Today's Pics! Friday August 15th, 2008

[bd popeye]

Great selection of photos gents...


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PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua (Aug. 13, 2008) Air Force Staff Sgt. Danae Eskridge and Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Richard Utley, both embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), carry a Nicaraguan woman who was complaining of chest and arm pains into an improvised medical examination room at Juan Comenius High School in Puerto Cabezas. Kearsarge is deployed as the primary platform for supporting the Caribbean phase of Continuing Promise, an equal-partnership mission between the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class David G. Crawford (Released)

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TBILISI, Georgia (Aug. 14, 2008) Crew members prepare to unload a pallet of humanitarian supplies from a C-17 Globemaster III in Georgia. The pallet contains cots, blankets and medical supplies. Sixteen pallets of humanitarian supplies were delivered in the wake of conflict over the past week. U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Cmdr. Corey Barker (Released)

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YOKOSUKA, Japan (Aug. 13, 2008) A large harbor tug assists the amphibious command ship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) as she departs Fleet Activities Yokosuka for a scheduled underway. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Nardelito Gervacio/Released)

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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (Aug. 13, 2008) Capt. Ron Horton, commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65), accepts the Battle "E" award on behalf of the crew from Adm. Jonathan Greenert, commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command, during the Battenberg Cup presentation ceremony. Enterprise is the 2007 recipient of the Battle "E" and Battenberg Cup, which is awarded annually to the ship's crew that exemplifies operational excellence. Enterprise is in an extended dry dock shipyard restricted availability period. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Stacy D. Laseter/Released)

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NORTH ARABIAN SEA (Aug. 11, 2008) An aviation boatswain's mate (Handling) directs traffic on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Lincoln is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility to support Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom as well as maritime security operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Geoffrey Lewis/Released)

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PENSACOLA, Fla. (Aug. 8, 2008) Aircraft from Training Squadron (VT) 86 fly over Forrest Sherman Field at Naval Air Station Pensacola in the squadron's T-2 Buckeye training aircraft, marking the last training flight of the T-2 Buckeye, the Navy's longest-serving jet trainer. (U.S. Navy photo by Mike O'Connor/Released)

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NORTH ARABIAN SEA (Aug. 13, 2008) Operations Specialist 2nd Class Kindred Heard, from Loachapoka, Ala., communicates with the guided-missile destroyer USS Shoup (DDG 86) on a Link 11 data terminal, coordinating a tactical data picture for the Abraham Lincoln Strike Group in the display and tracking module of the combat direction center aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Lincoln is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility to support Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom as well as maritime security operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class James R. Evans/Released)

Members of the Jammu and Kashmir Police (JKP) parade during official celebrations for India's Independence Day at Bakshi Stadium in Srinagar on August 15, 2008. The main city of Srinagar and other parts of the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley have been rocked by some of the biggest anti-India protests since an insurgency erupted in 1989. Street battles this week have left at least 22 dead -- all of them Muslim youth -- and more than 600 injured in police firings.

Nepalese police detain a Tibetan activist during an anti-Chinese demonstration in front of the consular section of the Chinese Embassy in Kathmandu on August 14, 2008, coinciding with the ongoing Beijing Olympics. Police detained more than 500 Tibetan protesters who had gathered outside a building housing China's consular and trade offices. Tibetans in exile have been holding almost daily protests in Kathmandu against Chinese rule in their homeland since an uprising in March 2008 in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa was allegedly violently cracked down by Chinese soldiers.

The motorcycle daredevil team of the Indian police perform during India's Independence Day celebrations in Srinagar August 15, 2008. India rolled out a security clampdown on Friday ahead of annual Independence Day celebrations following recent bomb attacks on some of its cities and violent protests in its northern region of Kashmir.

Protesters dressed as Tinker Bell and Minnie Mouse wait to be taken away after being arrested by police officers during a demonstration against Disney's treatment of hotel workers outside of Disney Land in Anaheim, Calif., on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008.

A police officer with the Anaheim Police Department arrests a demonstrator dressed as Peter Pan during a protest against Disney's treatment of hotel workers outside of Disney Land in Anaheim, Calif., on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008.

Police officers with the Anaheim Police Department arrest Eric Zuniga, who was dressed as Mickey Mouse, and other protesters during a demonstration protesting Disney's treatment of hotel workers outside of Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008. The arrests followed a march by hundreds of maids, cooks and dishwashers from three Disney hotels. The workers' contract expired in February, and their union says Disney's latest offer would make health care unaffordable and create an unfair two-tier wage system.

