Just in case anyone has forgotten what Canadian soldiers faced when we were in Afghanistan, this is a heat map of all the IED's in Kandahar from 2005-2009. Feel free to share it with anyone who forgets what we dealt with, and wonders if we were putting it on the line as much as anyone else.

FIRE SERVICE GATOR A gator that we could use for in FOB fires and for day to day admin. The pump sometimes worked and sometimes didn't. It was hard to keep running. 🇨🇦 Canada · ESU · Task Force 1-09 · Operation Athena 📷 One of thousands of photos in the Project Athena archive. Have photos from Afghanistan? Add yours at projectathena.ca 🗺 View on the map → f.mtr.cool/uxwkqeposx #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF

EVENING MEAL Mission brief before patrol from Bella 1st 32nd 10th Mountain 📷 One of thousands of photos in the Project Athena archive. Have photos from Afghanistan? Add yours at projectathena.ca 🗺 View on the map → f.mtr.cool/ogep1il65s #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF

FOB SHAAQAREE FRONT ENTRANCE - MOVED TO COP NOMAD - WEST 🇨🇦 Canada · 1 RCR BRAVO COY 5PL - 2010 📷 One of thousands of photos in the Project Athena archive. Have photos from Afghanistan? Add yours at projectathena.ca 🗺 View on the map → f.mtr.cool/9b94cb2q8g #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF

CHERGOTAW Looking west from Chergotaw 🇺🇸 United States · 3rd PLT C CO 1-187 📷 One of thousands of photos in the Project Athena archive. Have photos from Afghanistan? Add yours at projectathena.ca 🗺 View on the map → f.mtr.cool/eny3hl0se8 #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF

U.S. NAVY MAINTENANCE AND SECURITY PERSONNEL U.S. Navy Patrol Squadron Nine (VP-9) Maintenance and Security Personnel awaiting a return flight. 🇺🇸 United States · Patrol Squadron Nine (VP-9) 📷 One of thousands of photos in the Project Athena archive. Have photos from Afghanistan? Add yours at projectathena.ca 🗺 View on the map → f.mtr.cool/k0uap791pu #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF

COMBAT OUTPOST KAMDESH OP Keating was located at the bottom of a valley, conceding the high ground to attackers. Pictured is a view of Combat Outpost Keating on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in a remote pocket of Afghanistan, known as Nuristan. According to soldiers who called the outpost home, being at Keating was like being in a fishbowl or fighting from the bottom of a paper cup. It was there, surrounded by mountains and insurgents, that former Staff Sgt. Clinton L. Romesha and his fellow soldiers fought back the enemy in a fierce 12-hour battle, Oct. 3, 2009. f.mtr.cool/j6yheb0axy 📷 One of thousands of photos in the Project Athena archive. Have photos from Afghanistan? Add yours at projectathena.ca 🗺 View on the map → f.mtr.cool/f4wc86fghz #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF

SWEEPING FOR IEDS Foot patrol out of COP Nejat 🇨🇦 Canada · Royal 22e Régiment · Operation Athena 📷 One of thousands of photos in the Project Athena archive. Have photos from Afghanistan? Add yours at projectathena.ca 🗺 View on the map → f.mtr.cool/v4xpsraj7g #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF

74A AND ANA RECCE COMPANY PLAY VOLLEYBALL After a day of training ANA Recce company play volleyball with members of the OMLT at Camp Hero. A part of a team building exercises with the ANA that was integrated into the training while in camp. 🇨🇦 Canada · 74A · OMLT · Operation Athena 📷 One of thousands of photos in the Project Athena archive. Have photos from Afghanistan? Add yours at projectathena.ca 🗺 View on the map → f.mtr.cool/4g57b5hyek #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF

OLD SOVIET TANK waiting on EOD to deal with a IED. I'll update the date of the photo when I can look at the time stamp 🇨🇦 Canada · Battle group QRF from MSG · Task Force 3-09 📷 One of thousands of photos in the Project Athena archive. Have photos from Afghanistan? Add yours at projectathena.ca 🗺 View on the map → f.mtr.cool/j577atnk48 #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF

PB WILSON ROOFTOP VIEW FROM PB WILSON CP 🇨🇦 Canada · PB WILSON CP · Task Force 3-06 · Operation Athena 📷 One of thousands of photos in the Project Athena archive. Have photos from Afghanistan? Add yours at projectathena.ca 🗺 View on the map → f.mtr.cool/58k3m78wa8 #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF

CANSOF MI17 427 Sqn MI17 supporting TI "Old School" (CANSOF/USSSF infrastructure under CJSOTF command) 🇨🇦 Canada · 427 SOAS 📷 One of thousands of photos in the Project Athena archive. Have photos from Afghanistan? Add yours at projectathena.ca 🗺 View on the map → f.mtr.cool/gjux7vi7vr #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF

HOWZ-E-MADAD POLICE STATION QRF QRF out of MaSum Ghar after the police station came under attack. Capt. Ryan Sheppard, Bbdr. Adam Holmes, Cpl. Daniel Dignard, Cpl. Joshua Whitehall, Pvt. Mark Amos. 🇨🇦 Canada · 3RCR · Operation Athena 📷 One of thousands of photos in the Project Athena archive. Have photos from Afghanistan? Add yours at projectathena.ca 🗺 View on the map → f.mtr.cool/rl27f7nn3w #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF

SWEEPING FOR IEDS Jimmy Moore, Fausto, Sgt Yannick Piche and others I don't remember on foot patrol out of COP Nejat 🇨🇦 Canada · Royal 22e Régiment · Operation Athena 📷 One of thousands of photos in the Project Athena archive. Have photos from Afghanistan? Add yours at projectathena.ca 🗺 View on the map → f.mtr.cool/1zsmvzmqcs #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF

