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He219
07-16-2004, 11:52 AM
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The former Royal Australian Navy guided missile destroyers HMAS Brisbane, is towed past the Sydney Opera House on her last trip above the water on Friday, July 16, 2004. Brisbane, a 34 year-old a Charles F. Adams Class DDG, was built by the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in the USA, and commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) on Dec. 16, 1967. She is a veteran of the Vietnam and Gulf Wars and had such weapons as two five inch guns, anti submarine torpedo's and a standard missile launcher. The decommissioned warship will soon be sunk off Queensland's Sunshine Coast to be used as a dive wreck.
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PATNA, INDIA: An Indian Air Force helicopter on a relief sortie fly over flooded in flood stricken Sitamarhi, some 115 kms northeast of the capital of the Indian state of Bihar, Patna, 16 July 2004. The eastern Indian state of Bihar sent an SOS message to the federal government seeking more help from the army to rescue millions of people trapped in devastating floods.
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Labourers load relief food packages onto an Indian Air Force helicopter at the airport in the capital of the Indian state of Bihar, Patna, 16 July 2004.
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People look at an Indian Air Force helicopter that crashed while trying to rescue Darbhanga Medical College girl students from their flooded hostel in Darbhanga, in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, Thursday, July 15, 2004. The death toll in South Asia due to monsoon floods has risen to 374, as millions have been left stranded as the water washed away homes, roads, crops and telephone lines.
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Rescued medical students from Darbhanga medical college get down from an Indian Air Force helicopter at the airport of the capital of the Indian state of Bihar,Patna, 16 July 2004.
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage (2L) arrives for talks with election workers at an electoral office in Kabul, 16 July 2004. Armitage is on a one-day visit to the country, during which he is scheduled to meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah and other officials. Presidential elections in Afghanistan are scheduled on 09 October.
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US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, center, talks to representatives of Joint Election Monitoring Body after he visited a registration center in Kabul Friday, July 16, 2004. The country's first-ever vote for president is scheduled on Oct. 9.
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Moscow tests new missile defense network
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TIKRIT, IRAQ- JULY 14: Soldiers from the 216th Engineer Battalion work together with Marines from 6th Engineer Support Battalion on July 14 , 2004 to rebuild the Tikrit Bridge in Tikrit, Iraq.
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An American soldier clears brush from an area along the Tigris River in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, July 16, 2004. He said that Army engineers are clearing the zone to build a public park
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MAHMUDIYAH, IRAQ: A US soldier looks on while another washes down a humvee stained with blood in camp Saint Michael after it was hit by a roadside bomb in Mahmudiyah, some 60kms south of Baghdad 15 July 2004. One soldier was killed and one injured in the blast.
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A U.S. Army soldier stands under a defaced sign which calls for Iraqi's to support their new security forces, in Baghdad July 16, 2004. The U.S. troops were responding to a roadside bomb which slightly injured one soldier and wounded several Iraqi's.
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A British soldier, no name available, simulates first aid rendering during peacekeeper exercise at the Vaziani military base, 15 km (10 miles) east of Tbilisi, Thursday, July 15, 2004. Georgian and British troops conducted a joint exercise simulating an attack in Iraq, where both countries have forces.
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Georgian troops conduct peacekeeper exercise at the Vaziani military base,15 km (10 miles) east of Tbilisi, Thursday, July 15, 2004. Georgian and British troops conducted the joint exercise, simulating an attack in Iraq, where both countries have forces.
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A Kurdish ICDC (Iraqi Civil Defense Corp) soldier looks through piles of old bombs, remains of the old Iraqi army arsenal, at a scrap yard outside of Zakho, on the Iraqi-Turkish border, July 13. 2004. The U.S. military sells dismantled weapons to Arab buyers, who sell them to Kurdish middlemen, who finally sell them to Turkish steel factories for about $40-50 per ton. Since the start of the U.S.-led invasion on Iraq the dead weapons business is slowly decreasing for all parties involved. Picture taken July 13, 2004
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AIR FORCE HOMECOMING: Giselle Tkach, left, and Abigael Tkach hug their father Master Sgt. Steve Tkach after the 10th Airlift Squadron lands at McChord Air Force Base Thursday, July 15, 2004, in Tacoma, Wash