Pro Tibet activists unfurl a "Free Tibet" banner and Tibetan flags on top of a Beijing Olympics billboard, next to China Central Television headquarters in Beijing Friday, Aug. 15, 2008. Five foreigners were detained by police Friday when they unfurled the banner in the latest unauthorized protest during the games in the Chinese capital, an activist group said.

Men march in a Japanese Imperial Army uniforms at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo August 15, 2008. Japan marked the anniversary of its surrender in World War Two on Friday, but Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda was expected to avoid visiting a shrine for war dead seen by Asian neighbors as a symbol of Tokyo's past militarism.

[Fireball Sanchez]

Nice pics Popeye.

A 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment Military Transition Team Soldier searches for weapons caches along with Iraqi army soldiers in the western desert near Bayji, Iraq.
(Photographer: Sgt. Richard Rzepka : 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (AA) Public Affairs)

Maj. Oscar Pintado, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment Military Transition Team leader listens to a man speak with Iraqi army soldiers about possible enemy activity in the desert near Bayji, Iraq. Pintado’s MiTT Soldiers are responsible for training and advising two Iraqi army battalions
(Photographer: Sgt. Richard Rzepka : 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (AA) Public Affairs)

Oscar Pintado, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment Military Transition Team leader shakes hands with an Iraqi army soldier during a recent mission near Bayji, Iraq. Pintado’s MiTT Soldiers are responsible for training and advising two Iraqi army battalions in the area.
(Photographer: Sgt. Richard Rzepka : 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (AA) Public Affairs)

1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment Military Transition Team members help advise and train Iraqi army soldiers during a mission near Bayji, Iraq.
(Photographer: Sgt. Richard Rzepka : 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (AA) Public Affairs)

Maj. Oscar Pintado, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment Military Transition Team leader watches as Iraqi army soldiers clear an objective in the desert near Bayji, Iraq. Pintado’s MiTT Soldiers are responsible for training and advising two Iraqi army battalions.
(Photographer: Sgt. Richard Rzepka : 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (AA) Public Affairs)

A 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment Military Transition Team Soldier searches for weapons caches along with Iraqi army soldiers in the western desert near Bayji, Iraq.
(Photographer: Sgt. Richard Rzepka : 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (AA) Public Affairs)

Iraqi army soldiers search for enemy weapons caches in the desert near Bayji, Iraq. The Soldiers have been trained and mentored by Military Transition Team Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st BCT, 101st Airborne Division.
(Photographer: Sgt. Richard Rzepka : 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (AA) Public Affairs)

Maj. Oscar Pintado, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment Military Transition Team leader, speaks with his Iraqi counterpart during a mission to find weapons caches in the western desert near Bayji, Iraq.
(Photographer: Sgt. Richard Rzepka : 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (AA) Public Affairs)

Iraqi army soldiers search for enemy weapons caches in the desert near Bayji, Iraq. The Soldiers have been trained and mentored by Military Transition Team Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st BCT, 101st Airborne Division.
(Photographer: Sgt. Richard Rzepka : 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (AA) Public Affairs)

An Iraqi army soldier provides security as his platoon searches for weapons in the western desert of Bayji, Iraq.
(Photographer: Sgt. Richard Rzepka : 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (AA) Public Affairs)

1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment Military Transition Team members speak with Iraqi army soldiers during a mission to find enemy weapons caches in the desert near Bayji, Iraq. Pintado’s MiTT Soldiers are responsible for training and advising two Iraqi army battalions in the area.
(Photographer: Sgt. Richard Rzepka : 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (AA) Public Affairs)

A 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment Military Transition Team Soldier searches for weapons caches in the sparsely vegetated desert near Bayji, Iraq along with Iraqi army soldiers.
(Photographer: Sgt. Richard Rzepka : 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (AA) Public Affairs)

Staff Sgt. Matthew Nelson, a native of Lincoln, Neb., and Staff Sgt. Ralph Bain, a native of Detroit, Mich., pull security at the al-Faw intermediate school. The school is one of many renovation projects that are a major focus of the Sadr City leadership and coalition forces. Nelson and Bain is with the personal security detachment of Task Force 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division. Task Force 1-6 is based out of Baumholder, Germany and is currently attached to the 3rd BCT, 4th Inf. Div.
(Photographer: Sgt. Philip Klein : 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division Public Affairs)

