Today's Pix - Monday, May 21 st, 2007

[szr]

What's with the patches and MP patch?
Pardon my ignorance, but surely it's just a gift right?

Yeah, they collect all sorts of insignia as they go along.

You used to see models/actresses/pretty girls who did the USO circuit out to the sandbox, covered in just about every rank insignia from PFC to Col. (but mostly LCpl. ) and tons of parachutist, aviator/aircrew, and FMF badges that they picked-up along the way.

[Lancero]

RIP - Descansa em paz

USA IRAQ FUNERAL-epa01015412 An Army Honor Guard fires a 21 gun salute for Army Corporal Michael Avery Pursel during his funeral at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia 21 May 2007. Pursel was killed in combat operations when a makeshift bomb exploded near his vehicle while on patrol in Baqubah, Iraq. EPA/SHAWN THEW

MIDEAST ISRAEL PALESTINIANS-epa01015394 Israeli Prime Miister Ehud Olmert (L) looks at a Kassam rocket in Kibbutz Nir Am, just next to Sderot in southern Israel, as he visits the small community, 21 May 2007. Yesterday a Kassam rocket fired by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip hit a restaurant here, causing a major fire but no one was injured. Today, over a dozen Kassams struck souther Israel around Sderot with one rocket hitting a car and killed a 35-year-old Israeli woman. EPA/MOSHE MILNER/HO

[somedude]

R.I.P to the Lebanese soldiers and civilians killed today. Good to see the local populace cheering for their troops.

[He219]

German dogs earning their wings:
„Fliegende“ Hunde

Seedorf, 21.05.2007.
Der Einsatz von Hunden in der Bundeswehr gewinnt immer mehr an Bedeutung. Trotz zunehmender Technik kann auf die Spürnasen nicht verzichtet werden. Gerade im Einsatz zeigt sich der große Nutzen der vierbeinigen Kameraden. Die Hundezüge der Fallschirmjäger sind fertig ausgebildet und stehen für vielfältige Aufträge bereit. Die Aufrechterhaltung der Einsatzbereitschaft erfordert jedoch das ständige Üben.

Der Zugführer, Hauptfeldwebel Jörg R., beim täglichen Sport mit seinen Hunden (Quelle: Bundeswehr / Volker Jung)

Diese Fallschirmjäger sind echte Hundemänner (Quelle Bundeswehr / Volker Jung)

Die Hunde haben sich an die Ausbildung in luftiger Höhe gewöhnt (Quelle Bundeswehr / Volker Jung)

Rex vertraut seinem Herrchen blind (Quelle Bundeswehr / Volker Jung)

The last dry-run

Abseilen aus rund 20 Metern Höhe (Quelle Bundeswehr / Volker Jung)

Builing trust and avoiding conflict:
Neuenkirchen/Vörden , 21.05.2007.
Realitätsnah übten, vom 7. bis zum 11. Mai 2007, Teile des Stabes Luftwaffeninstandhaltungsregiment 2 (LwInsthRgt 2), des III./Objektschutzregimentes Luftwaffe, der Fliegerhorststaffel (FlgHStff) Diepholz und der Luftwaffeninstandhaltungsgruppe 25 (LwInsthGrp 25) eine Woche lang den Auslandseinsatz auf dem Truppenübungsplatz in Neuenkirchen-Vörden.

Patrouille zu Fuß (Quelle Diepholzer Kreisblatt)

Practicing communication skills with (mock) village mayor. Hauptfeldwebel Andreas Meiler(r.) in Verhandlungen mit dem "Dorf-Bürgermeister" (Quelle: Diepholzer Kreisblatt)

10th International shooting competition Graf-Engelbert II etc:
Internationaler Jubiläumsschießwettkampf "10. Graf-Engelbert II.-Pokal 2007"

Wettkampfteilnehmer bei Schießübung G3 auf 200 Meter (Quelle: Luftwaffe)

Noble Mariner 2007:

Gdynia 2007-05-20 12:45 Finnish and Swedish troops land in Ustka beach

[Paragon]

Or Hezbollah malitiaman; It's southern Lebanon afterall.

It's rather unlikely that they'd be Hezbollah militiamen. Being South Lebanon, my bet's on Maronite or Armenian Apostolic militia. Or a composite Christian force.

Or, equally likely, unindentifiable civilians who happen to live next door to where that bunch of soldiers are standing.


Cheers.

