Reply With Quotewait, so mid raid they were like "Pasha, lets snap a facebook pic!"
the guy on the right is a living legendOriginally Posted by Fidayi
Guys, who are these soldiers? I have seen the guy on the right in other photos but I have no idea who these people are. Would love to get some background information and some video would do great as well.
Anatoly Lebed
here he is in Poti, Georgia about to blow some **** up
gotta love the paintjob on his AK
wait, so mid raid they were like "Pasha, lets snap a facebook pic!"
yeah pretty much)... only in Russia it's not facebook but odnoklassniki
I guess at that point they felt pretty safe to snap some photos since Georgians abandoned their positions around the ports
X2
R.I.P..
Strange ! The An-22A RA-09343 had been stored for ages and recently overhauled (in 2009 IIRC).
Great plane anyway.
Does anyone know what the center joystick is for?
Lebed is on the left! Anyway nice pic. Thanksthe guy on the right is a living legend
Anatoly Lebed
gotta love the paintjob on his AK
Both of these men do not even look Russian.It looks like a Spaniard and a Mongol.
russia is a big country. i think in the top ten.
There are about 160 native nationalities in Russia. Most part is russkiye, but there is also ~30 millions of others.
He was referring to the photo I commented on. In that photo Lebed was on the right.
Weapon control.
Few more:
http://nnm.ru/blogs/Dmitry68/nado_de...ylo_ploho/#cut
http://starshinazapasa.livejournal.com/47294.html
Real mans words.
I was talkin about the other pic
here's his story from Afghanistan where he was a helo pilot as well (google translation):
from the link by Az_esmI became a helicopter pilot because I wanted to try all the echelons. The sky was wonderful to fly. In the 87th came to Afghan war. There I stayed for nearly two years, left five days before the official withdrawal. They were the best years of service. It was something to do. Destruction and the identification of rebel caravans. Under seven hundred sorties made. Was shot down several times. Got into an ambush a few times, shot through the helo, the blades. Near Barack region while coming back with a problem, going to the limit, on the high-rise, about twenty meters of difference in height - got hit with a RPG, then from KPVT, point blank, hole right through both sides. Everything in holes, but we did not fall. We were always ready. Ammunition on hand, if we fell - we could hold on till morning. At night, nobody will land, a search group would not find us, therefore, water, ammunition, always with us.
Plenty flying time in Afghan. Hunting caravans in the twenty-pack, in the thirty-pack .. The largest - two hundred and three pack. Mountains of weapons, medical supplies, dead mujjaheddin piled up ... We found them at four in the morning and were pounding them until after midnight. Refueled, flew, landed, landed the group, others fly, "Hinds" fly, keep pounding them... Pretty much the whole caravan perished in the valley and along with almost all the guards.
http://starshinazapasa.livejournal.com/47294.html
he fought in Chechnya from 1999 to 2005 ... multiple ops... he lost his foot in one of the ops but he got back into action only a month and a half later with a prosthetic... for his actions he was awarded the Star of the Hero of Russian Federation
Last question. Tell me ... Three Red Stars. Hero of Russia. Afgan, Chechnya. Without a leg to jump in the mountains with a parachute. Have you no sense of own uniqueness?
- Oh, no. Others have it worse (laughs). Normal. I do it all for the people. For their children. For VDV!
Last edited by CaptMorgan68; 12-31-2010 at 01:57 PM.
yep thanks)
Just wanted to know what your thoughts are. Was there any follow up on this story etc.?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OtHEcK_oA8
I myself think it's a load of bs.
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