offtaskagain Posted November 10, 2006 Share Posted November 10, 2006 Hello all. I haven't really made it widely known on here that I've been deployed for the past year but I've decided to start sharing my pictures. I deployed with H&S Company, 7th Marines out of 29 Palms California in January of this year. The regiment is based out of Al Asad Airbase in western Al Anbar province, but due to my MOS I've been detached the whole time to support the battalions or other subordinate units the whole tour. I've worked with 3/1 and 3/3 at Camp Haditha Dam, and I'm currently attached to a Border Transition Team here in Al Waleed. If you want to try to find it, look for the major highway that goes west to Syria and Jordan from Ramadi. I'm where part of it crosses into Syria at the far western tip of the country. It's close enough to the border that I can see the Syrian town on the other side of No-Mans land from my roof. Most of my pictures are fairly mundane, or rather repetitive shots of scenery but there are a number that should be of interest to grog types. In particular the oft discussed gun shields on the M1A1. I'm still sorting and adding to descriptions but at least they are up. I've disabled commenting due to the large volume of idiots that like to leave "I hope you die" type stuff. So without further rambling here is the link My Iraq Photo Album 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted November 10, 2006 Share Posted November 10, 2006 It's about time Thanks for the link and making the pictures available to us. Great stuff. BTW, I wish you and your fellow Marines a happy 231st Birthday! Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lars Posted November 10, 2006 Share Posted November 10, 2006 What's burning in the Haditha dam set? Oil pipeline I assume? And I'm disappointed there's no green flash on the sunset photos. Thanks for the pics btw. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nidan1 Posted November 10, 2006 Share Posted November 10, 2006 Semper Fi, Thanks for the photos. What I find interesting is the multitude of uses that sand bags are put to. In one of your shots with Yuma the dog, you can see a sand bag holding down some cables that are snaking under the building. Obviously everything on the base is wired up for internet and such, but the old sand bag is still around. Back in Vietnam 40 years ago, we tied a sand bag to a length of rope and threw it over the roof of our hootches (when we were fortunate enough to have them) and then tied another one on the other end and used them to hold the tin roofs on when the monsoon winds came blowing down. Enough of my demented ramblings. Keep safe offtaskagain. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offtaskagain Posted November 10, 2006 Author Share Posted November 10, 2006 Semper Fi Nidan1, the Hesco will never replace the sandbag. I've been fortunate enough so far to take over places that already had all of that taken care of. The fire in Haditha was a controlled burn to clear out the vegetation from the drainage ditches. The insect population there was absolutely insane. It put the ole Minnesota northwoods to shame. You can see some of them in front of the smoke in one of the pics. They were so bad they gummed up the cooling fans on my satellite dish and caused the transmitter to burn out. I sprayed them out every day but eventually they just got the best of me. Amazing how gnats can cause about 1.5 million dollars worth of damage. The fire was set in response to that problem. Eventually we got a bug control contract with KBR and the bugs were taken care of. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted November 10, 2006 Share Posted November 10, 2006 Oh great... Nidan1 makes a rare foray into the outter Forum and what does he do? Cranks out an old war story complete with dusty old lingo. Someone notifiy the Justicar! Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Axe_ Posted November 10, 2006 Share Posted November 10, 2006 Yuma growls and shows her teeth. Bwahahahahaha!!! Did you piss her off on purpose? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedy Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 I like all the food shots 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 Originally posted by Speedy: I like all the food shots You gotta be REALLY hungry to sit around taking photos of mess food on steel trays...which I have no doubt they were. Sadly, I have mess food pictures in my collection, too. Though I doubt I was ever as hungry as offtaskagain. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigduke6 Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 offtaskagain, Thanks for sharing those shots with us. For what it's worth, I think 0430 is brilliant, it's really a great shot. If you ever quit your day job, maybe you should consider a fun and rewarding career in photojournalism. IMO, you've got some talent. In any case welcome back. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luderbamsen Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 Yup great photos. It's interesting how the photos kinda show what occupies your mind in a place like that: Food, bugs and whatnot. Respectfully luderbamsen PS: It really pisses me off that you had to disable commenting. I'm not particularly in favor of this war either, but taking it out on guys like you is just stupid and wrong in so many ways. Stay safe man. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 PS: It really pisses me off that you had to disable commenting. I'm not particularly in favor of this war either, but taking it out on guys like you is just stupid and wrong in so many ways. Stay safe man.Agreed. Judging from the back and forth "die infidel" comments and "kill the raghead" responses Offstakesagain was wise to disable the comment feature. Sad, but he's not going to change two diametrically opposed points of view any time soon. And if he could, he would do well to put those talents to work fixing Iraq than fixing discussion of his pictures of Iraq Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellfish Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 I love the pics of the dogs. Half of my pics from Kuwait are of the dogs we had with us. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFCElvis Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 Because of the volume of pictures it is giving me a real feel for what you are living in. Can people send you things? Like snacks or real food or porn or any of the other things a guy needs to get through the day? If so how? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nidan1 Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 Originally posted by Speedy: I like all the food shots Yeah, those puppies are really cute..... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt Joch Posted November 12, 2006 Share Posted November 12, 2006 Very nice photos. I had not realized there was so much flat, arid desert along the Syrian border. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vincere Posted November 13, 2006 Share Posted November 13, 2006 Stay safe man Second that sentiment. Thanks for sharing your pics. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted November 13, 2006 Share Posted November 13, 2006 Offtaskagain, I couldn't tell from your post. Are you just back from your year's deployment, about to finish up your year, or still got a way to go? Whichever it may be I echo all the sentiments above. As an asside, any word on how M1A1TankCommander's deployment is going so far? I believe he said some time ago that they had move him out of his tank and into a M1114 humvee? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nidan1 Posted November 13, 2006 Share Posted November 13, 2006 Originally posted by Battlefront.com: Oh great... Nidan1 makes a rare foray into the outter Forum and what does he do? Cranks out an old war story complete with dusty old lingo. Someone notifiy the Justicar! Steve I figured with all the sand around...that sandbags would be useful tools, I didn't know that these guys had all of this pre-fab Hesco. stuff. Wasn't this easy in the "Old Corps" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted November 13, 2006 Share Posted November 13, 2006 Oh good lord... next we'll have to hear how many feet of snow Nidan1 had to walk in, backwards no doubt, when he was in grade school Mikey, IIRC M1A1TankCommander is in an Avenger unit. That's a Humvee based AA unit. Not sure what he's supposed to do with that vehicle other than present a target for IEDs Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SgtMuhammed Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 Originally posted by Speedy: I like all the food shots Troops are always concerned with food. The last time I went to NTC we fielded a whole slew of new kit but all the guys remembered was the one meal we had where they were testing out new rations. I was a Ramien noodle guy myself, lots of things you can do with those. Keep safe guys. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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