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Ten-day old Shawn Tate, Jr., waits in the arms of his mother Rachel Tate to meet his father US Marine Cpl Shawn Tate upon his return from Iraq with the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 15 July, 2004, at Camp Pendleton, California.
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CAMP PENDLETON, UNITED STATES: US Marine Lance Corporal Roger Ortega is welcomed by his sister Jasmine, 9, and other relatives upon his return from Iraq with the1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 15 July, 2004, at Camp Pendleton, California. Nearly 600 Marines and sailors from the 1st Battalion, 5th Regiment reunited with family and friends upon their return from deployment to Iraq to conduct Stability and Support Operations in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. They were involved in some of the most intense firefights in and around Fallujah and lost some of their troops in Iraq.
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US Marine Wayne Hall exchanges hats with his son Cade, 3, as wife Jennifer (R) looks on upon his return from Iraq with the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 15 July, 2004, at Camp Pendleton, California.
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US Marine Lance Corporal Stephen Henry is reunited with his girlfriend Kandice Jackson upon his return from Iraq
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Cyndi Corbett cries as her husband US Marine Lance Corporal Vernon Corbett, Jr., holds his son Josepfh Corbett, three months, for the first time, upon his return from Iraq with the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 15 July, 2004, at Camp Pendleton, California.
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Emmyln Anonical (L) jumps into the arms of her boyfriend US Marine Cpl Jeff Starr from Washington state as he returns from Iraq with the1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 15 July 2004 at Camp Pendleton, California. Nearly 600 Marines and sailors from the 1st Battalion, 5th Regiment reunited with family and friends upon their return from deployment to Iraq to conduct Stability and Support Operations in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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BAGHDAD, IRAQ - JULY 16: Iraqi Shiites pray at a Friday prayer service in the Buratha mosque July 16, 2004 Baghdad, Iraq. The mosque, which is affiliated with the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, a large Shiite group that is heavily vested in the interim government, was targeted 5 times by the insurgents. Iraq interim Prime Minister Dr. Iyad Allawi announced, on Thursday, the creation of an intelligence service designed to combat terrorism.
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A gunman of Muqtada al-Sadr's militia guards afternoon prayers in the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq Friday, July 16, 2004.
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Top Baghdad representatives of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, Sheikh Aws Al-Kafaji, right, and Sheikh Hssan All Ethari, center left, speak with other top clerics at Friday prayers in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq Friday, July 16, 2004. Al-Sadr's militia, who fought U.S. troops for two months, is quietly working to transform itself into a behind-the-scenes political power
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Palestinian police chief for the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, Maj. Gen. Ghazi Jabali speaks during an officers' graduation ceremony at a police academy at the police headquarters in Gaza City, in this Dec. 4, 2003, file photo. According to witnesses, Palestinian gunmen kidnapped Jabali Friday. The gunmen ambushed his car and exchanged fire with his body guards, said the witnesses. The motive for the abduction was unclear. In background a picture of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony at the Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv Wednesday July 14, 2004. Neyanyahu said Thursday he was confident Israel could fend off Palestinian attempts to get the United Nations to impose sanctions in the wake of the world court's ruling against a barrier Israel is building around the West Bank. A draft resolution introduced by Arab nations and the Nonaligned Movement of 116 mostly developing countries demands that Israel tear down the barrier. It is expected to go to a vote in the U.N. General Assembly on Friday.
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The shadow of spectators can be seen as they watch the beginning of the screening of the film 'Wall' by Morroccan director Simone Bittona at a section made of concrete blocks of Israel's separation barrier in the village of Abu Dis in the outskirts of Jerusalem Thursday July 15, 2004. The projection was made under the auspices of the Ramallah International Film Festival.
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Palestinian demonstrators wave towards Israeli activist in the other side during a rally against Israel's separation barrier, seen in the background, that took place in both sides of the barrier near the West Bank town of Qalqiliya Friday July 16, 2004. The United Nations General Assembly is slated to hold an emergency session Friday to discuss a draft resolution demanding that Israel comply with last week's International Court of Justice non-binding ruling that the West Bank separation fence is illegal and must be dismantled.

