Military Photo Thread (Discussion)

OzCam

Manic Moran wrote: »

Other than the fact that helos are inherently un-airworthy and it may be safer to jump out rather than wait for it to crash.

LOL

And let's not discuss the merits of a defensive position where your ass is to the enemy.

All the faster to drive away, m'dear. Oh, sorry, it's the Marines; Retreat "Attack to the rear"...
We know you'd never contemplate such a thing, of course :P

swiftblade

Baptise a dog? I thought they believed dogs didn't have souls? Anyway...

Didn't know they used Rothweilers as service dogs.

Firekitten

Helos arent that un airworthy... even if your engines go, you can auto rotate it down to a safe landing...standard training.


Dogs... cute puppies!

tanks... well they are yanks, it could well be a defensive position where the thing died, and the recovery chaps got fubar'd too. :P

whydave

whydave wrote: »

Austrian Military dogs Rottweiler puppies Mister, Mike, Mara and Mary.

So was it Mister, Mike, Mara or Mary who knows how to deal with politicians !

Manic Moran

Firekitten wrote: »

Helos arent that un airworthy... even if your engines go, you can auto rotate it down to a safe landing...standard training.

Auto-rotation is more of a somewhat-restrained crash in a generally downward direction. I've something of an 9:1 glide ratio in my Cessna and can pretty much control where it is I'm going to go down.

However, the comment is more a reflection of good-natured ribbing from the fixed-wing world to the rotorheads. The choppers beat walking.

NTM

Firekitten

Oh naturally, I'd prefer 9:1 over um... 0.5:1 (at best) but its survivable... anything you walk away from right?

helimachoptor

@ whydave, why do the names all have the strikethrough effect?

swiftblade

helimachoptor wrote: »

@ whydave, why do the names all have the strikethrough effect?

it's to do with the other website he robs borrows the images/text from. Its html coding is different to boards, such that a strike through may mean bold on the other site

whydave

helimachoptor wrote: »

@ whydave, why do the names all have the strikethrough effect?

It's done to 'protect' the identification of the servicemen and woman,I stop if you want !
David

swiftblade

whydave wrote: »

It's done to 'protect' the identification of the servicemen and woman,I stop if you want !
David

Really? Crap, sorry I got that wrong.

Firekitten

you fail miserably on that count then


Funny how you started doing this after you got slapped for posting a 'dodgy' opsec photo.

Manic Moran

It's done to 'protect' the identification of the servicemen and woman,I stop if you want !

I don't know how it comes up on your computer, but you do realise that for the rest of us, we can read all the names, they just have a line through 'em, right?

NTM

Lemming

Manic Moran wrote: »

I don't know how it comes up on your computer, but you do realise that for the rest of us, we can read all the names, they just have a line through 'em, right?

NTM

Indeed; if one were serious about protecting identities, you'd remove the names period.

As an aside; having administered, carried out development work on, and/or used a variety of different web-based discussion fora products over the years, I have yet to encounter one that has any sort of 'redact' feature.

Leftyflip

Firekitten wrote: »

you fail miserably on that count then


Funny how you started doing this after you got slapped for posting a 'dodgy' opsec photo.

Oh crawl back in your box - just drop it, please, before we've another shítstorm.*



*Friendly advice.

Witcher

/get popcorn

DICEMAN7

Firekitten wrote: »

you fail miserably on that count then


Funny how you started doing this after you got slapped for posting a 'dodgy' opsec photo.

which i may add was never given a mod ruling

Firekitten

Because you don't see, a ruling, doesnt mean one hasn't occured.


Lefty: beating around the bush is rather droll at times.

whydave

whydave wrote: »

whydave wrote: »

Is there a standard issue of combat glove in the US Army or USMC ?

DICEMAN7

Firekitten wrote: »

Because you don't see, a ruling, doesnt mean one hasn't occured.


Lefty: beating around the bush is rather droll at times.

well if one has been offered i expect one to be offeredOriginally Posted by Steve
That matter has been passed to a higher power than me at this point so I can't really comment till I hear back.
As regards lefty's post - someone reported it earlier, I requested that another mod deal with it so I couldn't be accused of hypocrisy. Nobody replied to that (cos nobody was online I guess) so it's now removed as well (by me).

Manic Moran

Is there a standard issue of combat glove in the US Army or USMC ?

Only ones designed for cold weather or fire protection. In the summer I always wear Nomex, in the winter, something thicker, but always Army issue.

NTM

whydave

whydave wrote: »

U.S. Marines Lance Cpl. Gregory Rogers, 23, of Charleston S.C. , left, and Pfc. Joseph Lipton, 19, of Somers, Conn. , with the 3rd Battalion 2nd Marines based in Camp Lejeune, N.C.

Shoplifters pictured and named in a new 'name and shame' Campaign ! :D:D:D

darman28

I have to say I have enjoyed the photo thread over the past few months and thanks and fair play to those who are always putting up the photos.Keep them coming please, love the Irish army ones :D

swiftblade

Any backstory to that Irish army pic? I thought the Irish army never used mines Or maybe they're training in the defusal of it?

birdman 1979

Havent seen that pic in years. I just noticed, the guy behind the mine, is rocking a mp5? or hk33? Hmmm!

