Basic Cadet Jennifer Stewart keeps her weapon dry as she crawls through the mud on the assault course in Jacks Valley at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. Danny Meyer / U.S. Air Force


Soldiers from B Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, rush to check on their fellow soldiers following a suicide attack on one of the unit's Stryker armored vehicles. Army Times reporter Matthew Cox and a soldier both sustained minor shrapnel wounds in the blast Monday in western Iraq, near the Syrian border. U.S. forces have moved into the area in an attempt to slow the flow of foreign insurgents and weapons into the region. The unit is part of the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team).  James J. Lee / Military Times staff


Troops with B Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, part of the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), check the depth of a crater created by a car bomb blast in western Iraq on Monday. James J. Lee / Military Times staff


Soldiers from B Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, rush a detainee to a Stryker vehicle following a suicide bombing in western Iraq on Monday. The soldiers were in the process of detaining the man, suspected of placing explosive devices on a main road, when the suicide bombing occurred. James J. Lee / Military Times staff



Capt. Mark Ivezaj and 1st Lt. Matt Uremovich search a cave near the Syrian border in western Iraq on Monday. James J. Lee / Military Times staff


U.S. soldiers of the third battalion of the seventh infantry division guard the street in front of an Iraqi police station, after a U.S. soldier from another unit was hit by a sniper in the station, in Baghdad August 2, 2005. REUTERS/Andrea Comas


U.S. soldiers from the third battalion of the seventh infantry division search a house for a sniper, after a U.S. soldier of another unit was hit by the sniper in a nearby Iraqi police station, in Baghdad Iraq, August 2, 2005. Nearly 60 U.S. troops have died in the past month, including five who were killed in two roadside bomb attacks in Baghdad at the weekend. REUTERS/Andrea Comas


U.S. Specialist James Jones (L) of the third battalion of the seventh infantry division walks up the stairs inside a house, after a U.S. soldier of another unit was hit by a sniper in an Iraqi police station in Baghdad August 2, 2005. In the past month, nearly 60 U.S. troops have died, including five who were killed in two roadside bomb attacks in Baghdad at the weekend. REUTERS/Andrea Comas


U.S. Specialist James Jones (L) of the third battalion of the seventh infantry division guards the street in front of an Iraqi police station, after a U.S. soldier of another unit was hit by a sniper in the station in Baghdad August 2, 2005. In the past month, nearly 60 U.S. troops have died, including five who were killed in two roadside bomb attacks in Baghdad at the weekend. REUTERS/Andrea Comas


U.S. Specialist Garth Landis of the third battalion of the seventh infantry division walks past a banner reading during a patrol in Baghdad August 2, 2005. In the past month, nearly 60 U.S. troops have died, including five who were killed in two roadside bomb attacks in Baghdad at the weekend. The banner in Arab reads 'Hand in hand to end the occupation.' REUTERS/Andrea Comas


U.S. Specialist Kevin Hill of the third battalion of the seventh infantry division patrols a street in Baghdad, Iraq, August 1, 2005. The head of the panel drawing up Iraq's new constitution announced on Monday that a draft would be ready by a mid-August deadline, as U.S. officials had hoped, easing fears divisions could set back the political process. Photo by Andrea Comas/Reuters


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BAGHDAD, IRAQ - AUGUST 2: U.S soldiers walk away from the scene of a roadside bomb on August 2, 2005 in Baghdad, Iraq. A roadside bomb, targeting a U.S military Humvee, exploded in central Baghdad injuring at least nine Iraqis. (Photo by Wathiq Khuzaie/Getty Images)


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FALLUJAH, IRAQ - AUGUST 2: A squad of U.S. Marines from the 1st Battalion 6th Marine Regiment patrols with a squad of soldiers from the 2nd Battalion of the Iraqi Ground Forces Command August 2, 2005 on the outskirts of Fallujah, Iraq. The Marines have been working in Fallujah training and patrolling with soldiers from the Iraqi Ground Forces Command since December. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)


British troops try to calm angry Iraqi army recruit applicants outside the main recruitment center, Monday, August 1, 2005, in the southern city of Basra, 550 kms. (340 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq. Hundreds of applicants came to Basra to enlist in the Iraqi army but when turned away for unknown reasons, the crowd began throwing rocks and advancing on the recruitment center. British and Iraq troops were then called in to quell the situation. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)


