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Posted: 10/24/2004 5:43:28 PM EDT
IMAGE LINK BASRA, IRAQ: The gun holster of a US soldier hangs on the side of a soldier as a British female soldier is seen in the background at the British barracks in the southern city of Basra 500 kms from Baghdad, 24 October 2004. Britain announced that an 850-strong battle group from the crack Black Watch regiment would be posted outside Baghdad, where they would go under the "tactical control" of US Marine Corps commanders. The Black Watch, along with the vast bulk of Britain's 8,500 troops in Iraq, are currently based around the southern city of Basra, which has seen relatively little violence in recent months. AFP PHOTO/Essam AL-SUDANI (Photo credit should read ESSAM AL-SUDANI/AFP/Getty Images) IMAGE LINK BAGHDAD, IRAQ: US soldiers secure the area along with an Iraqi National Guard (rifle R) in the poor Shiite Muslim neighborhood of Sadr City in Baghdad, 24 October 2004. Iraqi and US forces launched operations today to verify the extent of disarmament in Sadr City, three days after the end of a 10-day weapons buyback police said. The government said that it had collected more than 18,000 weapons and other items, paying out an estimated five million dollars under the deal with radical cleric Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr. AFP PHOTO/Ahmed AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images) IMAGE LINK BAGHDAD, IRAQ: US soldiers secure the area along with an Iraqi National Guard (background) in the poor Shiite Muslim neighborhood of Sadr City in Baghdad, 24 October 2004. Iraqi and US forces launched operations today to verify the extent of disarmament in Sadr City, three days after the end of a 10-day weapons buyback police said. The government said that it had collected more than 18,000 weapons and other items, paying out an estimated five million dollars under the deal with radical cleric Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr. AFP PHOTO/Ahmed AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images) IMAGE LINK BAGHDAD, IRAQ: A US soldier shakes hands with an Iraqi boy along a street of the poor Shiite Muslim neighborhood of Sadr City in Baghdad, 24 October 2004. Iraqi and US forces launched operations today to verify the extent of disarmament in Sadr City, three days after the end of a 10-day weapons buyback police said. The government said that it had collected more than 18,000 weapons and other items, paying out an estimated five million dollars under the deal with radical cleric Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr. AFP PHOTO/Ahmed AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images) IMAGE LINK BAGHDAD, IRAQ: US and Iraqi forces enter an ice making factory in the Shiite Muslim poor neighborhood of Sadr City in Baghdad, 24 October 2004. Iraqi and US forces launched operations today to verify the extent of disarmament in Sadr City, three days after the end of a 10-day weapons buyback police said. The government said that it had collected more than 18,000 weapons and other items, paying out an estimated five million dollars under the deal with radical cleric Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr. AFP PHOTO/Ahmed AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images) IMAGE LINK BAGHDAD, IRAQ: US and Iraqi forces enter an ice making factory in the Shiite Muslim poor neighborhood of Sadr City in Baghdad, 24 October 2004. Iraqi and US forces launched operations today to verify the extent of disarmament in Sadr City, three days after the end of a 10-day weapons buyback police said. The government said that it had collected more than 18,000 weapons and other items, paying out an estimated five million dollars under the deal with radical cleric Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr. AFP PHOTO/Ahmed AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images) IMAGE LINK BAGHDAD, IRAQ: A US soldier from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment browses the internet at Camp Hope, in Baghdad's Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City, 24 October 2004. An Islamist website published a statement attributed to the extremist group led by Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi which claimed it carried out the massacre of almost 50 Iraqi cadets close to Baquba, north of Baghdad. AFP PHOTO/AWAD AWAD (Photo credit should read AWAD AWAD/AFP/Getty Images) Iraqi boys shout anti-U.S. slogans behind an American soldier conducting a search operation in eastern Baghdad's Shi'ite suburb of al-Sadr city, October 24, 2004. Iraqi and U.S. forces carried out a weapons search operation throughout al-Sadr city two days after the cash-for-weapons exchange program instituted by the interim Iraqi government to pacify the slum of Sadr City. REUTERS/Ali Jasim IMAGE LINK RAMADI, IRAQ: US marines with the 1st Marine Brigade practice close-combat techniques at their main base in Ramadi 23 October 2004, located in a partially destroyed palace which belonged to toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. AFP PHOTO/PATRICK BAZ (Photo credit should read PATRICK BAZ/AFP/Getty Images) IMAGE LINK KIGALI, RWANDA: United States Army Sgt Mike Zentek (Sembach, Germany) loads his weapons on the tarmac of Kigali International Airport 23 October 2004. A US C-130 landed today as an advance party of the logistical support provided by the US Government to the Rwandan troops leaving for Sudan's troubled Darfur region next week. This is the first official US military involvement in West Darfur. AFP PHOTO/GIANLUIGI GUERCIA (Photo credit should read GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP/Getty Images) Three U.S. Air Force cargo planes and 120 U.S. troops landed in Rwanda on October 23, 2004 to transport Rwandan soldiers and equipment