not titled [FOB Locke]

Robert Cooper served in Afghanistan 2010-2011. He was deployed as an ASLAV gunner with 2 Cavalry Regiment as part of MTF-2 (Mentoring Task Force – Rotation 2), based in Uruzgan Province.

While on deployment, Cooper was able to sketch and write in his journal, and he also recorded footage of troop movements and the local Afghan people. Cooper was discharged in early 2011. Once home, he produced a sequenced set of 346 works on paper, referring back to the notes and footage he made in Afghanistan so that he could tell the story of his deployment with absolute accuracy. Cooper wanted to show people exactly what he had witnessed and experienced at war.

Trooper Cooper wrote the following description of the work in his diary:
FOB MIRWAIS ALSO KNOWN AS FOB LOCKE
FLAG'S STAY AT HALF MAST
1 KIA
3 PRIORITY 1
THE FLAG'S STAY AT HALF MAST FOR A WEEK
THERE ALWAYS WAS A BREEZE AND THE FLAG POLE ROPE HAD A CLIP ON IT THAT CONTINUOUSLY TAPPED AGAINST
THE FLAG POLE
"CLING" "CLING" "CLING" "CLING" - CLING
I CAN STILL HEAR IT - IN QUIET MOMENTS
ROBERT COOPER AUG 2017