#jerome starkey
The silently screaming eagle.
photo:Jerome Starkey
This was only published five months after it was taken, once Jake had recovered and returned to his unit, and given his considered, written consent.
You can read the accompanying article, including an interview with Jake and his comrades, here: bit.ly/oN00ip
CAPTION: Specialist Jacob William Moore, 21, stares into the distance as he clutches the hand of a seriously wounded comrade on board a medevac air ambulance racing towards Kandahar Air Field in southern Afghanistan, Nov 22, 2010. Spc Moore was part of a stretcher team carrying a wounded man to safety when they hit a second explosive device, buried in their path. The men, from the 2-502 Infantry’s Attack Company were operating in Nalgham, in Zhari district. Two Americans and one Afghan soldier were killed in the attacks, four others, including Spc Moore, were wounded.
The troops are part of the 101st Airborne Division - known as the screaming eagles - sent to Afghanistan in June 2010 as part of Barack Obama’s surge. Moore and his comrades paid tribute to their fallen as “phenomenal soldiers”. They said the general public in America have no idea what is going on in Afghanistan. Moore returned to active duty and finished out his tour in Afghanistan.
In 2012 he returned to Afghanistan for a second tour of duty.
[Anon- here’s your answer. -R]
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