FOB Knott Training gaggle, sitting on terrain model and one ton chlorine container, yes they were full
Building shooting house FOB Knott Balad ruz Iraq MiTT Timberwolve
HQ ING Balad ruz Iraq Kitchen cooking bread
FOB Knott 386th Engineers, TX NG opening a can of whip... on the dirt
Yes this is a bomb crater, 500 pound bombs have 190 pounds of explosives in the casing, can you say 20,000 feet per second expansion.
Donkeys If you have not heard one bray lately it is amazingly loud
Gas line Balad ruz Iraq Route TACO facing East
Cattle drive Balad ruz Iraq
Overwatch north on Route COWBOY Balad ruz Iraq
Detainees in M113A3 Top looking like he has had enough, HQ/1/278th RCT
Massive VBIED Balad ruz Iraq Feb 2005 multiple civilian deaths and ING soldiers A second VBIED did not go off, it was rigged to kill first responders
Firing up commo M1114 uparmored hummer A65 "always looking for trouble" SGT Christianbury, NCARNG
ING shooting over the berm, zero range
C in action 386th EN, TX NG FOB Knott filling the shooting house walls
Adnan IA guntruck section leader
3/4/2/1 IA KMTB FOB Caldwell
IA SP KMTB/Caldwell
IA RPG team KMTB FOB Caldwell, now IA 5th Division
Nasser on right, a very good IA soldier, yes there is at least one, poor bastard.
Iraqi Army KMTB/FOB Caldwell SP for mission 2005
You count the grid squares and that is the kilometers to the objective, duh, look at your odometer then stop and turn into village. IA KMTB CDR and MiTT Cadre member, interpreter
2 BN TOC KMTB, Ibrahim Sarwat on left
3/4/2/1 IA Dismounts
FOB Speicher IA escort Escorting buses full of IA Soldiers
2/A/1/278th Patrol Balad ruz Iraq, Diyala
APR 4th firefight clean-up/mop-up
Bomb craters from airstrike APR 4th firefight 1/278th RCT, ODA 043, IA 98th DIV MiTT cadre
Tigris Near FOB Warhorse/LSA Ananconda, Nahr Diyala is also near here
Baquba roadsign
Iraqi family, typical wall art and the women are hiding in the back
Habib making CHI
PLS dropping flatbed full of generators/light sets HQ ING Balad ruz Iraq ING rolled up into IA redesignated
Generators ING HQ Balad ruz Iraq
Tikrit is tothe right FOB Speicher trip
FOB Knott (abandoned) Balad ruz Iraq building range for ING training
M113A3 JCC "JOC" balad ruz Iraq
No Pants village vic Tomb Diyala, Iraq
Leaving No Pants Village
North on Old Canal Rd. Balad ruz Iraq
Medic KMTB training IA soldiers
IA guntruck crew FOB Speicher MiTT Timberwolve
ING HQ security evaluation/improvement analysis
Gunner view mocbarra vic Summer School south on Route COWBOY Balad ruz Iraq
IA mission brief/map recon/rehearsal KMTB, Jassam standing, another decent Iraqi soldier, that make at least two.
KMTB Mosque FOB Caldwell FOB Speicher escort assembly area, 2nd PLT ING from Balad ruz, 1st PLT SGT, A/1/278th RCT on left.