to Darfur as part of an expanded African Union peacekeeping mission in the violent region. Several dozen soldiers unloaded boxes full of rifles and hand guns on the tarmac of Kigali airport on the outskirts of the capital. They then loaded them with rounds of ammunition. Photo by Finbarr O'reilly/Reuters IMAGE LINK KIGALI, RWANDA: Rwandan policemen look at US Rangers getting their weapons ready on the tarmac of Kigali International Airport 23 October 2004. A US C-130 landed today as an advance party of the logistical support provided by the US Government to the Rwandan troops leaving for Sudan's troubled Darfur region next week. This is the first official US military involvement in West Darfur. AFP PHOTO/GIANLUIGI GUERCIA (Photo credit should read GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP/Getty Images) IMAGE LINK KIGALI, RWANDA: US Sgt Matthew Arsenault (Newmarkes, NH) gets his weapon ready on the tarmac of Kigali International Airport 23 October 2004. A US C-130 landed today as an advance party of the logistical support provided by the US Government to the Rwandan troops leaving for Sudan's troubled Darfur region next week. This is the first official US military involvement in West Darfur. AFP PHOTO/GIANLUIGI GUERCIA (Photo credit should read GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP/Getty Images) A British soldier looks through the site of his rifle while on patrol in the southern city of Basra, 500 kms from Baghdad.(AFP/Essam al-Sudani) IMAGE LINK BAGHDAD, IRAQ: Iraqi National Guard ride in the back of a vehicle into the Shiite Muslim poor neighborhood of Sadr City in Baghdad, 24 October 2004. Iraqi and US forces launched operations today to verify the extent of disarmament in Sadr City, three days after the end of a 10-day weapons buyback police said. The government said that it had collected more than 18,000 weapons and other items, paying out an estimated five million dollars under the deal with radical cleric Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr. AFP PHOTO/Ahmed AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images) IMAGE LINK KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - OCTOBER 23: Norweigan Recce Squadron ISAF peacekeepers stand guard near the scene of a suicide bombing on a commercial shopping street October 23, 2004 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The blast killed a 12-year-old girl and the bomber was an apparent attempt to attack international peacekeepers. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) An Afghan policeman (L) stands guard as forensic expert investigates the body of a suicide bomber in Kabul, October 23, 2004. A suicide bomber killed himself and wounded at least seven others including three members of the NATO (news - web sites)-led peacekeeping force in an attack on a busy shopping street in central Kabul on October 23, 2004, witnesses said. Photo by Ahmad Masood/Reuters IMAGE LINK MOURNI CAMP, SUDAN: A Sudanese policeman stands guard as women and men receive staples at a food distribution point in the Internally Displaced Camp (IDP) of Mourni, the largest in West Darfur, close to the border with Chad 24 October 2004. More than 500,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) of an estimated one million in Sudan live in encampments in western Darfur. The Sudanese government is accused of arming and backing the Arab Janjaweed militias which have rampaged through the region for the past 20 months. An estimated 50,000 people have been killed and 1.4 million more uprooted in a campaign against Darfur's black African population, which began in February 2003 when Khartoum and the Janjaweed attempted to crush a rebel uprising among indigenous ethnic minorities. AF P PHOTO/Cris BOURONCLE (Photo credit should read CRIS BOURONCLE/AFP/Getty Images) An armed Sudanese policeman contains women and men as they wait to receive food staples at a distribution point in the Internally Displaced Camp (IDP) of Mourni. More than 500,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) of an estimated one million in Sudan live in encampments in western Darfur. The Sudanese government is accused of arming and backing the Arab Janjaweed militias which have rampaged through the region for the past 20 months.(AFP/Cris Bouroncle) A child soldier (no name available) loyal to deposed Liberian president Charles Taylor poses before surrendering his AK47 assault gun, December 2003, to an UNMIL soldier (UN Mission to Liberia (news - web sites)), for which he will receive about 50 dollars.(AFP/File/Zoom Dosso) Zambian soldiers parade during the celebrations for the 40th anniversary of independence in Lusaka, October 24, 2004. Known as Northern Rhodesia under British rule, Zambia won independence from Britain following successful negotiations with freedom fighters led by Kenneth Kaunda, the founding president. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti A woman pleads with a Haitian policeman after being forced to lie on a sidewalk, during a security patrol in the Bel-Aire neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, October 24, 2004. Haitian police and U.N. troops moved into a slum neighborhood Sunday and cleared street barricades that had paralyzed a part of the capital plagued by political violence. Police established a command post in a Catholic church at the heart of Bel-Air that has served as a gathering point for protesters, a spokesman for the U.N. civilian police forces said. The poor neighborhood is full of supporters of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who went into exile amid an armed revolt in February. REUTERS/Daniel Morel Haitian policemen take up positions during a patrol through the Bel-Aire neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, October 24, 2004. Haitian police and U.N. troops moved