Military Photo Thread [READ FIRST POST BEFORE POSTING]

Paddy The Pirate

Airman John Fisher, aviation electrician’s mate, shovels snow in front of USS Constitution at Charlestown Navy Yard during a snow storm the hit the east coast. A look inside the refueling pod on a KC-135. The wide-angle lens used here, a 15mm, might make it look a bit bigger than it really is. The best part of the pods, though, is looking straight down as you fly. The worst part – no heating.

whydave

NURISTAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan - U.S. Army Soldiers with Company C, 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry Regiment, walk down a path outside the village of Nengaresh, Afghanistan, Jan. 21.

whydave

U.S. Army Sgt. SunJo Chang, an infantry team leader with Company C, 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry Regiment, from Ames, Iowa, skillfully shuffles across a log bridge outside the village of Tupac, Afghanistan, Jan. 21.

A Chinese national from the 1st section 'Les Aigles ' (the eagles) of the 2nd REG (Régiment étranger du génie), serving as a soldier with the French Foreign Legion, at Forward Operating Base Tagab-Kutschbach near Tagab in Kapisa Province on January 24, 2011.

A Canadian national

A German national

A Romanian national

A Polish national

A french solidier looks on as member of the Afghan National Police (ANP) check a Pakistani truck on the roadside of the highway 7 route between Pakistan and Afghanistan, in Surobi province on January 22, 2011.

whydave

Swiss Soldiers from 4 Company of the Gebirgs Infantry Battalion 85' during a Night Mortar Shoot – January 25th 2011

whydave

Palestinian militants from the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades give a press conference in which they denounce the alleged major concessions made by rival Palestinian leaders during peace talks with Israel. Gaza City, Palestine. 27/01/2011

whydave

A German Bundeswehr army military police officer on patrol in Queslal, north of Kunduz, northern Afghanistan December 11, 2010.

A 120mm mortar round flies out of the tube as U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Ramey J. Brown (left), a section sergeant from Marshville, N.C., Spc. Tyler L. Dillon (center), a team leader from Williamstown, W. Va., and Pvt. Gabriel C. Fields (right), from Fort Worth, Texas, all mortarmen assigned to Troop C, 1st Squadron, 32nd Cavalry Regiment, Task Force Bandits, take cover while at Observation Post Mustang in eastern Afghanistan’s Kunar Province on Jan. 26. “It gets pretty intense sometimes when firing, especially if a firefight is going on,” said Dillon.

whydave

Polish

whydave

Soldiers patrol the parking lot of a store after a gunfight against hitmen in the municipality of Santa Catarina, neighbouring Monterrey February 1, 2011. Soldiers gunned down three hitmen during a shooting, according to local media. Armed men also blocked roads with trucks and buses in an apparent attempt to hamper army operations.

Spooky-Vinny

Over kill?
No such thing...
xXx

thebillynator

Falklands




Royal marines

whydave

ATLANTIC OCEAN (Feb. 1, 2011) An aircraft director rests on an F/A-18 Super Hornet during a short break in flight operations aboard the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). Harry S. Truman is supporting fleet replacement squadron carrier qualifications.

A US Marine from 1 Marines division, 1 Tanks, Delta company, 3 platoon sits in his M1 Abrams tank as others refuel their vehicles at FOB Edinburgh base, Helmand province, on February 2, 2011.

whydave

Members of a historical military club participate in the World War II battle reconstruction marking this date - the 67th anniversary of the liberation of Leningrad (Soviet-era name of St.Petersburg). St. Petersburg,

RNO

War of Algeria, a taste of afghanistan 50 years ago.

hrta

SAPS Special Task Force

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQSndb1DcqY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQSndb1DcqY

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8259482298417043974&sourceid=docidfeed&hl=#

whydave

The Czech military will be equipped with a new type of assault rifle CZ 805 BREN A1/A2 made by the Ceska zbrojovka, a Czech joint stock company based at Uhersky Brod, which has won an open tender for delivery.The new assault rifle CZ 805 BREN A1 (and type A2 with a short barrel) is part of the Soldier of 21st Century Project, which will integrate all elements of personal equipment, gear, communication, navigation, optoelectronics and identification features of a soldier. The weapon replaces outdated Czechoslovak assault rifle 76,2 mm vz. 58, that was in successful use by Czechoslovak and Czech military for more than 50 years. The modern CZ 805 BREN rifle represents a unified modular weapon system enabling accommodation of additional devices with the prospective of further improvements. Both 7,62x39 mm, and NATO standard 5,56x45 mm cartridge calibers can be employed with the CZ 805 BREN.

whydave

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U.S. Army Pfc. Kevin March kneels atop a cliff overlooking the Arghandab River valley to provide security for his squad as they climb up the cliff from the valley below in the Arghandab district, Afghanistan, Jan. 31, 2011. March is assigned to the 4th Infantry Division's Company C., 1st Battalion, 66th Armored Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team.

bullets

Not sure of the rules of this thread can we post photos
of ourselves from yesteryear ??

