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Wow intense pics of the Marines in Afghanistan. Echoes of the bloody battles from the Pacific, Korea, and Viet Nam I see from those pics... the tradition lives on. Semper Fi. (S)
Wow intense pics of the Marines in Afghanistan. Echoes of the bloody battles from the Pacific, Korea, and Viet Nam I see from those pics... the tradition lives on. Semper Fi. (S)
What's with the Ukrainians wearing the ACU and Flecktarn.
That Marine is incredibly lucky, thank God that he didn't get hit.
Great Pix!
The opening image is one of the best I've seen posted on Today's pix.
Glad the Marine is uninjured.
Those Aussie pix are good too:
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Australian Bushmasters provide security at the site for the new Forward Operating Base at the entrance to the Baluchi Valley, Afghanistan.
(Date taken: 06 May 2008)A bit of flattery, but a General's Star on his ACU?Originally Posted by -Church-
What's with the Ukrainians wearing the ACU and Flecktarn.
Great pics!
Sorry for any repost.
Damages caused by the explosion of a bomb attached to a van in front of Getxo's Maritime Club in Vizcaya, Basque Country, northern Spain, 19 May 2008. There were no injured as police had evacuated the area before the explosion, but several buildings were severely damaged.
Israeli soldiers search a Palestinian man at a temporary checkpoint in the West Bank city of Hebron,19 May, 2008.
Hundreds of violent protestors gather during running battles with police as ongoing xenophobia attacks continue in the Ramaphosa squatter camp east of Johannesburg, South Africa, 19 May 2008.An estimated 20 people have died with hundreds injured and thousands homeless after a week of violence by South Africans against any foreign Africans living in the city.
Police officers rescue a seriously injured man who had been attacked, beaten and burned during ongoing xenophobia attacks in Ramaphosa squatter camp east of Johannesburg, South Africa, 19 May 2008. An estimated 20 people have died with hundreds injured and thousands homeless after a week of violence by South Africans against any foreign Africans living in the city
A police officer rescues a young girl and her mother from harm during ongoing xenophobia attacks in Ramaphosa squatter camp east of Johannesburg, South Africa, 19 May 2008. An estimated 20 people have died with hundreds injured and thousands homeless after a week of violence by South Africans against any foreign Africans living in the city
A police officer fires at groups of violent men during ongoing xenophobia attacks in Ramaphosa squatter camp east of Johannesburg, South Africa, 19 May 2008. An estimated 20 people have died with hundreds injured and thousands homeless after a week of violence by South Africans against any foreign Africans living in the city
A photograph obtained 19 May 2008 showing the Pakistani army escoringt media personnel during their visit ofSpinkai village on 18 May 2008 where the army operation last January destroyed most of the houses harboring militants in this troubled district of South Waziristan, in the north-west of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan. Pakistan has around 90,000 troops deployed along its western border but Afghanistan and the US allege that Islamic militants in Waziristan launch attacks at international forces in Afghanistan
Filipino policemen patrol the village after a shooting spree in Hornalan village in the outskirts of Calamba City, Laguna province, 60 kilometres south of Manila, Philippines on 19 June 2008. Eight people were killed and six injured Monday in a shooting spree by an unidentified gunman in a farming village outside the Philippine capital, police said. The suspect attacked before dawn, firing an automatic rifle on two houses in Hornalan village in the outskirts of Calamba City. The victims, who belonged to two families, were sleeping during the attack, said provincial police director Senior Superintendent Felipe Roxas Junior. Roxas said the fatalities included four children. The incident came just days after 10 people were killed with gunshots to the head in a deadly bank heist in nearby Cabuyao town, also in Laguna province. The two killings were the worst in the province in recent years, and have prompted calls for tougher gun ownership restrictions in the Philippines
Chief of Naval Staff India, Sureesh Mehta (R ) chats with Admiral Jung Ok-Keun, Chief of Naval operations of the South Korean Navy after inspecting the guard of honour in New Delhi on 19 May 2008 Admiral Jung Ok-Keunis on an official visit to India
Thai soldiers offer food to Thai Buddhist monks during a morning alms to mark the Vesak Day at the Muslim majority restive province of Pattani southern Thailand, 19 May 2008. Thai Buddhists across the country on 19 May 2008 mark the United Nations Day of Vesak or Visakha Bucha, which commemorates of the Birth, Enlightenment and Passing Away of the Buddha Gautama. Nearly 3,000 people have died in government crackdowns, bombings, revenge killings and beheadings since 2004 in three Muslim majority provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala
A handout picture provided by El Colombiano shows agents of the Colombian Administrative Department of Security (DAS) escorting Nelly Avila Moreno (L), alias 'Karina', one of the leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), in Medellin, Colombia, 18 May 2008. Karina handed herself over to Colombian military trops
A Pakistani Army soldier inspects the site of a suicide bomb attack at a bakery in Mardan, Pakistan, 18 May 2008. At least six people were killed and over a dozen were injured on Sunday in a bomb blast near an army base in Mardan north-west Pakistan, officials said. The explosion occurred inside a military-run bakery near the Punjab Regiment Centre in Mardan district.
