Bonding With Subjects in Harm's Way - NYTimes.com: Sergeant Brennan constantly tries to ease the hardships for his team, giving them fresh socks from his own supply or chivvying them along when they are down. He is a firm — but fair — leader of young men at war.
We debated the merits of publishing images of injured or killed Marines and soldiers, using Joao Silva’s photos from Iraq as an example of how showing such scenes can have benefits. Sergeant Brennan said that if anything ever happened to him, he would want people back home to see the photographs so that they could understand what is happening in Afghanistan on a daily basis.
But that didn’t make it any easier to photograph him on Monday after a rocket-propelled grenade fired by an Afghan policeman patrolling with the Marines accidentally hit a power line and exploded near the sergeant, briefly knocking him unconscious during an intense firefight and giving him a concussion. He staggered back into the relative safety of a mud-walled compound; dizzy, disoriented and vomiting.