MEMORIAL FLAG TF 3-07 FOB MSG Canadian Rock Flag/Memorial (September 18, 2007) 📷 One of thousands of photos in the Project Athena archive. Have photos from Afghanistan? Add yours at projectathena.ca 🗺 View on the map → f.mtr.cool/5ap3jxfg5j #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF

CPLS KYLE HARDY, ANDREW REESOR AND MITCHELL MCFARLANE, ALL RESERVISTS FROM THE ONTRS REUNITED FOR ONLY TIME DURING DEPLOYMENT Cpls Kyle Hardy, Andrew Reesor and Mitchell McFarlane, all reservists from the OntRs, atached to A Sqn RCD, reunited for only time during deployment at OP Salavat. 🇨🇦 Canada · RCD A Sqn · Task Force 1-10 · Operation Athena 📷 One of thousands of photos in the Project Athena archive. Have photos from Afghanistan? Add yours at projectathena.ca 🗺 View on the map → f.mtr.cool/ski1jme7od #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF

LT. COL. RICHARD CLARK TF 3-504 COMMANDER Uncertain of the exact location. 'Resolute Strike' brings back intel on ambush SANGIN, Afghanistan (Army News Service, April 11, 2003) - A task force led by 3rd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment garnered information and equipment related to an ambush that left two U.S. service members dead and one seriously injured. The mission of Operation Resolute Strike -- conducted April 8-9 in the affluent southern Afghanistan city of Sangin by 82nd Airborne Division paratroopers, Special Forces operators and criminal investigation task force members -- was two-fold: to gain intelligence and the perpetrators of the March 29 ambush, and to deny sanctuary and remove weapons and ammunition used by anti-coalition forces. Lt. Col. Richard Clarke, task force 3-504th PIR commander, said the operation was a success on both counts. "We're gathering a significant amount of information about this ambush that may help lead others to find the perpetrators/attackers," Clarke said after the first day of the operation. "What we've done so far is recover a significant amount of small arms, mortar rounds, mortar tubes and anti-tank mines. Most importantly, we recovered bomb-making materials, to include some old C-4, and explosive devices that could have been used against coalition forces later." At the end of the operation, a large cache of AK-47s, RPG launchers and other small arms weapons were taken by U.S. forces. Also, more than 240 pounds of ammunition used with mortars, RPGs and small arms were seized and destroyed by 731st Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company members. When the convoy moving outside of Sangin was ambushed March 29, the equipment used by the three U.S. casualties was left behind in the rush to Medivac them to safety. One of the key goals of Operation Resolute Strike was to get that equipment back. "It looks like we've recovered one weapon and we're in the process of recovering additional materials from the ambush against coalition forces," Clarke said. Capt. Del Monroy, battalion intelligence officer, said the overwhelming show of force used in the operation was critical to the mission's success. While 82nd paratroopers established a containment area around the city and special forces operators swept the city for suspects and intelligence, close air support aircraft buzzed overhead as another reminder of American power. Air Force A-10s and F-16s, Marine Corps Harriers and Army Apache helicopters were ever-present throughout the course of the operation. During the night, a steady barrage of illumination mortars were fired to remind local residents the U.S. was still in town. "The influence that we were able to bring here had a lot to do with the success here," Monroy said. "I didn't think we would get any of the U.S. equipment back." The show of force was enough to convince a government official from the Helmond province - of which Sangin is a member of - to bring forth several witnesses and people who had picked up the U.S. equipment after the ambush. Qualified personnel and members of the criminal investigation task force questioned more than 50 local residents who might have had knowledge of the ambush. Out of that crop, four were flown to a Kandahar Air Field field collection point for further questioning. (Editor's note: Spc. Jim Wagner is a member of the 109th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment.) 🇺🇸 United States · 3rd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne 📷 One of thousands of photos in the Project Athena archive. Have photos from Afghanistan? Add yours at projectathena.ca 🗺 View on the map → f.mtr.cool/mrj3xi00ak #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF

AFGHAN AT BAZAAR Bazaar off base - Afghani Salesman doing his thing 🇦🇫 Afghanistan 📷 One of thousands of photos in the Project Athena archive. Have photos from Afghanistan? Add yours at projectathena.ca 🗺 View on the map → f.mtr.cool/suf6nejo4s #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF

MILLAYWAN CHECKPOINT RESCUE A QRF mission out of Ma'Sum Ghar in support of ANP station that had been attacked. 3RCR rolling heavy with tanks supported by infantry walked in to help ANP remove the dead and wounded. Not much left of the place or the local police by the time they arrived. Total guess on this route based on the photos and the classic Afghan school building shape at the end. Somewhere west of Rte Summit a couple of miles, but relying on twenty year-old memories, so yeah. Definitely, give this route/destination side-eye scepticism. 🇨🇦 Canada · 3RCR · Operation Athena 📷 One of thousands of photos in the Project Athena archive. Have photos from Afghanistan? Add yours at projectathena.ca 🗺 View on the map → f.mtr.cool/kj1mh24s83 #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF

LOCAL COMPOUND 3 Local compound 3 - 3 RCR N-Coy 29er Tac 🇨🇦 Canada · 3 RCR N-Coy 29er Tac · Task Force 3-08 · Operation Athena 📷 One of thousands of photos in the Project Athena archive. Have photos from Afghanistan? Add yours at projectathena.ca 🗺 View on the map → f.mtr.cool/4k42vvynw5 #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF