I'll be spending my first few days with the several hundred members of the Vermont Guard stationed at Camp Phoenix in Kabul. I accompanied a group on one of their 5 day a week patrols through the city streets. Although the big humvees are a regular sight, they attract lots of stares. Whether there's curiousity, indifference or hostility behind the gazes is impossible to tell.
Steve Zind ReportFromAfghanistan@gmail.com
Photos Top To Bottom
Buying Bread
Welcome to Kabul
From Inside the Humvee
Guardsmen on a Kabul Corner
Inside the Humvee
Kabul Street Scene
Kabul Street Scene
The American Military Vehicles Draw Many Stares
Through The Humvee Window
Reporter's Journal
VPR's Steve Zind is spending three weeks in Afghanistan, covering some of the 1,500 members of the Vermont National Guard who are deployed there.
He'll provide a close-up view of the Guard's mission and how things are going from their perspective.
The Reporter
Steve has been with VPR since 1994, first serving as host of VPR’s public affairs program and then as a reporter, based in Central Vermont. Many VPR listeners recognize Steve for his special reports from Iran, providing a glimpse of this country that is usually hidden from the rest of the world.