intel recon team from the 82nd Airborne finds a small refugee camp. The mission: find large, uncharted camps and assess medical needs; this camp, so remotely hidden and [...]
Why Sean Penn Doesn’t Care About CRITICS; VIDEO and Slideshow
Sean Penn has every reason to be pissed at his critics. When I talked to him in Haiti (I was embedded with the 1st-73rd Airborne Cav, 2 Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne out at FOB Grey, in an abandoned country club – story and images here) he was tired, sweaty, in the middle of juggling several satellite phone calls as he tried to get generators down to the disaster response team down the hill. His camp was sprawling; two entire tennis courts. His room and board in Haiti? A tent, smaller than most families take to go camping. The rest of the space on the courts was reserved for humanitarian supplies he’d had flown in and was working with the Army to distribute.
Kids With Guns
Kids With Guns, originally uploaded by Benjamin Chertoff. Deep within the winding, steep, unpaved blocks of Delmas, an intel recon team from the 82nd Airborne finds a small refugee camp. Their mission is to find large, uncharted camps and assess medical needs. This camp, small, remotely hidden and without any serious medical needs, is marked [...]
