Military Photo Thread [READ FIRST POST BEFORE POSTING]

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one for ozcam and the camo collection

JonnyTwoCombs

Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Tootal (left), Commanding Officer of 3 Para, briefs his company commanders prior to going out on patrol
[Picture: Cpl Rob Knight, RLC]

Spooky-Vinny

^ Canadian

^German

^Indian

^Polish

^Romanian

^Russian


^Chinese

^Chinese

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klmk still in use

Manic Moran

http://www.uscav.com/mollextreme.aspx?tabid=548&cm_sp=mxtreme-_-HOME-_-apr2011A





Just because you can doesn't mean you should..

NTM

Manic Moran

Nothing like a good cavalry charge.



Of course, it helps if you have support...


Johnny Five? That you?


NTM

whydave

Bitish Royal Air Force Senior Aircraftsman Katie Price, No. 1 Squadron, Regiment 4 Force Protection Wing security forces poses as an insurgent and detonates a suicide bomb at the entry control point of a forward operating base during a field training exercise on the NTTR as part of exercise Desert Eagle March 16. Desert Eagle is a joint training event with the RAF and the Air Force's 820th BDG designed to improve interoperability during contingency operations.

Royal Air Force Senior Aircraftsman Sam Kennedy, No.1 Squadron, Regiment 4 Force Protection Wing security forces, fires at enemies inside a mock Iraqi village during a field training exercise at exercise Desert Eagle on the NTTR March 16. Desert Eagle is a joint training event with the RAF and the Air Force's 820th BDG designed to improve interoperability during contingency operations.

U.S. Army Spc. June Hurst, Kapisa Provincial Reconstruction Team rifleman from Salisbury, N.C., takes aim at a target with a 12-gauge shotgun during a training exercise at Forward Operating Base Morales-Frazier March 31.

Poccington

Some Timor pics...





The lads had to buy some Landie's for Liberia as their 350's hadn't arrived in time...



One of the lads in Chad...



Random picture, the A3 looks ever so pretty though...



The finish line of Selection...

whydave

An Iraqi army mortar crew assigned to 4th Battalion, 21st Brigade, 5th IA Division fires an 81 mm mortar during a battalion live fire training exercise at Forward Operating Base Normandy, Iraq, March 27. Mortar crews bombarded a mock village prior to ground troops assaulting the target in order to demonstrate skills learned during their Tadreeb al Shamil training rotation.

Afghan soldiers are seen through the broken front window of a car believed to have been used by attackers out the gate of a NATO base in Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday, April 2, 2011.




The South Korean Army's K21 amphibious infantry fighting vehicles, equipped with air bags for floating, cross a river during a trial exercise at a military training field in Namyangju, some 50 km (30 miles) northeast of Seoul, March 31, 2011.

whydave

A U.S. service member with Special Operations Task Force -* South interacts with an Afghan boy during a routine patrol, March 27, Maiwand District, Kandahar province, Afghanistan. The SOTF-*South team in the area conducts regular patrols in order to bolster security, in addition to meeting with area villagers to assess development projects.

US army soldiers guard the site of a suicide attack at the main gate of US military base Camp Phoenix in Kabul on Apirl 2, 2011

whydave

the_syco

damagegt wrote: »

http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn291/markoriordan101/op.jpg
returning from a bomb raid over Libya's air defense positions.

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A Royal Air Force Typhoon aircraft is prepared at Gioia Dell Colle, Italy Monday March 21, 2011.

Cheers for the pictures. A higher res of the B-2 can be gotten at http://media.globenewswire.com/noc/mediagallery.html?pkgid=7244

Poccington wrote: »

The finish line of Selection...

Blackhorse Avenue?

Betty Blue

I Dont Think The Ranger Selection Course would be Doing a forced March around Stoneybatter / Cabra lol;)

Now i could be Mistaken:p

whydave

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Brandon Blackmore, an M249 Squad Automatic Weapon gunner with 2nd Platoon, Company I, Battalion Landing Team 3/8, Regimental Combat Team 8, leaps a ditch while returning from a security patrol in Helmand province's Green Zone, west of the Nahr-e Saraj canal, March 25. Elements of 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit deployed to Afghanistan to provide regional security in Helmand province in support of the International Security Assistance Force.

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Matthew Dyke, left, and Lance Cpl. Zachary Brizio, both with 1st Platoon, Company I, Battalion Landing Team 3/8, Regimental Combat Team 8, set in their M240B machine gun during a security patrol through a poppy field from their patrol base in Helmand province's Green Zone.


