Burma 2012 – post 2
Boots on the ground! Once we arrived at our host village at an undisclosed location to get settled in, we struck out on a road march to another Karen village [...]
Boots on the ground! Once we arrived at our host village at an undisclosed location to get settled in, we struck out on a road march to another Karen village [...]
This is the first in a series of posts documenting Team Rubicon’s humanitarian mission to the Thai-Burma border. In October of 2012 Team Rubicon sent a team of doctors, medics [...]
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Below is a visual representation of Team Rubicon’s training course with Shan student medics in Loi Tai Leng, Burma. In early September, a hybrid TR team of military veterans and [...]
Last year I attended Team Rubicon’s media presentation at the annual Special Operations Medical Association conference in Tampa, Florida. I was floored by what I heard and saw. At last, [...]
We arrived at Mae Salong in the Northwest region of Thailand after a 3-hour truck ride riddled with fog. This would be the rendezvous point with our Free Burma Ranger [...]
Landmines lay hidden on the jungle floor throughout the Karen region. As Karen soldiers perform recon missions to scout out Burmese military positions they are sometimes forced to carve new [...]
We wasted no time in beginning our training. After what seemed like an endless cycle of international travel, ever-fluctuating time zones, and “hurrying up to wait”, everyone was exited to [...]
Below is a visual representation of Team Rubicon’s training course with the Karen IDP’s on the Thai/Burma border. To read more about this project, click here: http://teamrubiconusa.org/2011-project-karen-shan-karen-training-week/ *All photography by [...]