Project Athena

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.

DANNY RUCK - 3/8 WPNS CO 1/22/09 Pressure Plate IED @ choke point 🇺🇸 United States · 3/8 WPNs Co 📷 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/lpbbx3m47v #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF

STOP OFF AT FB SPERWAN M777 🇨🇦 Canada · 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/jib63d8ceo #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF

ABANDONED RUSSIAN MOBILE MISSILE LAUNCHERS Best guess is a MAZ 543 📷 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/gjmwmaukbh #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF

AFGHANS TRAVELING FROM THE WEST ARE STOPPED Group of Afghans that traveled from the West, are stopped. After being searched by the ANA, a member of 74A and the interpreter talk to the locals. 🇨🇦 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/7xkuvmff28 #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF

Our first Danish photo on Project Athena "Gereshk road shops" Denmark sent troops to Afghanistan from 2002 to 2021, with its main combat effort in Helmand province from 2006 to 2014 alongside the British. The Danish lost 43 soldiers, the highest per capita death rate of any coalition nation. Canada and Denmark were the only coalition nations with tanks in Afghanistan until the US Marines deployed some in late 2010. Check it out here: map.projectathena.ca/?record…

RAF HARRIER 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · RAF · Joint Task Force Air Wing · 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/6oahtpfdly #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF

At 11 today we remember every Canadian who went to Afghanistan and didn't come home. And the ones who did make it home that we've lost since, and their families. In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. Lt.-Col. John McCrae When you go home, tell them of us and say, For your tomorrow, we gave our today. #LestWeForget #RemembranceDay

ROCKET PATROL Presence foot patrol out of Ma'Sum Ghar attempting to influence rocket launching site around Bahdvan area of Panjwaii. Initially tense, but ended up being a love in with local kids, and Canucks handing out candy. 🇨🇦 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/rzlfhh4e9s #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF

Tomorrow most of the country will be standing at a cenotaph. A lot of us spent at least one Remembrance Day in Afghanistan instead, on parade at KAF or out at a FOB, wherever we happened to be that year. If you've got photos from one of those, we'd like to get them on the map. Make an account at projectathena.ca, hit Add, and pin it where it was taken

EXISTING KC ON MSR BEAR 32B and attachments exiting KC enroute north to Tarin Kot 🇨🇦 Canada · 1 RCR, 32B · 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/r5f4vdwjpz #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF

TFK MP DET MP Det entrance from main road 🇨🇦 Canada · TFK MP Det · Military Police Company · 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/1v5soz0eys #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF

Did you serve in Afghanistan? Do you still have your photos? Project Athena is a map built by Afghanistan veterans, for Afghanistan veterans. There are over 2,200 photos on it now, each one pinned to the spot it was taken. KAF, the FOBs, the strongpoints, the roads we drove every day. Most of us have hundreds more sitting on an old hard drive or a phone we haven't charged in years. Put them on the map. Make an account at projectathena.ca, hit Add, and drop each photo where it was taken. It's Veterans' Week, so lets remind Canadians that we served in harms way. projectathena.ca #VeteransWeek #CanadaRemembers

K-SPAN WITH A MORTAR IMPACT VISIBLE I’m sure it’ll buff right out. What’s crazy is in the satellite photo I’m pretty sure you can see they installed some replacement sections near the end of that k-span. Good as new… 📷 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/jnplcivkd8 #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF

PAGHMAN PALACE LOOKING BACK TOWARD KABUL Looking back towards Kabul. 🇺🇸 United States · HHT 1-180th Cav 45th IBTC 📷 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/3olbbvo8p0 #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF

CPO ARMOURED LANDCRUISERS ISAF HQ CPO Vehicles 🇨🇦 Canada · Close Protection Team 3 · Operation Attention 📷 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/fr7ajj3rb6 #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF

MONKEY! At one point during deployment, the ANA guards at Sia Sang adopted a monkey 🇦🇫 Afghanistan · ANA GS/G-2 📷 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/mfaba0rixy #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF

ANA DEPENDANTS HOUSING Former Soviet Housing complex used as housing for ANA servicemen's families. 🇦🇫 Afghanistan · 1/205 ANA · 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/um6udrgoow #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF

RAMP CEREMONY Ramp Ceremony Date between Sep 08 -Apr 09 🇨🇦 Canada · 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/8ehwr2qm5l #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF

AIRPORT KAF Airport 2008 🇨🇦 Canada · Task Force Kandahar · 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/4zz0872j59 #ProjectAthena #Afghanistan #GWOT #ISAF