Today's Pic's. Oct 23

[He219]

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Russian Su-27 fly over the Kant air base, 20 kilometers (12 miles) east of the Kyrgyzstan capital Bishkek, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2003. Putin on Thursday opened a Russian military base in Kyrgyzstan and hailed the event as a move aimed at strengthening security in the volatile Central Asian region. (AP Photo/Vyacheslav Oseledko)

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Indonesian air force members break glass to conduct an evacuation operation , during an anti terror drill inside the Parliament building, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2003, in Jakarta, Indonesia. The Indonesian police, air force, army, navy and special forces gathered together for the drill in the preparation for Indonesian election next year. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

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Lebanese policemen march in front of Lebanese protesters during a demonstration against the economic policies in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2003. A general strike in Lebanon protesting the government's economic policies Thursday has led to the closure of public and private sector plus schools, universities, the international airport and harbors. The Arabic banner in the right background read: "Protect masses of the poor". (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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The body of Jean Helene, regional reporter for Radio France Internationale, is carried onto a plane in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Oct. 23, 2003. An Ivory Coast police officer was in custody Wednesday in the killing of a French radio journalist, accused of shooting him in the back of the head with an AK-47 as the reporter waited outside a police station to interview jailed opposition figures. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)

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Thor Dunmire, a marine specialist with the National Undersea Research Center, guides an 18th century cannon to the ocean's surface, October 22, 2003 off Key Largo in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Keys Sanctuary and Research Center officials recovered one of 13 cannons from an area called the "Cannon Patch." Experts will study it for clues to identify the ship it originated from, but believe it may have been jettisoned by a British vessel that grounded. Remaining cannons and artifacts are in 13 feet of water for snorkelers and divers to inspect. *******/Dave Score/Florida Keys News Bureau-Handout NO SALES


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The Concorde leaves London's Heathrow Airport Thursday Oct. 23, 2003. The supersonic aircraft is on its last week of service before being moth-balled on Friday Oct. 24, 2003. (AP Photo/Dave Caulkin)

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An U.S. Army soldier walks past an artillery shell after blowing up a roadside bomb in Baghdad's Ad-Doura district, Thursdau Oct. 23, 2003. Iraqi police found the explosive as well as a car packed with explosives in the Iraqi capital and arrested a Syrian who confessed to having rigged them, Iraqi officials said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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031018-N-4055P-011 Aboard USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) Oct. 18, 2003 -- Lance Cpl. Leighton Becker, from Middleburg, Fla., talks with teammates over the radio while Lance Cpl. Jeremy Baker, of Mesa, Ariz., covers his back during a vessel boarding search and seizure (VBSS) training scenario aboard USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19). Blue Ridge is currently underway for a regularly scheduled deployment. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Winston C. Pitman. (RELEASED)


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031018-N-4055P-008 Aboard USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) Oct. 18, 2003 -- Lance Cpl. Denis Andersen attached to, 2nd FAST Co., 7th Platoon 1st squad, provides cover for his team during a vessel boarding search and seizure (VBSS) training scenario aboard USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19). Blue Ridge is currently underway for a regularly scheduled deployment. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Winston C. Pitman. (RELEASED)


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031018-N-4055P-006 Aboard USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) Oct. 18, 2003 -- Lance Cpl. Michael Covey, attached to, 2nd FAST Co., 7th Platoon 1st squad, provides cover for his team during a vessel boarding search and seizure (VBSS) training scenario aboard USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19). Blue Ridge is currently underway for a regularly scheduled deployment. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Winston C. Pitman. (RELEASED)

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031018-N-4055P-002 Aboard USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) Oct. 18, 2003 -- Lance Cpl. Dale W. Wood, assigned to 2nd FAST Co., 7th Platoon 1st squad, moves into position so he can provide sniper cover for his teammates during a vessel boarding search and seizure (VBSS) training scenario aboard USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19). Blue Ridge is underway for a regularly scheduled deployment. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Winston C. Pitman. (RELEASED)


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031012-N-4943L-004 Manama, Bahrain (Oct. 12, 2003) – Chief Mineman Gary Myers, assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit Four (EODMU-4), and a member the Bahrain Defense Force (BDF), Royal Field Engineering Unit, builds up an EOD tool during a training scenario. EODMU-4 and the BDF recently participated in Exercise Neon Response, an annual bi-lateral Explosive Ordnance Disposal exercise between the United States and Bahrain. Exercise Neon Response is just one of the more than 40 joint military exercises the U.S. Navy participates in annually with members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, other foreign allies and friends, as well as other U.S. military forces in the region. U.S. Navy photo by Journalist 2nd Class Denny Lester. (RELEASED)


