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Posted: 4/20/2015 5:52:54 PM EDT
I know we have a member or two who was in that part of the world during those times. I find the sheer variety of weapons interesting.                    |
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Posted: 4/20/2015 5:54:25 PM EDT
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Interesting.
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Posted: 4/20/2015 5:55:53 PM EDT
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I went there in the summer of 2011. FSLN propaganda was EVERYWHERE.
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Posted: 4/20/2015 5:58:28 PM EDT
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They need some haircuts
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Posted: 4/20/2015 5:58:42 PM EDT
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The Chauchat magazine modification for an AK  . Never seen that before.
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Posted: 4/20/2015 5:59:50 PM EDT
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http://billgentile.com/Nicabook/01.html
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Posted: 4/20/2015 6:00:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2014/09/19/us-arm-contra_custom-8089a8451cd14fe782018355369a8be90e972b6a-s1100-c15.jpg The Chauchat magazine modification for an AK . Never seen that before. |
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Posted: 4/20/2015 6:01:12 PM EDT
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My dad was flying C130s there at that time, as a "civilian".
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Posted: 4/20/2015 6:07:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I went there in the summer of 2011. FSLN propaganda was EVERYWHERE. |
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Posted: 4/20/2015 6:08:12 PM EDT
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Thank you OP! Great book that helps illuminate the history is Glenn Garvin's "Everybody Had His Own Gringo".
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Posted: 4/20/2015 6:08:19 PM EDT
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Shithole then and it's still a shithole now
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Posted: 4/20/2015 6:16:57 PM EDT
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Spent a little over a month down there for Hurricane Mitch relief, and Pres. Clinton visit in 1999. And then some time in El Salvador while waiting on Airlift back to the states...C-130 crew dropped us off and we met up with our other team and spent about a week waiting around until we could all get back home.
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Posted: 4/20/2015 6:20:57 PM EDT
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I went there in the summer of 2011. FSLN propaganda was EVERYWHERE. Even the power poles are painted red and black. |
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Posted: 4/20/2015 6:25:03 PM EDT
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In before some moron says you can tell the women posing with M16's look like they really know how to use them by the way they hold them.
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Posted: 4/20/2015 6:27:20 PM EDT
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see a lot of Romanian akm's...damn, CIGUR exports their shit all around the globe
but hey, their semi auto RPK is good
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Posted: 4/20/2015 6:32:54 PM EDT
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In before some moron says you can tell the women posing with M16's look like they really know how to use them by the way they hold them. They look like professionals!!!1!!!!11! |
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Posted: 4/20/2015 6:33:43 PM EDT
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http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2014/09/19/us-arm-contra_custom-8089a8451cd14fe782018355369a8be90e972b6a-s1100-c15.jpg The Chauchat magazine modification for an AK . Never seen that before.
Actually thats the Magpul gen -1 |
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Posted: 4/20/2015 6:34:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: They look like professionals!!!1!!!!11! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: In before some moron says you can tell the women posing with M16's look like they really know how to use them by the way they hold them. They look like professionals!!!1!!!!11! |
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Posted: 4/20/2015 6:40:02 PM EDT
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http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2014/09/19/us-arm-contra_custom-8089a8451cd14fe782018355369a8be90e972b6a-s1100-c15.jpg The Chauchat magazine modification for an AK . Never seen that before.Caught my eye quickly. |
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Posted: 4/20/2015 6:41:02 PM EDT
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In before some moron says you can tell the women posing with M16's look like they really know how to use them by the way they hold them. They look like professionals!!!1!!!!11! OOPS! |
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Posted: 4/20/2015 6:45:54 PM EDT
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Meh, no threat there, I only saw three ARs in the whole bunch. According to arf, AKs are apparently incapable of sufficient accuracy to kill people.
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Posted: 4/20/2015 6:49:53 PM EDT
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Did you hotlink the word "part" in your post, or is this new ARFCOM advertising?
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Posted: 4/20/2015 6:54:06 PM EDT
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In before some moron says you can tell the women posing with M16's look like they really know how to use them by the way they hold them. Hot little Chiquita even has watch in taci-cool position. 
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Posted: 4/20/2015 6:59:39 PM EDT
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Meh, no threat there, I only saw three ARs in the whole bunch.
I see a fourth "AR"
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Posted: 4/20/2015 7:18:04 PM EDT
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Had a co-worker who spent some time down there during that era. Pretty much all he said about it was that it was disgusting and sad what humans would do to each other; something about killing people in combat was one thing but that they liked to torture each other. MS13 and groups like that pretty much bear that statement out.
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Posted: 4/20/2015 7:23:15 PM EDT
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Meh, no threat there, I only saw three ARs in the whole bunch. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/w305ln/picture18890688/ALTERNATES/FREE_960/AP7907060136.jpg I see a fourth "AR" Probably the best one ever made. AR-18 with the 40 round mag. It was piston before piston was cool. I also see plenty of G3's, Fal's, M-14's a Mini 14 (I bet that guy got killed) VZ52, Galils. I saw pics of the home defense forces with German K98's in other photos. |
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Posted: 4/20/2015 7:23:37 PM EDT
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They were just pawns in the international game of chess.