Rioters flee as South African police open fire in Ramaphosa squatter camp east of Johannesburg, South Africa, 18 May 2008. South Africans of Zulu and Xhosa ethnicity attacked Mozambicans and Zimbabweans in xenophobic attacks that have spread across the country's economic heartland of Gauteng province, leaving thousands of foreigners destitute
A policeman tries to comfort a man who was beaten during ongoing xenophobia attacks in Ramaphosa squatter camp east of Johannesburg, South Africa, 18 May 2008. Many of the attacks are targeted against Zimbabwe immigrants who fled the regime of President Robert Mugabe
A policeman guards the body of a man shot during ongoing xenophobia attacks in central Johannesburg, South Africa, 18 May 2008. Many of the attacks are targeted against Zimbabwe immigrants who fled the regime of President Robert Mugabe.
Two suspects are arrested by police during ongoing xenophobia attacks in central Johannesburg, South Africa, 18 May 2008. Many of the attacks are targeted against Zimbabwe immigrants who fled the regime of President Robert Mugabe
A Lebanese soldier secures the area at a candle light vigil of supporters of Syrian Social National Party at Hamra street in Beirut, Lebanon, 18 May 2008. Eleven members of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party were killed in fierce clashes in north Lebanon
A photograph made avaialble 18 May 2008 showing teenagers wearing gas-masks run though the smoke participating in the military patriotic game Bastiony Hrabrosti (Bravery Bastions) near Minsk, Belarus 17 May 2008. Belarus authorities include a lot of military aspects in the education of youth
Members of the Colombian Army stand guard to protect coca bush eradicators in the forests near to Tumaco town, Narino department, Colombia, 17 May 2008. This zone is located 14 kms from the Ecuadorean border. According to official sources, 1,349 hectares of illegal plantations have been destroyed in 2008
The US Navy Blue Angels F/A-18 Hornets perform their demonstration at the Joint Services Open House at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, DC, USA Saturday 17 May 2008. The Blue Angels are the US Navy flight demonstration team.
A member of the Navy Leap Frogs parachute team parachutes into Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland, USA prior to the 133rd running of the Preakness Stakes
Members of the US Army Golden Knights jump out of an airplane during their performance at the Joint Services Open House at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, DC, USA Saturday 17 May 2008. The Golden Knights are the US Army's parachute demonstration team
Iraqi policemen display confiscated weapons and ammunition inside a police camp in Karbala, south of Baghdad, Iraq on 17 May 2008. The weapons and ammunition were confiscated during a military operation on the outskirts of Karbala, an Iraqi army official said
Iraqi soldiers conduct a search of a house during a search operation in Diwaniya, south of Baghdad, Iraq on 17 May 2008. Iraqi Security forces conducted a search operation in Diwaniya to improve the security in the city
A female police officer warns a Cardiff City FC fan about his behaviour as he arrives at Wembley Stadium, London, England, Great Britain to attend the FA Cup Final between Portsmouth and Cardiff, 17 May 2008
Maj. John Klatt Flies his Staudacher S-300D during his performance at the Joint Services Open House at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, DC, USA, 17 May 2008
Afghan military official inspects the ammunition recovered from Taliban militants during an operation in neighbouring Farah province, in Herat Afghanistan, 17 May 2008. Afghan National Army and the US military recovered a cache of ammunition during a joint operation against Taliban militants in Farah Province this week
Indian paramilitary soldiers pack the grenades into a box after a gun battle in forest area of Lorowgham about 50 kilometers (30 miles) southeast of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 16 May 2008. Security forces killed six suspected Islamic militants in a gunbattle Saturday in Indian-controlled Kashmir, the army said
The RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Lancaster bomber accompanied by Spitfire and Hurricane fighter flying past Armed Forces Memorial at the National Arboretum, Alrewas, Britain, 17 May 2008, where ceremony is taking place to honour the Civil Defence Association
US Marines and Military helicopter are silhouetted in the setting sun on the deck of military amphibious cargo ship, the USS Harpers Ferry stationed about 100 nautical miles or 132 km south of Yangon, Myanmar in the International waters of the Andaman Sea on 17 May 2008.The U.S. navy ship has yet to receive permission from the Myanmar military junta to transfer much needed humanitarian relief aid supplies to the impoverished country struck by Cyclone Nargis on 3 May
Police members ride on a truck through the streets of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 16 May 2008, during general elections in the country. The Organization of American States (OAS) called on voters to 'patiently' wait for the results.
