Military Photos

thanks Piper....I'm not ashamed to tell my dad i love him every time i see him or talk to him... grcthird man i dont know. He was on a bunch of different ships. He was stationed on the USS Mississinewa .... sumthin like that .... a guy came to my shop had a haton with that ship on it couldnt believe it! they could hav been on it together..... small world

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allhaildeez said:

Sadr City in 04 and Baqubah in 06. You?

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Samarra for 15 months and Baqubah for a couple weeks back in 06-07

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jeepmedic said:

Samarra for 15 months and Baqubah for a couple weeks back in 06-07

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I was with 1st CAV in Baqubah from OCT 2006 to DEC 2007. Might have crossed paths.

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Iraq











Training with the Germans in a Leopard II

Are those jet pictures from Al Asad?

creepycrawly said:

Are those jet pictures from Al Asad?

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Yes it is.

cccj said:

Yes it is.

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Thought I recognized them. I have almost the same picture. I'll dig some out this weekend.

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Navy CSAR (combat search and rescue ) 80 to 91

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Me and SSG, guard duty right after 9/11.

Me on the left, Germersheim Germany

This dumbass...

Polish airborne training.

Drawsko Pomorskie, Poland

Drawsko Pomorskie, Poland

Drawsko Pomorskie, Poland


Drawsko Pomorskie, Poland


Kuwait, all the stuff Saddam blew up on the retreat was drug into the bermed areas. Was divided into civilian, armor, arty, and air. Was pretty neat and grim at the same time.

The seemingly endless expanse of nothingness always amazed me.

MSG was yelling at me in Spanglish, "Quit gahdammit! Take-a you ass somewhea!"


Side note- I absolutely DESTROYED the Pajero in the last picture. Camp Virginia they had 5-6' bermed areas with dumpsters in them, I hauled the trash off, backed it to the dumpsters and threw it away. Got in and fired it up, about 30 yards in front of me is that berm. I backed slowly until I felt it bump the dumpster, put it in low, and floored it. I'm here to tell you, a Pajero flies like a paper airplane with a nickel taped to the front of it. It ripped the whole facia off the front, bent both step bars up to where neither door would open, and cracked the windshield all to hell. Luckily, while I was surveying the damage a sand storm blew in. I mosied back to the tent, told SSG I tried to beat the sandstorm back and hit a berm. He said, "You ok?" I said yes, he said, "That's all that matters."

My name is Tom and I like to party.

I want to use this example to explain something. This is a picture of a game played for fun at 75th Ranger Regiment. It's played with a giant ball which is pushed across a goal line on either side of the field by the opposing team. As best I can recall, there are virtually no rules. It's an all out brawl! It wasn't uncommon for people to come out with broken limbs from these games. It was about as savage, primitive neanderthal contest of masculinity and dominance as you can get! And this was fun! But here's the thing... This is where warriors were brought in, taught, trained, grown and nurtured to go out into our worlds most austere environments, fight its most difficult battles and come home victorious. There were no women on the Ranger compound, zero. There was no room for weakness, fear, being offended, sensitivity or anything else that's plaguing our males today. There was no course on Male Toxicity there. If you did slip through the cracks somehow and were easily offended or weak, you'd be identified quickly and either toughened up in the harshest of ways or be sent packing. I miss the place where men were expected to be men and there were no safe spaces.

"We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school."
– Thucydides, "History of the Peloponnesian War" (431-404 B.C.)

^ well said Tom

Yea, I am a full time college student now so I thought it was appropriate lol.

The real snake eaters!

Flying around doing things and stuff.

Good days and bad days.

And boat life. For perspective, you can't roll over in these "coffin racks". And 16 dudes live in the space pictured.

creepycrawly said:

And boat life. For perspective, you can't roll over in these "coffin racks". And 16 dudes live in the space pictured.

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**** THAT !!!!!

bjeep said:

**** THAT !!!!!

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Hahaha! That's the general concensus. If I never go back to a ship, I'll be completely ok with it. But, it's not all bad. This picture was taken in the South China Sea while doing about 15 knots. Smoothest open water I've ever seen.