Iraq, by picture (1266 hits)
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Submitted by GodChicken <Monty> (View user info) at 2006-05-25 13:42:08 EDT
No politics, no patriotism, just pictures.
These are just sort of spliced together in MS Paint, since I have no skill. The photos are ones that were taken by myself or one of my teammates, during the last 3 months that I have been in Iraq. (again) City scenes were from Ar Ramadi and Hit. Look them up on a map. The cities near the river are green and surrounded by pretty little farms like the ones pictured here, with rows of date palm trees, and roadside shacks selling produce.
The sandstorm pictures near the bottom are progressive, watching it come, the initial dust wave, and then the brown "fog". Imagine trying to breathe in that. No wonder I have recurring sinus infections, huh?
When we saw the Ron Burgundy sign, it was too funny not to take a photo.
User Reviews
Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2006-07-30 15:38:14 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Cool, and I like how (looking at the pictures) I thought of the first sentence of your article, without having read it.
Submitted by Life101 (user info) at 2006-07-30 15:33:05 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by coley (user info) at 2006-07-30 15:24:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I didn't see this. Nice.
I hope you are well and don't have to redeploy soon... :(
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2006-07-18 12:12:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
You're a faggot and a kid toucher, Monty
Submitted by GetNakeddd (user info) at 2006-07-18 12:05:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I love you too Monty!!
Submitted by SkinnyKenny (user info) at 2006-07-07 17:38:20 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Love you Monty. Hang tough, man.
Submitted by Professional_Peon (user info) at 2006-06-06 17:58:38 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I can't believe I missed this :-(
*tears up cool kid club membership*
Submitted by CookieLass (user info) at 2006-05-26 14:11:05 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
So glad you're home. Now I can go back to watching the news without dreading the Iraq stories.
Submitted by Merlina (user info) at 2006-05-26 08:37:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Flying_buttmonkey (user info) at 2006-05-26 07:44:53 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I was sort of hoping to see guys with funny little curly toed shoes but I think that might all be from watching too many cartoons as a kid...
Good to hear you're back.
Submitted by Happily_Agnostic (user info) at 2006-05-26 06:16:53 EDT (#)
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Where's the death?
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2006-05-25 23:32:25 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Yaaay!
Submitted by legallady (user info) at 2006-05-25 21:59:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
ok fuck!!! it wasn't you...
it was another army guy...or
god forbid...a MOrine.
http://www.ubersite.com/m/81279
I have blonde moments...but shit, I still feel like I
know you. Do you want a care package?
Submitted by AsshOly (user info) at 2006-05-25 21:38:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I was watching videos from the Marine Corps on some website and they had one of a sandstorm like that. I thought the sandstorms in like The Mummy and Hidalgo were fake, but those things are fucking impressive. I couldnt imagine having to breathe that shit in.
Submitted by ConorJS (user info) at 2006-05-25 21:15:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Submitted by Doodles (user info) at 2006-05-25 21:09:35 (#)
Ranking: 1
Sorry to ruin your streak man, this was good but I don't think worthy of a +2.
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Glad I didn't have to be the one to do it, I'll say that much.
Submitted by Doodles (user info) at 2006-05-25 21:09:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Sorry to ruin your streak man, this was good but I don't think worthy of a +2.
Submitted by Crystle (user info) at 2006-05-25 20:53:42 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
for various reasons, I think the shot through the wire fence is my favorite.
of course, some of the other scenes are mind blowing too...
Submitted by GodChicken (user info) at 2006-05-25 19:04:48 EDT (#)
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Submitted by legallady (user info) at 2006-05-25 18:45:53 (#)
Ranking: 2
hey ...great pics. Since the Schlongy interview
I feel like I know you.
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What interview?
Submitted by bart (user info) at 2006-05-25 18:54:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
How's the surfing over there?
Submitted by legallady (user info) at 2006-05-25 18:45:53 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
hey ...great pics. Since the Schlongy interview
I feel like I know you.
Submitted by Anansie (user info) at 2006-05-25 17:51:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
You are alive!
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2006-05-25 17:43:18 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Congratulations on not dying.
Cool pics.
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2006-05-25 17:26:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
It did get deleted, but I found one from someone else in my junk folder that shouldn't have been there. I also found several ways to increase my penis length. Oddly enough this is not something I've ever concerned myself with, but maybe Istaros could use some help in that area.
Submitted by ParlorTrick (user info) at 2006-05-25 17:19:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
More please.
Submitted by MichelleNJ (user info) at 2006-05-25 16:18:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I have pics the hubby sent me of Iraq/Kuwait when he was there in 2003. It's weird over there.
Submitted by BadAssJulie (user info) at 2006-05-25 16:03:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Hooray for being alive and well!
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2006-05-25 15:53:48 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I never really check that hotmail account because most of it is spam. Apparently, I should.
Submitted by ih8u2man (user info) at 2006-05-25 15:47:54 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Stay alive.
