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Posted: 7/23/2005 11:16:22 PM EDT

[#1]

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if you guys keep this thread open for another couple of days then I will be home for mid tour leave from afghanistan and I can show you guys so truly bad ass pictures.

some of them I can't show you but but I can show you some from the second longest fire fight in the 82nd airborne divisions history. most of them have interesting stories to go with them.

right now I can't upload them because I'm in bagram waitin for a bird but soon I will be able to

Thank you for your service and get home safe.

Posted: 7/23/2005 11:31:31 PM EDT

[#2]

Wow! Great pics.

Posted: 7/23/2005 11:45:55 PM EDT

[#3]

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Some more from the x-files

www.msnusers.com/_Secure/0UQCXHRkaV1Y0r6NnUnuiwYvkix!jYdoQFxbPYQ3SMdrFh4K846JrZHFk2JMT7BiW9MfZM!RjoVXPAAURloIVFjIsxOHH1L2EqKrViJ8k4IMbvq8*VPiPOtkqaFi7cBEj/cdo_zeroing.jpg?dc=4675531901738645675

www.msnusers.com/_Secure/0TwARA8cY7O5!YovTX*YO36mc0aubmDgiE0rDaAC69Vb*ItkXi2W9LR5TDxPPN44pWeQJZKEXetSvnik2eVQ6SLyA*Go5i2t1DrXaezpi72GaZWqsKzkvog/M21sniper.jpg?dc=4675531901825906685

www.msnusers.com/_Secure/0SgAAABYXiG7ykl6zmiLq8AoRBGda2A75av81n*21gBCPH1pP*jea00lsb3SnYxKqD0u53fAYquZ4jf02TA8b7YBMTCrZkCNtuVSO3WtNbgxMLqg5cwHsRA/Tube.jpg?dc=4675531901924681388

www.msnusers.com/_Secure/0UQAAAOgYYgC2oQYcLEXdrjJvZwkQfgbIKThh1L!5pLY9g2TIwbt4Quhst2Sei5psaYsyLB34vk!97gPEWopSRVgw9ei8mpFlCOye!R6WrBXVorK1nbwqiLSxhai3zpsT/Apache-AH64.jpg?dc=4675531901981925349

www.msnusers.com/_Secure/0SwCTApwX45QQ16Q13*GGH3KrCIt!fSoGQm3oC4ZJqqVidd99iDz!DHVS8NV1rwbGpG8eC8SBBRhFat!cRZqXZg*qaMB6oG5FXhNQwZq9*JiJm1sgO!TVzg/blast.jpg?dc=4675531902011105674

www.msnusers.com/_Secure/0SgAAABMXkW2UceRDItr3PDKIBvFLASTXQWbmLhdwJRXALNtouDh1CbgWib*rKo8jhkx3D4OorAszMdndrBinRssVaUJyALAITwRksF5cU0ZKs66B1KCH7g/Iraq.jpg?dc=4675531902095407929

This soldier below, Viggiani, got shot & then single handedly killed 15 al-queda insergants to save his squad right before this picture was taken in Afghanistan

www.msnusers.com/_Secure/0TgAAALQYwOigWnk*dHhQxXhHV0qZcwKgEPLpaA1FvqrtfBae9ysHN1itsmuJUFzFYLMsOTmUAuJP6N2L2zsg4BmK*14LCblb5ur9Mhzg!FVN5uGQBvAXdg/Viggiani.jpg?dc=4675531902184240578

M4-CQBR
us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mo/cg_punisher2poster.jpg

The 3rd one from the bottom, is that a real dead guy floating in the water? Hope so. (If it's a tango)

Ben

Actually it was an Iraqi policeman who was kidnapped from his own bed while he slept, then bound and blindfolded and then shot in the head. One of my good friends was in the unit that took this picture, he was at the river bank that day.

Ben

Posted: 7/24/2005 12:57:44 PM EDT

[#4]

tag

Posted: 7/24/2005 6:23:38 PM EDT

[#5]

taggage

Posted: 7/24/2005 6:43:20 PM EDT

[#6]

AH1z ...........I'm waiting

Maybe you can email the "REAL" good ones?

