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Posted: 1/18/2011 11:38:51 AM EDT
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So bad ass that John Wayne pretended to be him.  |
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Posted: 1/18/2011 11:38:52 AM EDT
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Quoted: Yeppers, in before someone bitches about his uniform. Just had to look him up. He had one hell of a career! Looks like along the way all he wanted to do was defend his homeland, help to fend off the Soviets, then serve in the US doing the same.  |
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Posted: 1/18/2011 11:39:33 AM EDT
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Quoted: Wow, just read his wikipedia article. He's a bad sumbitch.Yeppers, in before someone bitches about his uniform. |
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Posted: 1/18/2011 12:00:17 PM EDT
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 Larry ThorneYeppers, in before someone bitches about his uniform. He fought the Commies under three nations in the Winter War, the Continuation War, WW2 and in Vietnam) and died a hero; hard to dismiss that. RIP Major.
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Posted: 1/18/2011 12:00:58 PM EDT
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I was going to say the Iwo Jima pic, but right now this one tops my list. The part that makes it badass is the way the way they seem cool and calm about it, with the family cowering behind them. No second thoughts about putting themselves between danger and the vulnerable. I am humbly proud to consider myself a fellow American to men like this. ETA: The other picture I posted––with the kid hiding behind the Soldier's legs––is even more powerful, because the GI is walking towards the sound of gunfire, cool as a North Dakota wind in January while everyone else is flailing around, with the boy knowing––KNOWING, in every bone in his body, you can see it in his posture––that the safest place to be is behind the American Soldier. That's a modern-day Superman in ACUs, there. |
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Posted: 1/18/2011 12:08:26 PM EDT
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I was going to say the Iwo Jima pic, but right now this one tops my list. The part that makes it badass is the way the way they seem cool and calm about it, with the family cowering behind them. No second thoughts about putting themselves between danger and the vulnerable. I agree - and to add in the people they are protecting there are not even American's. They just do it because it's the right thing to do (Strong protect the weak), not because of any 'tribal loyalty'. I am humbly proud to consider myself a fellow American to men like this.
Well said! |
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Posted: 1/18/2011 12:28:40 PM EDT
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WTF is this? A ARFCOM get together?  Come its the A-Team in the later years.
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Posted: 1/18/2011 12:41:35 PM EDT
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Uncle. Drove under Patton, then fought in Korea in the infantry.
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Posted: 1/18/2011 1:01:39 PM EDT
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100th Infantry Division. Bitche, France, March 16, 1945. |
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Posted: 1/18/2011 1:19:38 PM EDT
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Quoted: Yeppers, in before someone bitches about his uniform. Törni was hired to a Swedish cargo ship MS Skagen, with adestination to the United States. While in the Gulf of Mexico, nearMobile, Alabama, Törni jumped overboard and swam to shore. |
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Posted: 1/18/2011 1:36:52 PM EDT
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Central highlands. Circa 1969...
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Posted: 1/18/2011 1:58:32 PM EDT
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wow u got all the basis covered, ak, ar, mini 14, and duel pistols. |
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Posted: 1/18/2011 2:02:31 PM EDT
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One lucky leatherneck. 
badass ink. But no matter how badass our boys in camouflage are... 
THEY ARE STILL HUMAN BEINGS SUFFER THEIR FALLEN BROTHERS
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Posted: 1/18/2011 2:11:24 PM EDT
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LRRP
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Posted: 1/18/2011 2:15:55 PM EDT
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IBTDC In Before Trigger Discipline Callout 
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Posted: 1/18/2011 2:16:55 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/18/2011 2:28:02 PM EDT
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I love this one, even though it's a staged photo
GM2 on one of the 82' WPB's in Vietnam 
PSU Raider boat off Dammam, Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm 
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Posted: 1/18/2011 2:31:14 PM EDT
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 While it doesn't measure up to many of the photos already posted, I like this one. It's me and another Troop going back to check out a possible EFP. |
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Posted: 1/18/2011 2:36:36 PM EDT
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Professional commie killer. Dad was a bad mofo. http://i923.photobucket.com/albums/ad74/outlaw6076/Dad45thIDKorea52.jpg 45th ID
E 2/179th Inf. Edit; Dad was on Old Baldy in the summer of 52. Chinese stacked like cordwood was a phrase I heard him use. Green flies the size of half dollars. On June 16, the 179th Infantry Regiment relieved the 180th on Old Baldy. For the next 10 days, the Chinese repeatedly attempted to retake the high ground. "Mostly they tried to get the hill by overwhelming us," recalls Lee Keir, radio operator with Weapons Plt., C Co., 179th Regt. "Sometimes their infantry would come rushing in while their own artillery shells were still landing. When we raised our heads, there they were." On June 26, U.S. leaders decided to assault the enemy position––barely a thousand feet from the crest of the hill. U.S. troops met stiff resistance, and the battle for Old Baldy escalated to a fever pitch. Darkness did nothing to quell the battle, with GIs turning back three separate Chinese attacks the night of June 27. Late the next night, a Chinese force estimated at two reinforced battalions attacked again, broke through the U.S. defenses, and engaged the GIs in hand-to-hand fighting. That assault ended with a Chinese withdrawal, but not before the enemy lost an estimated 700 men. That's compared to eight U.S. dead and 35 WIA. More enemy attacks in early July also were repulsed. Yet that would not be the end of fighting on this treeless hill. Your Dad and My Grandad fought together then. 