Lets Roll sign Speicher
Motorpool FOB Caldwell Iraq
See anything, TOMB mission Vicinity CP 12 Route COWBOY Turki village
Barret photo op
M21 photo op
ACE in action SGT Allen 386th TX NG 150 degrees in operators seat
confiscating AIF contraband, Sipes and Andrews the hottest day of the year! probably 130
ING US soldier detaining detainee Balad ruz I
RPK tower seven KMTB
Pot o Johns FOB Caldwell/KMTB, A block CHUs six for over 250 guys
Tigris crossing vic Warhorse/LSA Anaconda
157 mile trip to Speicher bus escort MiTT TImberwolve
Drop down metal TGTs FOB Knott
IED traffic jam on Speicher trip MiTT Timberwolve
SPC Mafia QRF KMTB FOB Caldwell soldier in middle had been blown up once already Charlie Mike Kudos
A very uncomfortable chair, M1A1 Abrams tnak guarding bridge over Tigris 3rd ID 64th FOB Warhorse
Apache soldier A/1/278th
testing range FOB Knott MiTT Timberwolve
Tomb mision A/1/278th south of Turki village Diyala Iraq
Coldest day of the deployment 70 mile wind gusts that night KMTB/FOB Caldwell, Tomb Mission, Norwood and TOP Johnson
Captured Weapons APR 4th firefight
Apache turning around escorting IA buses to FOB Speicher The reason was because some idiot sent some before without proper escort and its occupants were shot and burned of vice versa
Detainee roundup Balad ruz Iraq, Yawn/Andrews
IED makers blew themselves up, their lair
Medevac prep AIF being treated
JCC Balad ruz Iraq, Diyala
Route TACO Balad ruz Iraq
Dog no pets allowed General Order 1, nobody actually owned a dog
IED makers lair off route COWBOY northbound, unhappy neighbors of bomb makers
Photo op during guard tower run KMTB side of the house, Cooper Adams Wog
Medevac prep2
Eastbound Route TACO Balad ruz Iraq
Garbage burn FOB Knott IA training center and hang out, outta sight outta mind place
Rios Medevac prep
Balad ruz side street and power grid (above)
Rare photo of Iraqi women, JCC Balad ruz Iraq
Balad ruz kids
Ibrahim Sarawat, "Jack" Sgt Huskey in rear, ING HQ Balad ruz Iraq
Main Street Balad ruz Iraq, mini market area
M1A1 Tank Section, A/1/278th RCT, on Route TACO outside of FOB Caldwell/KMTB
WOG tower seven photo op
Whats left of IED Makers, guess they goofed up
Blackhawk MEDEVAC
MEDEVAC
Gas line ROUTE TACO 3rd PLT Balad ruz Iraq
Goat herd eating garbage, just outside of town, Balad ruz Iraq
First days at JCC/Mayors office Balad ruz Iraq rooftop .50 cal position
ING getting equipment, DIyala, Balad ruz Iraq
Market, Balad ruz Iraq
SGT Rios and Dalton MEDEVAC, both were Medics
Mounted patrol Balad ruz Iraq side street, old canal road heading north to observation tower
SSG Kelly Civil Affairs
Top and fellow hooligans
Top and Wilson Balad ruz Iraq
Sipes combat multiplier
View from rooftop looking north JCC Balad ruz Iraq
SSG Kelly on patrol Balad ruz Iraq
Soldier sucking the warmth from Top
Mayors office
All the comforts of home in East Tennessee
SSG McAmis, rear of JCC Balad ruz Iraq
Stand 50 miles south of Balad ruz Iraq
Norwood in his PJs
Running the route, Balad ruz Iraq
Parking lot JCC Balad ruz Iraq JCC
Soul mates
Sit here for a few hours and I will be back
The toughest dog in Iraq
ING HQ Balad ruz Iraq, front entrance
Not a pet dog, a free ranging dog independent of the American Army
SGT Yawn humping the .50 cal, SGT Christianbury's head
An officer at his weapon of choice
Look at her ankles, they are so beautiful
shucking something on the side of the road
SGt Christianbury's guns
Market Balad ruz Iraq
roof JCC Balad ruz Iraq, .50 on tripod
ING HQ out in the big field
Hammer time
LTC Dees, interpreter and Iraq patients
Is that another Iraqi Army soldier turd in the bunker?
Jack
FOB Knott
Tower seven sitting on UAZ, Adams
Good dispersement, day after Christmas
FOB Knott party in the gravel
You talking to me?