Soldiers from 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment head out on a normal routine patrol in the area of the Showal bazaar (26 Mar 11) in Afghanistan.

whydave

U.S. Army Pfc. Ben Bradley (left), a Bulldog Troop, Red Platoon scout (7th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment), ducks away from small-arms fire, as fellow scout Sgt. Jeff Sheppard, launches a grenade at the enemy’s position, during a combat engagement in northern Bala Murghab Valley, Baghdis Province, Afghanistan April 4, 2011. Bradley, Sheppard, U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Kevin Wallace, U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Ryan Lee and his military working dog ‘Valdo’ were all wounded by a rocket propelled grenade blast in the engagement. All servicemembers suffered minor wounds and Valdo was critical, but survived the attack.

The_ChiefDUB

Sgt. Paul Boothroyd III after taking a sniper round to the head south of Sangin in Afghanistan. The round penetrated his helmet but got turned by the kevlar and lodged below his ear. http://marinecorpstimes.com/news/2011/04/marine-headshot-sniper-survive-040511w/

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one for manic


7.62 pmags

Poccington

the_syco wrote: »

Blackhorse Avenue?

The Curragh dude.

whydave

A French tank crosses General de Gaulle bridge in Ivory Coast April 5, 2011.

Afghan National Civil Order Police students demonstrate combat techniques during a graduation ceremony held at the recruit training center in Mehtar Lam. This was the first graduating class to go through the training while the center was under complete Afghan control.


''Libyan rebels''

Manic Moran

All true tankers strive to be Oddball.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBiSKaAms5E

Lay off of them negative waves, Moussa....

Rebel tankers sit in a tent smoking hashish near their tank along the road between Ajdabiyah and Brega April 6, 2011

NTM

whydave

U.S. Army Pfc. Ryan Warner, Company D, 1st Platoon, 1st Battalion, 181st Infantry Regiment of the Massachusetts National Guard security forces member from Hudson, Mass., secures an area during a visit to Bala Hissar Citadel in Ghazni City, Afghanistan, by the Hayward-Ghazni Sister City Committee March 29.


T-90 (not to sure on that )

how tanks are born !:D

the_syco

whydave wrote: »

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/5805/wait4me90.5a/0_572cd_5f05a14f_XXXL.jpg

Lovely picture. Checking the source, render.ru out, and the stuff is fabulous

whydave

Demonstration of Belgium’s Special Forces Group, the simulated recovery of a helicopter pilot wounded.


NEW AUG !!!!

whydave

whydave

Estonian Soldiers with NSE-10 (National Support Element 10 ) while serving in Helmand Province Afghanistan - During a live fire weapons training session – 4th April 2011

whydave

whydave

STEYR AUG A3 9mm XS
Want one !!!

STEYR AUG A3 SF
Wallpaper

whydave

whydave

Warrant Officer Class 2 (WO2) Damien Timms of Mentoring Task Force Three (MTF-3) in Tiered Body Armour System (TBAS). Visiting Townsville today, the Chief of Army, Lieutenant General Ken Gillespie, observed Afghan bound troops firing weapons while wearing the newly issued Tiered Body Armour System (TBAS).

whydave

I give you MACV SOGalso at ....

Manic Moran

Our favourite rebel is back.

He's lost the 23mm round, but has a new hat.



Words fail me on this one.



NTM

whydave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54X5XkBFml0

The Belt-fed, Semi-Automatic rifle (BSR – Mod 1) borrows from the original Stoner/Colt belt-fed design and utilizes modern technology to precisely machine the removable belt box and feed tray mechanism that converts a standard AR-15 style rifle into a belt-fed, semi-automatic support weapons platform.

whydave

Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, April 8. The XM2010 is a new Army-purchased weapon being distributed to sniper teams operating in Afghanistan.

hope this isn't to old !:D

whydave

These female solider from army special forces 862, they were completed the anti-airborne exercise mission at Chinchuangan military airport,Taichung,central Taiwan, April 14th,2011.

whydave

Troops from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and the Lebanese army take part in a land and sea military defense exercise on April 14, 2011 in the southern Lebanese coastal town of Naqura, near the border with Israel.

whydave

Chief Warrant Officer 2 Josh Robertson, from Deming N.M., a tactical operations officer with in Task Force Attack, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, operates the Re-configurable Training Device, a flight simulator, at the Seneff
Aviation Warfighting Simulation Center, April 5.


U.S. Soldiers with 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division return fire during a firefight with Taliban forces in Barawala Kalay Valley in Kunar province, Afghanistan, March 31, 2011.

A Coalition Special Operations soldier, assigned to Special Operations Task Force-West, patrols villages around Mirmandab, Afghanistan, April 7.

Mohamed, 10, stands guard at the frontline along the western entrance of Ajdabiyah April 13, 2011. Mohamed's rebel fighter father earlier had given him a rifle and asked him to replace him in his duties.

A canon fires on Fort Sumter by Confederate re-enactors to mark the first shot of the US Civil War 150-years ago on April 12, 2011 in Charleston, South Carolina. The Civil War began when confederate forces fired on the Union held Fort Sumter April 12, 1861 in Charleston harbor.

whydave

A man looks at a machine guns displayed at the Latin America Aero and Defence (LAAD) trade show for the defence and security industry in Latin America, in Rio de Janeiro April 14, 2011.

