Today in History, as it applies to me.

[Seaspriter]

And Mr. Ahmad sells bras of all types in the name of Allah.

Fascinating pics. I think Marilyn Monroe or Jane Russell must have graced the bra from Allah. And the Flintlock pistols are certainly a long-lost state of the art. Loved the rugs -- interesting stories from an AK-47 rug to the World Trade Centre -- anything to help make a dollar.

[CINDERS]

Yes the old "over the shoulder boulder holder" and he sells rocks as well!

[Sentryduty]

Today it's market day in Sangin, Helmand province and we dropped by to speak with the locals and look for bad guys. This was not the safe and friendly "inside the wire" market of Kandahar Airfield we seen previous, this was back out in the part of the desert where foreigners we not welcomed. There were great deals to be had on unsanitary meats, and parts for your "Hooda" China knockoff motorcycle.

The children were very friendly, welcoming us with gifts of thrown bricks and other lucky stones.

[Sentryduty]

I missed this Sunday's update, but will put something together perhaps this evening.

[Gil Boyd]

...................................and the odd weapons part that you were looking for, everything is available as normal. The changing face of Afghanistan, we'll be back in soon as sure as eggs are eggs, driving another political parties view for change!!!

[Paul S.]

Sooner than that Mate. More likely as soon as those in charge realise things have gone arse up again and it's either 'fix it' there or wait for more of the import version to show up.

[Sentryduty]

7 PL, 2 Section after a sleepless night patrol and a successful counter ambush operation in Helmand Province on 29 April 2006, exactly one month to the day after Robert Costall was killed in the same region. A "B" vehicle under our escort had become stuck in soft sand just after mid-night, during the vehicle extraction an enemy ambush party was spotted in the open desert on thermal imaging at a range of 900m. They were engaged by our 4x LAV 3 armoured vehicles with 7.62mm machine guns and 25mm Bushmaster Autocannons, the enemy was successfully destroyed without any injury or damage to our forces.

12 of the spent casings from the firefight were retained on the LAV hull and were collected and retained as trench art. Each being refinished with ochre green powder coating and laser etched with the unit cap badge the names of the section members and the exact LOT number and serial from the ammunition fired in that firefight. Each was mounted on a small pedestal and distributed to the members of the section and 1 to the parents of Robert Costall. I still hold one of these casings as a member of that section.