Beez

swiftblade wrote: »

Any backstory to that Irish army pic? I thought the Irish army never used mines Or maybe they're training in the defusal of it?

As along as it is controlled by remote detonation and not just motion im guessing??

OzCam

Victim-activated mines are now internationally banned under the Ottawa Treaty, but command-activated ones are still allowed.

The FFV013 is used in Sweden, so I'm guessing this photo is from the PDF unit attached to the Nordic Battlegroup.

frostbite

The photo predates the irish involvement in the NBG. I remember seeing it in 2003 so it couldnt be members of the Battle Group

whydave

whydave wrote: »

9mm tavor !!!!!!

gerrowadat

whydave wrote: »

9mm tavor !!!!!!

Pfft. Ain't no thang. Here's what a few shekels and knowing the right dudes in Israel gets you.

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

Hivemind187

gerrowadat wrote: »

Pfft. Ain't no thang. Here's what a few shekels and knowing the right dudes in Israel gets you.

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

I am mind meltingly envious of that.

gerrowadat

Hivemind187 wrote: »

I am mind meltingly envious of that.

All I had to do was try not to look too much like a n00b, as it was in a PMC training compound somewhere north of Haifa in the middle of nowhere, and a load of lads were bare-knuckle knocking the **** out of each other one lane over :-)

That and not **** around and pull of mad val kilmer reloads so the guy standing over me in the video didn't decide to lob me over a wall.

MerryDespot

whydave wrote: »

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Galil ACE - first time I've seen the Columbian modernized version of the Galil - I like!

Poccington

OzCam wrote: »

Victim-activated mines are now internationally banned under the Ottawa Treaty, but command-activated ones are still allowed.

The FFV013 is used in Sweden, so I'm guessing this photo is from the PDF unit attached to the Nordic Battlegroup.

AFAIK, we use mines in a command detonation role, which is why it's legal.

As for the pic, it was taken long before we got involved with the NBG. As you can tell from the weapons, it involves the lads who wear dark green berets.

Beez

Some serious posing going on in them Rangers pics

whydave

whydave wrote: »

If you see this your day just went down the sh*tter !!!

gungun

Were'd he get a tavor?

whydave wrote: »

whydave

gungun wrote: »

Were'd he get a tavor?

here !!!anything for cash ! And he has boots !!!!!

Manic Moran

Seriously, what's the point?

NTM

Evade

In the pictures of the Columbian Independence parade are the M16s very worn looking A4s or A2s/A3s with after-market upper receivers?

OzCam

[Blue & black face paint]

Seriously, what's the point?

Theatre, maybe?

Or, as Thermo would say, "because she can".

Stealthirl

whydave wrote: »

9mm tavor !!!!!!

its the x95 smg,nice bit of kit allright

whydave

whydave wrote: »

whydave wrote: »

JonnyTwoCombs

Thermo, sometimes just because you can..............doesn't mean you should

Puding wrote: »

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jun/18/war-photographers-special-report

Warning some images NSFW

Chris, great link

Thehandviolent

Mannnn.... the soldier third from the left at the front row is cool as ****. Mp5 and a stogie. Legend

Evade

whydave wrote: »

Air Force Staff Sgt. Timothy Husketh, vehicle maintainer attached to Laghman Provincial Reconstruction Team, fires his M-4 rifle at targets while practicing at the off-base firing range near Forward Operating Base Mehtar Lam Aug. 6.

Air Force Master Sgt. Jeffery Needham.

Have the USAF switched to MTP (I've seen photos of Para-Rescue Jumpers wearing it but they're an exception) too or are these guys attached to an Army unit and don't want to stand out?

Faolchu

Evade wrote: »

Have the USAF switched to MTP (I've seen photos of Para-Rescue Jumpers wearing it but they're an exception) too or are these guys attached to an Army unit and don't want to stand out?

I'm pretty sure they wear ABUs on base but in the field they are authorised to wear something more suitable. the guy above is attached to a reconstruction team so I would assume he would wear an appropriate uniform for that duty. this article mentions something similiar.

PJs and CCTs would be in the field more often so would wear more appropriate uniforms like the one above. actually you could find that both these guys are combat controllers

OzCam

No, it's MultiCam, officially renamed OCP for Afghanistan. The USAF have authorised it for wear on ground ops there so they can fit in with the Joes.

Only the British Army will be wearing MTP, they've copyrighted it for exactly that purpose.

Stealthirl

Ah if only i could get my hands on a VSS

Decoy

whydave wrote: »

A part of a gun stamped "Made in Germany" is seen among the wreckage of Chinook helicopter shot down last week at Tangi Valley in Wardak province some 60 miles (97 kilometers) southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011.

I'm just back from hols in the US and this was big news over there, probably because of the number of SF personnel lost in the engagement.

For those who aren't aware some US SF groups use the HK416 in preference to standard US-built 5.56 weapons. A variant of the HK416 is also currently being deployed as part of the IAR programme.

MerryDespot

Decoy wrote: »

For those who aren't aware some US SF groups use the HK416 in preference to standard US-built 5.56 weapons. A variant of the HK416 is also currently being deployed as part of the IAR programme.

Also being used by the Marines as the M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle - basically a 416 with a heavier barrel and a few other mods to make automatic fire safer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M27_Infantry_Automatic_Rifle