[MoFo]

Hah! thats farking ingenious!

[modd3r]

But it works very well dude

Nice Pix 2 day

[Roum]

Cool pix guys....

[somedude]

What hovercraft class is that?

[He219]

It's rather unlikely that they'd be Hezbollah militiamen. Being South Lebanon, my bet's on Maronite or Armenian Apostolic militia. Or a composite Christian force.

Cheers.

Yet one can't rule it out either ..

Sgt. 1st Class Malwonte Stewart, from 3rd Battalion, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, and an Air Force Joint Terminal Attack Controller talk to the C-130 Hercules flying over head, preparing to do a containerized delivery system drop of humanitarian assistance supplies for villagers of the Paruns District as part of Operation Ice Axe in Nuristan Province, Afghanistan.

Sgt. 1st Class Malwonte Stewart, from 3rd Battalion, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, and an Air Force Joint Terminal Attack Controller discuss the conditions of the drop zone and how they want to handle the C-130 Hercules airplane preparing to do a containerized delivery system drop of humanitarian assistance supplies for villagers in Paruns District as part of Operation Ice Axe in Nuristan Province, Afghanistan.

Soldiers from Task Force Chosen try to recover humanitarian assistance supplies. The supplies are for the villagers of Paruns District as part of Operation Ice Axe in Nuristan Province, Afghanistan.

USNS GRASP (T-ARS 51), at sea — Naval Special Warfare watercraft are released from two C-130s into the Atlantic Ocean during a Maritime Craft Air Delivery System (MCADS) drop May 14. Elements of Special Operations Command Europe, USNS Grasp (T-ARS 51), USS Kauffman (FFG 59) and the Sixth Fleet flagship USS Mount Whitney (LCC/JCC 20) conducted the MCADS operation during exercise Flexible Leader ’07. Flexible Leader ’07 is a joint exercise designed to increase speed and cohesiveness when standing up a Joint Forces Maritime Component Command (JFMCC). USNS Grasp served as a drop zone extraction surface support platform in the retrieval portion of the live exercise. (Department of Defense photo by Navy Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Eddie D. Harrison)

A U.S. Navy MK V sits in recieving position for a group of medical personnel from the U.S. and Armed Forces of the Philippines following a medical civic action project. Members from the AFP provide medical assistance to the residence of Tabiawan, a barangay on Basilan Island, with the assistance of Personnel from the U.S. armed forces. AFP and U.S. personnel conduct joint missions to ensure they can work together in crisis and non-crisis circumstances while maintaining the U.S. -Philippines security partnership.

Second Lieutenant Folarin Kuku is working closely with the Afghan National Army
[Picture: Corporal Adrian Harlen RLC]

Baptism of fire; Second Lieutenant Folarin Kuku is serving with the Grenadier Guards in Afghanistan. The first black officer to serve in the Grenadier Guards has been speaking about his experiences battling the Taliban in southern Afghanistan. [Picture: Corporal Adrian Harlen RLC]

1st Lt. Thomas Loux, an Apache pilot, performs a pre-flight inspection on an aircraft, May 16, at Camp Taji, Iraq. Loux is assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division.

Video

B-roll of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles used by the U.S. Marine Corps for ordinance disposal. Scenes include the vehicles being driven down dirt roads, Marines working on the vehicles and shots of the interior of the vehicles. Produced by Sgt. Tracee L. Jackson.

[Chounch McGavin]

Fcuking awesome picture. Thanks again

[ArmedPacifist]

Or Hezbollah malitiaman; It's southern Lebanon afterall.

Of the two tripoli's, the one in Lebanon is located in the NORTH.

[He219]

Ahh, thanks mate.
I was confusing it with Tyre
(thinking PA refugee camps were located in the south near Israel).
Thus the Christian militia.
Roger that.

Pathfinders make a drop on to Campbell Army Airfield, at Fort Campbell, Ky., from a C-130 Hercules at an air show Saturday, May 19, 2007

[Ratamacue]

Marines of 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, guide mules heavily packed with gear as part of a field exercise in September during their summer training package. Marines train to pack, care for and use these animals in a tactical environment at Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Center Bridgeport, Calif.

[EvanL]

Ahh, thanks mate.
I was confusing it with Tyre
(thinking PA refugee camps were located in the south near Israel).
Thus the Christian militia.
Roger that.

Take that HE! Never question me again!
Well go ahead. It's good to question me. Especially when it comes to questioning my motives.