Staff Sgt. Matthew Nelson, a native of Lincoln, Neb., and Staff Sgt. Ralph Bain, a native of Detroit, Mich., pull security at the al-Faw intermediate school. The school is one of many renovation projects that are a major focus of the Sadr City leadership and coalition forces. Nelson and Bain is with the personal security detachment of Task Force 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division. Task Force 1-6 is based out of Baumholder, Germany and is currently attached to the 3rd BCT, 4th Inf. Div.
(Photographer: Sgt. Philip Klein : 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division Public Affairs)

Staff Sgt. Ralph Bain, a native of Detroit, Mich., pulls security at the al-Faw intermediate school. Bain is with the personal security detachment of Task Force 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division. Task Force 1-6 is based out of Baumholder, Germany and is currently attached to the 3rd BCT, 4th Inf. Div.
(Photographer: Sgt. Philip Klein : 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division Public Affairs)

Staff Sgt. Matthew Nelson, a native of Lincoln, Neb., and Staff Sgt. Ralph Bain, a native of Detroit, Mich., pull security at the al-Faw intermediate school. The school is one of many renovation projects that are a major focus of the Sadr City leadership and coalition forces. Nelson and Bain is with the personal security detachment of Task Force 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division. Task Force 1-6 is based out of Baumholder, Germany and is currently attached to the 3rd BCT, 4th Inf. Div.
(Photographer: Sgt. Philip Klein : 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division Public Affairs)

Ok, so there's no caption for this last one, but I'm guessing it would be something along the lines of " triplets in the army....." Hey it's friday!

[Juszi]

Celebrations during the Polish Armed Forces Day.
On the occasion of the Polish Armed Forces Day and 88th anniversary of the Battle of Warsaw, on 15th of August, ceremonies were (or still are) taking place throughout Poland

Holy Mass served at the Field Cathedral by MajGen Tadeusz Płoski

Celebrations of Polish Armed Forces Day, UNDOF, Golan Heights

Still waiting for the photos from the parade in Warsaw

[Jocker_89]

" trial before polish military parade. "

Huh?

Yeah...me too...

There are Germans and Frenchs too...

Some soldiers from other countries. What's wrong with that?

Soldiers from France, Germany, Ukraine, Slovakia and Lithuania were invited on that parade

[satgas]

Polish Armed Forces Day and military parade in Warsaw

[afreu]

I do love fridays!

=]

[Jocker_89]

It's Friday

Joanna Krupa from Poland, height 170 cm, age 27 years old

[Alex-L]

what is on his helmet (tan, left side)

[Juszi]

3-dot aiming system for shoulder cannon (hidden) from Predator and AvP. Or LED helmet light, I'm not sure.

Joanna Krupa from Poland, height 170 cm, age 27 years old

Go Poland!

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Still from the Polish Armed Forces Day celebrations.

Awarding nominations and decorations to Polish Police officers by President of the Republic of Poland.

[Jocker_89]

The main square is seen through a broken shop window in the Georgian city of Gori August 14, 2008. REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov

Kashmiri Muslims perform funeral prayers next to the body of a youth who the mourners said had died when Indian police fired on a protest, in Srinagar August 14, 2008. Protesters shouting "we want freedom" took to the streets of Kashmir on Thursday as a land dispute between Muslims and Hindus boiled into a litmus test of New Delhi's hold on the troubled Himalayan region.REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli

Israeli soldiers watch Israeli tanks manoeuvre during a military drill near Ein Zivan in the Golan Heights, a strategic plateau which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war, August 14, 2008. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Members of the Lima Lima Flight Team fly over Lake Michigan near Gary, Indiana August 14, 2008. The team will take part in the annual Chicago Air and Water Show from August 15 to 17. REUTERS/John Gress

Georgians look out from a bus during a stopover for food in Zugdidi August 14, 2008, on the way to inner Georgia from Kodori Gorge, the border between their breakaway region and Georgia proper. The remote Kodori Gorge had become the focus for a sharp escalation in tension between Russia and Georgia that left Western diplomats worrying that it would only take a small spark to ignite a renewed armed conflict. Kodori Gorge, the only area of Abkhazia controlled by Tbilisi, was captured by Abkhazian rebel forces on Tuesday. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

Police kick and hit the arrested Tibetan protesters with cane in the police van in Kathmandu, Nepal, August 14, 2008. REUTERS/Gopal Chitrakar