tuckerhat
07-16-2004, 11:59 AM
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omg tesla coils!! :lol:

Abbyy
07-16-2004, 12:03 PM
Great pics as usual! :)

Thanks for disclosing our super-duper mega-secret missile-defence network :)

Deuterium
07-16-2004, 12:04 PM
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Tengu
07-16-2004, 12:05 PM
http://www.deuteriumox.com/milphotos/aim.jpg rofl rofl rofl

SHA
07-16-2004, 12:10 PM
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rofl rofl rofl

He219
07-16-2004, 12:11 PM
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NEW YORK - JULY 16: Martha Stewart exits court amidst a throng of reporters after the sentencing phase of her conviction on a stock-trading scandal July 16, 2004 in New York City. Stewart was sentenced to only five months at Abu Ghraib, 2 years probation and merely 30,000 Shekels in fines.
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German Embassy security officers body search one of the former migrant workers inside the embassy in Maputo, Mozambique, Thursday, July 15, 2004. More than 300 former migrant workers occupied the German Embassy and its compound for a second day Thursday, vowing to remain until they are paid for work done two decades ago.
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Nepalese army soldiers check the site where a woman was killed by a bomb explosion, in a suburb of Katmandu, Nepal, Thursday, July 15, 2004. Police suspect the woman to be a Maoist rebel who was trying to toss the bomb into the Nepal Telecom building.

Apogee
07-16-2004, 12:30 PM
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NEW YORK - JULY 16: Martha Stewart exits court amidst a throng of reporters after the sentencing phase of her conviction on a stock-trading scandal July 16, 2004 in New York City. Stewart was sentenced to only five months at Abu Ghraib, 2 years probation and merely 30,000 Shekels in fines.

I walk past that place to work

sgt.pepper
07-16-2004, 12:52 PM
http://accuweather.ap.org/apdbs/Intl_Photos/views/mini/7371/7371229.jpg his wings look like a our paras wings

Undo
07-16-2004, 01:01 PM
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Hotel Ukraina! Nice place.

Trigger
07-16-2004, 01:34 PM
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NEW YORK - JULY 16: Martha Stewart exits court amidst a throng of reporters after the sentencing phase of her conviction on a stock-trading scandal July 16, 2004 in New York City. Stewart was sentenced to only five months at Abu Ghraib, 2 years probation and merely 30,000 Shekels in fines.
rofl rofl rofl

Freeman
07-16-2004, 01:41 PM
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he looks a little bit, as he is making holidays. the shoes don't look very usefull for combat.

UoUo
07-16-2004, 02:45 PM
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easyand
07-16-2004, 02:47 PM
what kind of bombs are showed in 24th photo?
They're very very big!

sgt.pepper
07-16-2004, 03:32 PM
http://accuweather.ap.org/apdbs/Intl_Photos/views/mini/7371/7371229.jpghttp://www1.idf.il/SIP_STORAGE/DOVER/files/0/23830.gifIdi Amin had isreali paras emblem too

sgt.pepper
07-16-2004, 03:34 PM
what kind of bombs are showed in 24th photo?
They're very very big! maybe old russian general purpose bombs

2RHPZ
07-16-2004, 03:42 PM
BBC Shows Pakistani Cobra's Attacking Al Qaeda

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He219
07-16-2004, 03:46 PM
Nice screen grab, CAG 147!

:D

easyand
07-16-2004, 03:53 PM
what kind of bombs are showed in 24th photo?
They're very very big! maybe old russian general purpose bombs

...but for heavy bombers

tuckerhat
07-16-2004, 03:54 PM
CAG 147, did loan those to the Pakistani's or did we sell them?

2RHPZ
07-16-2004, 03:55 PM
Nice screen grab, CAG 147!

:D

Thanx, I wish to have better res!

sgt.pepper
07-16-2004, 04:09 PM
but for heavy bombers did the iraqi air force had the heavy bombers?

He219
07-16-2004, 04:14 PM
Guess what century?
:D


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Old classic sailing ships coming from all around the world race off Brest, Brittany on their way to Douarnenez, western France, Friday, June 16, 2004.
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The submarine Razorback is docked at Montgomery Point Lock and Dam near Yancopin, Ark., Friday, July 16, 2004. The dam complex was dedicated Friday. The World War Two-era submarine will become the centerpiece of a planned maritime museum on the Arkansas River. The Navy decommissioned the vessel in 1970 and handed it over to the Turkish navy, which recently sold it to North Little Rock for one dollar.
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Palestinian police chief for the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, Maj. Gen. Ghazi Jabali, sits at the front seat of a van as he leaves from his office at the Palestinian police headquarters in Gaza City, Friday, July 16, 2004. According to witnesses Palestinian gunmen had earlier kidnapped Jabali, ambushing his car and exchanging fire with his body guards, said the witnesses. He was released a few hours later.The motive for the abduction was unclear.

