Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Pic of the day. July 12, 2011.
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| A soldier rushes through a stream during a training exercise in Kenya. The 4th Battalion The Rifles (4 RIFLES) were in Kenya undergoing intensive training to be the British Army's next Spearhead Lead Element - a rapid response force ready to tackle a world-wide crisis at 24 hours notice. This can range from a major domestic terrorist attack to the evacuation of British nationals overseas. Around 700 personnel left their Wiltshire base and were joined by other units including artillery and engineers for a five week intensive exercise at the British Army Training Unit Kenya, otherwise known as BATUK. Photographer: Sgt Adrian Harlen |
100 Flights For F-35C
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| The F-35C fleet reached 100 total flights when F-35C CF-2 flew back to NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, after completing jet blast deflector training at the Naval Air Engineering Center at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey. |
The Marine Corps has lost its fucking mind.
Is the desire to be cool...to be hip...to be part of the 'in' crowd so strong that common sense eludes those in charge?
Battle Rattle blog is milking these videos that Marines are putting on You Tube to the max. At times its almost ghoulish. At times its just sad and pathetic.
This time its sad and pathetic.
These posts of videos on the net showing Marines acting like a bunch of fucking idiots is beyond the pale.
Marines use the words...elite...hard core....shock troops....
These videos and the commands that are allowing them are tarnishing the reputation of the Marine Corps. I have yet to see US Army Rangers posting vids like this. I have yet to see the 82nd Airborne posting vids like this. I haven't seen it from the 101st, 10th Mountain or 25th Infantry Division.
But we see Marines posting this tripe. We see so called "Marine friendly" blogs posting and promoting this garbage.
Somethings got to give. To be quite honest I had hoped that the new SgtMajor of the Marine Corps would have put his foot down on this issue.
Apparently he's asleep at the wheel on this.
Oh and before you go high and to the left and accuse me of blowing this out of proportion then consider this sad fact.
Marines have been convicted of conduct unbecoming for offenses that I consider far less embarrassing to the Corps.
Battle Rattle blog is milking these videos that Marines are putting on You Tube to the max. At times its almost ghoulish. At times its just sad and pathetic.
This time its sad and pathetic.
These posts of videos on the net showing Marines acting like a bunch of fucking idiots is beyond the pale.
Marines use the words...elite...hard core....shock troops....
These videos and the commands that are allowing them are tarnishing the reputation of the Marine Corps. I have yet to see US Army Rangers posting vids like this. I have yet to see the 82nd Airborne posting vids like this. I haven't seen it from the 101st, 10th Mountain or 25th Infantry Division.
But we see Marines posting this tripe. We see so called "Marine friendly" blogs posting and promoting this garbage.
Somethings got to give. To be quite honest I had hoped that the new SgtMajor of the Marine Corps would have put his foot down on this issue.
Apparently he's asleep at the wheel on this.
Oh and before you go high and to the left and accuse me of blowing this out of proportion then consider this sad fact.
Marines have been convicted of conduct unbecoming for offenses that I consider far less embarrassing to the Corps.
"We are an agile, lethal force going down range"
Produced by Sgt. Elyssa Quesada.
Sgt. Quesada's been busy. I hope she keeps up this pace once the deployment starts. I'm pretty happy with the effort they're taking to get the word out about all the work that's done to just get ready to deploy.
Impressive.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Chinook recovery op.
Remember the post I did here? It covers the news from ISAF that a coalition helicopter had gone down in Afghanistan. I wrote them to try and get further info but they wouldn't give.
I think I have it here. Check it out.
Photo Credit: Sgt. Richard Wrigley, 1st ACB, 1st Cav. Division Public Affairs
I think I have it here. Check it out.
Photo Credit: Sgt. Richard Wrigley, 1st ACB, 1st Cav. Division Public Affairs
A CH-47F Chinook cargo helicopter from the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, lowers to the ground while sling loading another Chinook helicopter as a cloud of dust arises, July 6, 2011.
173rd Airborne in the breeze.
Nice photos but why is the 173rd still jumping the old parachutes? I thought that everyone would be using the T-11 by now. If you have any knowledge on it, then hit me up.
Check out the guy in the bottom pic closest to the ground. He must be experiencing ground rush from hell...I'd pay money to see his PLF!
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