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Candid street shot during my photowalk in Venezia.
Believe me with the prime lense 35mm I was quite close to them when I took the shot (gasp!)
Turkish Special Forces Soldiers stands guard next to the courthouse as a vehicle transporting prisoners passes on December 27, 2016 at silivri district in Istanbul.. Almost 30 Turkish police will go on trial in Istanbul on December 27, 2016 charged with involvement in the July 15 coup bid, the city's first trial of alleged putschists. With indictments prepared against over 1,200 people, and some 41,000 under arrest in total, the trials following the failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are set to be the most far-reaching legal process in Turkish history.
Photos: Ozan Kose
Dominant Forces.
Sicut sonitus quadrigarum super civitates ejus commota est extrema motus electrica Sulphureum,
catastrofe incredibile bombardamente rânduri oribile descrise,
حرق انهيار قصاصات غامضة مزقتها العلاقات,
unter spuckte Wolken bedrohlich Fahrzeuge gefährlich Menschheit überschwemmt,
météores apocalyptiques masses la prose de fièvre incliné étonnement poèmes bras,
cognizioni interessate denti armi artificiale continuità inessenziale sistema particolare,
Η ασάφεια παραμετροποιήσεις σημασία περιγράφει αιμορραγίες ενδιαφέρον,
heddluoedd gwahanu gwahaniaethau ymwybyddiaeth gyfatebiaeth gwrthddweud tystiolaeth gollwng,
репродуктивного раздражительным стимулом антитеза иррациональных безразличия в абсолютно поднял,
wyobraża połączeń organicznych elementów procesów jednostkowych uniwersalny wykazując,
narušená příroda implicitně proti pojetí individuality odráží existenční myšlenky,
inversio armoton muotoja tunnustaen vaikutuksia silkkaa ovela epätodellinen tilaukset,
人類の理由を国エンティティを犠牲にする消失することは夢を知恵!
Steve.D.Hammond.
Latvian Special Forces during exercise Summer Shield - In Latvia, a training event is underway combining land, air and naval assets from Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, Luxembourg, Canada and the U.S.
The annual event is referred to as Summer Shield, involving eleven hundred personnel. Summer Shield allows soldiers from NATO countries to train and improve interoperability in the Baltic region. This album includes various shots of soldiers on a firing range and on a exercise in a mock minefield.
Manifestation du 5 décembre 2019 (pour la défense des retraites). Plus d'un million de manifestants dans toute la France. A Paris une manifestation gigantesque. Coupée en deux à la hauteur de la place de la République par un barrage et l'obstruction des CRS, avant même que l'énorme manif n'ait réellement commencé... Donc il y avait deux immenses cortèges à Paris, l'un au nord de la place de la République (où se trouvaient des dizaines de milliers de manifestants derrière les banderoles syndicales et politiques, et un autre cortège au sud de la place de la République, où se trouvaient encore des dizaines de milliers de manifestants, sans sono et véhicules syndicaux, mais avec beaucoup de voix et de mots et de jambes pour la défense de nos retraites
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December 5, 2019 - Mass strikes and protests in France over pension reform (a disastrous reform driven by Macron and his wealthy friends). More than a million protesters throughout France.
In Paris a gigantic demonstration, cut in two at "Place de la République" by the obstruction of the police... before the march really began ... So there were two huge demos in Paris, one at north of the Republic Square (where there were tens of thousands of protesters behind the union banners), and another part of the demo south of the Republic Square, where were still tens of thousands of protesters, without the sound and the vehicles of the trade unionists, but with a lot of voices and words and shouting in defense of our pensions
Croatian Armed Forces Soldiers from “The Hedgehogs,” muscled their way through thick snow terrain during a situational training exercise designed to increase combat readiness at Bemowo Piskie Training Area, Poland on Dec. 18.
Photos: Sgt. Sarah Kirby
A special forces unit member provides coverage during an exercise at Melrose Air Force Range, N.M., Nov. 8, 2012. The range is one of Air Force Special Operations Command's premiere training facilities and is utilized by multiple agencies and branches of the armed forces. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Ericka Engblom)
27th Special Operations Wing Public Affairs
Photo by Airman 1st Class Ericka Engblom
Date Taken:11.08.2012
Location:CANNON AIR FORCE BASE, NM, US
Read more: www.dvidshub.net/image/783403/training-range-proves-benef...
Well, it's a WiP so far. The figure on the left is a Para, and the one on the right is a Radioman/Machine Gunner in an Army unit. I apologise for the poor quality :/
Also, standards for Modern Conflict.
Polish Special Operations Forces train with U.S. Army Special Operations Forces at Fort Bragg, N.C., Sept. 15-23.
Norwegian Special Forces during anti-piracy Ship Boarding exercise on the HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen – December 2013
Breaking Light.
Thorndon South, Essex.
August 2010.
Polaroid SX-70 Alpha (ii)
Polaroid Edgecut 600 film, 3-stop ND filter on lens.
[All photographs © Toby Marsh. Please do not re-use without permission.
Do not post to Tumblr, Blogspot etc without permision.]
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Greek F-16 joining forces with the "Knights of the Orange Tail" squadron
Photo by: Hagar Amibar
F-16 יווני באימון משותף עם טייסת "אבירי הזנב
הכתום"
צילום: הגר עמיבר
Croatian Zapovjedništvo Specialjalnih Snaga (ZSS) and members of U.S. Naval Special Warfare Task Unit Europe (NSWTU-E) conduct maritime Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure (VBSS) training in Split, Croatia, April 14, 2022.