U.S. Sergeant Cesar Arroyo from the Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment secures the area during a patrol in the village of Assada near Baquba, in Diyala province, Iraq, August 14, 2008. REUTERS/Andrea Comas

Bosnian girls look at forensic experts of the International Commission for Missing Persons (ICMP) searching for human remains in a mass grave at a remote mountain near the village of Kamenica August 14, 2008. More than twelve years after the end of country's 1992-95 war, experts discovered another mass grave containing remains of Bosnian Muslims killed by Serb forces in 1995. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

Russian soldiers detain a man who carried a weapon in his car at a checkpoint in the Georgian city of Gori, near South Ossetia, August 14, 2008. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

[Xmith]

what is on his helmet (tan, left side)

It's a Surefire Helmet Light

http://www.surefire.com/maxexp/main/.../422/sesent/00

Good pics gents!

[DID]

Some soldiers from other countries. What's wrong with that?

Nothing wrong, I'm happy that Europe tense biceps, just to remind that we have te capacity to defend ourself. I really hope that Ukraine will join EU and NATO as soon as possible!
we are better united than fighting together.

[He219]

Nice pix guys, outstanding job!

Russian army soldiers board a helicopter at an airport in Sukhumi, capital of Georgian breakaway province of Abkhazia, on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008. Russian troops on Friday allowed some humanitarian supplies into the strategic city of Gori but continued their blockade.

A Georgian woman walks past a Russian soldier in downtown Gori August 14, 2008.

A Russian soldier aboard his armoured personnel carrier moves in downtown Gori August 14, 2008

Russian soldiers guard a road just outside the Georgian city of Gori August 14, 2008.

Russian soldiers aboard their armoured personnel carrier approach a Georgian military base occupied by Russian troops, outside Gori August 14, 2008

Men in Impeiral Army uniforms march at the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on August 15 2008, to mark the 63rd anniversary of the end of World War II. Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda expressed Japan's remorse for pain inflicted on other countries as the nation marked the anniversary of defeat in World War II.

Men in Impeiral Army uniforms march at the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on August 15 2008, to mark the 63rd anniversary of the end of World War II. Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda expressed Japan's remorse for pain inflicted on other countries as the nation marked the anniversary of defeat in World War II.

United States' Shawn Johnson competes on the floor during the women's individual all-around final of the artistic gymnastics event of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing on August 15, 2008. United States' Nastia Liukin won the gold, her compatriot Shawn Johnson the silver and China's Yilin Yang the bronze.

[djiti]

as usual really nice pics all



can you tell me what is the MRAP in the background ?

[tanks_alot]

U.S. President George W. Bush waves as he departs Air Force One en route to his vacation at his ranch, in Waco, Texas, August 15, 2008.

U.S. soldiers from the Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment walk through a market during a patrol in Baquba in Diyala province August 15, 2008.

Russian soldiers travel on an armoured vehicle on a road leading to Zugdidi, a major town in western Georgia August 15, 2008.

Armoured vehicles travel through the centre of Warsaw as they take part in a National Army Day parade August 15, 2008. The parade commemorates the battle for Warsaw, which took place in 1920, when Polish forces defeated the advancing Red Army.

A parade unit of the French army takes part in the Polish National Army Day parade in Warsaw August 15, 2008. The parade commemorates the battle for Warsaw, which took place in 1920, when Polish forces defeated the advancing Red Army.

Poland's President Lech Kaczynski reviews soldiers as they take part in a National Army Day parade in Warsaw August 15, 2008. The parade commemorates the battle for Warsaw, which took place in 1920, when Polish forces defeated the advancing Red Army.

Detained ethnic Georgians sit in a truck with coffins as they are made to collect the bodies of dead Georgians soldiers in the South Ossetian capital of Tshinvali August 15, 2008.

Soldiers of 21st Theater Sustainment Command Soldiers load humanitarian assistance supplies for airlift to Georgia at the Deployment Processing Centre on Rhine Ordnance Barracks in Kaiserslautern August 15, 2008. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday there was no need to change the position on Georgian and Ukrainian membership of NATO, as agreed by the defence alliance at a summit in April.

Mmmm.... ok.

King penguin Nils Olav walks past soldiers from the Norwegian King's Guard after he was given a Knighthood at Edinburgh zoo , Scotland August 15, 2008. Edinburgh Zoo penguin Olav has been an honorary member and mascot of the Norwegian King's Guard since the 1980s and was made Honorary Colonel-in-Chief in 2005.