Balad ruz Iraq
Foot patrol Balad ruz Iraq
SGM Fallah IA KMTB
Jeske
FOB Knot knock down tgts
Blanket St.? Balad ruz Iraq
Ed and Mathis
.50
Hammer time II
Praying mantis pose
AK range FOB Knott
Outskirts Balad ruz Iraq
Big Johnson
Mk 19 and Major Ali?
LT Andrews
SFC Stooksbury
NC National Guard always awake
A good tanker nevers leaves the tank, "never leave the boat"! A tiger may eat you.
CO CPT Dale Bradley lowering his stress level
SSG Kelly
Vehicle search
IP Balad ruz Iraq
Meigs?
IED neighbor
Barrett
Foot patrol
main canal
SGT Vaugn left, ?
Chaplin Jones
I hate you
WOG in alternate fighting position
I am skinny but tough
I want to reenact the Al Copone scene on your ass
rear of JCC Balad ruz Iraq
Tiny and MAC
SSG Kelly on patrol
BN HQ IA KMTB SGT Christianbury
ING HQ route TACO
Sipes
M88
Hillbilly Armor
CHU dweller
Battle tested convoy leader team
think I can get the joker role in the next batman?
Courtyard JCC MAC
Back of M113 Chaplin Jones
Doctor, I really do not want to be here listening to these dipshits.
copping rays
Meigs and Vaughn in M113A3
yeah I am chilling
Jihad!
Route TACO
SSG Kelly, before they said she could not go, no women in combat arms combat patrols.
UAZ guard tower run
MAC
ING HQ B ruz Iraq
Route Cowboy patrol
Daggett
Bryson
Service HEAT firing at the TOMB
Vaughn, note crappy foot bridge over the canal
Parking lot at JCC Balad ruz Iraq
CHU blown off foundation in sand storm being put back
M113A3 .50 cal
Foot Patrol Balad ruz Iraq
Soviet 12.5mm MG
M1114
Hendy
Meigs no helmet
Ledford combat multiplier
Meigs
Yeah it is cold
It is muddy and blurry and this damn thing only goes about 25 mph
MAC and Meigs
Vauhgn
JCC
Nice strips
It looks like dirt
da devil
An old tired CAV trooper, trucking is a bitch in Iraq
LT ? and PSG Bader IA KMTB MITT
don't forget to wipe
Vaughn MAC Meigs Jean
Boys first
Bradley fighting vehicles
improved .50 cal position as opposed to the tripod that could not shoot anything, that mount is sunk between a concrete wall and has 40 sandbags holding it down on a 32 inch base, yeah it is solid.
bodies being loaded up after IED attack killed 20 people
Apache brain trust
MK19 and M1114
Can I look any stiffer
Chinook jump 20th SF Group ALARNG, XO
Camp Shelby this is supposed to be an Iraqi village
Mosquito bait station Camp Shelby MS
Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer
FOB Knott One ton Chlorine containers
2/A/1/278th RCT, Camp Buerhing Kuwait jump off site, SSG Cooper SL SGT Lindo his 2nd.
Caber toss
Klika photo
Klika Photo, SFC Leach on left, Kennedy/Dill memorial
Klika Photo, memorial service for SFC Kennedy/Dill
Apache Tank section A/1/278th RCT route TACO, brick factory in background
JCC front door
Vegetation around house vic Balad ruz Iraq
LT Omar and Ibrahim Sarawat
Brick factory Balad ruz Iraq, A65 Hendy gunning
Brick factory Balad ruz Iraq huge area part of Apache AO
Coolest unit photo I have seen yet BCT
278th homcoming parade Knoxville TN
MAC initial JCC assessment Balad ruz Iraq, Eric McAmis firefighter Cleveland TN
Manning the 50 caliber JCC Balad ruz Iraq, original crappy setup, Adams now Cop in Chattanooga TN
Southeast Balad ruz Iraq vic old canal
Crappy ladder to roof fighting position JCC Balad ruz Iraq
Apche Trooper JCC Balad ruz Iraq, Ryan
Nice Home Balad ruz Iraq
COWBOY vic Balad ruz Iraq, Bradley Fighting Vehicle our Scout Section
Klika photo Brick Factory Balad ruz Iraq
Burning trash FOB Knott
Camp Shelby MS fake FOB
Kuwait the real desert, weapons range
Railhead Camp Shelby MS
Pack out Camp Shelby MS to Gulfport to Shannon Ireland to Germany to Kuwait to Iraq
Iraqi food HQ ING unit kitchen Balad ruz Iraq
ING LT FOB Knott, Chlorine containers, yes they have Chlorine in them
CHU block KMTB/FOB Caldwell
CO Apache Troop and IP, CPT Bradley Apache Troop CO
Russian UAZ tower seven KMTB, SSG Cooper, Infantryman.