I would be interested to see more photos of people
on here of themselves either from the Past or present
either reserve or PDF

Have a few of myself when I was a teenager in the FCA
back in the early 90's back then I was 9 stone! today
I have manboobs, 3 chins a beer belly and am ringing in at a whopping 14 stone.

Cpl Bullets the Bastard that made all his recruits get turf for the fire, the keys to the Square, Sky Hooks, Long Weights etc Looked like a smarmy bastard back then.
The cheek of the fecker picking his nose behind my back while I let them have a smoke break on a hot summers day! I had them marching around the square that day with utterances such as "lock down on the wrists, take the bends out of the elbows, swing the arms shoulder high of the man in front of you, look up off the ground, I picked up all the money before ye type of lines as trainers tend to do"


Bullets meets Hollywood. Good old Mel Gibson came over
to OireLaaannnD! to make a movie called Braveheart back in 1994 where 1600 Reserve Army got to play extras.
Saving Privite Ryan was also on the Cards but I was working shift work at the time so could not take the summer off to pretend I was a WWII soldier.
These were taken on the Curragh Camp Co. Kildare back when I was waiting for my exam results for the leaving cert! so many of us had Lied about our age when signing up to the FCA that when our results came out we were queued up at a phone box (in Kilts) to get the results all the time when the Army were ignoring the fact we signed up under age.



I hated the Gustav I was a brilliant shot with the Rifle
but was pure **** when it came to the SMG.
It was a bloody dangerous gun! When on guard duty
on the back of a truck you needed to keep the mag removed from the gun as if the truck went over a bump
it would self cock and bloody well fire.

in this Photo you can see Females. One of them I spent
time trying to chat up (not in photo)but she was having none of it!
on of the other's had amazing...[insert]personality.
[Edit: Snip actually better take that last line out may get me in trouble someday]

I joined the FCA shortly after females recruits were initially accepted and trained some of which I trained went on to join the permanent defense force. We at the time were one of the few areas of Limerick that had both a mix of female and male reservists.
You can also see that we were issued with "hand me downs" the FN-FAL's (they were all FAL's and not L1A1's)
had wooden stocks but the handguards were plastic with
grenade launcher sights. Later on we started to get the imbel models that had NO grenade sights, a different gas plug, and consisted of a synthetic stock with a different and stiff change lever and body locking lever.



Ahhhh the Lovely Bren gun!
This Baby was sweet to fire.
No Kick it actually pulled forward. it was an accurate sweet sweet gun to fire. You fired it with 3 round burst and usually stuck an empty shell through each leg of the bi-pod to help anchor her to the grounds. It had a blade foresight and was totally awesome for ranges of 3-400 yards when you consider it was all Iron Sites.


I was actually fit and healthy in this photo being able to jog cross country for 10km and do the whole carry people in a stretcher for the last 500 yards mularky. Looking back
now would love to have fitness I had then.
This was when the Imbel FN's started to get circulated and everyone
wanted to fire them as the Barrels were not burn'd out and the rifling was
barely worn in. They were a bitch to strip as everything was soo stiff
but I could not get enough of them. I still have the Webbing to this day.
The Belt I tried to wear last Saturday when going to a skirmish but
it did not fit.



Not sure of the year but it was the year where I won 3 different awards and was carrying 3 trophies. I know the location was Clonmel Barracks and the same year we from Limerick were shunned from the town cos one of the sucmbag like lads that were in our group stole a honda civic by opening it with a bump from his arse and hot wired it and joyrided and crashed it. He was left go!
I never won anything in my life up until that point in time, so it was big deal for me getting 3 awards for something. Trivial now
but back then it ment a lot to a young fella


Braveheart again. As a member of the FCA at the time we
were allowed special permission to actually grow our facial hair to "try" and grow a beard to make us look like a genuine scotsmen for an extra in braveheart.
as a few weeks went by the extra's were treated like **** and fed little more than dog food, with an apple and a mars bar for lunch and was got out of bed at 6am and finished back to bunks at 9-10 at night. Eventually the Irish exras protested by shaving any facial hair they had
so they would appear on screen as squeaky clean smooth chin'd folks just to **** with them.

whydave

A Marine carries a wounded colleague to a medevac helicopter after their convoy, including the destroyed truck at background, hit an improvised explosive device near Marjah in Helmand Province on Thursday, Jan. 27.

A mine clearing specialist from the French Foreign Legion searches for improvised explosive devices on a road near Tagab in Kapisa Province on Jan. 25.

Marines take position during a patrol in Musa Qala on Jan. 28. The Marine Corps has been at the vanguard of a NATO-backed push into areas held by the Taliban.

