A Very Powerful Photo (And Wallpaper)

[MolliG]

http://www.usmc.mil/marinelink/image1.nsf/ae82f18a8e1b160b852568ba007e7e5e/0077a8ed38ed44e485256e4800086d47/$FILE/M16FlagSticker040226_low.jpg (http://www.usmc.mil/marinelink/image1.nsf/ae82f18a8e1b160b852568ba007e7e5e/0077a8ed38ed44e485256e4800086d47/$FILE/M16FlagSticker040226_.jpg)
Click for Hi-Res.


Lance Cpl. Jonathan C. Porter, a warehouseman with Headquarters and Service Company, Combat Service Support Battalion 7, 1st Force Service Support Group, said he's surprised that the American flag sticker on his M-16A2 rifle has stayed on as long as it has, Feb. 26, 2004, while he trained to react to convoy ambushes in Kuwait. Porter, 21-year-old native of Lufkin, Texas, and his rifle are on their way to their second tour in Iraq. Approximately 25,000 Marines and sailors will be deployed to Iraq and Kuwait under the command of I MEF in the coming weeks. Many Marines were only home for a few months before deploying back to the Middle East. The Marines are scheduled to relieve Army units located west of Baghdad and to conduct security and stability operations in an effort to assist the new Iraqi government.

Photo by: Staff Sgt. Bill Lisbon

http://www.usmc.mil/marinelink/image1.nsf/Lookup/200422720322

The story associated with this photo can be found here (http://www.usmc.mil/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/lookupstoryref/200422719345).

And a wallpaper I just made for you lot using the photo above...

http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/2227/walMarineM16FlagMK.jpg

Hope you like it and use it.

:)

www.usmc.mil

[FinnishMF]

No more this US **** :|

Nice picture btw woot

[HELEX]

This is exactly the Propaganda Stuff that makes Europeans sick... :cantbeli:

[big_les]

I'm no fan of over-the-top flag-waving, but you chaps need to ease off the US. Americans have an earned right to be proud and patriotic, whatever you think of their culture and foreign policy. They're the world's foremost military and economic power; why not celebrate? Furthermore, its ingrained in their culture just as whinging about the weather and drinking tea is in my own ;)

[MolliG]

This is exactly the Propaganda Stuff that makes Europeans sick... :cantbeli:

I'm not made 'sick' by the above :|.

What you have to remember is that the Americans are a very proud people, compared to most of us on the other side of the pond. I posted the above as it's a very powerful picture, if it was a G36 and a German flag, or an L85 and a Union Jack, it would still certainly be powerful, not because of all the other crap.

Now please don't ruin this thread, lets keep to the picture and not all the ****ty politics et cetera that are 'behind' it.

[Seoulstriker]

wow. great picture. i really appreciate it, mollig. :)

[HELEX]

I'm not made 'sick' by the above .

What you have to remember is that the Americans are a very proud people, compared to most of us on the other side of the pond.

But here in Germany Patriotism and beeing Proud of your country is a very difficult theme...

[flickme]

What the hell is the matter with showing your flag off?

[MolliG]

I'm not made 'sick' by the above .

What you have to remember is that the Americans are a very proud people, compared to most of us on the other side of the pond.

But here in Germany Patriotism and beeing Proud of your country is a very difficult theme...

I know (I was born and brought up there.), it's also the same, but to less extent, here in the UK. :)

How about I attempt to make a wallpaper just for you, so that you can show off you proudness for the Bundeswehr while you 'surf' tha' web? Actually there some pretty good ones here (http://www.treff.bundeswehr.de/data/08_download/03_desktopbilder/index.html).

Note: It's nice to see the thread hasn't spiralled out of control like some others have. Thank you. :hug:

[Operation Ivy]

woot woot woot

[Anti-Tank]

I can´t understand this stupid anti-usa thing going on here in Finland and in the rest of the europe(?). Seems to me that some of these anti-americans are anti-americans just becouse it´s "cool" or something. It´s so easy to criticise and moralise from here and to do nothing.

Only thing i miss in that picture is that there is no mag.

[ibstolidude]

This is exactly the Propaganda Stuff that makes Europeans sick... :cantbeli:
It was posted by a European!

[Threelions]

This is exactly the Propaganda Stuff that makes Europeans sick... :cantbeli:

I'm not made 'sick' by the above :|.