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Sgt. Jason N. Gravem, left, walks past an old Iraqi jet with Maj. William C. Maples at Camp Taqaddum, Iraq, on July 14, 2004. At times, Maples used walking sticks to assist him in his 135-mile trek. Maples went the distance to coincide with the Badwater Ultramarathon spanning from Death Valley to Mount Whitney in California. During his 37-hour, 59-minute journey, he ran and speed-walked, enduring extreme heat, fatigue and even a rocket attack on the camp, yet sprinted to the finish. Since the 40-year-old Dallas native is currently deployed to Iraq as the 1st Force Service Support Group's force protection officer, the six-time Badwater veteran couldn't actually participate in this year's race.

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Maj. William C. Maples stops running near the 60-mile mark of his 135-mile race after hearing explosions in the distance caused by an enemy rocket attack on Camp Taqaddum, Iraq, on July 13, 2004. Though the rockets didn't hit close to Maples, he and his crew were still required to stop and don body armor for their safety, until the "all-clear" was called 2 hours and 40 minutes later. Maples went the distance to coincide with the Badwater Ultramarathon spanning from Death Valley to Mount Whitney in California. During his 37-hour, 59-minute journey, he ran and speed-walked, enduring extreme heat and fatigue, yet sprinted to the finish. Since the 40-year-old Dallas native is currently deployed to Iraq as the 1st Force Service Support Group's force protection officer, the six-time Badwater veteran couldn't actually participate in this year's race.

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Thirty-seven hours, 59 minutes and 135 miles later, Maj. William C. Maples darts across the finish line July 14, 2004 at Camp Taqaddum, Iraq. Maples went the distance to coincide with the Badwater Ultramarathon spanning from Death Valley to Mount Whitney in California. During his journey, he ran and speed-walked, enduring extreme heat, fatigue and even a rocket attack on the camp, yet sprinted to the finish. Since the 40-year-old Dallas native is currently deployed to Iraq as the 1st Force Service Support Group's force protection officer, the six-time Badwater veteran couldn't actually participate in this year's race.
Photo submitted 07/16/2004

fred_engles
07-16-2004, 04:27 PM
Idi Amin had isreali paras emblem tooYeah, but he actually earned it.

2RHPZ
07-16-2004, 04:31 PM
CAG 147, did loan those to the Pakistani's or did we sell them?

Unfortunatelly I have no clue ... but I am gonna to search for that, I know where and whom to ask.

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Czech MP w/ Iraqi policemen during their course

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sgt.pepper
07-16-2004, 04:34 PM
Yeah, but he actually earned it. to earn it he had to jump 5 times

DixieDude
07-16-2004, 04:41 PM
Dang, those troops(US) got some hot ass g/fs. :D

Fee Fi Fo Fum
07-16-2004, 04:43 PM
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wow looks like a painting.....

Uncle Chô
07-16-2004, 05:04 PM
CAG 147, did loan those to the Pakistani's or did we sell them?

Unfortunatelly I have no clue ... but I am gonna to search for that, I know where and whom to ask.
Pakistan bought 20 AH-1F (like the Army AH-1S) from Bell in the early /mid 80s. I don't know if they bought /received more later. From what I could see from the screenshots, they are indeed AH-1Fs.

seruriermarshal
07-16-2004, 05:08 PM
http://cache.*****images.com/comp/51075317.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=538EA340DCCBB2AD1154BEB0E1A578E7A9C30E9B9B114CE8
MAHMUDIYAH, IRAQ: A US soldier looks on while another washes down a humvee stained with blood in camp Saint Michael after it was hit by a roadside bomb in Mahmudiyah, some 60kms south of Baghdad 15 July 2004. One soldier was killed and one injured in the blast.


No report say : allies soldiers die in 15 July .

