A lot of people "Luck Out" in this country

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 in book:

ON PIQUET IN TOWER 5 AGAIN
WHEN A AFGHAN NATIONAL (SMUFTI) TURNS
UP AND STARTS to CRY OUT AND WAVING
HIS ARMS AROUND - I JUST STARED
At HIM FOR SOMETIME.... TRYING TO
WORK OUT HIS BODY LANGUAGE......
ACTUALLY HIS STRANGE BEHAVIOUR, I FOUND
SOME WHAT AMUSING. SO I RADIO
FOB LOCKE (DUTY CORPORAL) TELL HIM
THERE'S A LOCAL At the FRONT GATE
WHO NEED'S ATTENDING "RIGHT" SAY'S
FOB LOCKE I'LL GET DOWN THERE
- RING THE TURP AND TELL HIM to
MEET ME THERE - YES CORPORAL "OUT"
OFF the RADIO AND PICK UP the OLD
STYLE DIUAL PHONE - SELECT the NUMBER
FOR INTERPRETER & DIAL - INFORM HIM
OF THE SITUATION & HE IS REQUIRED
At the FRONT GATE "YES OK"
FOB LOCKE & THE TURP TURN UP AND
LISTEN to the AFGHAN NATIONAL....
AFTER SOMETIME, the LOCAL LEAVES
I WAS TOLD LATER WHAT IT WAS ALL ABOUT
THE AFGHAN NATIONAL WANTED A
TENT to HOUSE HIS FAMILY
CLOTHING & BLANKETS
FOR WINTER IS COMING
HE JUST LUCKED OUT

A LOT OF PEOPLE
"LUCK OUT"
IN THIS COUNTRY