The Registry · No. 08 of 42
Sangin
8 files in the archive carry a Sangin. Everything here comes from the people who wore them.
The files
OverlordSangin Overlord
An Emergency Care Sergeant with the Army National Guard, wearing a Sangin Overlord, at a Louisiana National Guard training camp.
Instruments Atlas V1Sangin Instruments Atlas V1
A Critical Care Combat Paramedic with the Alabama National Guard, wearing a Sangin Instruments Atlas V1, serial 084.
Dark Professional (TAD Edition)Sangin Dark Professional (TAD Edition)
Army CID, on the Behavioral Threat Assessment Team, wearing a Sangin Dark Professional in the TAD edition.
Instruments AtlasSangin Instruments Atlas
A Department of Defense contractor at the Dillon Aero M-134 maintainer and operator course, the minigun's barrel cluster in the background and a Sangin Instruments Atlas in the foreground, black on a black strap, red seconds hand the only color in the frame. One instrument in the photo empties a belt in seconds. The other counts one second at a time. Both are built on the same premise: they must work every single time.
MerlinSangin Merlin
A CH-47F Chinook crew chief with B Company, 2-501st GSAB, the Black Knights, at Fort Bliss, photographed on the last flight of his career. It was a routine crew training flight, pinnacle landings and sling loads, the kind of day that is ordinary until it is your last one. The time on the dial told him it was time to fly home. The watch is a Sangin Merlin, bought as a marker of a lifelong dream fulfilled, a long way from the Casio F-91W he used to wear. Some watches close a chapter. This one did.
Instruments Para OverlordSangin Instruments - Para Overlord
He was never a watch person, and he was turned away from the Navy. A retired Marine friend took this Sangin Para Overlord off his own wrist and handed it to him, an edition sold only to the airborne community with proof of qualification, so he would have a real piece of military history to hold onto. He kept trying for four years, and at 42 he enlisted in the Coast Guard. He promised his friend he would only wear it in uniform, and this was taken on the way to his very first drill.
Instruments/DLC PacificoSangin Instruments/DLC Pacifico
A Marine combat engineer who swept and helped disable IEDs in Sangin and Musa Qala in 2010, some of the hardest ground of the war, with 1st CEB, 3/5, and 1/8. Today he does computer forensics for Homeland Security Investigations, working out of the Texas Anti-Gang Center in Lubbock, photographed before heading out to serve a search warrant. The watch is a Sangin, named for the valley he fought in. For most people that name is a brand. For him it is a place he will never forget.
AtlasSangin Atlas
He bought it the day he finished flight school, and it has not missed a milestone since. It has crossed all four corners of Alaska, ridden up to Denali base camp, flown about as close to Russian airspace as a person gets, and dipped down to the Arctic Ocean. It was on his wrist the day he became a pilot in command, and it will be there for the rest of the career. If you have a wrist shot from somewhere that matters, submit at the link in bio.