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031007-N-5539C-001 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (Oct. 7, 2003) -- Electronics Technician Senior Chief Greg Silvey assigned to Submarine Squadron Three, demonstrates another near perfect shot at the already battered silhouette target. Silvey is a part of the U.S. Navy pistol team as well as a member of the President’s Hundred, which recognizes the top 100 pistol marksmen in the country. U.S. Navy photo by Journalist 3rd Class Corwin M. Colbert. (RELEASED)

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031022-N-7293M-008 Santa Rita, Guam (Oct. 22, 2003) -- The guided missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville (CG 62) enters Apra Harbor, Guam. Chancellorsville is acting as host vessel to two warships of the People's Republic of China, which are making their navy's first ever port call to Guam. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Nathanael T. Miller. (RELEASED)


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031022-N-7293M-121 Santa Rita, Guam (Oct. 22, 2003) -- Rear Adm. Xue Tianpei, Deputy Commander of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy South Sea Fleet, delivers remarks at a welcome ceremony after the (PLA) guided missile destroyer Shenzhen (DDG 167) and oiler Qinghai Hu (AO 885) tied up in Apra Harbor. The PLA ships are making the Chinese Navy's first ever port call to Guam. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Nathanael T. Miller. (RELEASED)


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031019-N-9845W-001 San Diego, Calif. (Oct. 19, 2003) -- The United States Navy's precision flight demonstration team "Blue Angels" perform during the Miramar Air Show at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Miramar, Calif. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Darryl Welborne. (RELEASED)

[Tiger]

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M14 ?

[He219]

M14, M1A - but most likely a Marine Sniper with the M21 given the bi-pod and optics.

:D

The flip-sight cover seems to be closed and he appears to be using close quarters target rekoning....

;)

[Seoulstriker]

nice high-res pics, today, he219!

[Gringo]

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"Sarah Connor?"(in Arnie voice)

[Seoulstriker]

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"Sarah Connor?"(in Arnie voice)


why is he using an optical sight with that pistol?

[Gringo]

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Navy guy - "Attention on deck, the Admiral will brief you"

Admiral - "I'm a man of few words, any questions?"

[Smintjes]

Silvey is a part of the U.S. Navy pistol team

Read.

[Seoulstriker]

and why is his left eye taped over?

[Seoulstriker]

Silvey is a part of the U.S. Navy pistol team

Read.

again, why is he using an optical sight?

[Argyll]

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You talking to me?,I don't see anyone else here?(In best De Niro accent).

The tape maybe something to do with eye dominance,he may be a right hand shot,but he may have a dominant left eye,so covering this up teaches the shooter to use the weaker eye to greater effect.........then again he may have broken the glass!! :lol

[ibstolidude]

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An U.S. Army soldier walks past an artillery shell after blowing up a roadside bomb in Baghdad's Ad-Doura district, Thursdau Oct. 23, 2003. Iraqi police found the explosive as well as a car packed with explosives in the Iraqi capital and arrested a Syrian who confessed to having rigged them, Iraqi officials said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)


...so where are all those posters that said non-Iraqi were not a major cause of many of the incidents in Iraq?

[Seoulstriker]

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An U.S. Army soldier walks past an artillery shell after blowing up a roadside bomb in Baghdad's Ad-Doura district, Thursdau Oct. 23, 2003. Iraqi police found the explosive as well as a car packed with explosives in the Iraqi capital and arrested a Syrian who confessed to having rigged them, Iraqi officials said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)


...so where are all those posters that said non-Iraqi were not a major cause of many of the incidents in Iraq?

w dupie!

rofl

[HumanShield]

Silvey is a part of the U.S. Navy pistol team

Read.

again, why is he using an optical sight?

Easy to aim

[Seoulstriker]

Silvey is a part of the U.S. Navy pistol team

Read.

again, why is he using an optical sight?

Easy to aim

thanks. woot

[Herrmannek]

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[He219]

Nice one, herrmannek! :D

Some more.....

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A Palestinian gunman shoots in the air during the funeral of Raed Khaled Saad, 18, in the northern West Bank city of Nablus Thursday Oct. 23, 2003. Saad died Thursday of his wounds when the car he was in exploded late Wednesday in the adjacent refugee camp of Balata. The explosion also seriously injured two other Palestinians according to Palestinian security officials and they added that the three were carrying explosives which had detonated accidentally. (AP Photo/Nasser Istayeh)


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Palestinians gather around the covered body of Bader Mosa who was killed in an explosion in the West Bank town of Ramallah Thursday Oct. 23 , 2003. The man was apparently trying to prepare a bomb, Palestinian security sources said. ( AP Photo/ Nasser Nasser)

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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, walks with Orthodox Church in Poland Metropolis Saba before their meeting at his compound in the West Bank town of Ramallah Thursday Oct. 23, 2003. (AP Photo/ Nasser Nasser)

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Members of an Emergency Response Unit watch an El Al jet sitting on the tarmac at John C. Munro International Airport in Hamilton, Thursday, Oct.23, 2003. The jet was diverted to Hamilton amid undisclosed threats to the plane and its intended destination - Toronto's Pearson International Airport, an airport official said. (AP PHOTO/Hamilton Spectator/John Rennison)