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BASRA, Iraq: Protesters duck as Iraqi soldier shoot in the air to disperse them, close to the Mina Maaqal building in the southern city of Basra, 500 kms from Baghdad 01 August 2005. Some 800 Iraqi recruits who turned up to register for Border Guard training, were turned away by officials who told them that the registration was delayed. According to eyewitnesses violence broke out and two people were injured. AFP PHOTO/ESSAM AL-SUDANI (Photo credit should read ESSAM AL-SUDANI/AFP/Getty Images)


Iraqi soldiers jump out of unarmored new civilian US-made Chevrolet trucks as they set out to raid suspected insurgent hideouts, Monday, July 25, 2005, in the holy city of Najaf, 165 kms. (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been wasted on unnecessary and overpriced equipment for Iraq's new army at a time when the United States and its allies are struggling to get the force in shape to battle the insurgents, Iraqi authorities say. US military advisers say that Iraq Defense Ministry purchases have often not been for usable equipment such as armored vehicles for their soldiers and police instead they are choosing cheaper unarmored civilian vehicles. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Murjani)


An Iraqi soldier stands guard near a crowd of men attempting to enlist in the army in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, 550 kms (340 miles) south of Baghdad August 1, 2005. Hundreds of men showed up at an army enlistment centre but were told there were no jobs available. British and Iraqi troops were called in after the angry crowd began to throw stones and approach the recruitment center, according to a witness. REUTERS/Atef Hassan


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RAFAH, -: Armed Palestinian, former prisoners in Israeli jails, stand in front of the Palestinian legislative council offices in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah 02 August 2005 after storming into the offices asking for their rights. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ABED (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)


A Palestinian demonstrator stands in front of Israeli army soldiers during a protest against the construction of Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Qarawat Bani Hassan, near Nablus, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2005. Palestinian and foreign peace activists protested against the barrier which, they claim, divides Palestinian agricultural land. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)


Israeli soldiers stand in front of a group of Palestinians waiting in line to cross the Hawara checkpoint, near the West Bank town of Nablus Monday Aug. 1, 2005. Earlier Monday a Palestinian youth carrying a hand grenade was caught while trying to cross the Hawara checkpoint, the Israeli army said. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)


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NARATHIWAT, THAILAND: Thai security officers examine the ambushed police patrol van at the site in Thailand's southern violence-torn Narathiwat province, 02 August 2005. Four policemen were critically wounded when militants ambushed their vehicle and sprayed it with gunfire. Thailand's Muslim-majority deep south is in the grips of a bloody separatist insurgency and other violence that has left more than 840 people dead since January 2004. AFP PHOTO/ MADAREE TOHLALA (Photo credit should read MADAREE TOHLALA/AFP/Getty Images)


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Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC: Thousands of techno fans protest outside the Czech Ministry of Interior in Praque, 01 August 2005 over the storming by riot police of a techno party at the weekend. Police fired tear gas and water cannons at around 5,000 ravers to break up the party Saturday even though organisers of the CzechTek event insisted they had the proper permission to stage the event. AFP PHOTO / JOE KLAMAR (Photo credit should read JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images)


SPLA soldiers stand guard at New Site, Southern Sudan where the body of the late Sudan Vice-President will lie in state till Thursday. SPLA officials announced that Dr. Garang's cortege would pass through Rumbek, his home town of Borr before stopping at Juba, the likely burial location. Garang died just three weeks after being sworn in as first vice president of Sudan and president of southern Sudan, which under the January 9 peace deal, will be autonomous for six years before holding a referendum on secession.(AFP/Tony Karumba)


Uruguayan soldiers guard the entrance of the 14th battalion regiment of Parachutists, in Toledo, Montevideo, Uruguay, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2005. The Uruguayan government is trying to find and exhume the remains of those who disappeared during Uruguay's military dictatorship. (AP Photo/MarceloHernandez)


Colombia's Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo, right, receives a rifle from a paramilitary fighter in Cristales, about 145 miles northwest of Bogota, Colombia, Monday,Aug.1,2005. More than 2,000 outlawed paramilitary fighters from the 'Heroes of Granada' faction of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, or AUC, laid down their arms in Colombia's biggest demobilization ceremony in years. (AP Photo/ Luis Benavides)


