Balazs Gardi
2010, 7 November (taken) 2011, 6 June (published)
Book cover for Amy Pereira (ed.)
Basetrack One-Eight (Blurb)
Book cover
BlurbGB.AFG.10.0062
Basetrack is an experimental media project, tracking the deployment of 1/8- 1st Battalion, Eighth Marines, during their deployment to southern Afghanistan. A small team of mobile media operators embedded with the battalion, transmitting their reports and reflections from Helmand province as they traveled across the battalion's area of operations.
Basetrack's forward team is supported by a network of technologists,analysts, artists, and journalists, working around the clock, from around the world, to connect over a thousand Marines and Corpsmen to their families, and to connect a broader public to the longest war in US history.
Basetrack is a non-profit initiative, operated by November Eleven, a US-based, 501(c)3 public charity. Basetrack takes an open-source approach to journalism, making its original content freely available for non-commercial use under Creative Commons licensing protocols, and employing open, ubiquitous social media platforms to distribute its reporting, and to engage public participation in the reporting process.
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2235759
(Accessed: 20 October 2012)
LCpl. Thomas Welch secures the entrance of a compound his team set base near Doghaka village in Musa Qala district, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, on November 7, 2010.Three squads and attachments with the 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, Bravo Company, 2nd Platoon participated in an ambush operation, aimed at penetrating the enemy line, forcing out insurgents and either engaging, killing or capturing them during the fight.
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