Well, we're going to war, so POST AWESOME MILITARY PICS

[Dis]

before and after pics


I like the in-flight pictures


AGM-130 bomb


here's what we are up against. primitive yet still deadly


shots of them all at once


missile heading towards Kuwaiti City. It didn't make it.

[Dis]

Never worked on these myself. I have seen the innards of the launcher though. I have no desire to work on them


occasionally we get sand storms where I live. Never this bad

[Lonestar]

More pics inbound.






Feature Photo: The 3rd Infantry Division, 2nd Brigade Combat Team Task Force 1/64 armor alpha
company–known as the Wild Bunch–finalizes preparations for war as ammunition is issued and
loaded onto tanks.

A U.S. marine carries his mobile toilet seat while others are about to board their armored personal carrier to head
toward the Iraqi capital Baghdad in southern Iraq (news - web sites), Monday, March 23, 2003.


An oil fire burning along a highway near Baghdad can be seen through a car window, Monday March 24, 2003.


United States Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, right, explains a screened image which shows targets in Iraq
(news - web sites), as General Tommy Franks, left, looks on during a news conference, at Camp As Sayliyah,
in Doha, Qatar, Monday, March 24, 2003.


British Royal Air Force 18 Squadron Chinook helicopter flying over the northern Arabian Gulf , Monday March 24, 2003


Shiite flags fly in the wind with laundry on the rooftop of a home in New Baghdad, a suburb of Baghdad,
Monday, March 24, 2003

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U.S. Army infantrymen discuss their next mission while in the desert near Karbalah, Iraq (news - web sites)
Monday, March 24, 2003. The soldiers are with Company A 3rd Battalion 7th Infantry Regiment and is part
of the 3rd Infantry Division advancing further into Iraq. (AP Photo/ John Moore)


U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Henry P. Osman, left, adjusts his hat as he escorted by unidentified bodyguards
before a news conference in Salahuddin, Iraq (news - web sites) which is controlled by Kurdistan Democratic Party
KDP, Monday, March. 24, 2003. Osman said U.S. forces have arrived in northern in Iraq and he will oversee
coordination of humanitarian and military operations in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)


A phrase from Turkey's modern founder Ataturk that reads: ' How happy is the one who calls himself a Turk ' is
written on a hillside in Kiziltepe, southeastern Turkey, Monday March 24, 2003.


Pilots Lt. Sean Foss and Lt. j.g. Nate Rodenbargar land a U.S. Navy (news - web sites) Seahawk helicopter
on the flight deck of the USS Shiloh, a cruiser in the Persian Gulf, Sunday, March 23, 2003.


A US Marine looks on during operation Telic near the port of Um Qsar in Southern Iraq (news - web sites),
Monday March 24, 2003.


40 Commando British Royal Marines advance on the Al Faw peninsula, southern Iraq (news - web sites),
in this recent undated photo made available, Monday March 24, 2003.

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In a moment of calmness, soldiers with the D Squadron of the British Household Cavalry Regiment, part of
16 Air Assault Brigade, relax as they eaning on a Spartan tank, in the Al-Hijarah desert, southern Iraq
(news - web sites), Monday March 24, 2003.


Iraqi men lie face down in the sand of southern Iraq (news - web sites) after being stopped by a U.S. Marine convoy
and being ordered out of their vehicle Monday, March 23, 2003. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours)


Aviation ordinancemen watch over JDAM-32 GPS guided bombs as they wait to place them on planes on the flight
deck of the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk in the Gulf, Monday March 24, 2003


An unidentified Syrian, who was wounded by a U.S. missile according to Syria's official news agency, lies in
bved at a hospital on Monday, March 24, 2003 on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria.


Handout picture released by the US Defense Department (DOD) shows US Marines from the 2nd Battalion,
1st Marine Regiment escorting captured enemy prisoners of war to a holding area in the desert of Iraq (news -
web sites) during Operation Iraqi Freedom.(USDD/HO/Brian L. Wickliffe)

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British Royal Air Force Joint Force Harrier crew wearing gas masks rush to air raid shelters during an
air raid warning in Kuwait, March 24, 2003.


A British soldier patrols the road on the outskirts of the southern Iraqi city of Basra, March 23, 2003.


British soldiers into a firing position with their 105mm guns as they push north through southern Iraq
(news - web sites), March 24, 2003.




A soldier of the British Royal Military Police checks vehicles at a roadblock on the road leading
to the southern Iraq (news - web sites) city of Basra, March 24, 2003.


Royal Marines from 40 Commando travel north through southern Iraq (news - web sites), March 24, 2003.


An Iraqi boy is reflected in the window of a car being searched for weapons by British soldiers of the
7th armoured brigade, on the road leading to the southern Iraqi city of Basra, March 24, 2003.


Members of the U.S. 15 Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) fight a pitched battle with Iraqi forces
at the port town of Umm-Qsar in southern Iraq (news - web sites), March 23, 2003. (Pool/Reuters)


An Iraqi boy waves to a soldier of the British Royal Military Police, during checks on a bus on the road
leading to the southern Iraq (news - web sites) city of Basra, March 24, 2003.


