BLACKHAWK ZONE - U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Francis Macale secures a landing zone as his transportation, a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter, flies away near the Koh Band district of Kapisa province, Afghanistan,Sept. 14, 2009. Macale is a squad leader assigned to the Kapisa Provincial Reconstruction Team.U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Darrick B. Lee |
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FAMILY MATTERS BLOG
By Elaine Wilson, AFPS
Sept. 21, 2009
I’ve covered many deployment ceremonies in my years as a military reporter, but one ceremony touched me deeply.
A unit was preparing to deploy for a year to Iraq a few years ago and I attended to take photos of family and friends bidding the soldiers farewell.
I zoomed in on one [...]
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