Marines protect their faces as a helicopter* lands at Musa Qala base in Helmand province on Jan. 27.
*Boeing Vertol V22 used by USMC (thanks Peter)

whydave

Paramilitary police commandos conduct a patrol along a street of Fogueteiro shantytown in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on February 6, 2011 early morning during the Rio II operation to control the drug traffickers' 'bunkers' (strongpoints). At this time the deployment has occurred peacefully without a single bullet fired in anger so far.

whydave

US Marines from 1st Battalion, 8th Marines use missiles as they fire at Taliban fighters during a night at Mirage base, on the south of Musa Qala District, Helmand province on February 4, 2011. One missile costs 86000 US dollars (63321 euros).


A member of an Afghan international security force pulls security Dec. 13, 2010, while the rest of the team searches a compound and detains three suspects who are possibly connected to the fatal suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device attack which killed at least eight Afghan and U.S. service members. The security force conducted the operation without firing their weapons in Kandahar province, Afghanistan.



This combintation picture made up of four pictures shows a US Marine from 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, Bravo company shooting a missile at Mirage patrol base, Musa Qala District, in Afghanistan's Helmand province on February 8, 2011. Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on February 8, 2011 that he was in talks with the United States about the possible establishment of permanent US military bases in this war-ravaged country.

whydave

New Jersey native Sgt. Sam Surowitz, a soldier with 9th Battalion, 4th Psychological Operations Group, fires at his target during the Special Forces Basic Combat Course-Support at Fort Bragg, N.C., Jan. 20. All support units are required to attend the course before deploying with Special Forces.

Brady Rusk, 12, hugs Eli at a retirement and adoption ceremony at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, Feb. 3. The bomb-sniffing Labrador retriever was assigned to Brady's older brother, Marine Pfc. Colton Rusk, 20, who was killed in action in Afghanistan by Taliban sniper fire Dec. 5. The Department of Defense granted the Rusk's permission to adopt Eli and allow him to join their family.

helimachoptor

@whydave, thanks for the second and third pics. I didnt realise NVG's gave off so much light!

Puding

helimachoptor wrote: »

@whydave, thanks for the second and third pics. I didnt realise NVG's gave off so much light!

they do give of a distinct glow but the picture makes it look worse than it is due to the long ish exposure

whydave

Lance Cpl. Joshua D. Lee, a grenadier for 2nd Platoon, Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, holds security when his patrol halts at Range 401, Jan. 29. Alpha Company conducted the range as part of their Enhanced Mojave Viper pre-deployment training package. Range 401 is a live-fire, reinforced company deliberate attack on a fortified position. Lee, 20, is from Murray, Ky.

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An Iraqi soldier's goggles catch the reflection of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Kevin Murphy, left, as he instructs Iraqi soldiers of 2nd Battalion, 11th Brigade, 3rd Iraqi Army Division, on individual movement techniques at the Ghuzlani Warrior Training Center, Feb. 2. Murphy and fellow soldiers of 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, run Iraqi battalions through 25-day training cycles at GWTC, teaching Iraqi soldiers collective unit-level battle drills, improving the IA’s ability to protect against external threats.

whydave

A member of 2 Scots keeps a watchful eye out for Taliban activity as members of 9 Parachute Squadron 23 Engineer Regiment construct the next phase of Route Trident.


Royal Marines

Go Navy !!

whydave

M-14 bullpup !!!!

M14HDW

Artur.PL

Polish Navy Search and Rescue

whydave

A 60 mm high-explosive round fires from the tube of an M-224 Company Mortar System as the 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment gun team readies the next shot, Feb. 11, during Exercise Cobra Gold 2011.

SAN DIEGO (Feb. 12, 2011) An F/A-18 Hornet painted with a Navy Working Uniform color scheme is one of several naval aircraft static displays at the Centennial of Naval Aviation Open House and Parade of Flight at Naval Air Station North Island. The Navy is observing the Centennial of Naval Aviation with a series of nationwide events celebrating 100 years of heritage, progress and achievement in naval aviation.

whydave

A military working dog holds its position while it handler loads gear onto a truck prior to movement to Combat Outpost Ouellette in the Helmand province, Afghanistan, Jan. 28. Elements of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit deployed to Afghanistan to provide regional security in Helmand province in support of the International Security Assistance Force.

A U.S. soldier with the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) stands guard near a police headquarters which was attacked by Taliban insurgents in Kandahar south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011. Taliban insurgents wearing explosive vests attacked the police headquarters on Saturday, unleashing an arsenal of car bombs, automatic rifle fire and rocket-propelled grenades

Danin

U.S. Army Sgt. Orlando Garcia swings a red chemical light to rally fellow artillerymen during training to prepare for a large airborne exercise at night on Fort Bragg, N.C., Feb, 10, 2011. Garcia is assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division's 3rd Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod