Videos tagged with Kandahar

This entry details activities at Camp Gecko in Kandahar, Afghanistan, including recreational dirt bike riding within Osama Bin Laden's former cave and tactical handgun training. The speaker, a former Special Operations personnel, describes a routine involving a 50-meter steel plate shoot from the holster, highlighting practical application of firearm skills in a historical military context.

This is the 18th installment of Kit Badger's "Float Tapes" series, documenting a Marine Corps deployment from August 2001. The video picks up as the narrator, then a Sergeant with Bravo Company 1/1, leaves a CH-46 helicopter north of Camp Rhino in southern Afghanistan, heading towards Kandahar. Originally planned as a routine Westpac deployment, events on September 11th altered the course. The footage, originally captured on MiniDV tapes over six months, was lost for 18 years before being rediscovered. This episode focuses on the initial stages of that deployment, including mentions of specific gear.