South African big wave surfer James Taylor surfs a wave at an offshore reef known as Sunset off Cape Town, South Africa 17 May 2008. Big winter storms hitting the Cape Penisula have provided huge waves for surfing. The waves are too big to paddle into so the surfers use waverunners to tow them into the fast moving swells. The surfers ride custom made surfboards that are heavier than normal and have footstraps to help control the board at high speeds.
Damn!
Damn! No2
Damn! No3 x1000
terryfic! thx again.
Not a General's Star, Captain 3rd Class western equivalent is Lieutenant Commander.
Good luck to Suknoi Superjet 100, its first flight was completed with success today!
Canadian Victoria Cross, replacing Victoria Cross as the highest commemoration19/5 16:12 Το Sukhoi Superjet 100 έκανε σήμερα την παρθενική του πτήση. Το Superjet 100 είναι το πρώτο ρωσικό επιβατικό που προωθείται σε παραγωγή από το 1991.
for members of CF:
19/5 15:35 Ο Καναδικός Βικτωριανός Σταυρός αντικαθιστά τον Βικτωριανό Σταυρό ως τη μεγαλύτερη διάκριση που μπορεί να λάβει κάποιο μέλος των καναδικών ενόπλων δυνάμεων.
From todays, Hellenic Armed Forces, "Sarisa 2008" Joint Exercise:
Couple of Bundeswehr QRF training images:
Letzlingen, 16.05.2008.
Soldaten der deutschen Quick Reaction Force (QRF) haben den Auftrag, bei einer Zugriffsoperation den äußeren Ring um eine Ortschaft zu bilden, die Zufahrtsstraßen zu überwachen und zu sperren. Soldaten der Afghan National Army (ANA) bilden den inneren Kreis, Polizeikräfte der Afghan National Police (ANP) führen den Zugriff in der Ortschaft durch. Ihr Ziel: Zwei gesuchte Personen, die bereits im Vorfeld aufgeklärt wurden. Nachdem die QRF und die ANA einsatzbereit sind, geht es los. Die Zugriffsoperation ist ein Erfolg. Die gesuchten Personen
Playing the role of Afghan National Police ..
Playing the role of NATO partners ..
Der Inspekteur im Gespräch mit Soldaten (Quelle: Heer/Klaus Schneider)
Generalleutnant Budde im Pressegespräch (Quelle: Heer/PIZ)
Outstanding photos gents!
Bob Andersson holds a flag that was presented to his family at the funeral of his son, an Army recruiter who committed suicide last year in Houston
Bob Andersson holds an Airborne shoulder patch, a dog tag that belonged to his son, and a spent cartridge casing from the gun salute performed at this son's military funeral last year.
A little girl shys away as a US soldier offers her a gift during a joint patrol between soldiers from the US 1st battalion 8th brigade division military transition team and Iraqi soldiers of the 2nd division, in the northern al-Sukkar neighborhood of Mosul some 380 kms north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad on May 19 2008. A key Al-Qaeda leader fleeing a major military crackdown in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul has been arrested elsewhere, the defence ministry said today. AFP PHOTO / ALI YUSSEF (Photo credit should read ALI YUSSEF/AFP/***** Images)
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HONOLULU, Hawaii (May 15, 2008) Chief Culinary Specialist Benjamin Jones, assigned to Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 24 (MALS) 24 at Marine Corps Base, Hawaii, places a combination cover on Honorary Chief Aviation Ordnanceman David Eberhart, also assigned to MALS-24, during a ceremony at Tripler Army Medical Center in which Eberhart was appointed an honorary Chief Petty Officer by Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Joe R. Campa, Jr. Eberhart, 35, was diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer on Sept. 2, 2002, and has continued to serve on active duty in his attempt to become a Chief Petty Officer while fighting the disease. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael A. Lantron (Released)
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KOTA KINABALU, Malaysia (May 17, 2008) Sailors assigned to the amphibious command ship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) help load books into wooden boxes on the pier for Project Handclasp. Project Handclasp is a Navy program which coordinates transportation and delivery of humanitarian, educational, and goodwill material donated by corporations, charitable and public service organizations, and private citizens. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Nardelito Gervacio (Released)
A girl donates money for the quake victims in Guilin, southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Sunday, in china.
