Marines in Combat - high res

[catdat]

Sorry if there are any reposts - catdat


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RAQ - The Cobra helicopters flying overhead provide air-support during a firefight between Iraqi soldiers and Delta Company, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, in an ambush by Iraqi soldiers in northern Iraq April 3. 1st LAR Bn. is part of the 1st Marine Division from Camp Pendleton, Calif.

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NORTHERN IRAQ - Light Armored Vehicle 25, with 1st Light Armored Reconnaisance Battalion, shoots its 25mm main gun at Iraqi soldiers in an ammunition supply building in northern Iraq April 5. 1st LAR Bn. is part of the 1st Marine Division from Camp Pendleton, Calif.

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AL FAY, Iraq - Cobra attack helicopters with Regimental Combat Team 1, taking out enemy defense positions, fire on a town in the distance off Route 7 north of Al Fay April 2.

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IRAQ - Marines of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, out of Camp Pendleton, Calif., move into better position to engage the enemy during a firefight during/in Operation Iraqi Freedom April 8, 2003. Operation Iraqi Freedom is the multinational coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of Saddam Hussein.

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A terrorist's body lies dead on a sidewalk after a brief firefight with U.S. Marines as 1st Platoon, Company E, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division make their way into Fallujah, Iraq. Marines are observing a suspension of offensive operations, but maintain the right to defend themselves against attack.
(USMC photo by Sgt. Jose E. Guillen)

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Machine gunners with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division fall back for repositioning after a brief firefight with insurgents inside Fallujah, Iraq Apr. 6, 2004. The company entered Fallujah to begin the effort of removing insurgents from the city.
(Official USMC photo by Sgt. Jose E. Guillen)

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Private First Class Alberto Reyna, SAW gunner with 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, seeks more targets to engage during a brief firefight near the Palestine Hotel in downtown Baghdad, April 12. Reyna, 20, from Laredo, Texas, was one of the first Marines to engage the enemy and received numerous impact rounds around his gun position while laying down suppressive fire.

[-=TFN=-Karab]

Nice pics, thanks for finding em.

[Bombtrack]

Really good pics!

[Frens]

why the guy in the last pic (with SAW) doesnt use the whole mag?? he has only few rounds ready to fire :|

[Roger Rabbit]

You can link the remainder of the bullets in the SAW to the first bullet in the box below. Far quicker than firing off all your rounds and having to through a full load procedure. Correct me if i'm wrong.

[flickme]

Superb! :D

[anonymous individual]

Wallpapered the pic with the squad patrolling the street. :)

[Obergefreiter]

Good stuff. I think the machinegunner may be getting ready to load the links into the next set. It looks like he may have just placed the munitions box under the weapon to reload.

He looks a little tired as well.

[Frens]

You can link the remainder of the bullets in the SAW to the first bullet in the box below

well, it isnt a fast procedure(i try it)! :|

[Roger Rabbit]

I've only link one bullet to a chain of bullets once before and that was in a drill hall. Took all of a second if that. If the link is the same then you simply click it over the bullet. This was 7.62 dummy rounds for a GPMG.

[catdat]

more...a couple of tanks...some purple hearts (stfu 2sheds_jackson), a couple of combat pics all hi res

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Marines with Company A, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, fire against terrorists operating in Fallujah, Iraq April 7, 2004. Marines suspended offensive operations after isolating and systematically clearing portions of the city.

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Marines with Company A, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, peer over a building top to fix in enemy targets in Al Fallujah, Iraq April 7, 2004. Marines attcked into the city to root out and kill terrorists who were attacking Coalition Forces.

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1st Lt. Joshua P. Batter, from Saint Paul, Minn., speaks with Iraqi children in their village outside of Fallujah, Iraq. Marines repositioned forces outside their city allow Iraqis to take over security for themselves. - I know it's not combat but its a good pic - catdat

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Pfc. Joseph Temple from Henderson Nev, with 3rd Platoon, Company K, 3rd Battalion 4th Marine Regiment, moves with a tank from 1st Tank Battalion's Company A, on patrol during a patrol rehearsal in Al Fallujah, Iraq. Marines in Fallujah repositioned forces outside the city to allow Iraqi forces to take over security operations.

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Machine gunners with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division return fire at insurgents firing from a mosque in Fallujah, Iraq April 6, 2004. The company entered Fallujah to begin the effort of removing insurgents from the city.

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this ones for U 2sheds_jackson why don't U tell him you're theory on purple hearts? - catdat
Caption:Cpl. Thomas W. Kuster has been awarded the Purple Heart three times in Iraq -- once last lear and twice this year. Kuster was wounded last year in Bahgdad and twice this year in operations in Fallujah. Kuster, from Citrus Heights, Calif., and assinged to Company C, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, was standing behind his MK-19 automatic grenade launcher firing at the enemy in Fallujah when he was wounded the second time.

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Marines with Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment and 1st Tank Battalion position themselves after being fired upon while on patrol in the Al Anbar Province near Fallujah, Iraq.