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Israeli President Moshe Katzav (C) meets with the backers of the 'Geneva Initiative,' former Knesset speaker Avraham Burg (L), former Brigader General Giora Inbar (2ndL) and reserve General Gideon Scheffer (R) in the President's residence in Jerusalem. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites) stepped up his campaign against an unofficial Middle East peace plan as the backers held talks on the project with President Moshe Katzav.(AFP/Gali Tibbon)

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Members of a police anti-terrorism patrol in downtown Bogota, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2002. Security has been tightened throughout the country ahead of election this weekend. Colombians vote next Saturday a referendum on President Alvaro Uribe's proposals to reduce government spending and political corruption and on Sunday to elect 30 state governors, 914 mayors, 398 members of state legislatures and 9,000 city council members. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

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Two children walk pigs to sell in the market as soldiers patrol in Cabrera, Monday, Oct. 20, 2003. Colombians on Sunday will elect mayors and other municipal leaders, but in this embattled town of 5,000 located, 50 miles southwest of Bogota, literally within the gunsights of rebels, there are no campaign speeches, no campaign posters, and no candidates. Cabrera's last mayor, Gilberto Amaya, was killed in February. Amid threats by rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, to kill othertown officials, no one has dared to declare themselves a candidate to replace him, or fill city council seats. The threat was part of the FARC's strategy of preventing the government from gaining control over rural areas by making them ungovernable at the local level. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)


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A Hungarian woman with her pet dog passes by a giant photo display about the 1956 uprising in downtown Budapest, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2003. During the 1956 revolution against Hungary's communist regime and the domination of the Soviet Union, thousands of people were killed or imprisoned. Thursday marks the 47th anniversary of the Hungarian uprising against the communist rule and also the 14th National Day of the founding of the Republic of Hungary. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)

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A ship on the River Danube passes by the Hungarian Parliament building as the last piece of the building's photo decoration is placed on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2003 in Budapest, Hungary. Authorities placed giant photos on the side of the Hungarian Parliament building to show moments of the 1956 uprising. Thursday marks the 47th anniversary of Hungary's anti communist uprising and also a national day since the fall of communism. (AP Photo / Bela Szandelszky)

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Afghanistan (I think these are Romanian (http://www.isafkabul.org/structure/fotos_cont/ro_group_lg.jpg) )

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Iraq

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An Iraqi military policeman walks past a car in which U.S. soldiers found explosives which had been rigged by a Syrian man, in Baghdad Thursday Oct. 23, 2003. An improvised roadside bomb was also found outside a nearby school a few hours later. Both were detonated by U.S. explosives experts. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)

[Ratamacue]

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That's an M14 DMR, not an M21. It has a green synthetic stock with a pistol grip and a cheek rest. The Marines have been issuing it to Designated Marksmen within SOF units like FAST, Scout/Snipers, etc.

[JTFazz]

and why is his left eye taped over?

So he doesn't have to clinch his left eye closed... since your eyes have different strengths and the aiming sight being that close can create a double image because of that varying strength...

[He219]

Thanks, Ratamacue.

Some more pic's.


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The CAG
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031020-N-1974E-003 Western Pacific Ocean (Oct. 20, 2003) -- F/A-18 Hornets assigned to the "Mighty Shrikes" of Strike Fighter Squadron Ninety Four (VFA-94), fly over the Western Pacific Ocean in a diamond formation during flight operations. The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group and Carrier Air Wing Eleven (CVW-11) are deployed to the Western Pacific. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 3rd Class Kristi J. Earl. (RELEASED)
My buddy's sqdrn. :D

[Seoulstriker]

thanks!

the F/A-18 Hornet has been my ultimate favorite aircraft ever since playing F/A-18 Hornet 1.0 on a 68030 macintosh when i was 8 years old (1993).

ahhh, fantastic memories. :)

[IDFM203]

a last pic before the end of the day :D ..........

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An Israeli soldier gives water to a Palestinian child at the roadblock in El Khader near the West Bank town of Bethlehem October 23, 2003. Israel security forces are on high alert amid warnings that Palestinian suicide bombers will attempt attacks after 10 Palestinians were killed in Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip (news - web sites) on Oct. 20. Photo by Gil Cohen Magen/*******
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[Vance]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/10/23/mideast.violence/index.html

[HumanShield]

Silvey is a part of the U.S. Navy pistol team

Read.

again, why is he using an optical sight?

Easy to aim

thanks. woot

With a red dot like that. Once you have it sighted right, no matter how you look through it, the dot will always be where the bullet is going. Makes for quick targeting to ie: airsoft games :oops:

[GAFE]

That last picture of the israeli soldier giving water to the paleistinian child moved me, touchy picture.