Midway through our round the world trip with Secretary of Defense Gates, we made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan. Arriving under the cover of darkness we landed in Kabul Sunday evening. We had switched from the E4B to a C-17 for our descent into Kabul. I’ve corkscrewed into BIAP a [...]

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Jim Long blogging somewhere over the Pacific, en route Singapore
Friend and social media rock star Chris Abraham once told me that I blog in the “rarified air” from my perch as a network news cameraman. Today, I blog from the very thin air, 35000 feet above the Pacific Ocean, en route to Singapore with [...]

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photo credit: US Navy Photo
No those AREN’T Pentagon correspondents being booted out the back for publishing DOD leaks.
Today I’m off to Quantico Marine Base to shoot this wacky chopper..plane..whirly-bird thingy. If nothing else, it’ll be good pictures.
Can I just point out tha today is Friday the 13th? Given the lethal history of the [...]

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