akd Posted August 15, 2006 Author Share Posted August 15, 2006 Ahh!...brutal photoshop assault! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucero1148 Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 yep, haha! Had to eliminate the background. It1s a 3rd Brigade vehicle before deploying to Iraq. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamingknives Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Love the big air-horn on the front left. What's the circular business on the front of the .50cal ammo box? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucero1148 Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 You mean the round thing just under the barrel to the left? Might be a IR light? One thing I noticed is that the interior is quite cramped considering the amount of gear the troopers carry on and with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamingknives Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 No, on the ammo box. (big rectangular thing to the right of the gun, as you look at it) It's kind of divided into four segments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 I wonder just how many Stryker vehicles are in-country now. For awhile Stryker Brigades would hand over their equipment as one Brigade rotated in and another rotated out, which would mean the vehicle number would always hover around 300 or so. Now we've got 3-2nd back in, but instead of rotating out 1-72nd has been moved to Baghdad and told they're staying thru Xmas! Did the new guys bring their vehicles with them? It looks like that 'thing' on the ammo box is the len cap for the TV camera suspended beneath the gun - if we're looking at the same thing. [ August 15, 2006, 01:42 PM: Message edited by: MikeyD ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellfish Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 I think the 172nd inheireted the 3/2nd's original Strykers and were due to bring them out. I might be wrong, though, but I don't think the 25th ID took their Strykers out with them when they handed over to the 172nd. Small, mostly-off-topic rant: I hate the new modular army naming system. Back when they first decided to do the BCT/UA thing, there was a proposal to give each brigade a unique name and lineage - mostly drawn from the old WWII divisions. So instead of 1/2/3/4th Brigades of the 1st Armored Division you might have the 1st Armored Brigade, which inheireted the history and shoulder patch of the 1st AD, 2nd Armored Brigade which would have done the same for the 2nd AD, etc. Now we've got brigades that are often totally unrelated to each other that belong to division commands that theoretically shouldn't even exist (only Corps level HQs are supposed to be the command elements last I heard) and its just more confusing and generic than ever. For example, the 1st Infantry Division now has some heavy and some light brigades. Had they renamed the light brigade after one of the old WWII divisions or older seperate brigades (197th, 198th, 199th, etc.) it would have made a whole lot more sense, IMHO, and promoted BCT esprit. End rant. Stupid Army History commanders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 No, on the ammo box. (big rectangular thing to the right of the gun, as you look at it) It's kind of divided into four segments.I dunno... an air vent so the ammo doesn't get overheated? It's not good to take hot ammo and run it through. More chance of a misfire and extraction problem. Again, I don't know if that is what the thing is or not. AFAIK all Strykers in Iraq now are recycles. Meaning, unless the vehicle is a straight out replacment it has been there a while. There is a refurbishment shop in Kuwait (I think that's where it is) that puts even heavily damaged vehicles back into action. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kwazydog Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Originally posted by fytinghellfish: This should interest Dan Yup it sure did, thanks for passing it on FH! That is a great site for vehicles btw, I use it often, but these are a very new addition Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 FHF, My understanding is that the next phase of modularization will fix the problem you speak of. Brigades will get Division titles, Divisions will get Corps titles, and Corps will (IIRC) pick up historical Army designations. The reasoning behind this is pretty logical. Today's Brigades are yesterday's Divisions, Divisions today act more like Corps of times past, and Armies are far more theater centric than Armies used to be. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellfish Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 I had a big pdf file from Soldiers Magazine (IIRC - may have been Army Magazine) that listed all the proposed names - the 82nd would be broken up into the 82nd, 11th, 101st and 17th Airborne Brigades, the 101st would become the 6th Light, 7th Light, etc. Damned if I can find it though. But the Center for Military History nixed the idea for some reason and said that we were going to keep the current naming conventions. Which is lame. I wanna see the 2nd Armored back again - wearing their patches over their hearts like Patton wanted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellfish Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Aha! Found somefink! Karl Lowe's proposal for renaming the Army (from Army Magazine March 2005) http://www.ausa.org/pdfdocs/Lowe.pdf Soldiers Magazine poster - shows the Divisions, their BCTs and the battalions within those BCTs. Might be useful for the campaign to know which units are in which brigade - unless you're gonna go generic (A Coy/1st Bn as opposed to A Co/2-32 Armor) http://www4.army.mil/soldiers/archive/pdfs/pdfs/poster_ModularForce.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeauCoupDinkyDau Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 Originally posted by Angryson: All these photos make me miss Iraq. Is that wrong? Not if you met some people you ended up caring about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucero1148 Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 The vehicles are all brand new straight from the states and not reconditioned in Kuwait. If they were reconditioned they wouldn't be sporting new paint jobs and if they were they would probably be repainted in desert beige. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 From what we can tell they aren't painting Strykers desert color. Stykers have been going into Iraq for 2.5 years and they are still olive green. After about 5 minutes there they are so covered with dust that it doesn't really matter Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akd Posted August 16, 2006 Author Share Posted August 16, 2006 In this photo released by U.S. Army, U.S. Army Sgt. Charles Crawford, left, and Staff Sgt. Robert Steele record the serial number of an AK-47 rifle, seized while searching a local residence for illegal weapons in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Aug. 11, 2006. U.S. and Iraqi forces said Wednesday that a three-day security sweep has cleaned up a mostly Sunni neighborhood in west Baghdad, notorious for kidnappings, murders and bombings. (AP Photo/U.S.Army, Air Force Master Jonathan F.Doti) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellfish Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 Are both Stryker brigades in Baghdad now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akd Posted August 17, 2006 Author Share Posted August 17, 2006 High-Res U.S. Army Spc. Jonh Littrell (left) and Pfc. Devin Gooch both with Mortar Platoon, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment scan their sectors after dismounting a Stryker assault vehicle in the outskirts of Mosul, Iraq, on Aug. 6, 2006. DoD photo by Cpl. Sam Kilpatrick, U.S. Army. (Released) In this U.S. Air Force photo released Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2006, Spc. Jarrod Nordby, of Charlie Company, 4-23 Infantry Regiment, 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, rests between mission objectives near Rabea'a, Iraq, on June 27. The bulk of the 172nd Brigade was still in Iraq when Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld last month extended their deployment as part of a plan to quell the escalating violence in Baghdad. Overall, the brigade has about 3,900 troops. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Sgt. Jacob N. Bailey) In this file photo released by the Department of Defense Wednesday, July 5, 2006, U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team fire mortar illumination rounds in support of a targeting mission in Tall Afar, Iraq, July 4. The bulk of the 172nd Brigade was still in Iraq when Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld last month extended their deployment as part of a plan to quell the escalating violence in Baghdad. Overall, the brigade has about 3,900 troops. (AP Photo/Department of Defense, Sgt. Jacob N. Bailey, File) In this U.S. Air Force photo released Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2006, children look on as Sgt. David Ristau, 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, provides security during a patrol in Sinjar's market district on May 30. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akd Posted August 18, 2006 Author Share Posted August 18, 2006 HIGH-RES U.S. Army Spc. Jeremy Wicklund provides security as Sgt. Allen Ronnei cuts the lock of the entrance gate of a home during a cordon and search mission in Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 16, 2006. The Soldiers are with 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, Fort Wainwright, Alaska. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Adrian Cadiz) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SgtMuhammed Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 Originally posted by MikeyD: It looks like that 'thing' on the ammo box is the len cap for the TV camera suspended beneath the gun - if we're looking at the same thing. I think it is a lens cap but for the Thermal sight just below the TV camera. It looks about the right size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akd Posted August 18, 2006 Author Share Posted August 18, 2006 HIGH-RES NIGHTLIGHT — U.S. Army soldiers attached to Mortar Platoon, Alpha Company, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment fire an illumination flare over Mosul, Iraq, from Forward Operating Base Marez, Iraq, Aug. 10, 2006. U.S. Army photo by Cpl. Sam Kilpatrick A US soldier speaks with an Iraqi boy as he patrols a street in Baghdad's Ghazaliya neighborhood on 15 August 2006 where the military's Bravo Company 23rd infantry regiment 2nd division conducts house to house searches for illegal weapons.(AFP/Thibauld Malterre) U.S. soldiers patrol in Dora district in Baghdad August 15, 2006. Picture taken August 15, 2006. REUTERS/Ross Colvin (IRAQ) A team of US Army soldiers from the 1st Battalion 5th Infantry work on zeroing a sniper rifle in a wheat field which serves as a shooting range in the outskirts of the restive city of Mosul in May 2005.(AFP/Cris Bouroncle) [ August 18, 2006, 04:39 PM: Message edited by: akd ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cassh Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 Like the improvised cheek rest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akd Posted August 22, 2006 Author Share Posted August 22, 2006 HIGH-RES by Petty Officer 1st Class Martin Anton Edgil August 22, 2006 Soldiers from the [3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division] conduct an area reconnaissance mission in Baghdad. This photo appeared on www.army.mil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Ruddy Posted August 22, 2006 Share Posted August 22, 2006 Great pics folks. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Ruddy Posted August 22, 2006 Share Posted August 22, 2006 Probably irrelevant, definitely a little out of date, but for intrests/comparisons sake, here are some official DND pics of us Canuckians in Afghanistan... (from www.forces.gc.ca) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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