Spc. Hans Rvehr, a sniper from the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, searches for insurgents in Mosul, Iraq. This photo appeared on www.army.mil. March 1, 2006 by Spc. Clydell Kinchen
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A US soldier guards al-Nidaa Sunni mosque in Baghdad, February 2006. The Pentagon dismissed a poll's finding that 72 percent of US troops deployed in Iraq believe the United States should pull out of the country within a year or less(AFP/File/Karim Sahib)


US soldiers from the 1-506 RCT 101st Airborne Division run for cover during sporadic fighting in Ramadi, west of Baghdad, February 2006. A wide-ranging poll of US troops serving in Iraq made public found that 72 percent believe the United States should exit Iraq within a year.(AFP/File/David Furst)


US soldiers from Able Company 1-506 Infantry 101st Airborne Division kick down a door in order to search through a house as part of operation "Band of Brothers," launched in Ramadi, west of Baghdad. A series of bombings killed 64 people, including 25 in a car bomb attack outside a Baghdad Shiite mosque, raising fears of a new round of sectarian violence in Iraq.(AFP/David Furst)


A US soldier plays with Iraqi children while patrolling a street in Baghdad. One third of US troops returning from Iraq have needed at least one mental health consultation and one in five have been diagnosed with combat-induced psychological problems, a US study reported.(AFP/Karim Sahib)


Lebanese army soldiers patrol in front of the parliament building where rival Lebanese leaders will sit down Thursday around a table to tackle the worst political crisis since the end of the 1975-90 civil war, Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, March 1, 2006. Even before a conclave of 15 political leaders _ Muslim and Christian, pro- and anti-Syrian, convened, the hot, divisive issues of ousting the Lebanese pro-Syrian president, disarming the militant Hezbollah group and defining Lebanese-Syrian relations are already threatening to undermine the attempt to prevent the country's slide toward instability. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)


Israeli soldiers are seen at the site of a shooting attack near the Jewish settlement of Karni Shomron, Wendesday March. 1, 2006. An Israeli man was seriously wounded as he was shot in the neck in a drive-by shooting near the settlement of Karnei Shomron, the Israeli military said. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)


An Israeli soldier takes position during a clash with Palestinians in the Balata refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus February 28, 2006. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini


Israeli soldiers stand next to a Palestinian briefly detained for a routine security check in the West Bank town of Hebron Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2006. The U.N. on Tuesday became the latest international agency to caution that Israel and the West stand to unleash a crisis in Palestinian territories by withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in aid and tax transfers. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)



Israeli police officers stand guard near the Denmark soccer team's bus outside the stadium in Ramat Gan February 28, 2006. The Danes arrived in Israel amid tight security on Monday but appeared relaxed during a two-hour training session at the national stadium in Tel Aviv. The match had been in doubt because of security concerns after the wave of violent protests in the Middle East and Asia over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad first printed in a Danish newspaper last year. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun


Pakistani para-military soldiers man a checkpost at Miranshah, the main town in the restive tribal zone of north Waziristan, in January 2006. Around 40 suspected Al-Qaeda militants, including a Chechen commander, were killed when Pakistani troops backed by helicopter gunships struck their hideout near the Afghan border.(AFP/Mohammed Thair)


A U.S. Secret Service agent with an assault rifle stands guard as U.S. President Bush, rear left, poses with U.S. embassy personnel after he officially opened the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan Wednesday, March 1, 2006. Bush made a surprise visit to Afghanistan ahead of his trip to India and Pakistan. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)


Indian paramilitary police officers patrol outside the Maurya Sheraton hotel where U.S. President George W. Bush is due to stay in New Delhi February 28, 2006. About 5,000 personnel including snipers, commandos and U.S. marines using helicopters, bomb detectors and electronic jammers will protect Bush during his visit to India this week, officials said on Monday. REUTERS/Kamal Kishore


AFP/File - Wed Mar 1, 12:42 PM ET Soldiers attached to Warri's joint military taskforce stand on a street, 2004. The US oil giant Chevron has shut down one of its oil production plants in the Niger Delta, the firm said, as armed separatists pursued their campaign against the industry(AFP/File/Pius Otomi Ekpei)


Ivory Coast soldiers stand guard with a U.N. Soldier (C) in the capital Yamoussoukro where talks on how to reunite the divided West African state is taking place February 28, 2006. Ivory Coast's rival faction leaders met on home territory for the first time on Tuesday since the start of a three-year-old conflict and agreed on several measures to try to revive a stagnant peace process. REUTERS/Luc Gnago


A South African policewoman stands guard as voting equipment is packed away in Khutsong township west of Johannesburg March 1, 2006. South Africans voted for municipal officials on Wednesday in a poll seen as a measure of the ruling African National Congress's popularity after a campaign dominated by anger over lack of basic services, unemployment and graft. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko


