pics from iraq

[iraq66]

hey guys been playing with my new cam a bit...sorry they are soo big still trying to mess with the software

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[ATV Chic]

awesome pics thanks for sharing! How can i get one of those launchers? :devil: Come back safe soon! Thanks for all you do!:macho

[iraq66]

Originally posted by sexyatvchic
How can i get one of those launchers? :devil:

well...the best way would be to....sign here___________ haha and then i would see you over here with me and thanks for your support :cool:

[CRich[814]]

those pics are pretty sweet. thanks for everything you guys do.

[ATV Chic]

NO, thank you for your sacrifice. I was in the army briefly years ago but am a very brittle diabetic. Otherwise i would be there! Thanks again and stay safe!

than you for your service and the awesome pics...be safe

[whiteboycustom]

where is that at south iraq???

i know one thing i dont miss that place, right now with the temps as high as they are just to get hotter in the next couple of months

[400EX CANADA]

Awesome pictures, Thanks for raking care of everybody back home!

[moto04racing]

i think there a good size...

thank you for all you do and to you and every other american there. return home safe and soon.

[iraq66]

whiteboycustom- no it is about middlie iraq we are 60 miles north of bagdad and it is getting to the peak of the temps now aboit 120 today

and again thank you all it is people like you that keep us going it is so nice to know eveyone back in the states still care about us even if they dont care for the war

[Nac's22]

thank you for everything you guys do. great pics too. now come home safe so you can ride the sick hybrid of yours.

[TWISTED DINLI]

awesome pics

[whiteboycustom]

yea i made that trip to many times from tikrit to balad and to baghdad, military police gotta love that job haha, daily convoy security missions

[DVXracer]

Sweet pics bro . Thanks for doing what you can over there and make it home safely .

[JForestZ34]

Nice pics man. Take some more. Let's see some tanks shots too..


James

[Gray33]

hey man thanks for serving our country Hopefully you and all the others come back home safely and rember what them iraqs stand for..

[Old Dirtbiker]

Wow, where does a guy start.
Those are some really cool pictures but we really thank you and your buddies for what your doing. While I'm sure you hear alot of the bad things that the media puts out, I doubt that you hear how many of us true Americans believe in what your doing.
I just wish the media and the liberals would back off and let you finish what you guys had set out to do in the first place.

Keep your heads down and your chin up.

Keep the cool picts coming to if you get a chance

[DF400ex]

Here's a few videos of us having fun at the range in Northern Iraq. We were training our replacements... and blowing off some ammo we accumulated over the year we were there. Something to the tune of 5000-.50cal, 3000-7.62, 8000-5.56, 13-AT4's, and 25 M-68 hand grenades.

We had 2 M2's, 4 M-240B, 6 M249's, a couple dozen M-4's and M-9's. Just for fun we brought a few Glock 21's, Draganovs, AK 47's, M-82 and M-24 sniper rifles. Each machine gun had a few extra barrels, cuz we definitely need ed them, lol. I've never had so much fun at the range.

This was all last April, and I'll be going back in the next few couple months.


Look at all the ammo cans on the ground. :D
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There are alot of pics in the album to to check out.

[Ace Sixx]

Cool pics and vids guys. THANK YOU and BE SAFE!

[infantry317]

Hooah, nice pics! Thanks for serving a greater cause. :macho :chinese:
Scott - 7th ID (L) 1990-93

[sandmanblue]

PLEASE tell all the other soldiers there with you that YOU GUYS ARE TRUE AMERICANS AND WE THANK YOU FOR SERVING IN OUR MILITARY.

FREEDOM ISN'T FREE.

I actually am humbled when seeing stuff like this. We are here and safe because of guys like you. There are no words that can convey the gratitude we all feel toward our men and women in our military.

Damn the politicians. They all need to be kicked out.

[iraq66]

wow and agin i have to say thank you all for all the support you guys give us it is so great knowing how many people really care

but i cant wait till i get home for good to jump on my quad and meet all you guys :cool:

[WhiteYFZ]

thanks for doing what u do.
what camera u got? the pics look awesome!

[iraq66]

the cam is a sony a100 i like the cam alot

[Outlaw 50]

Great pics.........send more when you can!

