Looking through Ninox (NVG) night vision goggles

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.

Text from book:

OVER WATCH POSITION ON GUN SLINGER HILL FROM THE 7 DEC TO 11 DEC (4) NIGHTS

OUT OF ALL THE NIGHT PIQUET'S I MANNED IN URUZGAN ..... THE NIGHT PIQUETS ON GUNSLINGER
HILL WERE BY FAR, THE MOST UNNERVING........ THE FEATURE (HILL) WAS NO DOUBT AN EASY
CLIMB - THERE WAS PLENTY OF COVER AND DEAD GROUND TO HIDE APPROACHING ASSAILANTS.
SURE WE HAD NINOX - NVG - NIGHT VISION GOGGLES (TUNNEL VISION WITH NO DEPTH
PERCEPTION)
IT TAKES A MENTAL EFFORT TO TURN ON A SPOT LIGHT FROM THE TURRET OF AN ARMOURED
VEHICLE.......... FOR IT MAKES ONE AN INSTANT TARGET..... ONE HAD THE SENSATION OF
IMMANENT DEATH CLOSE BY.
AFTER SWEEPING THE SPOT LIGHT 360 DEGREES A COUPLE OF TIMES - IT'S TURNED OFF
BACK TO THE FREEZING DARKNESS - NINOX ON - SCANNING 360 DEGREES ERRATICALLY.
IT'S A VERY DANGEROUS PREDICAMENT BEING THE ONLY ONE AWAKE, IN A TROOP OF SIX.
THOSE WIND BLOWN FREEZING NIGHTS, ON TOP OF A FOREIGN BARREN HILL TOP AND STANDING
IN THE OPEN HATCH OF A ASLAV - SCANNING WITH ONE EYE AND ALL THE TIME DREADING THE
MOMENT OF TURNING THE SPOT LIGHT BACK ON AGAIN.................
ONLY TO MEET ONE'S DEMISE FROM A BULLET OR A BLADE SLICING ONE'S THROAT.