What you have to remember is that the Americans are a very proud people, compared to most of us on the other side of the pond. I posted the above as it's a very powerful picture, if it was a G36 and a German flag, or an L85 and a Union Jack, it would still certainly be powerful, not because of all the other crap.

Now please don't ruin this thread, lets keep to the picture and not all the ****ty politics et cetera that are 'behind' it.

He said "europeans", not us wonderful Island folk!! :lol:

cheers

["sniper" tom]

i think he just means :
another US thing,seems to be the only thing there is !
i like the picture ,but its like: USA al the way and we don't count !?
i think that HELEX means it like that
( i know,my english sucks,so sorry )

[Operation Ivy]

This is exactly the Propaganda Stuff that makes Europeans sick... :cantbeli:
It was posted by a European!

Well in case you havent noticed Helex is what we like to call a jackass ;)

["sniper" tom]

:D

[HELEX]

@Operation Ivy


Well in case you havent noticed Helex is what we like to call a jackass

Yea, I like these Guys...

http://www.allposters.com/IMAGES/151/817.jpg

@MolliG

Sorry, but... :|

[MSG Dman]

HELEX I have been sitting back reading some of your posts and have come to realize you are an absolute Jackass, why don't you crawl under your rock and die you prick.

[MolliG]

He said "europeans", not us wonderful Island folk!! :lol:

cheers

Well I consider my self European :), kind of prefer living and the life 'over there' than here sometimes ;).

:lol:

[shrek]

Sorry sniper tom. That's not what HELEX means, he's just a prick:


I WARNED YOU HELEX



I will post this wherever HELEX and those like him post until I see some response!

Ahh HELEX my boy (or semblance there of). We had a boy on our team like you one time. Always had something to say, and what he said was always cutting or derogatory. He lasted a month in country, his picture has been posted by me several times, we sent him home, that’s right, we sent him home. It’s possible friends! However, you know, there was one big difference between you and him. He had the balls to look you in the eye when he said the things that he said. He would go toe to toe with you, and I respected that.
You, on the other hand, I do not respect! I can see a picture of you so very clearly. Young, not very handsome (or pretty, whichever you prefer), never really had women friends, frustrated at the world and desperately needing something or someone to take it out on. You may have tried to be in the military or even told the people on this site that you have been, I doubt it, the way you go on I would have to say that the military hurt you in some way, your hatred for it seeps out of your words.
You’re kind are not happy unless they have made someone else unhappy, at least as unhappy they are. Therefore, here’s what I propose HELEX and all like you: Leave. Just don’t come back!

Ok, real world, we all know that people like HELEX never leave, that’s the worst part about them.



THIS IS FOR EVERYBODY ELSE. PROVE TO ME THAT YOU ALL HAVE THE BALLS AND INTELLIGENCE TO BEAT THIS MONKEY AND OTHERS JUST LIKE HIM, PLEASE, SHOW ME THAT YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES!!!


From this point forward, whenever you see a post by these pieces of trash, IGNORE THEM! That doesn’t mean answer them once, then quit, It means don’t answer them at all. Let’s have conversations around them. If they post and it pisses you off then they have won my friends. Take a breath, skip their posts and answer the last post that was on the real subject. Currently we are the food that feeds these ass monkeys, stop feeding them.

If this erks you, sorry, perhaps I’m talking to you!

Shrek

[HELEX]

@Shrek

Good try, but it will not work. You should know more about human behavior in you job.

[Tengu]

nice pic p-)

[Hugh Jorgan]

This is exactly the Propaganda Stuff that makes Europeans sick... :cantbeli:

Boo Hoo. Cry me a friggin river.

[shrek]

I do, and it will

[HELEX]

No, the "population" of this Board is not stable. But it has to, to make your plan working.

[el_kab0ng]

HELEX I have been sitting back reading some of your posts and have come to realize you are an absolute Jackass, why don't you crawl under your rock and die you prick.


He's too busy enjoying American freedoms on an American server based in the United States of America. Since we are granted the right to free speech, we'll just have to put up with the idiots too.

I'm proud to be an American. I don't have to explain myself to ANYONE because of it.

