They were bookended by bullets and explosions.
Buildings throughout the city are pockmarked from bullets and explosions.
Troops with M-16 assault rifles linger nearby, smoking cigarettes in the shade of buildings long scarred by bullets and explosions.
"While chaos, bullets, and explosions cause most people to flee, Geo's field staff is fearless and brave," read the caption.
From miles across the city, residents could see the blacked-out hotel on a hilltop on the western outskirts of Kabul illuminated by red tracer bullets and explosions.
Witnesses say the former serviceman returned to the building at least twelve times during the deadly terror attack, leading around 100 people to safety as bullets and explosions brought chaos to the upmarket shopping centre.
Some militants had bullet- and explosion-proof vests and other sophisticated weapons.
And finally, they aren't just about punches, kicks, bullets, and explosions.
"As someone who has fought real battles with real bullets and explosions, and as someone who has held soldiers and civilians alike as they breathed their last, I understand what's at stake". But it's not the white supremacists who frighten Allison the most.
In one memorable sequence, for instance, the fliers attack a zeppelin in midair, riddling it with bullets and triggering explosions that send German soldiers fleeing along the top and interior of the airship, while biplanes buzz on all sides.
The trigger of a semiautomatic pistol is pulled, and a firing pin in the back of the gun darts forward, slamming into the primer on the rear of the cartridge holding the bullet and causing a small explosion.
