What A Deployment Looks Like Through An Air Force Photographer's Lens

Boy was I surprised when a Reddit User with the twitter handle RaptorClause got back to me about these images to say that they were all "public domain."

They were public domain, he explained, because they had all been taken on a government camera, by a government-trained photographer.

As a fellow (former) combat photographer, I can relate to wanting to get your images out there for people to see — and wow does the Air Force know imagery.

You can check out some more of their work at Airman Magazine, but you certainly don't want to miss out on these sick images ... so go ahead, click that little link right there ... do it.

First of all ... wow ...

The base, in this case, is Bagram Airbase, in northeast Afghanistan.

And it's a jump off point for support operations all around the country.

But generally, beauties like the Apache here steal the attention of all the boys.

How else would casualties come from a fight and war-fighters get to the fight?