USO Canteen FReeper Style~Ancient Egyptian Military: Fortresses, Siege Warfare~July 22, 2003

MilitaryHistory.com at the Internet | July 22, 2003 | LaDivaLoca

[firewalk]

I too, enjoy storms, but the high winds made it a little dangerous standing on the porch to watch. Broken tree limbs where blowing in along with the rain

*big smile*...you couldn't see the storm good enough from inside your house?

[Soaring Feather]

"Well," he says, "this isn't going to take all afternoon, is it?"

Well really now!! Just like a golfer!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, aomagrat, for today's history of the USS south Carolina.

[Soaring Feather]

*big smile*...you couldn't see the storm good enough from inside your house?

Nope, front porch is grand viewing!!

I like the wind in my hair!!! It stands on end that way!! ROTFLOL

[Radix]

 

An Air Force security forces vehicle patrols the flight line as the sun rises over Baghdad International Airport.

 

 

 

Airman 1st Class Matthew Keith, from the 728th Air Control Squadron, Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., ponders buying some Iraqi currency from Basem Rashid Alhmid. Alhmid, an Iraqi contractor, sells local handmade items to airmen at the Mirage Recreation Center at Baghdad Air Base.

 

 

 

An Air Force HH-60G Pave Hawk carries a combat search and rescue team to its target during a training mission at Maltz, an area of abandoned Iraqi officer billeting used as an urban training facility.

 

 

 

An Air Force HH-60G Pave Hawk touches down with a CSAR team during a training mission at Maltz.

 

 

A CSAR team carries a rescue victim to safety during a training mission.

 

 

 

A CSAR team repels to its target from an HH-60G Pave Hawk.

 

 

 

Army Capt. Charles Scott Kuhens, a critical care nurse with 28th Combat Support Hospital, Fort Bragg, N.C., checks on a patient in the Mobile Aeromedical Staging Facility at Baghdad Air Base. The MASF unit serves to stabilize casualties as they are brought in before the patients are transported to larger hospitals in Kuwait City and Germany.

 

 

 

Marines arrive by helicopter Monday in the rain to help secure the U.S. Embassy in Monrovia, Liberia. The Marines were sent into Liberia to protect the U.S. Embassy, not serve as peacekeepers.

 

 

 

An unidentified journalist ducks for cover Monday when mortars strike nearby as Marines who arrived by helicopter protect the U.S. embassy in Liberia.

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[Radix]

How is everyone doing today?

[Soaring Feather]

Well enough to beat you Silly Rabbit!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Linda.............couldn't happen to a better pair of siblings. Hurrah for our Special Task Force and the 101st Airborne!! Well done, boys!!!

[Soaring Feather]

#510

[Soaring Feather]

See that number??? ROTFLOL!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Great pictures, Radix. What's with the guy in shorts, t-shirt, and helmet? LOL! He DOES have a radio in his hand (I think).

[Kathy in Alaska]

AN AMERICAN SOLDIER — Pfc. Jessica Lynch receives the Purple Heart from Lt. Gen. James B. Peake, U.S. Army surgeon general, during a ceremony at Walter Reed Army Medical Center on July 21. Lynch also received the Bronze Star and the Prisoner of War Medal. U.S. Army photo by Brett McMillan

[Kathy in Alaska]

U.S. Marines attached to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force drive a tractor into the cargo bay of the USNS Charlton at Port Shueiba, Kuwait, July 9, 2003. Marines from 1st MEF load their gear onto USNS Charlton to transport it back to the United States after being deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Arlo K. Abrahamson

U.S. Marine vehicles from the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force line the pier as members of a logistics team prepares to drive them into the cargo bay of the USNS Charlton at Port Shueiba, Kuwait, July 9, 2003. The equipment from 1st MEF is returned to the U.S. after participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom, a multinational coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Arlo K. Abrahamson

[HiJinx]

I know, I'm such a bad boy...

Tell you what, I'll stick to scenery from north of Phoenix for awhile...if I can!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

A U.S Marine heavy vehicle from the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force drives into the cargo bay of the USNS Charlton at Port Shueiba, Kuwait, July 9, 2003. The equipment from 1st MEF is being returned to the U.S. after participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Arlo K. Abrahamson

Members of the Navy's cargo handling and port group direct a crane which will hoist an Amphibious Assault Vehicle onto the USNS Charlton at Port Shueiba, Kuwait, July 9, 2003. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Arlo K. Abrahamson

[Kathy in Alaska]

HJ, how is your fire coming along? Contained? Out?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Boatswain's Mate 1st Class Dewayne Mack, a member of the Navy's cargo handling and port group, uses a radio to communicate with a crane operator who will use a heavy lifting crane to hoist an amphibious assault vehicle to the cargo bay aboard the USNS Charlton at Port Shueiba, Kuwait, July 9, 2003. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Arlo K. Abrahamson

A member of the Navy's cargo handling and port group guides a line attached to an amphibious assault vehicle as it is lowered by a crane into the cargo bay of USNS Charlton at Port Shueiba, Kuwait, July 9, 2003. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Arlo K. Abrahamson

[Kathy in Alaska]

A member of the Navy's cargo handling and port group removes steel cable lines attached to an amphibious assault vehicle after it is lifted by crane into the cargo bay of the USNS Charlton, July 9, 2003. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Arlo K. Abrahamson

Members of the Navy's cargo handling and port group watch as an amphibious assault vehicle is lifted by crane into the cargo bay of the USNS Charlton at Port Shueiba, Kuwait, July 9, 2003. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Arlo K. Abrahamson

[Kathy in Alaska]

Members of the Navy's cargo handling and port group guide a U.S. Marine forklift attached by heavy duty cables as it is lifted by crane onto the USNS Charlton at Port Shueiba, Kuwait, July 9, 2003. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Arlo K. Abrahamson