An eight-year-old student is carried by soldiers after he was found in a school some five days after Monday's deadly quake, as rescuers continue to search for survivors in Beichuan County, southwest China's Sichuan province.
Two residents, one carrying a wedding picture of their relatives and and other belongings, evacuate the disaster area in Beichuan county, southwest China's Sichuan province, China.
A Pakistani soldier stands guard near a market in Mardan on May 19, 2008 a day after a suicide attack. Pakistani Taliban militants on May 19 said a weekend suicide attack that killed 13 people was carried out in revenge for a suspected US missile strike on a rebel hideout. The suicide bomber struck near an army base in the northwestern city of Mardan on May 18 night, in the deadliest attack since a new government came to power in late March and began talks with the militants. AFP PHOTO/Tariq MAHMOOD (Photo credit should read TARIQ MAHMOOD/AFP/***** Images)
LOWROW, KASHMIR - MAY 17: An Indian army soldier guards the area after a gun battle on May 17, 2008 in Lowrow in Kashmir, India. Several members of Jaish-E-Muhammad were killed in a gun battle between Indian Security Forces and suspected militants in the village of Lowrow. (Photo by Scoopt/***** Images)
Chief of German Army Lt. Gen. Hans Otto Budde (R) shakes hands with Indian Chief of Army Staff General Deepak Kapoor (L) prior to a meeting at the Defence Ministry in New Delhi on May 19, 2008. German Army chief Budde is on a seven-day official visit to India until May 24. AFP PHOTO/ Prakash SINGH (Photo credit should read PRAKASH SINGH/AFP/***** Images)
Chief of German Army Lt. Gen. Hans Otto Budde (2L) salutes while inspecting a guard of honour at the lawns of the Defence Ministry in New Delhi on May 19, 2008. German Army chief Budde is on a seven-day official visit to India until May 24. AFP PHOTO/ Prakash SINGH (Photo credit should read PRAKASH SINGH/AFP/***** Images)
Soldiers from the 2nd Division Iraqi army patrol the al-Hadba district of the northern city of Mosul some 370kms from Baghdad on May 18, 2008. The Iraqi military said it had detained over 1,100 suspects since launching a major drive in Mosul last week, regarded by the US military as the final urban bastion of the Al-Qaeda jihadists. AFP PHOTO / ALI YUSSEF (Photo credit should read ALI YUSSEF/AFP/***** Images)
Mainly Iraqi soldiers from the 2nd division have a lunch break during a joint patrol with US troops in the northern al-Sukkar neighborhood of Mosul some 380 kms north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad on May 19 2008. A key Al-Qaeda leader fleeing a major military crackdown in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul has been arrested elsewhere, the defence ministry said today. AFP PHOTO / ALI YUSSEF (Photo credit should read ALI YUSSEF/AFP/***** Images)
A Pakistan army vehicle patrols in Spinkai village on May 18, 2008 where the army destroyed most of the houses harboring militants after an offensive last January in this troubled district of South Waziristan, in the north-west of Pakistan. Tribal areas are considered by Washington as a ?safe heaven? for Al-Qaeda and Afghan Taliban. The USA has been very concerned by ongoing peace talks between the new government and Pakistani Taliban considered as close to Al-Qaeda in the tribal areas. AFP PHOTO/ Emmanuel GIROUD (Photo credit should read EMMANUEL GIROUD/AFP/***** Images)
Awesome BW pictures as well.
I had seen Generalleutnant Budde quite a few times.
Mainly Iraqi soldiers from the 2nd division have a lunch break during a joint patrol with US troops in the northern al-Sukkar neighborhood of Mosul some 380 kms north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad on May 19 2008. A key Al-Qaeda leader fleeing a major military crackdown in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul has been arrested elsewhere, the defence ministry said today.
In this picture taken on May 17, 2008 a British soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) walk at their base in Helmand province. Taliban rockets struck a NATO helicopter carrying the governor of Afghanistan's Helmand province May 17 but the damaged chopper was able to fly out of the attack, the official said. The British military operating in the troubled southern province confirmed that a helicopter had been forced into an emergency landing and said no one was hurt. Governor Gulab Mangal said the helicopter had come under fire as it was about to land at Musa Qala, a small town that had been a key Taliban base and opium-trading centre until troops forced the rebels out in December.