into a slum neighborhood Sunday and cleared street barricades that had paralyzed a part of the capital plagued by political violence. Police established a command post in a Catholic church at the heart of Bel-Air that has served as a gathering point for protesters, a spokesman for the U.N. civilian police forces said. The poor neighborhood is full of supporters of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who went into exile amid an armed revolt in February. REUTERS/Daniel Morel A girl looks out the from her shack as Haitian policemen aim their weapons during a patrol through the Bel-Aire neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, October 24, 2004. Haitian police and U.N. troops moved into a slum neighborhood Sunday and cleared street barricades that had paralyzed a part of the capital plagued by political violence. Police established a command post in a Catholic church at the heart of Bel-Air that has served as a gathering point for protesters, a spokesman for the U.N. civilian police forces said. The poor neighborhood is full of supporters of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who went into exile amid an armed revolt in February. REUTERS/Daniel Morel Haitian policemen aim their weapons during a patrol through the Bel-Aire neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, October 24, 2004. Haitian police and U.N. troops moved into a slum neighborhood Sunday and cleared street barricades that had paralyzed a part of the capital plagued by political violence. Police established a command post in a Catholic church at the heart of Bel-Air that has served as a gathering point for protesters, a spokesman for the U.N. civilian police forces said. The poor neighborhood is full of supporters of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who went into exile amid an armed revolt in February. REUTERS/Daniel Morel Armed police patrol outside the Houses of Parliament. Parliament, its celebrated neo-Gothic exterior a symbol of the nation itself, will go behind an electric fence, roadblocks and even a floating barrage in the Thames under new security rules.(AFP/File/Eric Feferberg) |
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Great pics Lumpy. Thank you for continuing to do this for us.
BTW - Haiti looks like hell on earth. Worse than Iraq, which I thought was hard to accomplish. |
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Cool pics, Lumpy!
What kind of shoulder rig is that in the first photo? |
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An Islamist website published a statement attributed to the extremist group led by Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi which claimed it carried out the massacre of almost 50 Iraqi cadets close to Baquba, north of Baghdad. AFP PHOTO/AWAD AWAD (Photo credit should read AWAD AWAD/AFP/Getty Images)
how is this guy still alive? |
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Actually, AF guys can go through Ranger Training and wear the TAB. My Superintendant in Security Police many moons ago was Ranger Qualified. I know the AF sends a certain amount of SP's through Ranger training every year, as for other AF personnel, I don't know. As for being a FAC (Forward Air Control) all the guys I ran into that were detached to Army Units also wore the unit insigna above their rank on their shoulder. So, no unit designation in that photo, I would assume probably Para Rescue? But if you look two photos up, the same far right is the same guy on the left. So, I would have to say no to PJ, and probably a FAC.
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great pics lumpy! |
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Yeah, he's only 4 feet away from his target, a Mini might still hit something at that distance. |
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I did, being a "Grip Homo" and all it's just the pic of the Mini got me |
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Fairly certain that’s an SA-80 world.guns.ru/assault/as22-e.htm |
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Its an SA-80... standard issue British assault rifle. 5.56mm
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not just a mini, an a-team mini. and the motherfucker is in haiti! where's his m-14? lump, you've hit a new low. |
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30-round mag ... I'm jealous. |
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http://cache.gettyimages.com/comp/51553042.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=E2399169AC85D6DE9A21091711E5AD1E0ADB06C45F44060C7757C85AE85A779B
Interesting to see that Norway is still using the G3 |
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USAF SP's is the 820th, 821st, 822nd and 823rd (I think thats all of them) squadrons stationed at Moody AFB, Georgia regularly send troops to Airborne, Ranger, and the first half (Marksmanship portion, not fieldcraft) of Army Sniper school. I'm fairly certain the guys attached to AFSOC (Airforce Special Ops Command) like Pararesue, Combat Controllers, Tac-P, and Combat Weather can go through the same. However, during my stint as an SP very few people I knew actually WENT to the schools. There are only a handful of slots open for AF personel so you had to be squared away and be in good with the right people in your chain of command. Those SP's are probably 820th guys.
Thanks Lumpy for the pics, they are awesome as always. Hope this helps. Edited for clarification |
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To wear the tab in the AF, you must first earn it (prior service or through the select AF spots) AND be assigned supporting a like Army unit. Many guys have earned it and continue to wear it, even though the regs don't allow it.... |
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