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Evening Quickie #soldierporn: Now you’re just being ironic.
Coalition force members, in a play on words, pop smoke as they depart a village stability platform in Khak-E-Safed district, Farah province, Afghanistan. Coalition force members were located at Village Stability Platform Khak-E-Safed in order to train and mentor Afghan National Security Forces. Coalition force members de-militarized the VSP allowing ANSF to single-handedly continue counter-terrorism operations and bring security and stability to people of the district.
(U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Sgt. Pete Thibodeau, 25 FEB 2013.)
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USMC Staff Sergeant Jonathan D. Davis. 22 FEB 2013.
Died of wounds sustained from IED attack while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. Davis was assigned to Headquarters Battalion, 32nd Georgian Liaison Team, Regimental Combat Team 7, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Yay, play date! Err. Training, boys!
Marines with 3rd Assault Amphibian Battalion travel across Camp Pendleton’s Red Beach in their 26-ton amphibious assault vehicles after making an amphibious landing during the first day of Exercise Steel Knight. Steel Knight is an annual exercise designed to train and prepare the 1st Marine Division for deployment as the ground combat element of a Marine Air-Ground Task Force. The focus of the exercise is to ensure that 1st Marine Division is fully prepared to deploy as an expeditionary force across the full spectrum of military operations and is capable of responding to any crisis around the world.
(Photo by Sergeant Michael Cifuentes, 10 DEC 2012.)
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Majestic mountains, dangerous desert.
Coalition force tactical vehicles move across the desert departing Khak-E-Safed district, Farah province, Afghanistan. Coalition force members were located at Village Stability Platform Khak-E-Safed in order to train and mentor Afghan National Security Forces. Coalition force members de-militarized the VSP allowing ANSF to single-handedly continue counter-terrorism operations and bring security and stability to people of the district.
(U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Sgt. Pete Thibodeau, 25 FEB 2013.)
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Winch me, baby.
Coalition force members use winches to pull a stuck vehicle out of a soft spot in the desert after departing a village stability platform in Khak-E-Safed district, Farah province, Afghanistan. Coalition force members were located at Village Stability Platform Khak-E-Safed in order to train and mentor Afghan National Security Forces. Coalition force members de-militarized the VSP allowing ANSF to single handedly continue counter-terrorism operations and bring security and stability to people of the district.
(Photo by Sgt. Pete Thibodeau, 25 FEB 2013.)
[I just cannot get over how amazing a photographer this combat camera is. Every time I see his surname in the credits, I make little pleasure-noises. -R]
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Evening Quickie #soldierporn: Hairy bastard, hard worker.
Paris, a coalition force military working dog, gets ready to attend a transition shura in Khak-E-Safed district, Farah province, Afghanistan. Farah Provincial Governor Dr. Mohammed Akram Khpalwak used the transition shura as an opportunity to highlight Afghan National Security Forces’, especially Afghan Local Police, successes which allowed the de-militarization of coalition forces in the area. Afghan National Security Forces will continue counter insurgency operations without the presence or mentorship of coalition forces. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Sgt. Pete Thibodeau, 23 FEB 2013.)
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Great way to start the day.
A U.S. Marine Corps MRAP assigned to Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, provides security in support of Operation Dynamic Partnership in Shurakay, Helmand province, Afghanistan. Dynamic Partnership was a multi-unit operation to retrograde all U.S. military equipment and personnel from village stability platform Shurakay.
(Photo by Cpl. Alejandro Pena, 18 FEB 2013.)
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Defining the intangible.
There is just something profound about him.
I can’t quite pinpoint it just yet.
But I’ll let you know when it hits me, lol.As for now, I’m just gonna enjoy the view and not over think it.
[It’s that quality of warrior ethos that becomes etched into the soul, ingrained in the very fiber of one’s being.
Once one has worn the uniform, it is part of the aura’s energy for eternity.
What you see, that you cannot define, is the resilience of the human spirit as it shines through with the belligerent determination of a sheepdog.
Here is a man whose head is bloody but unbowed.
What you see is #invictus#-R]
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance,
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance,
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
~William Earnest Henley, #Invictus
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They make it look easy.
F-18 Hornets of the US Navy Blue Angels perform over Marine Corps Air Station Miramar.
(Photos by Lance Corporal Rebecca Eller, 12 OCT 2012.)
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This is just for fun
Army
The Army defends the land mass of the U.S., its territories, commonwealths, and possessions. It does so through providing forces and capabilities for sustained combat and stability operations on land. The Army also provides logistics and support to other branches. The Army is the largest and oldest branch of the military.Navy
The Navy maintains, trains, and equips combat-ready maritime forces capable of winning wars, deterring aggression, and maintaining freedom of the seas. The Navy is America’s forward deployed force and is a major deterrent to aggression around the world.Air Force
The Air Force provides a rapid, flexible, and when necessary, lethal air and space capability that can deliver forces anywhere in the world in less than forty-eight hours. It routinely participates in peacekeeping, humanitarian, and aeromedical evacuation missions. Air Force crews annually fly missions into all but five nations of the world.Marine Corps
The Marine Corps maintains ready expeditionary forces, sea-based and integrated air-ground units for contingency and combat operations, and the means to stabilize or contain international disturbance. The Marine Corps is an immediate response force that can be used to overwhelm the enemy.Coast Guard
The Coast Guard provides law and maritime safety enforcement, marine and environmental protection, and military naval support. Activities can include patrolling our shores, performing emergency rescue operations, containing and cleaning up oil spills, and keeping illegal drugs from entering American communities.INFJ: Air Force
INTJ: Army
ESTP: Army
ESFP: Marine Corps
INFP: Coast Guard
INTP: Navy
ESFJ: Coast Guard
ESTJ: Marine Corps
ENFJ: Coast Guard
ENTJ: Air Force
ISFP: Air Force
ISTP: Army
ISFJ: Navy
ISTJ: Army
ENFP: Navy
ENTP: Marine Corps
21-year-old Corporal Edward Burckhardt of Yonkers, New York, claimed that this kitten “captured him” on the battlefield at Iwo Jima in March 1945. Both survived the battle and the war! (United States Marine Corps)
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Saigon, South Vietnam, June, 1967
Red Cross worker Barbara (Bobbie) Oberhansly outlines the day’s weather for Vietnam as part of her 7:55 p.m. report on Armed Forces Television.
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A Marine’s Marine
On September 3, Marines and Sailors with 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) held a memorial service to honor Sgt. Nicole Gee at Ahmad Al-Jaber Air Base, Kuwait. Sgt. Gee, a member of Combat Logistics Battalion 24, was one of 13 service members who were killed in action during non-combatant evacuation operations at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Afghanistan on August 26, 2021.
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Nicholas Guevara)
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Marines with the 2nd Marine Logistics Group have volunteered to read books to Afghan children that have arrived at Marine Corps Base Quantico during Operation Allies Welcome.
Soldiers of 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), sailors and Marines conduct Plane Side Honors at Dover Air Force base, to ensure the remain of the 13 service members killed recently in Afghanistan are transferred with the utmost dignity and respect.
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