[shrek]

There are those on this site that need to merely use the "spell check" on there computer to help us all understand their endless babble! Those people also need to note that in my comments I mention that there are people that will stop this endless hatred for America, those are the ones I have written it to!!!



Hey look, here's that annoying message again!!


I will post this wherever HELEX and those like him post until I see some response!

Ahh HELEX my boy (or semblance there of). We had a boy on our team like you one time. Always had something to say, and what he said was always cutting or derogatory. He lasted a month in country, his picture has been posted by me several times, we sent him home, that’s right, we sent him home. It’s possible friends! However, you know, there was one big difference between you and him. He had the balls to look you in the eye when he said the things that he said. He would go toe to toe with you, and I respected that.
You, on the other hand, I do not respect! I can see a picture of you so very clearly. Young, not very handsome (or pretty, whichever you prefer), never really had women friends, frustrated at the world and desperately needing something or someone to take it out on. You may have tried to be in the military or even told the people on this site that you have been, I doubt it, the way you go on I would have to say that the military hurt you in some way, your hatred for it seeps out of your words.
You’re kind are not happy unless they have made someone else unhappy, at least as unhappy they are. Therefore, here’s what I propose HELEX and all like you: Leave. Just don’t come back!

Ok, real world, we all know that people like HELEX never leave, that’s the worst part about them.



THIS IS FOR EVERYBODY ELSE. PROVE TO ME THAT YOU ALL HAVE THE BALLS AND INTELLIGENCE TO BEAT THIS MONKEY AND OTHERS JUST LIKE HIM, PLEASE, SHOW ME THAT YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES!!!


From this point forward, whenever you see a post by these pieces of trash, IGNORE THEM! That doesn’t mean answer them once, then quit, It means don’t answer them at all. Let’s have conversations around them. If they post and it pisses you off then they have won my friends. Take a breath, skip their posts and answer the last post that was on the real subject. Currently we are the food that feeds these ass monkeys, stop feeding them.

If this erks you, sorry, perhaps I’m talking to you!

Shrek

[MolliG]

Since we are granted the right to free speech, we'll just have to put up with the idiots too.
This is a private forum, so no freedom of speech here. ;)

Shrek, don't spam, you'll just be 'stooping to his level'. :roll:

:|

[HELEX]

He is just a poor guy who needs the adoration of the kiddys here... Why does he even care about this BS, ever asked yourself that?

[HumanShield]

that pic is sexy :hug:

[el_kab0ng]

Since we are granted the right to free speech, we'll just have to put up with the idiots too.
This is a private forum, so no freedom of speech here. ;)

Shrek, don't spam, you'll just be 'stooping to his level'. :roll:

:|

"private" usually means paid. Last time I checked this was a free registration site. Reading comments is something you don't have to reg for anyway.

I've never actually seen anyone censored for their views, but if I'm wrong, correct me. I've also not seen anyone banned for their views (beyond outright slander, which is against Free Speech anyway).

[Macs.]

Don't feed the troll.

[MSpencer1313]

If it had been 19 Middle Easterners that had blown up the Reightstadt (sp?) or the Eiffel Tower, you'd be the same!
Americanism has never been a matter of race, it has always been of heart.

If you don't like the US, go off and plan with all those little liberation groups claiming Europe is actually closer to America than it may seem.

We'll just remember not to liberate:
France
UK
Germany
Iraq
anymore.

And now, a little poem that is directed to France, but may apply to all. My clanmate dug this one up:


Eleven thousand soldiers lay beneath the dirt and stone,
all buried on a distant land so far away from home.
For just a strip of dismal beach they paid a hero's price,
to save a foreign nation they all made the sacrifice.

And now the shores of Normandy are lined with blocks of white,
Americans who didn't turn from someone else's plight.
Eleven thousand reasons for the French to take our side,
but in the moment of our need, they chose to run and hide.

Chirac said every war means loss, perhaps for France that's true, for
they've lost every battle since the days of Waterloo.
Without a soldier worth a damn to be found in the region,
the French became the only land to need a Foreign Legion.

You French all say we're arrogant. Well hell, we've earned the right--
We saved your sorry nation when you lacked the guts to fight.
But now you've made a big mistake, and one that you'll regret;
you took sides with our enemies, and that we won't forget.

