Setting up a new patrol base in the ruins of a destroyed Iraqi air force installation.  The place is totally abandoned - only the odd Bedouin passes through occasionally, with a dozen goats in tow.

A lot of building materials got trucked in, but the air force decided to airdrop 40 giant pallets of barrier kits, food and plywood.  So in addition to unloading the trucks, we retrieved thousands of pounds of this crap, strewn across the desert and tangled in parachute cord and chicken wire.  So efficient.  When the parachutes started dropping in, like great mutant jellyfish, I saw the goat herder jumping up and down, shouting at the sky.

The dark photos were taken by moonlight at an observation point on top of a bunker at midnight, two km from the patrol base.  Quarter moon, twenty seconds at f/5.6, ISO 1600.