Going Through Pictures.

[Deleted member 43454]

The Sangin Valley had stunning scenery.
That's where it ends I even hated the kids at the end. Irrational, but I didn't give a shit.

Yea not irrational man, when we rolled into Sangin Valley for Operation LOAM the kids were giving us hand signs of blowing up and laughing etc...
So we were like... shiiiiiit. Lol.

Hanging out for the night outside what used to be an Afghan Drug Lords compound, then taken by the Marines. I'm roasting a frog for whatever reason lol.

Heading into some damn Valley. I think this spot was by Delaram on a direct support mission for the Marines.

Posing with EODs .50 cal lol. The spot behind me is Inkerman, or "Incoming man." I almost caught a mortar outside here, hanging around the vehicles a few days later during our short stay of 9 days or so stuck.

Buffalo interrogating. I believe we found three jugs of H.M.E here possibly if not near by for sure. Most the times we ran over the IED's and thankfully our vic's took the blast. So it was real nice when we actually dug them up instead lol. Less recovery time.

I think this pressure plate was hooked up with command det, and it was possibly the one we found strung across a canal. I spotted the group of teenagers come up and out looking shady, we stopped them at the canal crossing. By the time we got to the spot they came out of we had already let them go unfortunately. But the wiring led right to their spot. f*ckers missed anyway.

Chunk of the mine rollers got blown off an landed in this mudhut.

Camp Leatherneck/Bastion, Afghan. This was our main. We were mostly jumping around though.

Front of the same tent.

Bait mission lol. We had Gyrocamera's which were awesome.

Fixing the Buffalo fork/arm during our Short Sangin stay.

 

[Ronin1]

DrBlack. Damn. We were only 7 guys in a tent of that size, and we thought it sucked...

 

[Deleted member 43454]

DrBlack. Damn. We were only 7 guys in a tent of that size, and we thought it sucked...

Hahah, there was quite a lot of tension in there at times. Some brawling an fussing. NCO's were about 7 to a tent.

 

[Spock]

Awesome posts, more. more. more

 

[Deleted member 43454]

This is the photo I was telling you about Ronin, of the Danish Convoy's we'd wave to as we passed through Gereshk.

Helmand River

The pucker factor of driving over soft sand... culvert's always blown out along highway one. Was real fun clearing those at night with spotlights illuminating like a Christmas tree... thank god nobody was waiting out there to detonate.

Marine CAS

That same damn valley I forget the name of, by Deleram. It was a brutal ass spot. IEDs started from 100Ib to 400Ib and went up further. We also hit one of our first artillery round IED's trying to get into this hell hole. UAV and ICOM Chatter was reporting mofo's moving heavy MG's an what not, after recovery from blast it was already night. I remember thinking out loud... "If they can see these assholes why the f*ck aren't they bombing their asses!?" Vehicle in front of me hit another one as we pulled out and I thought we weren't gunna make it out of there but we did.

Afghan Sunset

 

[Sarg]

Impressive, Black.

Sarg

 

[vikingr24]

I am just stoked. Sarg, we had to have crossed trails somewhere. I landed Khe Sanh on the black C-130 and flew Jolly milk runs and some cover during Tet. When I saw those pictures my body just jerked together waiting for a mortar to hit. I did not have to stay there but what I saw made me feel for the Marines. Rats everywhere. Foot immersion. The smell of BO and unwashed field gear. And cordite. It gave me a taste of what was to come.

I wish they would have allowed pictures where I was. PJ's are told to stay under the radar.

 

[Sludge]

I just stumbled over some pre-digital pictures yesterday. I'll scan them in shortly.
Ya' know.....too much desert, not enough ocean.


But, I'll share these now as they are already scattered around the web:

Here is a little AAV drop.Taken from our small boat by my gunner's mate buddy when he was supposed to be playing rescue swimmer.... I'm one of the jokers smoking topside.

However, I have some desert pics that will blow your mind. My desert makes Afghan and Iraq look like Florida right up to the water's edge.

 

[Woodman]

WOW, tks for posting