It wasn't just our citizens you spit on when you turned,
but every one of ours who fell the day the towers burned.
You spit upon our soldiers, on our pilots and Marines,
and now you'll get a little sense of just what payback means.

So keep your Paris fashions and your wine and your champagne,
and find someother market that will buy your aeroplanes.
And try to find somebody else to wear your French cologne,
for you're about to find out what it means to stand alone.

You see, you need us far more than we ever needed you.
America has better friends who know how to be true.
I'd rather stand with warriors who have the will and might,
than huddle in the dark with those whose only flag is white.

I'll take the Brits, the Aussies, the Israelis and the rest,
for when it comes to valor we have seen that they're the best.
We'll count on one another as we face a moment dire,
while you sit on the sideline with a sign "friendship for hire."

We'll win this war without you and we'll total up the cost,
and take it from your foreign aid, and then you'll feel the loss.
And when your nation starts to fall, well Frenchie, you can spare us,
just call the Germans for a hand, they know the way to Paris.

[Haiw]

He is just a poor guy who needs the adoration of the kiddys here... Why does he even care about this BS, ever asked yourself that?
Because this can be a good site when it isn't wasted by all the utter bullcrap.

[shrek]

Posts about PHOTOS, reference the name of the site, are pushed off the front page and into the shadows by people who keep these flaming posts going for days on end! Find somewhere else to blah blah blah. We're tired of hearing it. Can we be any plainer about it?

[MSpencer1313]

It won't end, and it never does. You see these everywhere.

[Navy]

I think its great to show your patriotism. Personally, though, i would never have a flag on a gun

I mean, it sends a strange message (and yes im european).

[Resevoir Hogs]

The only thing that makes me sick about this is that Europeans like you Helex are so self righteous to think that that image was even meant for you or that we care what you think of one of our soldier's patriotism.

American's ain't the only people in the world who put flags on things out of pride so get off your high horse.

[Geezah]

This is exactly the Propaganda Stuff that makes Europeans sick... :cantbeli:

That's exactly why I will never admit to being European, I'm British and proud of it and soon to be an American!

[Dalleer]

Hmm, someone should make a picture of an RK62 (or a 95) with our Flag on it... (bad joke)

[mustamato]

Incredibly powerful photo

woot woot woot woot woot woot

http://www.johanlindqvist.com/galleri/ovrigt/D0605.jpg

[BlackRain]

Aw give Helex a break, he's trying really hard.

It is a interesting Freudian slip though that he referred to himself as a "European" versus a "German".

That would be akin to me saying I was a North American as opposed to a Canadian, Mexican, or Yank.

Anyway, didn't the German's start the whole "rifle-flag" trend with the Mauser 98K?

[Hydro]

If it had been 19 Middle Easterners that had blown up the Reightstadt (sp?) or the Eiffel Tower, you'd be the same!
Americanism has never been a matter of race, it has always been of heart.

If you don't like the US, go off and plan with all those little liberation groups claiming Europe is actually closer to America than it may seem.

We'll just remember not to liberate:
France
UK
Germany
Iraq
anymore.

And now, a little poem that is directed to France, but may apply to all. My clanmate dug this one up:


Eleven thousand soldiers lay beneath the dirt and stone,
all buried on a distant land so far away from home.
For just a strip of dismal beach they paid a hero's price,
to save a foreign nation they all made the sacrifice.

And now the shores of Normandy are lined with blocks of white,
Americans who didn't turn from someone else's plight.
Eleven thousand reasons for the French to take our side,
but in the moment of our need, they chose to run and hide.

Chirac said every war means loss, perhaps for France that's true, for
they've lost every battle since the days of Waterloo.
Without a soldier worth a damn to be found in the region,
the French became the only land to need a Foreign Legion.

You French all say we're arrogant. Well hell, we've earned the right--
We saved your sorry nation when you lacked the guts to fight.
But now you've made a big mistake, and one that you'll regret;
you took sides with our enemies, and that we won't forget.

It wasn't just our citizens you spit on when you turned,
but every one of ours who fell the day the towers burned.
You spit upon our soldiers, on our pilots and Marines,
and now you'll get a little sense of just what payback means.

So keep your Paris fashions and your wine and your champagne,
and find someother market that will buy your aeroplanes.
And try to find somebody else to wear your French cologne,
for you're about to find out what it means to stand alone.