IED gaggle EOD with robot
LTC doing weekly medical exams Balad ruz Iraq JCC
Damn got caught
I will use this bird to bomb you Infidel! Falcon club Balad ruz Iraq
Medic 1/278th RCT, Ed Washington
ING HQ unloading detainees
MEDEVAC nine line
GOATS
Iraqi farm house
M113A3 Balad ruz Iraq, Adams and Lindo
FOB Danger
M1114 Hummer TC seat
Improved 50 claiber position JCC Balad ruz
Deacon trooper
Iraqi border outpost Iranian border
This is better than mine
Interpreter M4 Training, Ibrahim Sarawat
Abbas, Jack and Apache trooper FOB Knott
JADO
Apache Tropper, Jaggers
Iraqi border outpost, Iranian border Diyala
Apache trooper, Adams
LTC et al doing medical exams Balad ruz Iraq
Camp Buerhing Kuwait, Adams
Our dog, shot, kicked, stabbed, hit with rocks, but still in the mix
Klika Army Photographer
John R. Vines, air assault
Sergeant Kennedy make shift memorial on FOB Caldwell
Vic Baqubah view of vegetation along riverbanks
Vegetation
Apache Trooper and ING officer 1LT Andrews XO
Humping the MK19
Apache Trooper
LTC Hart, CDR 1/278th RCT IP and Blake the Slayer
Yeah this is the middle of nowhere and it is cold and wet, and I have on my birth control glasses.
M88 recovering a BFV
MEDEVAC of shot AIF 3/A/1/278th RCT
IA guntruck FOB Speicher 2005, Eric McAmis
A/1/278th RCT section
MiTT Team KMTB 278th RCT and 98th Division Cadre
Trench on FOB Knorr range, SGT D Yawn
FOB Knott range, Yawn and Hendy
Contraband being taken from AIF A/1/278th south of Turki Village, Yawn/Vaughn
Paladin 155mm guns
Bldg 1736 Camp Shelby MS, where we lived for five damn months in the MS heat.
MK19 assembly chart
Pack out Camp Shelby MS leaving for Kuwait
Apache Trooper waiting to leave MS, Jefferson
Camp Shelby pack out, three older than dirt Troopers
Cards Camp Buerhing Kuwait, Owens, Adams, Archie, Wentworth, et al playing cards, Moore standing in the rear
Camp Buerhing Kuwait
Kuwat rifle range
Shooting house Camp Buerhing Kuwait, Delta Chris the shadowy instructor, Wog, Wentworth, and Adams
think it will fall over, the leanig tower of Balad ruz
Mista mista, Blake the Slayer Balad ruz Iraq JCC
UXO for $$$$ program vic Mandali Iraq
Goats at JCC before improvements Balad ruz Iraq
Route TACO westbound Balad ruz
Balad ruz Iraq, is that a fuck you Dick Cheney look by that Iraqi?
Bobsayarra aka tractor
fill r up FOB Caldwell, Sipes
How many M113A3s does it take to get to the TOMB South of Turki Village Diyala 2005, Lindo
MK19 and birth control glasses, Sipes
You better hope we do not hit a bump, Sipes the most well armed soldier in Iraq, true.