Thanks for the great work you guys are doing in Iraq. It's not easy to bring an entire country out of the seventh century into the modern world but you guys are doing it!

Most people here support the effort in Iraq, they just think that the powers that be should let you guys take off the gloves.

I look forward to riding with you when you get back! Post up on OMR if you get a chance.

God bless and take care of you!

[DF400ex]

Originally posted by Outlaw 50
Great pics.........send more when you can!

Thanks for the great work you guys are doing in Iraq. It's not easy to bring an entire country out of the seventh century into the modern world but you guys are doing it!

Most people here support the effort in Iraq, they just think that the powers that be should let you guys take off the gloves.

I look forward to riding with you when you get back! Post up on OMR if you get a chance.

God bless and take care of you!

One of the hardest parts is to get the local provincial leaders to make decisions on their own. In the past everything was done from Baghdad. When I asked the Director Generate of Emergency Services for the northern Providence of Nineveh why his firemen didn't have the proper uniforms, he replied that baghdad will send them when they fell it is necessary. Even though he never told them what they need, cuz they never asked, and he had the money in his budget to buy them. This is just one example but it's true for a lot of them, not all, but a lot.

The people over there for the most part support us, but are too afraid to show it for fear of being killed or kidnapped by the AIF. Corruption is another huge problem that I won't even go into.

If we could take the gloves off it may be going a lot better for us, but due to the high density of media coverage the whole world would be against us if we handles it like WWII for example. A simple show of force, like fire bombing that was successful in Germany and Japan might work there, but again, we have to be too nice to them.

For the record...I'm not a fan of killing innocent civilians over there, just the bad guys. Or anyone who, through ROE and Escalation of Force is deemed a bad guy.

[Eviltanker]

Bro, Where did you get the animal company guys pics from? I was in third PLT! What company you with? Where were you on OCT 5th 05? Wheres Sharon? Give me a PM about riding sometime I will be gone in July for pathfinder and November I leave for the Stan. other than that I'm pretty much open.And to whiteboycustom, the first 7 pics were from Ar-Ramadi.

[whiteboycustom]

thanks, i was there april 03-april04 ive been from kuwait all the way to mosul, i got some serious miles logged in over there haha, i have some pics at the house to ill post up from tikrit and the school saddam went to that we turned into a prison, i dont have pics of it but we stayed in the house of the uncle that raised him

[Pappy]

pics are awesome, makes me want to go get some:devil:

stay safe, keep your powder dry and we will be waiting for the day all our boys come home!

[bwamos]

Great pics. We truly do appreciate all you guys and gals do.

Ignore the media, they are as biased as you can get.

A week ago we had 50 soldiers returning from Iraq (headed back to Ft. Leavenworth). The entire KCI International Airport applauded them as they came through no one remaind seated (It was like that cheezy commercial)... and there was a parade of 500+ Bikers (mostly vetrans you could tell by the vests/badges they wore) out front adorning full sized American Flags.

It was quite a sight to behold.

Not one member of the press present (not one). Good news doesn't sell.

We appreciate it, even though you'll never truly know how much so.

[whiteboycustom]

on our return from iraq we flew straight to ft hood, from there we were bussed to another area by our company and we all marched into a gym where everyones family was waiting, from before we started going in everyone was on there feet screaming and hollaring and they did that till everyone was in and like 5 mins after, they were just goin crazy, best filling ever right there, makes u feel 20 ft tall

its great to hear someone to say thank u but to hear it from another vet u cant beat that

and media are bloodsuckers they have to find all the negative stuff to report

the best email i got was about the funeral of a soldier, it showed pictures of it and the entire route that was travled to the cemetary was lined with people and little kids and old people holding american flags heres the webpage i found with the story and pictures
http://dalesdesigns.net/Texas_funeral.htm

heres the best commercial

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[DF400ex]

It's amazing how far a simple thank you can go and how good it can make you feel. I was in Mosul, Iraq from July05-Apr-06. After being gone from home for over 8 months I was able to take leave to see my family. There were a bunch of delays and equipment malfunctions but they got us home at 430pm Christmas Day. So there I am walking down to the terminal all in my ACU's with an ACU backpack on and I see my family. There were like 30 of my family members there which was great, all holding signs and crying. But the coolest part, the part that made all the suck and hairy situations that I have been through over in Iraq was the 500 plus civilians waiting for their non military families to make it home for the holidays, they all started to clap and cheer. First an older lady and her Korean vet husband, and then every other person in the airport. Dude, by far the coolest feeling I have ever felt, and I'm not ashamed to say that it brought a tear to my eye. That moment made every decision I've made in the military up to that point seem worth it.

