Portrait of Kyle Steiner, a soldier 2nd Platoon, Battle Company, 2nd Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade, holding the helmet a bullet ricocheted off during a firefight with insurgents. Despite being knocked back to ground, he survived and later had two bullets with angles tattooed onto his chest to represent the "angels" he suggests were watching over him at the time. Korengal Valley, Kunar Province, Afghanistan. June 2008.
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Date
Contemporary
Cat Number
DC 66099
Artist / Maker
Tim Hetherington
2nd Platoon, Battle Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade of the US Army during a 15 month deployment in the Korengal Valley, Kunar Province, North Eastern Afghanistan, 2007-2008. Photographed by Tim Hetherington