600 meters from JCC Feb 2005 VBIED, massive explosion
Hi tech redneck gear
Hi tech redneck operating it, Norris.
What is left of the truck FEB 2005 VBIED Balad ruz Iraq 2005
Cold wet and miserable, M2 on tripod before 50 caliber improvements JCC Balad ruz Iraq
CHU and front yard weapons cleaning picnic table, Sipes/Huskey
FOB Knott knockdown range I built outside Balad ruz Iraq, platoon in wedge formation was the idea, 39 tgts.
yeah we can pose like ODA/SF, tower seven FOB Caldwell/KMTB side of the house, Adams, Wog, and Cooper
MiTT Cadre NCOIC and Apache trooper KMTB side of the house
MiTT Cadre NCOIC 98th DIV
Sheik Meeting 2005 Balad ruz Iraq
Balad ruz side street
Pull, not a good weapon in this terrain TOP
ING TCP vic Mandali Iraq Diyala
Softball field KMTB side
Lets Trade, SGT Vaughn
RPG training, Sipes
Yes we are the beautiful people ODA/SF
Yes this is our beautiful vehicle, ODA/SF
Semper Fi on my shoulder, Tiny
FOB Knott gaggle
Heave Ho FOB Knott shoot house assembly
Cooking bread ING HQ Balad ruz Iraq
386th Engineers opening can of whip... on FOB Knott
500 pound bomb cater APR 4th firefight
Gas line Balad ruz Iraq
North on COWBOY
Top
VBIED FEB 2005 Balad ruz Iraq
D/1/278th RCT Iranian border patrol
AP mine
Old Outpost destroyed in Iran Iraq war
D/1/278th RCT Patrol, Iranian border
KMTB IA fobbits
KMTB IA not fobbits
Deacon patrol 1/278th RCT
looking for IEDs, or Tennesseans looking for frogs to gig.
quasi fobbit activity, PAs and NCOIC of clinic, they got off th FOB quite regular hence quasi label
120mm mortar, replaced 4.2 inch
ka boom
FOB boxing ring before the real one was built, 105 degrees at SP
TC
Tank
Tank going 40 mph down the road
lets make some x patterns
just stick it on and shoot it KMTB RPG range
IA
Captured weapons
Texas Guard finding the IED the hard way
Iran Iraq border
little coolray vehicle
Soviet BMP with the 72mm gun
Bradley FV shooting up sand
$20 and you can go for a ride fobbit, yeah that is real dirt on our faces to.
BFV photo op
A/1/278th Bradley FV section
No beer, Wood.
yes yes I will shoot a thief to heck with chopping his hand off
hi
Madali Iraq
Madali Iraq ?
UXO ready for DEMO
More UXO
Hand Grenade UXO
I'm up he sees me I'm down
Blue sky
MK19 and blue sky
Photo op Deacon trooper
Hawg Hunt D/1/278th RCT Not sure if a hawg roast goes over in Iraq though, hey they are rednecks, that kinda of culture crap is for the State Department.
Yeah I was drafted in Vietnam but always wanted to be CAV
$$$$ for UXO check
UXO for $$$
I am trying to look South African, Drugunov Soviet sniper rifle.