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Posted: 1/18/2011 2:37:39 PM EDT
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http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/afghan_06_03/afghanistan5.jpg One lucky leatherneck. http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2010/marine_tattoo/marines_tattoos_01.jpg badass ink. But no matter how badass our boys in camouflage are... http://cdn.lightgalleries.net/4bd5ebfa1a2b3/images/Iraq014-2.jpg THEY ARE STILL HUMAN BEINGS SUFFER THEIR FALLEN BROTHERS that last one cut deep |
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Posted: 1/18/2011 2:41:32 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/18/2011 2:47:27 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Your sig goes along with that pic, in an odd sort of way. The goofy-looking guy on the far right of the picture certainly seems to think so!  What exactly is going on there, DK? |
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Posted: 1/18/2011 2:47:28 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/18/2011 2:49:23 PM EDT
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Quoted: When those guys hopped onto an Apache gunship to get up to the fight where their buddies were getting beaten by the Taliban... http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/07/140768.jpg Never heard or read about this  |
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Posted: 1/18/2011 2:53:01 PM EDT
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Our XO on the way back from a cache sweep. |
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Posted: 1/18/2011 2:54:57 PM EDT
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Your sig goes along with that pic, in an odd sort of way. The goofy-looking guy on the far right of the picture certainly seems to think so! What exactly is going on there, DK? I'm not 100% sure. IIRC it's from Iraq, fairly early on. So it's possibly a group of prisoners/militants that are being given instructions by British troops, or perhaps it is merely something like a road checkpoint or something, where a bunch of civilians are being given directions/instructions. The armed Brits visible in the left of the frame, combined with the crowd control guys, makes me think it's probably the former - but I don't know the actual details, sorry. |
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Posted: 1/18/2011 2:56:32 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/18/2011 2:58:47 PM EDT
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What are the details on this huge scope? I found the page it came from but it keeps crashing. |
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Posted: 1/18/2011 3:11:35 PM EDT
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"Field artillerymen of Battery A, 2-218th Field Artillery, 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Oregon Army National Guard, fire a 105mm shell from a Howitzer at Yakima Training Grounds, Wash., during the units annual training Aug. 9. Photo by Sgt. Chad Layton of Battery A, 2-218th Field Artillery, Oregon Army National Guard" 
"U.S. Army Sgt. William Reese watches flames rise into the night sky after setting canal vegetation ablaze in Tahwilla, Iraq, July 30, 2008. Extremists have been using the canal's thick vegetation to plant bombs under the cover of darkness. The soldiers are assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment.U.S. Army photo by Spc. David J. Marshall" 
"Sgt. Joshua Robbins, native of Dickson, Tenn., serving with the 66th Engineers Company, "Sappers," 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, "Warrior," 25th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division-Baghdad, torches an area with a flame thrower in an effort to deny terrorists concealment, and give coalition forces at Joint Security Station Mushada East a clear line of sight along a road, which lies between Mushada and Tarmiyah in the Tarmiyah Qada." 