You see, you need us far more than we ever needed you.
America has better friends who know how to be true.
I'd rather stand with warriors who have the will and might,
than huddle in the dark with those whose only flag is white.

I'll take the Brits, the Aussies, the Israelis and the rest,
for when it comes to valor we have seen that they're the best.
We'll count on one another as we face a moment dire,
while you sit on the sideline with a sign "friendship for hire."

We'll win this war without you and we'll total up the cost,
and take it from your foreign aid, and then you'll feel the loss.
And when your nation starts to fall, well Frenchie, you can spare us,
just call the Germans for a hand, they know the way to Paris.

When did the US liberate the UK?

[Haiw]

Don't even bother trying arguing baout that poem as it's full of ****. :roll:

[Parzival]

Stupid photo, Why would we like that?

[MSpencer1313]

Not really...


The US liberated the UK in the 40s. I wouldn't say precisely liberated, but we stopped Britain from being overrun by the Nazis. Believe me, it would have happened, and then you'd all be speaking Russian as the USSR poured over through Europe.

[mustamato]

Not really...


The US liberated the UK in the 40s. I wouldn't say precisely liberated, but we stopped Britain from being overrun by the Nazis. Believe me, it would have happened, and then you'd all be speaking Russian as the USSR poured over through Europe.

I don´t believe you.

[Hydro]

You can't liberate a country that wasn't occupied in the first place. What the US did was help us prevent an invasion by supplying weapons and equipment, and then help us crush the Germans in other theatres by the same method.

[MSpencer1313]

No Europeans would believe someone saying this. That challenges their superiority complex. It's like telling a giraffe that it was going to be eaten by a hyena before you, the lion, ripped it's head off.

[joe mama]

So a member of the United States armed forces displaying the flag of the nation he serves is propaganda? And is sick?
Oh gawde, that that that evil bastid, how dare he put an image of the flag he serves on his rifle - it's pure concentrated evil to do such a horrible thing! It's just so obviously further evidence of how the jackbooted stormtroopers of America's mercenary military are marching around the world scooping up the poor down trodden peace loving peoples of the world and forcing them to mine uranium with their bare hands to earn money for der fuhrer Bush.
To all my fellow Americans out there, and to our friends: we're just so horribly evil, aren't we? Well, I for one enjoy it. I love my harem of Afghani women that the Marines brought back for me. I also love my collection of Iraqi jawbones that the Army got for me (and all other American citizens). I look forward to my next trip to the White House where the president and I can share some fresh Palestinian baby blood while we bathe ourselves in the gold we've stolen from all the nations we've scorched with our military over the years.

[obd]

Helex said "Im really disgusted by this American patriotism"..."here in Germany patriotism is a very difficult thing"

Ah and HELEX has finally been exposed as the jealous little %^%$% that he is. You see, because he is so ashamed of his own nations history and past and because in Germany nationalism is viewed as a great threat because we all know what happened last time German naitonalism reared its ugly head he simply hates Americans because they actually feel proud of thier nations history and are honored to celebrate it while in Germany they focus on one of the greatest horrors of humanity in modern times: The Nazi holocaust and its rampage of destruciton and genocide across Europe, Russian, and Africa...........

[Threelions]

Not really...


The US liberated the UK in the 40s. I wouldn't say precisely liberated, but we stopped Britain from being overrun by the Nazis. Believe me, it would have happened, and then you'd all be speaking Russian as the USSR poured over through Europe.

I love this Militaryphotos.net place cause you get to hear some of the stupidest things around. That comment is the stupidest one i have heard in a while. I know this is off topic, but in order to help you pursuit of education the battle of britain was done by the time america decided to come help her friends. With the luftwaffe destroyed there was no hope in hell of them taking the island. We saved ourselves!

Cheers

[ShadowNeo]

Not really...


The US liberated the UK in the 40s. I wouldn't say precisely liberated, but we stopped Britain from being overrun by the Nazis. Believe me, it would have happened, and then you'd all be speaking Russian as the USSR poured over through Europe.

:cantbeli:

[Operation Ivy]

Stupid photo, Why would we like that?

sarcasm?

[Macs.]

Don't feed the troll.

[MEGR]

Thanks man.. As of now, it is my new wallpaper!

[He219]

Per request * Locked*

p-)