Dagestani police officers patrol a street during a security sweep in the village of Solnechnoye in the Khasavyurt region of Dagestan, southern Russia, Wednesday, March 1, 2006. In the province of Dagestan east of Chechnya, local police detained five suspected militants overnight. The militants, who were detained in the Khasavyurt region near the Chechen border, allegedly had come from Chechnya to stage attacks in Dagestan, said a police spokesman. (AP Photo/NewsTeam, Dmitry Nikiforov)


A Philippine soldier stands guard at a checkpoint inside a military headquarters in Manila February 28, 2006. The Philippine government said on Tuesday it may lift emergency rule within days, but police geared up for more arrests of suspected plotters as fears lingered of an attempt to topple President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. REUTERS/Joseph Agcaoili


Thai border police and forensic officers examine the site where the bomb which was triggered by a mobile phone exploded outside Chana district office in Songkhla province, southern Thailand Wednesday, March 1, 2006. The bomb injured six police officers and three villagers. More than 1,300 people have been killed in daily shootings and bombings in the past two years in the southernmost provinces of Thailand since a dormant Muslim separatist movement re-emerged in January 2004. (AP Photo)


A U.S. soldier wears a local tribesman hat while he guards with his comrade at a perimeter security in the remote hinterland town of Maimbong in the war-torn Jolo island, southern Philippines March 2, 2006. About 250 US soldiers are working with their Filipino counterparts in training to fight terrorism, building schools and giving medical aid to residents in the heartland of Muslim extremists in the southern Philippines on the strife-torn Jolo island. REUTERS/Stringer


Police officers stand guard in Rivera, 150 miles southwest of Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, Feb.28, 2006.At least eight town council officials were killed in a bold attack by leftist rebels of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia,FARC.(AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)


Police officer helps Gil Trujillo a town councilor who was injured by Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC in Rivera, 150 miles southwest of Bogota, Monday, Feb.27, 2006. Heavily armed rebels burst into a hotel in southern Colombia where local government officials were meeting and killed at least eight town councilors on Monday, authorities said.(AP Photo/ Diario Del Huila, Alejandro Saavedra)

As always, good stuff.  Thanks Lumpy for the pics.

Isn't that Cray Multi-cam??

Quoted: us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/rids/20060302/i/r3615193247.jpg?x=380&y=304&sig=c.FyNPRPOfJxpcjVYxhiLg-- Isn't that Cray Multi-cam??

No, that is the camo that shall not be spoken.



USMC (cough)MARPAT(cough)

As usual, great pics.

Quoted: us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/rids/20060302/i/r3615193247.jpg?x=380&y=304&sig=c.FyNPRPOfJxpcjVYxhiLg-- Isn't that Cray Multi-cam??

MARPAT


Ya I said it.

Thanks Lumpy!

Great as always Lumpy.

Okay, I'm really going to embarass myself.  I try to stay on top of things, especially 101st related since I was in the 187th.  When the hell was the 506th re-activated?  Am I just oblivious to things?  How did I miss this?!?!?!?!  Granted, I am in Texas now and have been for some time.

God strike me down now before the wrath of Arfcom cometh...

Thought I'd throw a few up.


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Capt. Erik Aadland (front and center) looks up from his reading during a flight over Iraq Saturday, Feb. 18, 2006. Most of the passengers were returning to Iraq after a two-week break. The aircraft and crew are from the 315th Airlift Squadron at Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., deployed for one year in Southwest Asia supporting operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Lance Cheung)


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Lt. Col. Joseph Knapp, Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 13 commanding officer and native of Tulsa, Okla., advances down a gully Feb. 3 at the Gunsite Academy in Prescott, Ariz. The training lasted for 12 days, which included 40 hours of training on the pistol and rifle and 16 hours of training on the shotgun.
Photo by Cpl. Joshua W. Greer


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Staff Sgt. Michael A. Cathcart (left), Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 13 ground service equipment work center supervisor and native of Cedar Lake, Ind., and Staff Sgt. Christopher L. Hardin, MALS-13 avionics work center supervisor and native of Friendswood, Texas, negotiate their way through an exercise Feb. 5 at the Gunsite Academy in Prescott, Ariz. The course involved two Marines providing cover fire for each other while advancing on targets and eliminating as many as possible.
Photo by Cpl. Joshua W. Greer


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Persian Gulf (Feb. 19, 2006) - Dutch Marines look on as their teammates are hoisted into a hovering Lynx helicopter during a visit, board, search and seizure (VBSS) training evolution aboard Dutch fast combat support ship HNLMS Amsterdam (A 836). Amsterdam is currently deployed as part of Combined Task Force One Five Zero (CTG-150), conducting maritime security operations (MSO). MSO helps set the conditions for security and stability in the maritime environment as well as complement the counter-terrorism and security efforts of regional nations. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 1st Class Curt Cooper




A masked Iraqi policeman holds a weapon at the scene of a bomb attack in Baghdad March 1, 2006. A car bomb killed 25 people in the mainly Shi'ite east Baghdad on Wednesday, a week after the bombing of a major Shi'ite shrine sparked sectarian bloodletting that has brought Iraq to the brink of civil war. REUTERS/Namir Noor Eldeen


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KRTSANISI, Republic of Georgia- Republic of Georgia soldiers are evaluated at Krtsanisi, Republic of Georgia on their performance firing the PKM machinegun by Sgt. Michael J. Szeman, 30, (standing), a trainer with the Georgia Sustainment and Stability Operations Program and native of Matteson, Ill.


