Back in the saddle

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Me.
Bill Putnam sitting in a Humvee on patrol near Ad Dawr, Iraq, March 6.
Bill's Update: Ok, I am back in the saddle now. I can't quite explain how painful kidney stones are. Suffice to say it woke from a dead sleep. I usually sleep pretty deep (just ask any of my ex-girlfriends) so it must've been pretty sharp pain. Anyway, I took a couple of days off and started going back out. It felt good but I was still a little weak.
Here's a photo of me on my first day out. My family couldn't get over how "sickly" I looked.
Also, a quick note about Toby. I don't know him but because we shoot for Zuma I wanted to contact him. So I emailed the agency, they passed it along. They said he might want to pick my brains because this is his first war. I replied: "he picked one helluva crucible." So God speed, Toby.

 

Sniper search
A junedi runs up a stairway during the search for an insurgent sniper who wounded an American soldier in Ad Dawr, Iraq, March 6, 2006. The soldier was treated and later evacuated to Germany; the sniper got away.