Posted: 7/25/2005 6:02:44 AM EDT

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It's funny how 90% of all Navy SEALS are white... could we draw some conclusions from this?

I think so....

I think that 90% od SEALs would deeply disagree with your insinuation against their brothers.

I'm not a SEAL, and I resent the insinuation against my shipmates.

+1

The black folk that know that have served in any real military are immesurably better people than the white trash making comments like that.

It's not often one gets to read a concise dead-on statement like that......Well done Andreuha.

As a band of true warriors, I gather SEALs are more color-blind to race horseshit. Not only are they the cream of our martial class....they're the cream of of our collective nation.

Posted: 7/25/2005 9:44:19 AM EDT

[#8]

taggage

Posted: 7/25/2005 7:01:16 PM EDT

[#9]

Posted: 7/25/2005 7:27:04 PM EDT

[#10]

Tag

Posted: 7/25/2005 8:09:08 PM EDT

[#11]

Fadedsun, that was my unit that took that picture of the Iraqi in the water, man small world, was in river near Tuwaitha Nuke plant.

Posted: 7/25/2005 8:31:47 PM EDT

[#12]

Now this is tough. Midair collision, and still both made it home.

Posted: 7/25/2005 8:38:14 PM EDT

[#13]

Posted: 7/25/2005 8:51:07 PM EDT

[#14]

Wow
theres some great pics there guys!

Posted: 7/25/2005 11:10:34 PM EDT

[#15]

.

Posted: 7/25/2005 11:28:07 PM EDT

[#16]

Such an awesome thread!

Looking forward to seeing the new pics ah1z. If the "REAL good ones" can be emailed I'd love to see them, on the other hand if it's an "eyes only" thing ignore this and thank you for your service none the less.

Posted: 7/26/2005 11:10:33 AM EDT

[#17]

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Such an awesome thread!

Looking forward to seeing the new pics ah1z. If the "REAL good ones" can be emailed I'd love to see them, on the other hand if it's an "eyes only" thing ignore this and thank you for your service none the less.

+1quadzillion

Posted: 9/28/2005 3:29:14 PM EDT

[#18]

bump

Posted: 9/28/2005 10:46:17 PM EDT

[#19]

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From page 13. This photo was on the cover of Newsweak:
www.soc.mil/News/imagery/USASFC/990518_F_2171A_020.JPG

also on the cover of Black Rifle II

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img.photobucket.com/albums/v394/giffmann1/SpecOpsArmyOfOne.jpg

The George Orwell quote on the poster says it all, perfectly.

much doubt as to the author of that statement.

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home.comcast.net/~iktomiskan/Armory/12_7mm.jpg
Dam that looks like the gun on the Apachie

not even vaguely, the 30mm on the Apache is a Hughes chain gun, single barrel, M230.

Posted: 9/28/2005 11:21:51 PM EDT

[#20]

Actually it looks like the gun on the Marine Corps Ah-1 Cobra gunship. IIRC

Posted: 9/28/2005 11:43:18 PM EDT

[#21]

it's a GAU-19, 12.7mm/.50 BMG 3 barrel rotary cannon

www.gdatp.com/products/lethality/gau19/gau19a1.htm

click "Photo Gallery"

AH1Ws use a chin mounted 20mm, M197

Posted: 9/28/2005 11:51:14 PM EDT

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img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/jmoffatt/sidewinder.jpg
img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/jmoffatt/spaceball1.jpg

These are British… and yes we are tougher!

Posted: 9/29/2005 12:03:18 AM EDT

[#23]

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img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/jmoffatt/sidewinder.jpg

These are British… and yes we are tougher!

a Striker with a Swingfire ATGM? sidewinder in the URL?