Thousands of allied troops bolstered positions around Nasiriyah for what one US Marine officer predicted would
be a "major battle".(AFP/Odd Andersen)


US marines have been engaged in heavy fighting in Nasiriyah with ten marines confirmed killed and several
still missing in action.(AFP/Odd Andersen)


An Iraqi man (L) watches as a soldier of the British Royal Military Police patrols the road leading to the
southern Iraqi city of Basra March 24, 2003.

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Smoke rises at sunset from the area around Iraq (news - web sites)'s second city of Basra, March 23, 2003,
about 50 km (30 miles) from the Iranian border in the foreground.


US soldier mans his machine-gun as a convoy leaves Nasiriyah in southern Iraq


A U.S. Marine assists an injured Iraqi prisoner of war in the port town of Umm Qasr in southern Iraq
(news - web sites), March 23, 2003.


An Iraqi armored personnel carrier and two Iraqi tanks, left over after the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq (news - web sites) war,
are seen on March 23, 2003 in the Shalamchech area, southwestern Iran. The site was opened to visitors until
last week when the U.S.-led war on neighbouring Iraq began. While most Iranian officials make no secret of their
hatred for Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), who used mustard and nerve gases against Iranian
troops in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, they are loathe to offer any support to the 'Great Satan' Washington.
Picture taken March 23. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi


U.S. airmen and soldiers observe silence in Kandahar on March 24, 2003 as a flag is raised to half-mast in
honor of the six airmen who were killed in a helicopter crash the previous day.




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A U.S. Marine from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit uses a radio during a scouting mission at a village in
Az Zubayar, southern Iraq (news - web sites)'s desert, Monday, March 24, 2003


A U.S. Marine from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit takes a short break in Az Zubayar, southern Iraq (news -
web sites)'s desert, Monday, March 24, 2003.


US Marines from the 2nd Battalion 8th regiment enter the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah.(AFP/Eric Feferberg)




A Scottish flag flies on an armored personnel carrier of the British forces Queen's Dragoon Guards, as it speeds on
Kuwaiti territory, in this photo made available, Monday March 24, 2003.


A British Royal Marine from 3 Commando Brigade keeps low in the town of Umm Qasr in southern Iraq
(news - web sites), March 22, 2003.


British Army Corporal Leanne Fielden, 21, of Southend, guards a road on the Rumaila oilfield
in southern Iraq (news - web sites), March 23, 2003.


British Lt. Col. Ronnie McCourt answers questions during an interview with the Associated Press at the Central
Command Centre, in Doha, Qatar, Monday, March. 24, 2003. McCourt confirmed two British soldiers were missing
Monday after a convoy of vehicles they were travelling in was attacked Sunday in southern Iraq


A U.S. soldier from the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force stands guard at a burning oil well at the Rumeila Oil fields March 23, 2003 in Iraq




Soldiers of the British 7th Armored Brigade patrol the road leading to the southern Iraq (news - web sites)
city of Basra, past a portrait of President Saddam Hussein

[ThePlagueRat]

I liked this one...

[Chilean Presidentâ„¢]

nice pic ThePlagueRat

[Aro]

REALLY nice... This can change my convictions about the war...

[Lonestar]

US Air Force, accept no substitues....

[Lonestar]

Burning Iraqi Tank



British troops do landscaping


U.S. Army soldiers from the A Company 3rd Battalion 7th Infantry Regiment, cover up during an intense
sandstorm which slowed U.S. military progress,


Soldiers from the Desert Rats stand with captured enemy weapons after entering the enclave of Azzubayr,
west of Basra in southern Iraq



British wounded are taken to a Puma helicopter to be flown out from 1 CS Medical Regiment based
near Basra, southern Iraq




Royal Air Force troops don gas masks during an air raid warning in Kuwait, March 21, 2003.

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A convoy of U.S. Army vehicles are seen through the windshield of the Humvee during an Iraqi desert sandstorm north of the city of Najaf March 24,


A US Army engineer points his M249 rifle in front of a burned out Iraqi truck during a
sandstorm in the desert north of the city of Najaf in central Iraq


K-Dog, a Bottle Nose Dolphin belonging to Commander Task Unit leaps out of the water in front of Sergeant Andrew Garrett while training near the USS Gunston Hall in the Gulf, March 18, 2003. At the southern Iraqi port of Umm Qasr troops made last-minute preparations on March 25 for the arrival of a team of dolphins specially trained to help detect mines. (U.S. Navy (news - web sites)/Reuters)


A U.S. soldier patrols a water treatment plant in the southern Iraq

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US medics mark out a landing zone at a captured airfield in southern Iraq


British troops pose with "liberated" portrait of Saddam in Basraand


US marines from the 2nd Battalion 8th Regiment return fire with mortars and machine guns
in Nasiriyah as their camp is attacked by Iraqis


A Turkish (front) and a U.S. army soldier stand guard at the entrance of a U.S. logistics base near the Turkish-Iraqi border in Nusaybin

[ColdWizard]

great pics Lonestar


ThePlagueRat's pic is my favorite so far