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Sgt. Maj. Jerry L. Cole, the 1st Force Service Support Group's sergeant major, holds a box of Purple Heart medals before they are awarded April 24, 2004, at Camp Fallujah, Iraq, to 12 Marines and one sailor wounded in action. Most received their wounds during the opening days of Operation Vigilant Resolve, launched April 4 to bring order to the city of Fallujah. All of the recipients are assigned to Combat Service Support Battalion 1, who provides logistical support to Marines operating in and around Fallujah. Despite the wounds, all have returned to duty. Before he awarded the medal, Brig. Gen. Richard S. Kramlich, commanding officer of the 1st Force Service Support Group, spoke of the significance of wearing the Purple Heart saying that Americans "will be reassured that there's people - men and women like you all out there - that are ready to do whatever it takes." As of April 24, 57 Marines and sailors with the I Marine Expeditionary Force have been killed in action and another 483 have been wounded.


Last for now...hope you didn't have 56k :) catdat

[SiFiOn]

I agree with Obergefreiter.

[Dennis G]

Excellent photos

[Ratamacue]

Awesome photos, catdat. Thanks alot man. woot

[wulfstan]

I've got a question;
In the pic with the SAW gunner, and any gunner for that matter, does the gunner have to collect up the links after firing to enable him to make belts of ammo later? I mean, in the heat of combat, you will be in a fluid encounter, and sure as hell won't hang around to pick up hundreds of links off the floor, but in a prolongued encounter you could end up having no linked ammo, surely?
Please advise me on this one.

[Luxembourger]

Last for now...hope you didn't have 56k catdat

even with at 56k it was worth to be patient and download all the great pcitures thanks

One question : there is not a rule whether what vehicles of the marines are pianted in desert and which remain in 3 nato tone color like the abrams is in sand and the humvees in nato . It s just random right?

[moughoun]

I've got a question;
In the pic with the SAW gunner, and any gunner for that matter, does the gunner have to collect up the links after firing to enable him to make belts of ammo later? I mean, in the heat of combat, you will be in a fluid encounter, and sure as hell won't hang around to pick up hundreds of links off the floor, but in a prolongued encounter you could end up having no linked ammo, surely?
Please advise me on this one.

Simple answer no if you have a decent resupp chain if not then you do what you can,

[hank]

I've got a question;
In the pic with the SAW gunner, and any gunner for that matter, does the gunner have to collect up the links after firing to enable him to make belts of ammo later? I mean, in the heat of combat, you will be in a fluid encounter, and sure as hell won't hang around to pick up hundreds of links off the floor, but in a prolongued encounter you could end up having no linked ammo, surely?
Please advise me on this one.

Simple answer no if you have a decent resupp chain if not then you do what you can,

Let me start by saying I am not a BTDT - so don't anybody get their panties in a wad :D

Is this right? I think I have seen photos of the 7.62 and 5.56 ammo boxes where the rounds are linked when you get them? Am I right about this? Do our guys really still have to link up ammo in the field? I, too, am curious.

hank

[JunglistSoldier]

The link for the GPMG, or FN MAG, can be "relinked", this procedure is used during exercises where I operate. The link is like a magazine that is filled with bullets, and several can be linked together to create as long a link as you want.

The link for the minimi however is dismantled at the moment of fire and is left on the ground just like spent shells. it CAN be re-linked but it's not something that is practiced - the only time you do this is when you link togehter several strands of lead.

uh.. I hope that made sense..

[Dutchman2]

[quote="JunglistSoldier"]The link for the GPMG, or FN MAG, can be "relinked", this procedure is used during exercises where I operate. The link is like a magazine that is filled with bullets, and several can be linked together to create as long a link as you want.

The link for the minimi however is dismantled at the moment of fire and is left on the ground just like spent shells. [/at quote]

You're proberly from a country that uses belts instead of links for the MAG. We (the Netherlands), the UK, USA, etc. uses the "M13" model link for 7,62 ammo. It's Nato standard. As a kid, I alway's went into the forest with friends to collect empty blank cases that where shot during from exercises. It was alway's the game to beat eachother with longest collected belt. I remember that I had the blisters on my hands from putting the blanks back in the links :D .
Germany uses a other type of link for the MG3, the DM16 link. But, however, they can feed the MG3 with "M13" linked ammo also.

Greets,

Roger

[Bob the Drunk]

7.62 and 5.56 links are "disintegrating" meaning that the two pieces that hold the ammo to the belt and the belt together come apart. In training, most liks are collected and reused. In combat, they are almost never collected and when a soldier gets resupp'd, they get belts of ammo. At least here in the US

[Operation Ivy]

AWsome woot

Love the ones with the Abrams :D

[JunglistSoldier]

Ah, well here in sweden the minimi uses link that disintegrates and is not reused, while the MAG as you say - uses belts that are reused. 5.56 for the '249 is supplied linked and ready to go.