A few months later when my whole Battalion flew home for good made a pit stop in Main. This was the first American soil that we set foot on since Iraq. There was a USO that had a welcoming party for us that consisted of well over 100 Vets from WWII, Korean War, and Vietnam. They were in a huge line and everyone of them shook our hands and thanked us. They, the ones that made it possible to continue Democracy and to speak English, were thanking us. I thanked then for there service because they made a bigger impact on our country than this war has.

That funeral thing is awesome. I attended a funeral for a local LT that dies in Iraq last summer and it was the same way. Those anti-troop protesters were supposed to be there so dozens of service members, 100's of the freedom bikers, and about a thousand civilians all showed up to block the protesters from being seen or heard by the family. Luckily the protesters showed up. I do not know how those people can live with their selves after protesting at a service members funeral.

[whiteboycustom]

i didnt get a r&r trip home for my year, but i did get a week off in germany after a american prisoner escort to a us military prison there

[Eviltanker]

Sorry about the hair. This was done by a photographer that thought my shotgun was hilarious.the 113 was there and he decided to use it.

[Eviltanker]

The ultimate all terrain vehicle. My tank that I was on after the 3rd ID moved out.

[Eviltanker]

To my Grunt bro's, you won't see this to often. A TANKER WALKING! Got nothing but respect for you guys and all my bro's

[FUTheman]

Stay safe.

[DF400ex]

Originally posted by Eviltanker
To my Grunt bro's, you won't see this to often. A TANKER WALKING!

So true, but we CA bubbas are the same way. I've seen people get back in the HMMWV or track just to move 100 or less feet, lol. But I'm guilty aswell.:D

[Outlaw 50]

Originally posted by Eviltanker
The ultimate all terrain vehicle. My tank that I was on after the 3rd ID moved out.

Ok man, you can't call it the ultimate ATV.........................at least without giving us the specs!

HP at the ground?

Torque...?

Ground clearance?

Top speed?

Suspension travel?

MPG...?













JK.........cool pics! Thanks again for all you guys have done and are doing!

[Eviltanker]

Originally posted by Outlaw 50
Ok man, you can't call it the ultimate ATV.........................at least without giving us the specs!

HP at the ground?...............1500 with the govenor on

Torque...?.............close to 3000 with govenor

Ground clearance?...........28 inches

Top speed?...........50mph with govenor around 90 without

Suspension travel?............18 total inches on the rotary hydrolic suspension

MPG...? .........2 gallons per mile.....8 gallons just to get the turbine started. holds around 500 gallons.
You also left out weight! 69.3 tons combat loaded.













JK.........cool pics! Thanks again for all you guys have done and are doing!

[DF400ex]

Originally posted by Eviltanker


you left one part out... I've seen these things run over cars at like 20 miles an hour. I doubt any other ATV can do that!

[Eviltanker]

tank in front of me did it at about 35-40mph thats why I say the ultimate! I love the vehicle even with the quircks and flaws. It did suck in the summer in Iraq due to the fact that if it's 130 outside it will be 140 inside (wish it had AC)

[DF400ex]

I know what you mean about no AC. We had AC in our brand new HMMWV and would laugh at the tankers that we bacame fiends with when on convoys... then our AC compressor blew up. I guess our HMMWV was part of a group that got a bad batch of AC compressors. it siezed up, the belts broke and all the wireing and cooling lines were ripped out. Our replacement vehicle was an older one with no AC and we were stuck with it all though August in Tal Afar. I guess that's what we got for picking on the tankers, lol. When it was 130 outside the hottest we measured in our vehicle was 149 cuz of the engine heat.