Today's pics - March 5

[Trigger]

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Take aimGet outPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Senior Airman Rick Montonario secures the ramp here as a C-130 Hercules from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, is being unloaded March 3. Airman Montonario is assigned to the 437th Security Forces Squadron at Charleston AFB, S.C. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Andy Dunaway)
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SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE, Germany -- A member of the 52nd Security Forces Squadron emergency service team takes aim at a suspect who attempted to take his commander hostage during a Full Spectrum Threat Response Exercise here Feb. 26. The exercise was designed to simulate how the 52nd Fighter Wing would actually handle a real-world hostage situation, and helped ensure both the precautions and safety measures would be followed. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Joshua E Coleman)
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Senior Airman Rick Montonario secures the ramp here as a C-130 Hercules from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, is being unloaded March 3. Airman Montonario is assigned to the 437th Security Forces Squadron at Charleston AFB, S.C. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Andy Dunaway)
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OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO -- Maj. Phillip Campbell, an F-15 Eagle instructor pilot, fires a radar-guided, air-to-air AIM-7 Sparrow at an aerial target drone during a weapons evaluation mission March 1. The major is assigned to the 95th Fighter Squadron at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Michael Ammons)
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KIRKUK AIR BASE, Iraq -- The first F-16 Fighting Falcon from Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Mich., arrives here March 1. F-16s are replacing A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft of the 354th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. The base is now home to the only operational squadron of F-16s in Iraq. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Jeffrey Williams)
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The 42nd Regimantal Pipes and Drums plays for the crowd.
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Members of the American Civil War Society, Inc., performed an American Civil War reenactment at the Tattoo.
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[EvanL]

I didnt knoiw the U.S. military had tattoos. Are they official? Are they popular?

[Dave the Dawg]

This International Tattoo may be semi-official, but I know the US Army holds a Twilight Tattoo on the Ellipse in front of the White House once a week during the spring and summer months.

Link to the photo gallery of the April 16, 2003 Tattoo: http://www.mdw.army.mil/images/photo_gallery/2003tlt/041603/index.html

[0#256]

Hamina tattoo is one of the biggest military tattoos held in Europe, every second year.
http://www.haminatattoo.com/

Hamina is also the place where I was at Reserve Officer Candidate School. p-)

[Operation Ivy]

woot

You didnt quote what the picture was about! :cantbeli: :hug: so i must u give you a 7/10 :D