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fighters, and so Gilkey traveled to Marjah, located in southern
Afghanistan, to cover the conflict. Gilkey was traveling with the Afghan military to cover fights near Marjah. A second vehicle was following behind Gilkey's, but this group was not harmed in the incident.
227:, and he is the son of Alyda Gilkey and Richard (Dick) Gilkey. As a child, Gilkey wanted to be a truck driver but he took up photography because his father had a dark room and taught David how to use a camera at an early age. He graduated from the class of 1985 from
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and worked there for the Knight Ridder media company for 11 years. During his time at the Free Press Gilkey began his coverage of the War on Terror traveling to
Afghanistan and then Iraq numerous times.
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Free Press award in 2007 for his video series covering
Marines deployed to Iraq, the George Polk Award in 2010 for the U.S. military's treatment of the wounded in 2010, Still Photographer of the Year in
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President Barack Obama greeted David Gilkey, one of the White House News
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David Gilkey was taking pictures and covering stories of war-related events in
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of the Taliban — had occurred while the reporters were on convoy and Tamanna was killed by gunfire and Gilkey by burns with smoke inhalation.
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began to draw down troops and Afghanistan entered talks with the Taliban. During summer 2015, Taliban and Afghan forces were fighting for
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handler Zabihullah Tamanna were both killed during the
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