Posted: 9/29/2005 7:09:22 AM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
if you guys keep this thread open for another couple of days then I will be home for mid tour leave from afghanistan and I can show you guys so truly bad ass pictures.

some of them I can't show you but but I can show you some from the second longest fire fight in the 82nd airborne divisions history. most of them have interesting stories to go with them.

right now I can't upload them because I'm in bagram waitin for a bird but soon I will be able to

3/504th? Well, that fight was last year, maybe not. Look forward to pics and your safe return.

Posted: 9/29/2005 7:32:07 AM EDT

[#25]

late tag for an awesome thread

Posted: 9/29/2005 7:42:01 AM EDT

[#26]

Tag.

Posted: 9/29/2005 7:53:24 AM EDT

[#27]

Awesome thread Just read all 22 pages

Posted: 9/29/2005 8:13:33 AM EDT

[#28]

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img.photobucket.com/albums/v75/akscott60/ATFlyoffMarch25.jpg

img.photobucket.com/albums/v75/akscott60/F-18_mid-air03.jpg

img.photobucket.com/albums/v75/akscott60/F-18_mid-air01.jpg

Now this is tough. Midair collision, and still both made it home.

Speaking of tough, here's an Israeli F-15 that landed after losing all but 14" of it's right wing. It really shows you that fighters are little more than guided missiles, not depending on lift so much as pure thrust.

Posted: 9/29/2005 8:37:43 AM EDT

[#29]

tag

Posted: 9/29/2005 6:21:23 PM EDT

[#30]

tag

Posted: 9/30/2005 10:51:39 AM EDT

[#31]

My current wallpaper

Posted: 9/30/2005 6:17:20 PM EDT

[#32]

I've met this man:

On August 16, 1960, Capt Joe Kittinger floated to 102,800 feet (31,333 meters) in Excelsior III, an open gondola adorned with a paper license plate that his five-year-old son had cut out of a cereal box. Protected against the subzero temperatures by layers of clothes and a pressure suit--he experienced air temperatures as low as minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 70 degrees Celsius)--and loaded down with gear that almost doubled his weight, he climbed to his maximum altitude in one hour and 31 minutes even though at 43,000 feet (13,106 meters) he began experiencing severe pain in his right hand caused by a failure in his pressure glove and could have scrubbed the mission. He remained at peak altitude for about 12 minutes; then he stepped out of his gondola into the darkness of space. After falling for 13 seconds, his six-foot (1.8-meter) canopy parachute opened and stabilized his fall, preventing the flat spin that could have killed him. Only four minutes and 36 seconds more were needed to bring him down to about 17,500 feet (5,334 meters) where his regular 28-foot (8.5-meter) parachute opened, allowing him to float the rest of the way to Earth. His descent set another record for the longest parachute freefall.

During his descent, he reached speeds up to 614 miles per hour, approaching the speed of sound without the protection of an aircraft or space vehicle. But, he said, he "had absolutely no sense of the speed." His flight and parachute jump demonstrated that, properly protected, it was possible to put a person into near-space and that airmen could exit their aircraft at extremely high altitudes and free fall back into the Earth's atmosphere without dangerous consequences.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is a tough man. Not only did he do this Wiley E. Coyote-type stunt (and even more impressive, this was his THIRD jump above 60,000 ft), but fifteen years later he spent three months in the Hanoi Hilton after being shot down over North Vietnam in an F-4 Phantom. He went on to be the first person to cross the Atlantic solo in a balloon.

ETA: Correction, it was 12 years later, and he spent 11 months as a POW. I've always thought this was a more impressive stunt than Chuck Yeager or any of the other pilots. It's one thing to fly a plane and have something happen, quite another to sit still for an hour and a half, with one hand in pain, and then take one small step......straight down.