1/A/1/278th RCT
Bradley section vic Balad ruz Iraq
Diyala
More Diyala
TOW away
Changing track on Bradley FV
Bradley Track
Crikey this is a big gun
I will try it sitting
G'day mate
We are here to free you
Rocky Top Iraq Go VOLs
This is the last MFing time I ride in the last vehicle
Apache Troop
Vic Balad ruz Iraq
Lets move to the shade side of this and gaggle over there, an outpost on Iranian border
Outpost on Iranian border
Blake the Slayer
Re-enlistment on Iranian border
The three amigos Balad ruz Iraq
ING Balad ruz Iraq
Fields vic Balad ruz IRaq
ING Patrol
GO Steelers, Shaka
Truck that blew them up FEB 2005 Balad ruz Iraq
Sheiks meeting
IP ING Balad ruz Iraq
Joint ops Balad ruz Iraq
WOG combat multiplier
Its hammer time
Camp Buerhing Kuwait food court
When we leaving Kuwait
We need to fill these sand bags to put in our floor boards Camp Buerhing Kuwait
Hendy's door to stop sand from blowing in
Drop down TGTs FOB Knott
Balad ruz outskirts/palm road
Iraqi front, welcome to hotel Balad ruz, nightly beheadings
Palm road outskirts Balad ruz Iraq
Patrol Balad Ruz Iraq
2/A/1/278th RCT ING joint op, do you think they may steal these?
I fell and hit my head, no Major Ali did not bitch slap me.
Confiscated weapons
Yi-pee
Bald ruz Iraq 2005
Balad ruz Iraq 2005
Another boxing ring D/1/278th RCT 2005
Muddy green M113A3 a/1/278th RCT
Lindo, I can still out sprint you white boys, and he did at 46
SF in action Balad ruz Iraq 2005 JCC
the beautiful people
the beautiful people, we can where our hats you can't.
typical canal
Outlands Diyala
JCC back door Balad ruz, Adams, I will rock scissor paper you for the first shift!
Bread
Iraqis
Cooking bread at ING HQ Balad ruz Iraq
Iraqi cooks
HQ ING Balad ruz Iraq
TCP Balad ruz Iraq
Strutting the outskirts
a little farther
a little closer, Balad ruz outskirts
Hey there is a house, finally some CHI
I hope they do not shoot me in the chest walking across this big open field
Iraq house outskirts Balad ruz Iraq
Route COWBOY
NTC Fort Irwin, CA (Barstow)
mud rooster tail M1 Diyala Iraq
Kuwait?
Southside is soxside Balad ruz Iraq 3/A/1/278th RCT
CHU containerized housing unit
I am dying for a coke with ice
I just had to carry this crap for 5 miles
Iraqi farm house vic Balad ruz Iraq
MEDEVAC prep 3/A/1/278th RCT AIF shot by ING
Ashura event
Let freedom ring II
50 caliber hut improved, hey sit in it before this!
Market Balad ruz Iraq Klika photo cover of Chattnooga Times-Freepress, sluggotinfantyman with M4
No accidental discharges! Oh yeah we do not have any magazines in.
Sergeant Eddie Mathis from Battery, 1-278th Regimental Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division pulls security with his M-21 Sniper Rifle during a patrol through Balad Ruz, Iraq Dec. 31, 2004 during Operation Iraqi Freedom. A Battery is conducting the patrol to gather intelligence, discourage anti Iraqi forces and to maintain a presence in the city USAF photo by Staff Sgt. Shane A. Cuomo (RELEASED)
repeater
Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen (left) shakes hands with Colonel Dennis Adams, commander of the 278th Regimental Combat Team, Army National Guard. Major Genral Gus L. Hargett, Junior, Tennessee Adjutant General (center) watches on. The city of Knoxville, Tennessee hosted the official ÒWelcome HomeÓ parade for the Army National GuardÕs 278th Regimental Combat Team during the cityÕs annual Dogwood Arts Festival parade on 22 April, 2006. The unit returned from duty in Iraq in October 2005.
FOB ? Bernstein?
LTC Mark Hart CDR 1/278th RCT, Camp Shelby, MS 2004, commenced combat operations 18 December 2004, first guys shot at were 1st PLT that night, Balad Ruz Iraq, FOB Caldwell/KMTB "get ur go to war gear and follow me"
Wilson asking Rumsfeld where the uparmor is. Lee Pitts my ass he was a civilian who did not have the nuts to ask it himself, go CAV!
Tennessee outpost, is that a still I see out back?
CD
Lets walk across together and see if it blows up
HOW Bat
