Citizen Eco Drive Nighthawk
A paratrooper with Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne, his hand on a vehicle-mounted 40mm grenade launcher at Hamid Karzai International Airport. The date is August 26, 2021, during the Kabul evacuation, the same day a suicide bombing at Abbey Gate killed thirteen American service members and scores of Afghans. The watch is a Citizen Nighthawk, a light-powered pilot's watch, the kind a soldier buys himself and wears through the worst days of a career. Some wrist shots are just a watch. This one is a place and a date that will not be forgotten. If you have a wrist shot from somewhere that matters, submit at the link in bio. Tempus Est Potentia.
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Citizen Promaster Nighthawk (BJ7000)
The Nighthawk is one of Citizen's best-known pilot watches, an Eco-Drive that runs on light and never needs a battery. It carries a busy aviator's dial with an inner slide-rule bezel worked by a second crown at 8 o'clock, a 24-hour GMT hand for a second time zone, a date, and large luminous hands for low light. The 42mm steel case is rated to 200 meters. It is an affordable, hard-wearing tool watch, the kind a soldier buys for himself and actually uses.
HKIA, August 26, 2021
The submitter served with Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, the division that secured Hamid Karzai International Airport during the evacuation of Kabul. The photo was taken on August 26, 2021, his hand on the spade grips of a vehicle-mounted 40mm grenade launcher. That was the day of the suicide bombing at Abbey Gate, which killed thirteen U.S. service members and roughly 170 Afghan civilians, one of the costliest days of the entire war. The watch was there for it.