Posted: 9/30/2005 6:26:59 PM EDT

[#33]

Awesome

Posted: 10/3/2005 7:57:43 AM EDT

[#34]

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I've met this man:

www.pontes.nl/~natuurkunde/para65232/val/image001.jpg

On August 16, 1960, Capt Joe Kittinger floated to 102,800 feet (31,333 meters) in Excelsior III, an open gondola adorned with a paper license plate that his five-year-old son had cut out of a cereal box. Protected against the subzero temperatures by layers of clothes and a pressure suit--he experienced air temperatures as low as minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 70 degrees Celsius)--and loaded down with gear that almost doubled his weight, he climbed to his maximum altitude in one hour and 31 minutes even though at 43,000 feet (13,106 meters) he began experiencing severe pain in his right hand caused by a failure in his pressure glove and could have scrubbed the mission. He remained at peak altitude for about 12 minutes; then he stepped out of his gondola into the darkness of space. After falling for 13 seconds, his six-foot (1.8-meter) canopy parachute opened and stabilized his fall, preventing the flat spin that could have killed him. Only four minutes and 36 seconds more were needed to bring him down to about 17,500 feet (5,334 meters) where his regular 28-foot (8.5-meter) parachute opened, allowing him to float the rest of the way to Earth. His descent set another record for the longest parachute freefall.

During his descent, he reached speeds up to 614 miles per hour, approaching the speed of sound without the protection of an aircraft or space vehicle. But, he said, he "had absolutely no sense of the speed." His flight and parachute jump demonstrated that, properly protected, it was possible to put a person into near-space and that airmen could exit their aircraft at extremely high altitudes and free fall back into the Earth's atmosphere without dangerous consequences.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is a tough man. Not only did he do this Wiley E. Coyote-type stunt (and even more impressive, this was his THIRD jump above 60,000 ft), but fifteen years later he spent three months in the Hanoi Hilton after being shot down over North Vietnam in an F-4 Phantom. He went on to be the first person to cross the Atlantic solo in a balloon.

ETA: Correction, it was 12 years later, and he spent 11 months as a POW. I've always thought this was a more impressive stunt than Chuck Yeager or any of the other pilots. It's one thing to fly a plane and have something happen, quite another to sit still for an hour and a half, with one hand in pain, and then take one small step......straight down.

Funny you posted this..................I saw this mans memorial/tribute at the Wright Bros Flight Museum in Kitty Hawk NC this past weekend!! Truly a hero..........what balls that took!!!!!!!!

Posted: 10/3/2005 8:37:41 AM EDT

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img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/mac66/sadamn2.jpg

And they ask why we went into Iraq.....

Anyone have any idea what it says?

CMS

Posted: 10/3/2005 8:57:55 AM EDT

[#36]

very nice

Posted: 10/3/2005 10:45:11 AM EDT

[#37]

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Here is one of my favorites from Najaf.

what kind of rail is that?

Not a rail. It is the 203 with the action open for a reload.

Posted: 10/15/2005 8:07:07 PM EDT

[#38]

US Marine, Vietnam, 1970

Posted: 10/15/2005 8:13:47 PM EDT

[#39]

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a Striker with a Swingfire ATGM? sidewinder in the URL?

Correct on both counts. I guess the picture namer wasn't entirely sure what the spiel was.

I've also seen a picture of a Milan launch shown on various American Soldier tribute sites, probably because it's such a cool picture.

NTM

Posted: 10/15/2005 8:14:45 PM EDT

[#40]

tag

Posted: 10/15/2005 10:05:00 PM EDT

[#41]

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US Marine, Vietnam, 1970

Best one so far.

Posted: 10/15/2005 10:26:34 PM EDT

[#42]

Tag

Posted: 10/15/2005 10:32:52 PM EDT

[#43]

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img.photobucket.com/albums/v75/akscott60/ATFlyoffMarch25.jpg

img.photobucket.com/albums/v75/akscott60/F-18_mid-air03.jpg

img.photobucket.com/albums/v75/akscott60/F-18_mid-air01.jpg

Now this is tough. Midair collision, and still both made it home.

Speaking of tough, here's an Israeli F-15 that landed after losing all but 14" of it's right wing. It really shows you that fighters are little more than guided missiles, not depending on lift so much as pure thrust.

img.photobucket.com/albums/v478/Beltfedleadhead/phz-nowing-f15.jpg

Here's another picture of the same aircraft.