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    Quote Originally Posted by mugs69 View Post
    Think they got that wrong, he looks Latvian to me

    Edit: Well not Latvian, but atleast not Estonian
    And what makes you think so? He is Estonian.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kalkun View Post
    And what makes you think so? He is Estonian.
    The Camo he's wearing, I didn't know they had troops in Iraq

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    ansar al sunnah or ansar al islam flags ?

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    Great photos EMT.

    EMT is correct..you gents need to knock off the chit-chat and bickering and post pictures.


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    AFGHANISTAN (Aug. 15, 2008) Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Gary Roughead and other military members depart a school house construction site during a visit to Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Ghazni. Roughead, and Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) Joe R. Campa Jr. traveled throughout the Central Command Area of Operation to visit Sailors, thank them for their contributions and hear their thoughts firsthand. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Tiffini M. Jones/Released)

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    BAGHDAD, Iraq (Aug. 14, 2008) Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Gary Roughead departs the Ministry of Defense building after conducting an office call with Head of the Iraqi Navy, Commodore Muhammad Jawad. Roughead, and Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) Joe R. Campa Jr. traveled throughout the Central Command Area of Operation to visit Sailors, thank them for their contributions and hear their thoughts firsthand. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Tiffini M. Jones/Released)

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    WASHINGTON (Aug. 13, 2008) Navy Recruiting Command (CNRC) Deputy Commander Rear Adm. Robin Braun gives top recruiters a tour of the Pentagon. CNRC treated top recruiters from all over the country to a tour of the Pentagon and Washington during a two-day event. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Michael Russell/Released)

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    MANAMA, Bahrain (Aug. 12, 2008) Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Gary Roughead boards the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Russell (DDG 59) to visit with Sailors and conduct an all hands call. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Tiffini M. Jones/Released)

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    MANAMA, Bahrain (Aug. 12, 2008) Mineman 2nd Class Richard Sorrell discusses the operational capabilities of the Mine Neutral Vehicle (MNV) with Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Gary Roughead aboard the Avenger-class mine warfare ship USS Dextrous (MCM 13). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Tiffini M. Jones/Released)









    Iraqis look on as U.S. army soldiers from Eagle Company, 2nd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment search their home in Baqouba, the capital of Iraq's Diyala province, some 60 kilometers (45 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2008. .


    Abkhazian rebel fighters walk in the village of Azhara in the remote Kodori gorge bordering Georgia proper August 17, 2008. Abkhazia's separatist army said on Sunday it had defeated the Georgians without damaging a single home, but the captured villages it displayed to reporters were empty and the houses ransacked.


    Russian army officers examine firearms allegedly captured from the Georgian military, in Tskhinvali, South Ossetia, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2008. The conflict erupted after Georgia launched a massive barrage Aug. 7 to try to take control of South Ossetia. The Russian army quickly overwhelmed its neighbor's forces and drove deep into Georgia, raising fears that of a long-term Russian occupation.


    A Russian soldier guards armored vehicles allegedly captured from the Georgian military, in Tskhinvali, South Ossetia, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2008. The conflict erupted after Georgia launched a massive barrage Aug. 7 to try to take control of South Ossetia. The Russian army quickly overwhelmed its neighbor's forces and drove deep into Georgia, raising fears that of a long-term Russian occupation

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    Quote Originally Posted by bd popeye View Post
    Great photos EMT.

    EMT is correct..you gents need to knock off the chit-chat and bickering and post pictures.
    Some people like to reflect instead of only consuming.

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    Jerusalem, August 17, 2008. Some 1,000 Israelis of Ethiopian descent took part in a demonstration on Sunday calling on the Israeli government to grant permission for their relatives living in Ethiopia to immigrate.


    An elderly Georgian woman passes in front a Russian armoured personnel carrier holding a position in Gori August 17, 2008.




    One of the accused involved in Ahmadabad serial bomb blasts, wearing a black hood to conceal his identity until the police find evidences against him, is produced in the court in Ahmadabad, India, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2008. Police on Saturday said they arrested the alleged mastermind behind last month's serial blasts in western India that killed 58 people, linking him to a banned Islamic group.


    Riot police block demonstrators from the Cambodian Confederation of Unions protesting against Thailand's deployment of troops at the disputed Preah Vihear and Ta Moan temples located at the Cambodian-Thai border, in Phnom Penh August 17, 2008.


    Riot police walk near the Thai embassy as Cambodia deploys more security in the area after a demonstration organized by the Cambodian Confederation of Unions protesting against Thailand's deployment of troops at the disputed Preah Vihear and Ta Moan temples located at the Cambodian-Thai border, in Phnom Penh August 17, 2008. Cambodian and Thai troops started to pull their troops back from the disputed border area on Saturday, Cambodian army officers said, after a month-long stand-off centring on the 900-year-old Preah Vihear temple.