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Posted: 4/20/2015 7:25:20 PM EDT
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Probably the best one ever made. AR-18 with the 40 round mag. It was piston before piston was cool. I love my Howa 180, great shooting rifle! |
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Posted: 4/20/2015 8:03:27 PM EDT
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I love my Howa 180, great shooting rifle! Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Probably the best one ever made. AR-18 with the 40 round mag. It was piston before piston was cool. I love my Howa 180, great shooting rifle! I did too. I had a Howa and 3 Sterlings. I also had the inverted reticle 3x scope mount. I never did find a Costa Mesa. I did but the price was too high at the time, ($995,00) What a dumbass I was too pass that up. |
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Posted: 4/20/2015 9:22:58 PM EDT
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"Nicaragua Sin Somoza!"
"Presente!!" |
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Posted: 4/20/2015 9:31:52 PM EDT
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Those Soviet panama hats were popular. East German made chest rigs.
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Posted: 4/20/2015 10:27:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: They were just pawns in the international game of chess. |
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Posted: 4/20/2015 11:24:36 PM EDT
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Bump
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Posted: 4/20/2015 11:29:11 PM EDT
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They were just pawns in the international game of chess. I didn't fight a secret war in Nicaragua so you could walk theses streets of freedom, badmouthing Lady America in your damn mirrored sunglasses! |
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Posted: 4/20/2015 11:32:30 PM EDT
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Saw one AK with a Galil grip, lots of AK'S, FALS, M-14'S, G3'S and some M16'S.
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Posted: 4/21/2015 12:08:08 AM EDT
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No one spotted Eden "Commander Zero" Pastora in the pic with the 180?
I think this is a mix of late 70s FSLN pics and mid 1980s Contra pics. |
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Posted: 4/21/2015 12:20:03 AM EDT
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I was born there in 72. Mom got us out in 84. The shit I saw as a young boy was pretty bad.
Some of the stories I can tell I am not sure people would believe. I hate communism with every fiber of my body. |
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Posted: 4/21/2015 12:32:48 AM EDT
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UXB to the white courtesy phone...
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Posted: 4/21/2015 12:34:23 AM EDT
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I was born there in 72. Mom got us out in 84. The shit I saw as a young boy was pretty bad. Some of the stories I can tell I am not sure people would believe. I hate communism with every fiber of my body. |
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Posted: 4/21/2015 2:04:24 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I was born there in 72. Mom got us out in 84. The shit I saw as a young boy was pretty bad. Some of the stories I can tell I am not sure people would believe. I hate communism with every fiber of my body. |
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Posted: 4/21/2015 2:22:22 AM EDT
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I was born there in 72. Mom got us out in 84. The shit I saw as a young boy was pretty bad. Some of the stories I can tell I am not sure people would believe. I hate communism with every fiber of my body. My wife's mother is from Managua. |
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Posted: 4/21/2015 2:32:52 AM EDT
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I remember lots of pics from the Central American stuff growing up.
Learned Spanish thinking I would get shipped somewhere down there in the late 80's. |
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Posted: 4/21/2015 6:15:30 AM EDT
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When I went to AIT at Ft Benning in 1983 we didn't have magazine pouches. the Drill Sergeants told us that Benning had just finished training a shit load of El Salvadoran forces and gave them all of the ammo pouches because they were going to need them..............
Cool pics! |
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Posted: 4/21/2015 9:39:42 AM EDT
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I was born there in 72. Mom got us out in 84. The shit I saw as a young boy was pretty bad. Some of the stories I can tell I am not sure people would believe. I hate communism with every fiber of my body. How do your parents feel about the Somoza regime? |
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Posted: 4/21/2015 10:02:09 AM EDT
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How do your parents feel about the Somoza regime? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I was born there in 72. Mom got us out in 84. The shit I saw as a young boy was pretty bad. Some of the stories I can tell I am not sure people would believe. I hate communism with every fiber of my body. How do your parents feel about the Somoza regime? Didn't like the guy. He was an asshole and killed many people. Nothing compares to what the Sandinista did/are doing to the country. |
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Posted: 4/21/2015 10:08:34 AM EDT
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Looks like a young Krill before he got an FAL. |
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Posted: 4/21/2015 10:18:24 AM EDT
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My wife's mother is from Managua. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I was born there in 72. Mom got us out in 84. The shit I saw as a young boy was pretty bad. Some of the stories I can tell I am not sure people would believe. I hate communism with every fiber of my body. My wife's mother is from Managua. I was born in Managua. My mom spends about 2/3 of the year near Masaya. She is desperately trying to sell her house and move here before the Sandinistas steal her house again. Thanks for the cool pics OP. |
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