A soldier holds a IMI Galil Sniper SA 7.62x51mm.

Manic Moran

I think that might be a case of them doing a simultaneous launch instead of a ripple launch like they should, so the two rockets are interfering with each other.

Seriously, those Qatari anti-tank missiles couldn't get there soon enough.


On the other hand, if that's what he used against the tank in the background, don't knock it if it works.

Oops?


NTM

whydave

U.S. Army Sgt. Wallace Trahan from Baton Rouge, La., with 1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, oversees his soldiers security positions during Operation Charkh Restoration, Charkh, Logar province, Afghanistan, April 5.

U.S. Army 1st. Lt. Eric Hanson from Alexis, Ill., the Platoon Leader for 1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, reads a map during Operation Charkh Restoration, Charkh District, Logar province, Afghanistan, April 5.

Polish soldiers wait for further instructions during a cordon and search operation in Sangar, Afghanistan, April 2, 2011.

Sangar, Afghanistan, April 2, 2011.


US Soldiers from the 234th Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kansas are seen inside of a plane to Afghanistan from the US transit center Manas 30kms from Bishkek on April 15, 2011.


No. 450 Squadron veteran Maurie Douglas inspects the grand old Kittyhawk as he reflects on his time with No. 450 Squadron during World War II. Seventy years ago today, members from No 450 Squadron departed Williamtown to embark on the largest convoy to leave Australia during World War II. No 450 Squadron veterans, widows and Association patrons, along with Air Force personnel currently serving at Williamtown, marked this significant occasion in Australia's war and aviation history with a Memorial Service at the Base.

A Royal Australian Air Force F/A-18 Hornet and a World War II Kittyhawk take to the sky’s over Newcastle during the No 450 Squadron 70th Anniversary celebrations.

whydave

An AH-64D Apache helicopter lifts off from Contingency Operating Site Kalsu for a counter indirect-fire mission, April 12. Soldiers of Company B, 1st Battalion, 229th Aviation Regiment, 21st Cavalry Brigade, are supporting the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment by providing ground surveillance of areas around Kalsu.

U.S. Army Pfc. Joshua Tubbs from Sebring, Fla., with 1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, pulls security during a patrol in the Charkh District of Logar province, Afghanistan, during Operation Charkh Restoration, April 5.

Spc. Lewis Durant from 501st Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team “Ready First,” 1st Armored Division uses the modified kneeling position as he practices firing his M4 Rifle through one of the cutout holes on his firing position.

US Soldiers from the 234th Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kansas march before boarding a plane to Afghanistan from the US transit center Manas 30kms from Bishkek on April 15, 2011.

andy_g

Pilatus PC-9M -

Captain Derek Furniss & Cadet David Jevens flying PC-9M serial 265 make a low pass at the Connemara Air Show 2009. Unfortunately both crew were killed in this very aircraft when it crashed a few months later in the same rugged part of Ireland known as Connemara.

whydave

whydave

Manic Moran

NTM

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best ranger competition held last weekend

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whydave

A security personnel keeps guard while Pakistani Army Chief Ashfaq Parvez Kayani (L) arrives to inaugurate a technical training center in Gwadar in Balochistan Province April 18, 2011.

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - APRIL 18: Afghanistan National Army (ANA) soldiers stand guard at the main gate of the Defence Ministry in Kabul on April 18, 2011.

whydave

A Libyan rebel wearing a pilot's helmet fires a heavy machine gun mounted on a pick-up truck during heavy clashes with government soldiers loyal to Moamer Kadhafi in Tripoli street in central of Misrata, 120 kms (75 miles) east of Tripoli, on April 18, 2011

A Libyan rebel celebrates in relief after crossing Tripoli street (R), a hub of heavy clashes .

Bundeswehr compulsory basic training.. Die vorerst letzten Wehrpflichtigen der 5.Kompanie des Panzergrenadierbataillons 371 (5./PzGrenBtl 371) Marienberg bei Ihrer Rekrutenbesichtigung. Die Rekrutenbesichtigung ist die Abschlussprüfung der Allgemeinen Grundausbildung (AGA) bei der Bundeswehr.

whydave

Spc. Patrick D. Forsthoefel, Alpha Company, Special Troops Battalion, 37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Ohio National Guard

Pfc. Kaleb Peck, Charlie Company,

Pvt. Charles Shidler, Alpha Company

whydave

U.S. Marines with 1st Platoon, Delta Company, 1st Tank Battalion attached to Company L, Battalion Landing Team 3/8, Regimental Combat Team 8, provides over watch in an M1A1 Abrams Tank at a vital bridge crossing in the Green Zone near Combat Outpost Ouellette, Helmand province, Afghanistan, April 6.