"A Soldier uses a tank as an anchor to exercise with a TRX Suspension Trainer Force Training Kit. Photo by Courtesy photo" 
"The sun sets behind a C-17 Globemaster III as Soldiers wait in line to board the aircraft taking them back to the United States Nov. 17 at Joint Base Balad, Iraq. C-17s can carry payloads up to 169,000 pounds and can land on small airfields. The C-17 is deployed from the 437th Airlift Wing at Charleston Air Force Base, S.C. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Erik Gudmundson)" |
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Posted: 1/18/2011 3:15:05 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/18/2011 3:17:35 PM EDT
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Quoted: What are the details on this huge scope? I found the page it came from but it keeps crashing. AN/PVS-10 day/night vision scope. John |
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Posted: 1/18/2011 3:22:20 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/18/2011 3:23:07 PM EDT
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Quoted: PVS-10 day/night scope. Fixed 8 power, mil dot reticle, there's a switch on the side that flips it from night vision to a day optic.
What are the details on this huge scope? I found the page it came from but it keeps crashing. |
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Posted: 1/18/2011 3:23:59 PM EDT
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Quoted: is colin farrel holding a Mini-14 in that pic?? And it looks like The Rock is going akimbo. |
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Posted: 1/18/2011 3:27:22 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/18/2011 3:28:13 PM EDT
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For my little brother who I passed the family torch to
1/505th 82nd Abn in Iraq Recently passed SFAS and is awaiting Q-Course ...Good Hunting Chip |
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Posted: 1/18/2011 3:29:11 PM EDT
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My Dad - 1952
Not my Dad 
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Posted: 1/18/2011 3:32:00 PM EDT
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http://romeocat.typepad.com/cathouse_chat/images/1stsgtkasal_1.jpg http://www.carolforpeace.com/uploaded_images/iraq-war-marlboro-man-786950.jpg http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-20060914-UnitedStatesAirForce-071009-F-2911S-013-oil-well-fires-F-16A-Fighting-Falcon-F-15C-Eagle-F-15E-Strike-Eagle-Operation-Desert-Storm-Kuwait.jpg http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_l7IA-wVRHyU/TOLuT6feHHI/AAAAAAAABfo/jaDw0-XDens/s1600/korengal.jpg That first picture you posted on this post is actually my uncles CO and he took the picture if I recall correctly. Not sure where you got the picture but it is pretty badass. |
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Posted: 1/18/2011 3:32:33 PM EDT
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MACV-SOG Recon.
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Posted: 1/18/2011 3:36:40 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/18/2011 3:38:54 PM EDT
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When those guys hopped onto an Apache gunship to get up to the fight where their buddies were getting beaten by the Taliban... http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/07/140768.jpg That is beyond badass.......  Except that pic is from Kosovo and it looks shopped |
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Posted: 1/18/2011 3:39:33 PM EDT
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My Dad
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Posted: 1/18/2011 3:39:40 PM EDT
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My Dad - 1952 http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i137/mburrill/Korea003.jpg Not my Dad http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i137/mburrill/Korea-Chesty001.jpg Your dad and My Dad were in the Corps at the same time!! My Dad was at Lejeune in 55 |
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Posted: 1/18/2011 3:41:13 PM EDT
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That man REALLY liked killing Communists. It sucks how he died. I am glad they were able to identify his remains and get him a proper burial. A solider under three flags. |
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Posted: 1/18/2011 3:46:42 PM EDT
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http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/afghan_06_03/afghanistan5.jpg One lucky leatherneck. http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2010/marine_tattoo/marines_tattoos_01.jpg badass ink. But no matter how badass our boys in camouflage are... http://cdn.lightgalleries.net/4bd5ebfa1a2b3/images/Iraq014-2.jpg THEY ARE STILL HUMAN BEINGS SUFFER THEIR FALLEN BROTHERS that last one cut deep Deep indeed; deeper than anyone who has never been there will ever understand... 
Some more... 
An old favorite returns to duty in Iraq - courtesy of the "Essayons". 
Nuff said. I'd walk through any doorway with this man by my side any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
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Posted: 1/18/2011 3:47:28 PM EDT
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http://pierretristam.com/images2/i07a/0530-boy2.jpg http://granitegrok.com/pix/Honor-BeingTheHumanShield.jpg I can't believe how great some of the people are that want to represent my country. I could never thank them enough. |
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Posted: 1/18/2011 3:52:11 PM EDT
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Marcus Luttrell and the seal team before Operation Redwing  |
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Posted: 1/18/2011 3:52:50 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/18/2011 3:58:22 PM EDT
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An old favorite returns to duty in Iraq - courtesy of the "Essayons".
Nuff said. I'd walk through any doorway with this man by my side any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Fuck yea baby! Deuce 4!! |
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