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NASA, DOD, Yahoo, AP, Reuters, and the usual suspects | 7/22/06 | The Armies of Good against the Axis of Evil

[GATOR NAVY]

I guess since we started enforcing sanctions on the Iraqis in the '90s.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks.

[Dinah Lord]

Fantastic pics and wonderful captions. Thank you.

May I be added to the ping list as well?

Cheers - Dinah

[Diogenesis]

"What is the significance of wrapping what looks like electrical tape around the arms/hands of the soldiers?"

"And you shall bind them as a sign on your arm, and they shall be
as frontlets on your head between your eyes" (Deuteronomy 6:8)

Click each for more information.

[Diogenesis]

Yes.

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========= Haifa =========

Below the Israeli flag reads "be strong and courageous",
outside a damaged building after it was hit by a Katyusha style rocket fired
from southern Lebanon by Hizb'allah terrorists.

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========= Iran =========

Photograph April 3, 2006 by the Islamic Republic News Agency,
of the test firing of a Fajr-3 missile by Iran, the same shipped to Hizb'allah
used to strike Haifa.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

1) Thanks for putting this together. Excellent job!!

2) Ms. Poland, Ms. Egpyt, and Ms. Lebannon...... ohhhhhh baby

[IonImplantGuru]

In this photo and others showing damage by Hizb'allah rockets in Israeli towns ... the pockmarked walls appear to be damaged from maybe ball bearings packed in the warhead? If so, the rockets - just like the homicide bombers - are devised form maximizing personnel casualties.

[IonImplantGuru]

Is the well built lad below with the gun on his hip a Marine or Seal? I don't remember too many Marine with battle hair like his.

I think it's likely he's a Navy MA - a relatively new rating which signifies 'master-at-arms'. In other words, a Navy ship-board cop. Once upon a time (i.e., back in my day) 'MAA's were typically pulled from the deck ratings (Bos'n, Gunner's mate, etc.) for temporary duty as MAA. We called them 'hall-monitors' behind their back - but not so's one of them could hear you; they could make life hell for you in a NY minute.

[IonImplantGuru]

Miss USA gives me a very patriotic feeling.

Yeppers! I ran a flag up my flag-pole and saluted her!

[RedWhiteAndBlueBlood]

If you feel the need to pass gas while wearing tefillin, you must first remove your tefillin.

I'd never get anything done...all I would be doing all day long would be putting on and taking off my tefillin...one thing's for sure, the other folks in the elevator would know it was you.

[SeenTheLight]

Someone who speaks Arabic informed me that the banner being put up in front of the Hezbollah ruins (after an Israeli airstrike) reads:

"America - [world's] greatest terrorists" or more literally "America - the head of terrorism" (Amriikaa ra's al-irhaab)

No surprise there---just passing that on.

[M. Espinola]

Great photo docomentation!

On to victory over the Jihadist enemy!

An Israeli soldier sits atop his mobile artillery unit at a military staging area outside the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shemona.

Israeli soldiers inspect the cannon of a mobile artillery unit at its position near the town of Kiryat Shmona, close to the Israel-Lebanon border, July 22nd, 2006. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the feedback.

We have had threads in the past re the MAAs.

The Navy has changed with the times and still functions great!