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VILLA GARZON, COLOMBIA: Colombian police personnel unload humanitarian aid from a plane 01 August, 2005 in Villa Ggarzon, Putumayo, Colombia. The critical situation in the southern Putumayo department caused by combats with the FARC guerrillas, has worsened after recent denunciations of the presumed massacre of 28 civilians, and to the shortage of food and fuel, all of that resulting in the massive displacement of peasants in the affected areas. AFP PHOTO/Luis ACOSTA (Photo credit should read LUIS ACOSTA/AFP/Getty Images)


Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority passengers walk past a submachine gun carrying MARTA Police SWAT officer, Sgt. Willie Davenport, at a downtown Atlanta rail station as heightened security continues at some transit stations in Atlanta Monday, Aug. 1, 2005. (AP Photo/Ric Feld)


An armed policeman walks past a group of protesters dressed as monkeys, outside the gates of No.10 Downing Street in London, August 2, 2005. A troop of campaigners in monkey costumes teamed up with a British member of parliament to submit a petition to Prime Minister Tony Blair urging a total ban on primate testing.(AFP/Adrian Dennis)


Armed police officers patrol Victoria Station in London. Britain vowed to get a key suspect in the London bombings extradited from Italy 'as quickly as we can,' as it sought to allay fears in the Muslim community about police anti-terrorist operations(AFP/John D. McHugh)


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London, UNITED KINGDOM: Armed police officers patrol Victoria Station in London, 02 August 2005, on the day Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair said a taskforce will be set up to tackle young people embracing the type of extremist ideology believed to have led the London bombers. Muslims in Britain will not suffer discrimination at the hands of the police in the wake of the London bombings, Home Office minister Hazel Blears said Tuesday. AFP PHOTO / JOHN D MCHUGH (Photo credit should read JOHN D MCHUGH/AFP/Getty Images)

that one guy has a badass saw. nice picts, thank you.

Wow, that's a pretty damn big crater.

Quoted: that one guy has a badass saw. nice picts, thank you.

Where is the gas selector, or am I too '90ish'?

Well I guess they wouldn't mind having experiments conducted on them.



Pics rock, Lumpy.
Thanks.

Check out the chromed krinkov.

Quoted: Check out the chromed krinkov.

You could signal an aircraft with that

Quoted: Check out the chromed krinkov.

Looks just BADLY worn to me.  Still has black enamel left in the crevasses and on the back.

Do our troops blow up caves as they find them to prevent the use after we are gone?

YA for Lumpy!

Thanks for sharing.

Quoted: RUBBER DUCKY!! www.armytimes.com/content/editorial/editart/080205front12_web.JPG

Shes kind of cute, even if she holds her rifle like a mantal piece.

I love FALs.

That is a huge crater!

Thanks Lumpy

-MrMaeda

BLING!

I think George Costanza should offer this security guard a stool. Why is he leaning like that? Not very professional.

MARTA Police SWAT officer, Sgt. Willie Davenport exhibits great muzzle disipline.

Quoted: us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20050801/capt.garf10108011722.subway_security_garf101.jpg?x=379&y=345&sig=yk5VNN0TBk3To39XLSdZEA-- I think George Costanza should offer this security guard a stool. Why is he leaning like that? Not very professional.

but very pimpin'

Thanks!

Quoted: us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20050801/capt.garf10108011722.subway_security_garf101.jpg?x=379&y=345&sig=yk5VNN0TBk3To39XLSdZEA-- I think George Costanza should offer this security guard a stool. Why is he leaning like that? Not very professional.

It's Atlanta.

Quoted: us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20050801/capt.garf10108011722.subway_security_garf101.jpg?x=379&y=345&sig=yk5VNN0TBk3To39XLSdZEA-- I think George Costanza should offer this security guard a stool. Why is he leaning like that? Not very professional.

In the words of Col. Jack O'Neill of Stargate SG-1.......  "OH FOR CRYIN OUT LOUD!"


Give the guy a friggin break noob.

Quoted: That is a huge crater! Thanks Lumpy -MrMaeda

Chow Hall food can produce similar results...

