Sniper Buddy
April 30th, 2010 | From the Ranks | Posted by Alan Lessig
Using tall grass for cover, a Soldier from Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1-36 Infantry Division attatched to the 3rd Infantry Division, sets up his shot using the “Buddy-Supported” firing postion, taking aim with his M110 Sniper Rifle. The snipers trained Iraqi Army Special Forces Soldiers as part of a two-week sniper training in Mosul, Iraq. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Gregory Gieske)
DMZ Guard
April 29th, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
Inside of Military Armistice Committee meeting room of Panmunjom is reflected on the South Korean soldier’s glasses at the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, north of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 28, 2010. South Korean government has not blamed North Korea outright for the disaster, one of South Korea’s worst, but suspicion has focused on the regime, given its history of provocation and attacks on wartime rival South Korea. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)
Tribunal Time
April 28th, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, CUBA — A Guantanamo guard opens the gate of the detention facility April 27 at Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. A military tribunal began hearings this week on whether Omar Khadr, a Canadian by birth who was 15 at the time of his capture in Afghanistan, made statements to interrogators under duress, which would render them them inaddmissable in the first military tribunal to be held under the Obama Administration. (Michelle Shephard-Pool/Getty Images)
Political Battle Over Russian Navy Base
April 28th, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
If you think that politics in America have gotten ugly, it pales in comparison to what happened in the Ukrainian parliament yesterday. Ukrainian opposition and pro-presidential lawmakers broke into fist-fights during ratification of the Black Sea Fleet deal with Russia. Ukraine’s parliament has voted to extend Russia’s lease of a Crimean naval port for the Black Sea Fleet in a chaotic session during which eggs and smoke bombs were thrown. The countries’ presidents agreed last week to extend the Russian navy’s use of the Sevastopol port for another 25 years after the old lease expires in 2017. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Per diem pain-in-the …
April 28th, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Sheila
Ever TDY? Then you know all about the 2,000 or so pages of regulations guiding you through filling out your expense reports. David Fisher, director of the Department of Defense's Business Transformation Agency, lifts a stack of binders containing the Joint Federal Travel Regulations and the Joint Travel Regulations after testifying Tuesday before the House Armed Services subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations during a hearing on the defense travel system. When Chairman Vic Snyder, D-Ark., made a comment about possibly getting his hands on a copy of the regs at the end of the hearing, Fisher obliged.
And here is the bag the beastly JTR/JFTR travel in.
Strykers on Patrol
April 27th, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
A United States Army soldier walks through a wheat field while patrolling with A Troop, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment of the 5th Stryker Brigade, Tuesday, April 27, 2010 in the Maiwand District of Kandahar Province.(AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
Strong-Man
April 26th, 2010 | From the Ranks | Posted by Alan Lessig
Staff Sgt. George Munoz (from front), Airman 1st Class Elyse Lindsay, Senior Airman Joshua Olson and Airman 1st Class Erik Chavarria pull a fire truck during base firefighter games April 10, 2010, at an air base in Southwest Asia. The four Airmen are members of the 379th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Michelle Larche)
Elbe-Day
April 25th, 2010 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
Men dressed as U.S. and Russian soldiers re-enact a World War II scene on April 24, 2010, on the Elbe river in Torgau, eastern Germany. The so-called “Elbe-Day” was celebrated to commemorate the historic meeting of U.S. and Soviet armed forces next to a distroyed bridge in Torgau on April 25, 1945, two weeks before the end of the war. (JENS SCHLUETER/AFP/Getty Images)
CAX Stache
April 24th, 2010 | From the Ranks | Posted by Alan Lessig
It’s rarely pretty. It’s often not in regulation. And it’s a hassle to maintain, but the CAX Stache is a constant of pre-deployment training at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif. (Left to right, top to bottom) Capt. Roy (Geico) Haskins, Lance Cpl. Jason M. Terrill, Capt. Luke Pernotto, Cpl. Erek S. Sharp, Pfc. Daniel L. Lohmann, Cpl. Ryan Guedry, Lance Cpl. Warren Truehaft, Pfc. Kevin C. Vaughn, Lance Cpl. Brent J. Ford. (Marine Corps Photo by Sgt. Mark Fayloga)
Silent Drill
April 22nd, 2010 | From the Ranks | Posted by Alan Lessig
Lance Cpl. Jody Petit Jr, a member of the Silent Drill Platoon, performs at the U.S. Armed Forces Joint Ceremonial Drill Competition at the Lincoln Memorial April 10. The Joint Drill Competition featured ceremonial drill units from each of the armed services. (Cpl. Bobby J. Yarbrough/ USMC)