:roll:

Lt_Crooks
07-16-2004, 05:22 PM
Dang, those troops(US) got some hot ass g/fs. :D

you know that the photographers dont take everyones picture ;)

Ria
07-16-2004, 05:31 PM
Those homecoming pics are so heartwarming :hug: Thank He219, as always! :)

MEGR
07-16-2004, 05:41 PM
http://cache.*****images.com/comp/51075317.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=538EA340DCCBB2AD1154BEB0E1A578E7A9C30E9B9B114CE8
MAHMUDIYAH, IRAQ: A US soldier looks on while another washes down a humvee stained with blood in camp Saint Michael after it was hit by a roadside bomb in Mahmudiyah, some 60kms south of Baghdad 15 July 2004. One soldier was killed and one injured in the blast.


No report say : allies soldiers die in 15 July .

:roll:

Your right, they said an American was injured along with 6 innocents

Here's the story that broke two hours ago....

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/96097/1/.html

memphiz
07-16-2004, 05:43 PM
Great pics He219

Jurgen
07-16-2004, 07:48 PM
Those homecoming pics are so heartwarming :hug: Thank He219, as always! :)

Hooah!

Falco
07-16-2004, 08:55 PM
Good pics woot

Raistlin
07-16-2004, 11:28 PM
http://accuweather.ap.org/apdbs/Intl_Photos/views/mini/7371/7371229.jpghttp://www1.idf.il/SIP_STORAGE/DOVER/files/0/23830.gif
They don't look the same. His wings have a very small area of contact with the parachute.

Campo
07-17-2004, 12:26 AM
A picture says a thousand words......

http://cache.*****images.com/comp/51073523.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=538EA340DCCBB2ADCDBE1E76DF790424A9C30E9B9B114CE8

Need I say anymore.


Good to see the boys back home safe, RIP all those who didn't make it.
My heart goes out to those family and friends of those lost in battle.

Hellman109
07-17-2004, 01:26 AM
http://accuweather.ap.org/apdbs/Intl_Photos/views/mini/7371/7371229.jpghttp://www1.idf.il/SIP_STORAGE/DOVER/files/0/23830.gif
They don't look the same. His wings have a very small area of contact with the parachute.

Yep there definatly different, but was the badge remodelled and he had an old pair still?

EDIT:
http://i15.ebayimg.com/03/i/00/96/2a/7f_1.JPG

Larger of the above pic, so it seems like it is infact different yet similar...

AVZ
07-17-2004, 04:47 AM
http://accuweather.ap.org/apdbs/Intl_Photos/views/mini/7371/7371407.jpg

What's going on there??? (I read the subtitle)

Can't believe it. :bash: p-) :cantbeli:

Nizark
07-17-2004, 04:55 AM
http://accuweather.ap.org/apdbs/Intl_Photos/views/mini/7371/7371229.jpg his wings look like a our paras wings


Yeah kinda...anyone have the slightest idea what they stand for? Maybe shooting at a IDF para? PA has maybe 2 helos and they are both for Arafatass

ShotOver
07-17-2004, 05:19 AM
Fancy looking bloke. Can't do a tie for **** though, haha.

Bulkowski
07-17-2004, 09:44 AM
http://accuweather.ap.org/apdbs/Intl_Photos/views/mini/7371/7371387.jpg
Nice to see they have moved on from the old ski mask look... p-)

Raistlin
07-17-2004, 11:16 AM
Ski masks are just cool. Even IDF uses them.

aartamen
07-17-2004, 01:40 PM
Dang, those troops(US) got some hot ass g/fs. :D

They are Marines. One of the reasons guys join the Corps is to be able to take anybody's woman.

aartamen
07-17-2004, 01:41 PM
http://accuweather.ap.org/apdbs/Intl_Photos/views/mini/7371/7371387.jpg
Nice to see they have moved on from the old ski mask look... p-)

And moved right to tailored underwear look.

2RHPZ
07-17-2004, 03:02 PM
http://img8.exs.cx/img8/15/P3220100.th.jpg (http://img8.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img8ℑ=P3220100.jpg)

http://img8.exs.cx/img8/2020/P4080038.th.jpg (http://img8.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img8ℑ=P4080038.jpg)

http://img13.exs.cx/img13/881/P4080018.th.jpg (http://img13.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img13ℑ=P4080018.jpg)

http://img3.exs.cx/img3/3392/04_01_iraq_c2.jpg

http://img3.exs.cx/img3/7773/DSC00177.jpg