Great pics!  I wonder what that guy's thinking at the cave opening.....!

HH

What the heck is that on thre, a 50-round nutsack?  wth? a mounted troop can't load a 200rd box?

Quoted: Quoted: us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20050801/capt.garf10108011722.subway_security_garf101.jpg?x=379&y=345&sig=yk5VNN0TBk3To39XLSdZEA-- I think George Costanza should offer this security guard a stool. Why is he leaning like that? Not very professional. It's DOWNTOWN Atlanta.

Fixed it for you.

That's hillarious. What the hell does MARTA (Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority) need with subguns?

Glad to see they got rid of the 15 round magazines. Thats good for, what... one burst with an mp5?

BTT also, great threads, thanks Lumpy/

Quoted: us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/rids/20050802/i/r4205686588.jpg?x=353&y=345&sig=tRjY_CaO6PzojYqTbdTOWA-- What the heck is that on thre, a 50-round nutsack?  wth? a mounted troop can't load a 200rd box?

no its a 100 round nutsack

Quoted: That's hillarious. What the hell does MARTA (Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority) need with subguns?

Dunno if you've heard of Al Quaida and their propensity for attacking mass transit, particularly subways as of late

Quoted: us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/afp/20050802/capt.sge.rbd14.020805213359.photo00.quicklook.default-380x269.jpg Glad to see they got rid of the 15 round magazines. Thats good for, what... one burst with an mp5?

Prob around 5 bursts with a 15 rounder.

My friends brother in-law was there during that attack on the Stryker that left that crater.

Great pics again Lumpy.....Thanks!!!!

Quoted: Quoted: us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/rids/20050802/i/r4205686588.jpg?x=353&y=345&sig=tRjY_CaO6PzojYqTbdTOWA-- What the heck is that on thre, a 50-round nutsack?  wth? a mounted troop can't load a 200rd box? no its a 100 round nutsack

Those 100 round bags are supposed to be more reliable than the 200 round boxes

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/rids/20050802/i/r4205686588.jpg?x=353&y=345&sig=tRjY_CaO6PzojYqTbdTOWA-- What the heck is that on thre, a 50-round nutsack?  wth? a mounted troop can't load a 200rd box? no its a 100 round nutsack Those 100 round bags are supposed to be more reliable than the 200 round boxes

Probably don't fall off as often either.

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/rids/20050802/i/r4205686588.jpg?x=353&y=345&sig=tRjY_CaO6PzojYqTbdTOWA-- What the heck is that on thre, a 50-round nutsack?  wth? a mounted troop can't load a 200rd box? no its a 100 round nutsack Those 100 round bags are supposed to be more reliable than the 200 round boxes

Tell me more. I hadn't heard there was any reliability issues with the 200rd box. (Not even ~12-13yrs ago when I was in the Marines)

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/rids/20050802/i/r4205686588.jpg?x=353&y=345&sig=tRjY_CaO6PzojYqTbdTOWA-- What the heck is that on thre, a 50-round nutsack?  wth? a mounted troop can't load a 200rd box? no its a 100 round nutsack Those 100 round bags are supposed to be more reliable than the 200 round boxes Tell me more. I hadn't heard there was any reliability issues with the 200rd box. (Not even ~12-13yrs ago when I was in the Marines)

Basically the plastic 200 round drums have a tendency to fall off if left mounted for awhile especially in the heat when the plastic starts to melt.  In Iraq, I had to eventually take the rounds out of the box and just lay them on the roof of the HUMVEE to feed into the SAW.  

Terrorists bombings in London and those assholes are worrying about primate testing.  

Quoted: Prob around 5 bursts with a 15 rounder.

Er nope, that'd be 15 bursts from a UK Police Issue MP5, our guys dont get issued anything with a Burst or Auto selector.

Of course some of the guys marching round in civvies with G36's and Balaclava's probably weren't police so for them I can't comment.

/PHil

Quoted: Quoted: Prob around 5 bursts with a 15 rounder. Er nope, that'd be 15 bursts from a UK Police Issue MP5, our guys dont get issued anything with a Burst or Auto selector. Of course some of the guys marching round in civvies with G36's and Balaclava's probably weren't police so for them I can't comment. /PHil

they get semi-MP5s?

Nice pics