Reply With QuoteCan someone please explain why Marines keep wearing overalls insted of their awesome desert camo?Originally Posted by He219
I guess that is in case the dog is captured and has to face a firing squad? If it is, he's missing a cigarette.
Can someone please explain why Marines keep wearing overalls insted of their awesome desert camo?
Because they are fire resistant.
Fire Resistant and IIRC, the caption said they were Force Recon.
think there battalion but that doesnt matter......ya dont burn and there really comfy to.
flight suits
Specifically because of Nomex protection from IED related flash-burn injury ..
Lebanese army soldiers point their guns to the area were confrontations erupted between Government and opposition supporters in the streets around Beirut Arab University, Lebanon Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007. Government and opposition supporters clashed at a Beirut university campus Thursday, battering each other with sticks, stones and even pieces of furniture in new violence spilling over from Lebanon's political crisis.
An injured Lebanese army soldier looks on during confrontations between Government and opposition supporters in Beirut, Lebanon Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007. Government and opposition supporters clashed at a Beirut university campus Thursday, battering each other with sticks, stones and even pieces of furniture in new violence spilling over from Lebanon's political crisis
A Jund al-Sham militant holds a gun as Lebanese and Palestinian people watch during an exchange of fire with the Lebanese army outside the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp near the southern port of Sidon, Lebanon Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007. Islamic militants on Thursday fired mortars and rocket-propelled grenades at Lebanese troops as they deployed outside a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, wounding a soldier and two civilians and forcing hundreds of residents to flee, security officials said.
French President Jacques Chirac, right, talks to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Thursday Jan. 25, 2007 in Paris, after international donors pledged some US$7.6 billion (Euros 5.84 billion) in aid, loans and other help on Thursday for war-scarred Lebanon and the economic reform plans of its embattled U.S.-backed prime minister
Soldiers take up position during a patrol in a slum of Buenaventura, Colombia, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007. Buenaventura, the country's largest port, is a major exit point for drug-traffickers, plagued by a devastating turf-war between leftist rebels, far-right paramilitaries, drug-traffickers and the security forces
The sun sets at a US military base Camp Liberty in Baghdad, Iraq Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007. Troops here are spreading out from the large bases into smaller outposts in Baghdad as the effort shifts to pacifying the Iraqi capital
Lebanese army soldiers in an army vehicle arrive in the area were confrontation erupted between Government and opposition supporters in streets around the Beirut Arab University, Lebanon, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007. Government and opposition supporters clashed at a Beirut university campus Thursday, battering each other with sticks, stones and even pieces of furniture in new violence spilling over from Lebanon's political crisis.
Great pictures today !!!!!! Thanks guy's !!!!!!!!!
i'm glad you take pleasure in other peoples misfortune.
you are quick today arent you? Nice to see you read the previous psts.
somebody please sell Lebanon some new helmets.
Sgt. Sean Milligan, a native of Redding, Calif., with 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Stryker Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, fires on insurgent forces as the dust settles in a building on Baghdad’s Haifa Street during combat operations Jan. 24. Cpl. Shea Butler
Spc. Christopher Rhoades, a native of Copperas Cove, Texas, with 1st battalion 23 Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Stryker Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, has an anti-Iraq force in his sight and prepares for a shot on Hiafa street Jan. 24. Cpl. Shea Butler
Spc. Robert Durham, a native of Phoenix, with 1st battalion 23 Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Stryker Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, scan for anti-Iraqi forces out of a building on Hiafa street Jan. 24. Cpl. Shea Butler
Spc. Robert Durham, a native of Phoenix, and Sgt. Kevin McCallum, a native of Aikens, S.C., both with 1st battalion 23 Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Stryker Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, scan for anti-Iraqi forces out of a building on Hiafa street Jan. 24.Video (originally posted yesterday right here)
B-roll of Operation Tomahawk Strike 11, one in a series of raids targeting illegal militia activity. Scenes include U.S. and Iraqi Soldiers engaging insurgents from a high-rise in the Haifa Street area of Baghdad
3rd Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division;6th Iraqi Army Division
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Condi: Fine, you can have me for 5 minutes, no more!
Chirac: Oh, but I only need two, and I'm done!
With the exception of the helmets they look fairly squared away. All in the same uniform/webbing, M-16's, M-113's. It's just too bad they can't do a damn thing about Hezzbulla.somebody please sell Lebanon some new helmets.
Fort Pickett, Va. (Jan. 23, 2007) - Sailors assigned to Riverine Squadron One (RIVRON-1) participate in a combat evolution, during a unit level training exercise. RIVRON-1 is part of the newly formed Navy Expeditionary Combat Command (NECC). NECC integrates all warfighting requirements for expeditionary combat and combat support elements. This transformation allows for standardized training, manning and equipping of Sailors who will participate in the global war on terrorism as part of the joint force. It also results in more capable, responsive and effective expeditionary Sailors. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Mandy McLaurin
Fort Pickett, Va. (Jan. 23, 2007) - A Sailor assigned to Riverine Squadron One (RIVRON-1), mans a .50-caliber machine gun aboard a hummer during a unit-level training exercise. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication 3rd Class Kenneth R. Hendrix
Colombian Marines take up position on the roof of a building during a patrol in a slum of Buenaventura, Colombia
In this photo released by Colombian official press agency, Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe, left, is seen shaking hands with Mexico's Attorney General Eduardo Medina, during a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Bogota, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007. (AP Photo/Miguel Angel Solano, Colombian Official Press Agency)
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