Post Your Military Service/Combat Pics

Soulja · Post by **Soulja** » 2008-01-22 03:08

Here's the only one I have uploaded that is appropriate...... >.>

Getting ready for a patrol and just plain looking badass with the M2.

USMC_Cook · Post by **USMC_Cook** » 2008-01-22 03:38

These two pics didn't come out, so I'll re-post.

This is a shot of Cd standing next to the Blackwater bridge, looking down the MSR that ran through Fallujah towards the end of the assault.

Kicking back in the recliners with Cd, watching a lot of heavy fighting around the city.

USMC_Cook · Post by **USMC_Cook** » 2008-01-22 03:50

Liquid_Cow wrote:Ryan, you get to shoot the Drag at all? How'd it compair to our shit?

Dragunovs are cheap, but they get the job done. I would prefer a Dragunov over a bolt-action rifle in heavy urban combat. We didn't fire that Dragunov though, couldn't tell if it was booby trapped or not.

joselucca · Post by **joselucca** » 2008-01-22 16:59

Isnt that why the army is switching to a 7.62 magazine fed m16 clone sniper system? i think someone posted a video of it on here some where.

RoGuETrOoPeR · Post by **RoGuETrOoPeR** » 2008-01-22 17:35

July 03, Kuwait border awaiting transport into Iraq.

Sept 03, Basra Int. Airport. Some toys we took off some naughty Iraqis we found hanging around the perimiter fence.

This was, as far as I'm aware, the first full Territorial Army, Company strength deployment since Aden, as our Co said "A great honour for the TyneTees regiment" (now disbanded) July 03 - Jan 04. OpTelic II & III

WNxKenwayy · Post by **WNxKenwayy** » 2008-01-22 17:36

ryanb43 wrote:Dragunovs are cheap, but they get the job done. I would prefer a Dragunov over a bolt-action rifle in heavy urban combat. We didn't fire that Dragunov though, couldn't tell if it was booby trapped or not.

Beginning part of the war you could get away with that, DON'T pick shit up today though for anyone heading over or thinking of. They know damn well our desire to be cool and get photo's holding enemy ****, so they booby trap high value items like SVD's/ak's/PKM's/RPG's etc. Make sure you take a goooood look before picking anything up and if your suspicious give EOD a call.

Liquid_Cow · Post by **Liquid_Cow** » 2008-01-23 01:39

joselucca wrote:Isnt that why the army is switching to a 7.62 magazine fed m16 clone sniper system?

That would be the SR-25/Mk11/M110. Its not a clone of the M-16, its actually based on the AR-10, the gun which the M-16 was created from.

The bolt-action M40 sniper rifle currently in use is reportedly not ideally suited for the urban environment. According to the Army Times, "the 20-round magazine and higher rate of fire also helps make the Mk 11 a defensive weapon, eliminating the need for snipers to carry three weapons — the M40A3, an M16A4 rifle and M9 pistol — on their way to a hide, snipers say." An added advantage of the Mk 11, according to Army Times, "particularly in an urban fight where the enemy lurks among the population sharing the roads and alleys with Marines on patrol, is the rifle’s resemblance to a standard M16A4."

Post by **Undies** » 2008-01-23 21:43

Me and a mate of mine doing a Challenger 1 course in Bovington in 1998.

Thats me in Manjaca in Bosnia 1999.

And this ones on the training area near Munster in Germany in 1999-2000 ish, i cant remember when, but it was p**sing down with rain and we were leaguered up having a brew and a smoke at the time.