OFFICIAL Iraqi Freedom Pics Thread

[Matthew]

here are mine, feel free to post any you have from your time over there other service members!

Due to a lot of people wishing me to re-post pictures of my time in Kuwait/Iraq during Iraqi Freedom, and a lot of members joining since the last time I had the thread up, and the fact that the old pictures are gone off the old server I had them on, and me getting sick of all the anti-war s*** being posted, here we go

Feel free to ask questions cause I love to talk about the military. If you have a problem with the war, the army, etc, take your bitching elsewhere or make some other dumb argument about war crimes in the dumpster section.

Here we have 1-377 Field Artillery practicing loading the Howitzer artillery piece.

Here is my First Sergeant with one of the gold-plated MP5 submachine guns we found at the Beast, a palace full of weapons in downtown Baghdad.

Me shooting the .50 at the range we held.

Two pictures of 1st platton pulling security on our convoy to Baghdad.

 

[Matthew]

4th Infantry Division moving their equipment north as seen from inside HMMWV.

V Corps Headquarters (yea we kinda took it )

Another one of me on the .50 cal pulling security at an ammunition depot.

 

[Matthew]

Of course, there was no reason to attack the poor, innocent Iraqis

Thats me, second from the right. Of course there was no reason to worry about the Iraqis, we didnt spend all day for 30 days cleaning up their ammunition.

Guard duty in Kuwait

Another picture of the ammunition they didnt have.

Picking up rockets before the war in Kuwait

Dont think youd want to fly into Baghdad intl, do you?

 

[Matthew]

Awww, Saddam, did we blow up your house?

Taken outside of the beast. Im lower left with the M16.

Inside another palace

Gee I sure hope none of you anti-war protesters is jewish

Hey, we had to do something to stay in shape before the war started, besides running to the bomb shelter everytime Saddam tried to gas us.

 

[Matthew]

Hey we had to dig this s*** with halves of water bottles and canteen cups cause all of our equipment wasnt here yet

A photo of our battery around our bomb shelter in Kuwait.

Yes, someone caught the fabricated shitters on fire during a sandstorm/s*** burning detail.
(rofl)

Our favorite hobby when we got the time

Ouch, I hope everyone made it out alive. That WAS a HMMWV

 

[Matthew]

s*** they liked to fire at us, and their own people.of course they never did anything wrong so we had no reason to attack them

We also took these to use at the firing ranges.

This is where we downloaded all the high dollar s*** we found. Gold plated Drugnov sniper rifles on the left, gold plated AK47s on the right. Thats me holding one with glasses on.

Someones gotta pick up the damn 500lb bombsdamn sure EOD was never around.

Entrance to the Four Heads palace in Baghdad.

 

[Matthew]

Pretty extravagant stuff pictures of my apartment.

I dont think that they use this pool much anymore. (palace in Baghdad)

Some really nice architecture around the city.

Gotta clean the crap so customs will let it come back to the states.

Hey, its only 1130am!

 

[Matthew]

Nice desk, I should have brought it home for my computer desk.

Everyday for 30 days we filled up this many trucks with their captured weapons.

This was one of the really sweet letters we had from little kids. Their mom was a flight attendant and their elementary school made enough to be on every door, seat, and other things inside our 757-200 on the flight over.

A little mascot we found in Iraq.

I guess we wont go THAT way!

 

[Matthew]

This could be a picture in time magazine. This was growing outside a bombed out palace.

Oh we are so inhumane, providing first aid to injured civilians.

Pulling security.

The chick 2nd from the left wanted to hit it! Im serious, she kept making me honey tea and offering me food and everything for being a part of the group that liberated their little town.

Thats me, the left-handed shooter closest to the camera. Yea for me, the only one to shoot expert that day! (sandstorm came and kicked our ass)

 

[Matthew]

60 minutes coming to interview us, and then probably turning the story around to us murdering innocent civilians

Im not sure what they played in this stadium, but I think they murdered the teams if they lost.

This is Taji, where all the violence has been near lately. There was a 20,000lb bomb near us, which is why we are in a box formation, in case it blew up we used the vehicles as protection. Its so grainy due to the one of the worst sandstorms ever.

Part of the palace at Beast.

 

[Matthew]

More views of Baghdad from the palace.

 

[Matthew]

thats it for now, im sure pat is gonna kill me for eating bandwith

 

[prospeed]

those are some nice pics. man you get to handle some cool ass guns. the coolest gun i ever had was a russian sks with bayonet. nothing what you can get your hands on.

 

[StarvingRussian]

wow, those are some pretty cool pics.

 

[Matthew]

well lets see...ive fired the M2 (.50 caliber machine gun), M16a2 (of course), M4 carbine, M9 pistol (just a berreta), Mk19 (belt fed automatic grenade launcher), AK47, Drugnov sniper rifle, MP5SD, MP5-N, and now that im the ammunition section chief, the M249 (automatic rifle, commonly mis-called the SAW).

so yea, the army is fun!

 

[mazdaspeedpower]

wow, nice pics. And dayum, those were some nice looking gold platted fire arms. They could've gotten you a pretty penny if you hada been allowed to take them.

 

[prospeed]

i am sure the army can be fun but it's not for me. i just want to shoot the guns. i like going to shooting range . the only guns i shot were a 22 cal. 9mm, 45, 44 hand guns.

 

[1sty]

A little mascot we found in Iraq.

Looks like an Akita, what happened to it?

 

[dominoy2k1]

yes sir, very cool pics. good thing you made it out alive. yeah what happened to the dog?

 

[Matthew]

well it hung around for most of the time we were there, but we had to let it go when we left if you love dogs, you could start an animal rescue league there...there was so many wild dogs running around