A Russian passenger Sukhoi Superjet 100 (R) aircraft flies followed by a Russian Military jet near Komsomolsk-na-Amure on May 19, 2008. The plane, seen as a potential saviour of the country's struggling aeronautics sector, took its maiden flight in the far east of the country, Russian news agencies reported. The mid-range Superjet "spent 40 minutes in the air. It climbed to an altitude of 1,200 metres (3,900 feet)," said Olga Kayukova, a spokeswoman for Russian aeronautics company Sukhoi, manufacturers of the plane, Interfax news agency reported.
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Deputy Director of the foreign affairs office of China's National Defense Ministry Guan Youfei, right, expresses gratitude for the U.S. emergent humanitarian aid to an unidentified officer from the U.S. Air Force 204th Airlift Squadron at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport, southwest China's Sichuan Province, on Sunday, May 18, 2008. Disaster-relief supplies worth of US$700,000 from the United States Army, the first of its kind from a foreign military, arrived here Sunday.
A military helicopter flies over a forest in Narino province May 17, 2008, where Colombian army had seized four cocaine laboratories in the Nulpe river, about 14 km (8.7 miles) from the Ecuadorean border. According to military sources, the labs belonged to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and produces 24 tons of cocaine every month. Picture taken May 17, 2008.
Soldiers of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) unload canvas tents from a military truck to house soldiers and relief workers in Beichuan, one of the worst hit earthquake disaster areas, Sichuan province, China, 19 May 2008. The official death toll from the 12 May 2008 earthquake that measured 7.9 on the Richter scale has already exceeded 34,000 but is expected to finally reach 50,000. Three minutes of silence was observed across China beginning at 14:28pm on 19 May 2008, to commemorate the casualties exactly one week after the earthquake, the nation's worst in three decades. Authorities are still trying to retrieve bodies and prevent the potential spread of contagious diseases as well as mudslides, the latter of which has killed about 200 people in recent days
Rescue workers from various military units take three minutes from their work to pay three minutes silent tribute to the victims of the earthquake in Beichuan, in southwest China's Sichuan province 19 May 2008. One week to the minute after the earthquake, now reckoned to be 8.0 magnitude, the whole nation of China stopped to think of the more than 33,000 dead, 200,000 injured and five million homeless. The full extent of the damage unleashed near Beichuan at 14:28 on 12 May has yet to be assessed with at least 50,000 casualties expected in the final tally besides the financial cost for some of China's poorest people
Iraqi soldiers secure an area in Mosul, northern Iraq, during a military operation 19 May 2008. The Iraqi Interior Ministry announced the arrest of 56 suspects during the military operation in western Mosul.
Nancy Pelosi (C), Speaker of the US House of Representatives, follows her host, Dalia Itzik (R) as they review an Israeli honour guard at the Knesset, or Israeli Parliament, in Jerusalem, Israel, 19 May 2008, as Pelosi and a large bi-partisan delegration visit the institution. A female Knesset guard of honour accompanies the two women speakers, the first time the Israeli Knesset has appointed a woman guard to carry out the ceremony
Students in Deventer buckle down to their exam, 19 May 2008. More than 200.000 surdents of secondary schools in the Netherlands take their final exams this week
Animal keepers Tam Barras (L) and Hansi Hamsa (R) of 'Serengeti-Tierpark' recapture runaway kangaroo 'Toto' in a field near Hanover, Germany, 19 May 2008. Six year-old 'Toto' had escaped from the zoo by jumping over a fence two-and-a-half weeks ago. It was discovered about 35km away from the zoo.
Kangaroos are held in a holding pen on the Department of Defence property in Belconnen, Canberra Monday, May 19, 2008. Australia's military began culling hundreds of kangaroos at the defence base on Friday, enraging animal rights activists who vowed to stop the killings
Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, 99, speaks during an homage to his career at the 61st Cannes Film Festival May 19, 2008.
Ships, Boats, helos and teams perform during the Japan Coast Guard 60th Anniversary Review of Troops and Integrated Exercise at Tokyo Bay on May 17, 2008 in Tokyo, Japan. JCG implement increased security measures, eyeing on G8 Hokkaido Summit in July. (Photo by Koichi Kamoshida/***** Images) Some 67 ships and 18 aircraft took part in the drill to mark the 60th anniversary of its foundation. AFP PHOTO/Toru YAMANAKA (Photo credit should read TORU YAMANAKA/AFP/***** Images)
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