Submitted by the_thorne (user info) at 2006-05-25 15:39:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
The wall of sand pic rocks...almost as much as Ron Burgandy.
Submitted by Aeneas (user info) at 2006-05-25 14:43:05 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Cool pictures. We're hopefully getting deployed to Basra at the end of the year.
Submitted by ubetidid (user info) at 2006-05-25 14:40:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2006-05-25 14:40:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
You stay classy.
Submitted by ruthless (user info) at 2006-05-25 14:25:38 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2006-05-25 13:55:49 (#)
Ranking: 2
Monty back and safe.
Thank.
Fucking.
God.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-05-25 14:23:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by GodChicken (user info) at 2006-05-25 14:04:11 (#)
Ranking: 0
Inion: The combat camera folks have a lot better gear than we do, their stuff is so great. I wish we could spend $8000 on a camera, too.
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well i think he actually had that camera before the army cuz he's like a real photographer and crap. i like all the pics he has of weapons firing off. has some cute ones of kids and stuff with the soldiers. i wonder how much he was allowed to keep from the army and what he just kinda didn't give them.
and other than a telephoto lens ya don't really need $8k for a really good camera. although that would be fuckin awesome to have that kinda cash to dole out on a "toy" that rocks.
Submitted by TigerLilly (user info) at 2006-05-25 14:23:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Keep safe my friend!
Submitted by MonkeyingAround (user info) at 2006-05-25 14:14:56 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
what is sad... is the fact that these pics go from breathtakingly beautiful to sad and depressing.
Submitted by retrospect (user info) at 2006-05-25 14:09:54 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
they have DUCKS?!?! and SUN?!?!?
Submitted by Crystle (user info) at 2006-05-25 14:08:56 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Welcome back!
Submitted by MonkeyingAround (user info) at 2006-05-25 14:06:42 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-05-25 13:57:23 (#)
Ranking: 2
penalton?
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shitters... I miss took pendelton for penalton... military base in southern california... ehe ohwell. maybe I will send monty a drink or something I am sending a bunch of other random crap from the uber book club. Oh... Monty... if your interested in recieving random crap... email me...
xxpiranhagirlxx.at.gmail.com
Submitted by GodChicken (user info) at 2006-05-25 14:04:11 EDT (#)
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Submitted by MonkeyingAround (user info) at 2006-05-25 13:54:16 (#)
Ranking: 2
Hey monty... if your stationed at penalton you are less then an hour away from me. Welcome back and I'm glad your okay. If I ever get to meet ya, I will buy yah a beer but mostlikely something stronger.
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I got no probs meeting other uber-people. If you can get me off my surfboard before October, that is.
Inion: The combat camera folks have a lot better gear than we do, their stuff is so great. I wish we could spend $8000 on a camera, too.
Submitted by retrospect (user info) at 2006-05-25 14:02:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
their highway signs are green too?!?!?!?! AWESOME
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-05-25 13:57:23 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
penalton?
Submitted by GodChicken (user info) at 2006-05-25 13:57:09 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2006-05-25 13:53:35 (#)
Ranking: 2
I thought we had decided that you were not allowed to go back to the birthplace of civilization as it were.
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Loki, I emailed this to you like a week ago, no response, must've gone in the hotmail junk folder again.
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2006-05-25 13:55:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Monty back and safe.
Thank.
Fucking.
God.
Submitted by MonkeyingAround (user info) at 2006-05-25 13:54:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Hey monty... if your stationed at penalton you are less then an hour away from me. Welcome back and I'm glad your okay. If I ever get to meet ya, I will buy yah a beer but mostlikely something stronger.
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2006-05-25 13:53:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I thought we had decided that you were not allowed to go back to the birthplace of civilization as it were.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-05-25 13:50:14 EDT (#)
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i know a kid who was an army photographer over there. the stuff he took was/is amazing. these are cool.
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-05-25 13:49:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
the ron burgandy pic was classic...
Submitted by GodChicken (user info) at 2006-05-25 13:48:21 EDT (#)
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Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-05-25 13:46:12 (#)
Ranking: 2
Monty!
So, are you back at Pendleton then?
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When I go back to work next week, yes. I plan to try and drown myself surfing this weekend, however.
After 30 hours of travel, I finally got back here, and had one drink, which nearly made me fall down the stairs. Being a lightweight is alright, though, it's cheap.
Submitted by MyNameIsTim (user info) at 2006-05-25 13:46:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
"it's this whole 'nother country"
-forest gump
glad you're ok
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-05-25 13:46:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Monty!
So, are you back at Pendleton then?
Submitted by shitfuck (user info) at 2006-05-25 13:46:00 EDT (#)
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That's hilarious--even after bombing the place into the ground TWICE, it's exactly the same--
A desert.
Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2006-05-25 13:45:28 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-05-25 13:43:57 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by GodChicken (user info) at 2006-05-25 13:43:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Yep, I'm back.
Standby for another stream of boring crap from yours truly!