 They say a picture is worth a thousand words. This Middletown Times-Herald photo was taken at the Army-Navy game . . . |
 This one was sent to me, I'm not making any editorial comments here. |
 Doug Lobdell in uniform sometime before his mobilization. |
 CH-47 in Afghanistan, late 2002. |
 Russ and Sue Wange with family. |
 Russ and Sue's daughter. |
 Wange family again. |
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 Next series of photos were taken by a buddy in CJTF-180 in the Kabul area. |
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 Crops are growing again. Many fields have to be cleared of mines. |
 A mosque in Kabul. |
 The mountains around Kabul. These require incoming flights to do a spiral as they descend to land at Bagram Air Base. |
 Tent city in Afghanistan before the winter weather set in. |
 Christianne Amanpour with a Fort Worth Engineer District DA Civilian employee at Bagram AB, Afghanistan. |
 Media coverage at Bagram Air Base. |
Shops in Kabul. |
 Afghan village. |
 This lucky Danish pilot overshot the runway at Bagram - he ejected and the aircraft came to a stop in the middle of a minefield. |
 More than a dozen mines were found within the footprint of this aircraft, including one that was scooped into the jet intake but did not detonate. |
 C-130 blew a tire landing at Bagram and went off the runway. This kept David Letterman from coming in to do a Christmas holidays special show from Bagram. |
 The best way to remove an aircraft from a minefield is straight up. |
 A Fort Worth District Forward Engineer Support Team (FEST) member with the Danish F-16. |
Canyon Lake, between Austin and San Antonio, received over 30 inches of rain in a 4 day period culminating in water going over the emergency spillway on 4 July for the first time since the dam was built. |
 The 250-year storm event turned a grassy trapezoid ditch into a wonderful limestone canyon. |
 This picture gives you an idea how much soil and rock was carried away by the flood . . . the original ground level was the level of the soil holding the trees in the background. |
 Canyon Lake rose over 42 feet in 5 days, topped the spillway by 7 feet and flowed at a peak of 66,800 cfs. The awesome power of nature! |
 Another scene of the new canyon. The Fort Worth District is making this canyon available to scientists and school students. |
 Some good size fish were trapped in some of the pools left by the dropping water. |
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 Gary at Messina (AWC trip). |
 George and Gary at Licata Beach (AWC trip). |
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 Jim briefs the Brolo invasion (AWC trip). |
 George Wood at the Army Ball, June 2002. |
 Fort Worth FEST-A team in Kabul. |
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