Military Pictures/Video Thread

[T. Cole]

Post cool pictures and videos of military (or police I guess) doing stuff. Not just US, any nation! Try to include a brief description if you can. 

 

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"Lance Cpl. Chris Eichelberger, a Huey door gunner with a Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 169, and a native of San Diego, unloads on a target at the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range, Calif., Oct. 2, 2013. Huey door gunners participated in the close-air support exercise as supporting gunners for the student pilot to be able to learn to communicate and coordinate with the two gunners on the helicopter." - USMC Flickr

 

South Korean Marines, Navy UDT/SEALs and Coast Guard Special Operations preparing to interdict illegal Chinese fishing boats. "They're flying the UN flag & wearing MP arm band because they'll be operating in the demilitarized water between South and North Korea. In accordance to ceasefire agreement of the Korean war, no armed soldiers can enter the DMZ. To comply with these laws, soldiers enter under the identity of "Civil administrative police" (민사행정경찰)"

 

US Coast Guardsmen with a NYC based MSRT (Marine Security Response Team) conduct training on a Staten Island Ferry during an exercise in New York Harbor, March 2014.

 

Edited January 5, 2017 by LCpl Cole
added image

[MSgt Falconer]

Swedish SOG conducting boarding excercises in Gothenburg industrial harbor aswell as some direct combat in a random patch of snow covered forest.

Edited January 5, 2017 by SSgt Falconer

[Sgt (Ret) Imeson]

WTF? Kylo Ren was a MARINE?

[HMCS (Ret) (FMF) Williams]

14 hours ago, Cpl Imeson said:

WTF? Kylo Ren was a MARINE?

Yes he was. He served for two years, no deployments, before he was medically discharged for breaking his sternum. He founded a program called Arts in the Armed Forces which I thought was kinda interesting.

[T. Cole]

"U.S. Marine Corps M1 Abrams main battle tanks in the high arctic of Setermoen, Norway. Exercise Reindeer 2 with Brigade North, The Norwegian Army." Source

 

"An F-22 Raptor is refueled by a KC-135 Stratotanker over the Nevada Test and Training Range during the U.S. Air Force Weapons School’s Deliberate Strike Night, June 16, 2016." Source, defense.gov

 

"[South] Korean National Police SWAT team members in HAZMAT gear." Unknown source

Edited January 12, 2017 by LCpl Cole

[Capt Hito]

A few thoughts that can be put into practice

 

[T. Cole]

12 x F-35Bs Embarked for Test USS America 19 Nov 2016

U.S. Marine Raiders posing in front of a Japanese stronghold they conquered at Cape Totkina, Bougainville in the Solomon Islands (1944)

 

[HMCM (Ret) (FMF) Bernal]

10 minutes ago, LCpl Cole said:

*GIF*

12 x F-35Bs Embarked for Test USS America 19 Nov 2016

 

 

[HMCM (Ret) (FMF) Bernal]

My grandma found this yesterday in a local newspaper from way back in the day, 5 of my great-uncles and 2 great-uncles in law serving in WWII.

Spoiler

Back when uniform appearance didn't matter : P

[HM3 (Ret) (FMF) Kiefer]

 

Edited January 29, 2017 by HM3 (FMF) Kiefer

[HM3 (Ret) (FMF) Kiefer]

Edited January 29, 2017 by HM3 (FMF) Kiefer

[HM3 (Ret) (FMF) Kiefer]

More spam

 

[Capt Hito]

 

[Capt Hito]

 

[T. Cole]

German army airborne infantry with Wiesel AWCs.

 

US Secret Service Counter Assault Team. This vehicle supposedly has a flip up M134 minigun, but I'm not sure how much of that is "I want to believe".

 

American troops at the Battle of the Bulge. December 1944. Colorized.

 

US and ROK Marines exchanging 8 point covers during Foal Eagle 2008

[HMCM (Ret) (FMF) Bernal]

First person perspective of day time flight operations on USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69)

[T. Cole]

@ aviation buffs

Bulgarian Su-25K and USAF A-10 fly together during THRACIAN THUNDER 2016 exercises in Bulgaria.

 

B-1b Lancer breaking away from tanker with afterburners during airstrike in Iraq.

An F-22A Raptor from the 94th Fighter Squadron peels off from a formation, during the delivery flight of the first F-22A Raptors to the 94th Fighter Squadron at Langley Air Force Base, back in 2006.

UAV on Steriods. Ukrainian Tactical UAV fitted with an ATGM.

So That Others May Live: USCG Rescue Swimmers from Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City train off the coast of Atlantic City.

[Capt Hito]

 

[T. Cole]

French NH90s low leveling flying, Mali.

Dutch Apaches take photographs for later analysis, Mali. 122mm rockets were found based on this intel. 

Finnish Military Police practice MOUT in a Helsinki shopping mall.

US Marine Lance Cpl. Nick J. Padia, a gunner, stands turret duty at Cultana Training Area, South Australia

Edited February 19, 2017 by LCpl Cole

[T. Cole]

US SOF Strykers near Manbij, Syria. Early March, 2017

 

[Cook]

51st Para Squadron and Royal Irish Regiment during firefight with taliban in 2007

[T. Cole]

Operation Teapot 43kt airburst test

Good god I hope nuclear weapons are never used again

[T. Cole]

South Korean UDT/SEALs training with US Navy VBSS team [2048 x 1365]

A Romanian female soldier, left, and a US Marines female counterpart share a laugh after switching weapons to get used to each other's equipment [962 × 655]

Mexican marines with Sig Sauer SS516 [462x801]

Seawolf-Class attack submarine USS Connecticut (SSN 22) (woo!) and the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) [2100x1500]

 

 

B-52H bomber obliterates an ISIS held building in Mosul, 03/10/2017

Edited March 25, 2017 by Cpl Cole

[Specter]

Ive been on the Connecticut before. Neat boat.

[T. Cole]

46 minutes ago, Sgt Specter said:

Ive been on the Connecticut before. Neat boat.

I'm from Connecticut and I also have a slight obsession with the Seawolf class