Cpl. Jason L. Elder, a 22-year-old from Marlboro, Mass., looks through the scope of his rifle while providing overwatch for Marines from 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment during Operation Industrial Revolution. He is a scout-sniper attached to Headquarters and Service Company serving with Regimental Combat Team 8. The operation was designed to disrupt insurgent activity in Fallujah's industrial area and resulted in the discovery of several weapons cahces. (photo by Lance Cpl. Christopher J. Zahn)


Members of the 94th Military Police Battalion Special Reaction Team train in a Close Quarter Battle Course on Camp Casey, South Korea, on Monday.

Members of the 94th Military Police Battalion Special Reaction Team member would use this simulated ammunition — basically paintballs — while training Monday in a Close Quarter Battle Course

Great pics again Lumpy!

You too Ajaka! However, you should have IM'ed them to Lumpy so that he could have included them in the initial post!



Thanks guys!

Quoted: You too Ajaka! However, you should have IM'ed them to Lumpy so that he could have included them in the initial post!

Shoulda thought of that...

Thanks for the pics guys.

Anyone have more info on this?

February 2006. A wide-ranging poll of US troops serving in Iraq made public found that 72 percent believe the United States should exit Iraq within a year.(AFP/File/David Furst)

Thanks Lumpy!

Good stuff!

Once again the Lump-ster comes through!
Thanks Lumpy!

Thanks

Let's hear it for the 7.62x51.

thanks for sharing lumpy196

Mmmm....hot FAL and PSL action...

Nice pics!

I love FALs.

So, what does the military use for a cheekpiece on the M-14?

Turns out the answer is...........ordnance tape!

Thanks for posting!

Good pics, like the M14.

Quoted: Thanks for the pics guys. Anyone have more info on this? February 2006. A wide-ranging poll of US troops serving in Iraq made public found that 72 percent believe the United States should exit Iraq within a year.(AFP/File/David Furst)

That cannot be true!

awesome pics

whats that AR the Marine is using for overwatch in the second set of pictures?  Is that a DMR or personal upper?  I see a Larue SPR scope mount, Leupold MR/T scope, flip up front sight, and some type of railed fore-end...

Great photos as always, thanks Lumpy.

It's spelled Crye BTW...

Great Pics, as always!  Thanks Lumpy!

HOLY crap and an MG42!

Thanks!

Those Gunsite pics are pretty cool. I have shot on both of those ranges.

awesome as always!

MP5s are assault rifles now?

Quoted: MP5s are assault rifles now?

To our friends in the media,
anything that makes them shit their
pants is an assault rifle.

Great pics Lumpy.
Thanks as always for sharing.

Has anyone here fired a rifle, with a Motorcycle helmet on?

Quoted: Has anyone here fired a rifle, with a Motorcycle helmet on?

No, but I have shouldered my rifle while wearing my helmet. Unless you mount the optic WAY up there or use some kind of funky stock like the B&T gas mask stock for HKs, you are gonna have trouble getting a sight picture.

Which rail handguard is this? Can't see a barrel nut/ring

Quoted: us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/afp/20060301/capt.sge.qgq76.010306120800.photo00.photo.default-384x283.jpg?x=380&y=280&sig=z1jORBbyGT0HUd9g6kzTiQ-- HOLY crap and an MG42!

Probably an MG3 not an MG42

Quoted: Quoted: us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/afp/20060301/capt.sge.qgq76.010306120800.photo00.photo.default-384x283.jpg?x=380&y=280&sig=z1jORBbyGT0HUd9g6kzTiQ-- HOLY crap and an MG42! Probably an MG3 not an MG42

Considering the MG3 is basically a 42.....OK.

Ajaka > Chris

Quoted: Has anyone here fired a rifle, with a Motorcycle helmet on? hinking.gif

Yeah.  @ HK's Motor Officer Survival Course.  I expect that doing it with a full-face helmet would be a real bitch though.


BC

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/afp/20060301/capt.sge.qgq76.010306120800.photo00.photo.default-384x283.jpg?x=380&y=280&sig=z1jORBbyGT0HUd9g6kzTiQ-- HOLY crap and an MG42! Probably an MG3 not an MG42 Considering the MG3 is basically a 42.....OK.

MG3 is mo' better-all the MG42 goodness, but made with higher quality materials and evil, evil 7.62 bullets that tend to break at the cannelure on impact.