    An Afghan police officer frisks an Afghan man at a checkpoint in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2008. Scores of police manned checkpoints around Afghanistan's capital Sunday after authorities ordered more than 7,000 officers to secure Kabul ahead of the country's Independence Day, an indication of how militants pose a growing threat to the capital.




    An unexploded shell (?) lays on a military police car in the Port of Poti from previous days bombing on August 16, 2008. The Georgian Interior ministry on August 15, 2008 said Russian forces were "destroying" Gori, the Georgian city closest to disputed South Ossetia but only 85 kilometres (50 miles) from Tbilisi, and demolishing military facilities in the port of Poti.








    Handicapped Bolivians and their suppourters classhed with riot police in Santa Cruz August 15, 2008. The protesters are demanding an annual bonus of Bs. 5000 ($700) from President Evo Morales' government or they will continue their nationwide strike campaign.

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    Weekend Pics!

    Thank you sir, great pics you got there Popeye!



    Cpl. Jorge Delgado, a Boynten Beach, Fla., native, provides security during a patrol in eastern Baghdad, Aug. 8, 2008. Delgado is assigned to Battery A, 5th Battalion, 25th Artillery Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light), Multi-National Division – Baghdad, and is a patrol team leader for a dismounted maneuver fire team.
    (Photographer: Sgt. 1st Class James Aloffo : 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division Public Affairs)

    Pfc. Jonathon Owens, a cannon crewmember from Morwich, Conn., provides security during a patrol in eastern Baghdad, Aug. 8, 2008. Owens is assigned to Battery A, 5th Battalion, 25th Artillery Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light), Multi-National Division – Baghdad, and patrols as part of a dismounted maneuver fire team.
    (Photographer: Sgt. 1st Class James Aloffo : 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division Public Affairs)

    Pfc. Jonathon Owens, a cannon crewmember from Morwich, Conn., provides security during a patrol in eastern Baghdad, Aug. 8, 2008. Owens is assigned to Battery A, 5th Battalion, 25th Artillery Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light), Multi-National Division – Baghdad, and patrols as part of a dismounted maneuver fire team.
    (Photographer: Sgt. 1st Class James Aloffo : 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division Public Affairs)

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    Quote Originally Posted by SoftLion View Post
    Oh Lord...
    Quote Originally Posted by Weasel View Post
    No climate change. Of course it is a natural circle. Tornados hit Poland every 1000 years.
    ok. consider the thing with climate change a bad joke... some guys didn't get it

    I'm too young to remember the last tornado that hit Poland (just another joke - it was 1000 yrs ago)

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    Time before the internet and modern news.

    Quote Originally Posted by Churchill_MD View Post
    ok. consider the thing with climate change a bad joke... some guys didn't get it

    I'm too young to remember the last tornado that hit Poland (just another joke - it was 1000 yrs ago)
    Well I'm younger than you and I remember. Mid 90', hit my town. Couple of houses destroyed, many without roof and allot of fallen tries.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bd popeye View Post
    nice guns

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    Quote Originally Posted by DID View Post
    Yes the same thing happened in France a couple of week ago. An entire little town was destroed by a tornado, that's unusual there too, and very scary.

    RIP
    Now imagine living in North Texas, Oklahoma and the rest of Tornado Alley. The tornado capital of the world.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GiladS View Post
    There's a greater chance that these troops will get killed/injured by shrapnel during a shelling if they are outside the vehicle rather than get killed by a direct hit (also I'm not sure if they are wearing any sort of ballistic vest on them).

    Unless you are claiming that thses armored vehicles don't provide a basic level of protection against shrapnel?

    I like seeing the enemy, er, potentional adversaries, congregated



    COuld this be a external fuel tank that was dropped?

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    Nice pix guys!


    Quote Originally Posted by Tareece View Post
    I like seeing the enemy, er, potentional adversaries, congregated



    COuld this be a external fuel tank that was dropped?
    It was established a week ago to be an OTR-21 Tochka (NATO designation SS-21) theater ballistic missile.

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    A patrol


    Dog training




    Pure breed Lab...working with my brothers of long ago today






    RUSSIA faced a global blacklash today over its attacks on Georgia as the United States and European nations began to review key military and diplomatic ties with Moscow.




    US POLAND sign Deal

    : The United States and Poland reached a long-stalled deal on Thursday to place an American missile defense base on Polish territory, in the strongest reaction so far to Russia's military operation in Georgia

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    Quote Originally Posted by He219 View Post
    Nice pix guys!



    It was established a week ago to be an OTR-21 Tochka (NATO designation SS-21) theater ballistic missile.

    Maybe I need to pay attention? I had heard they had MOVED them into theater...but not LAUNCHED...nuke tipped or conventional? Bio hazard?

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