For the Croatian ZSS, Joint Combined Exchange Training, or JCET with partner nations is not uncommon.
The ZSS were founded in 2000 as the Special Operations Battalion and since then, its operators have participated in multiple operations, including stints in Afghanistan as part of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Patrik Orcutt
Colonel Yuli Mamchor (R), commander of the Ukrainian military garrison at the Belbek airbase, speaks to troops under Russian command occupying the Belbek airbase in Crimea on March 4, 2014 in Lubimovka, Ukraine. The Ukrainians are stationed at their garrison nearby, and after spending a tense night anticipating a Russian attack following the expiration of a Russian deadline to surrender, in which family members of troops spent the night at the garrison gate in support of the soldiers, Mamchor announced his bold plan this morning to retake the airfield by confronting the Russian-lead soldiers unarmed. The Russian-lead troops fired their weapons into the air but then granted Mamchor the beginning of negotiations with their commander. Russian-lead troops have blockaded a number of Ukrainian military bases across Crimea.
Location: Berlin - 512km from home.
Temporary license plate for U.S. forces in Germany. T means temporary, the second/third letter denote the garrison.
T = Temporary
S = Stuttgart
As an Allied attack on Europe loomed, the local French Resistance increased its activities in order to disrupt local German forces and hinder communications. 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich was ordered to make its way across the country to the fighting in Normandy. Along the way it killed many French citizens and, in turn, came under attack and sabotage from the French Resistance.
Early on the morning of June 10, 1944, Sturmbannführer Adolf Diekmann, commanding the I. battalion of the 4th Waffen-SS ("Der Führer") panzer-grenadier regiment, informed Sturmbannführer Otto Weidinger at regimental headquarters that he had been approached by two French civilians who claimed that a German officer was being held by the French Resistance in Oradour-sur-Vayres, a nearby town. The captured German was alleged to be Sturmbannführer Helmut Kämpfe, commander of the 2nd SS Panzer reconnaissance battalion, who may have been captured by the maquis the day before.
On June 10 Diekmann's battalion sealed off the town of Oradour-sur-Glane, having confused it with nearby Oradour-sur-Vayres, and ordered all the townspeople – and anyone who happened to be in or nearby the town – to assemble in the village square, ostensibly to have their papers examined. In addition to the residents of the village the SS also apprehended six people who did not live there but had the misfortune of riding their bikes through town when they arrived.
All the women and children were then taken to and locked in the church while the village itself was looted. Meanwhile, the men were led to six barns and sheds where machine-gun nests were already in place. According to the account of a survivor, the soldiers began shooting at them, aiming for their legs so that they would die more slowly. Once the victims were no longer able to move, the soldiers covered their bodies with kindling and set the barns on fire. Only five men escaped; 190 men died.
The soldiers then proceeded to the church and put an incendiary device in place there. After it was ignited, women and children tried to flee from the doors and windows of the church but were met with machine-gun fire. 247 women and 205 children died in the mayhem. Only one woman survived, 47-year-old local housewife Marguerite Rouffanche. She had managed to slide out of a small window at the back of the church, and hid in the bushes overnight until the Germans had moved on. Another small group of about twenty villagers had fled Oradour as soon as the soldiers appeared. That night, the remainder of the village was razed.
A few days later survivors were allowed to bury the dead. 642 inhabitants of Oradour-sur-Glane had been brutally murdered in a matter of hours.
Source : Wikipedia
Quando si va sulla cima del vulcano Teide, a Tenerife, si superano i 3.700 m sul livello dell'oceano, che si può ammirare in tutte le direzioni. Ma la sensazione più grandiosa è quella di immaginare una spaccatura sotto al mare dal quale inizia a fuoriuscire materiale incandescente e lava che, anno dopo anno, per millenni, si accumula sul fondo del mare e piano piano arriva alla superficie, dopo aver percorso quasi 4000 m. Ma non si ferma qui. Prosegue, strato dopo strato, e si alza per quasi altri quattro chilometri, fino a incontrare le nuvole del cielo.
L'intero vulcano arriva a 7500 metri dal fondo del mare fino alla sommità.
Foto dal mio album ricordi
#teide #canarie #vulcano #lava #height #deep #mare #oceano #eruption #canary #island #forces
Norwegian Special Forces during anti-piracy Ship Boarding exercise on the HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen – December 2013
MOSCOW. THE MUSEUM OF ARMED FORCES. MARCH 2010
The Kliment Voroshilov (KV) tanks were a series of Soviet heavy tanks, named after the Soviet defense commissar and politician Kliment Voroshilov. The KV series were known for their extremely heavy armour protection, which was capable of resisting all German anti-tank weapons up to 75 mm and 88 mm calibre, both of which were comparatively rare at the time of the initial German invasion of the Soviet Union in World War II. Prior to the invasion, about 500 of the over 22,000 tanks in Soviet service at the time were of the KV-1 type.
fter disappointing results with the multi-turreted T-35 heavy tank, Soviet tank designers started drawing up replacements. The T-35 conformed to the 1920s notion of a 'breakthrough tank' with very heavy firepower and armour protection, but poor mobility. The Spanish Civil War demonstrated the need for much heavier armor on tanks, and was the main influence on Soviet tank design just prior to World War II.
Several competing designs were offered, and even more were drawn up prior to reaching prototype stage. All had heavy armour, torsion-bar suspension, wide tracks, and were of welded and cast construction. One of the main competing designs was the SMK, which lowered the number of turrets from the T-35's five to two, mounting the same combination of 76.2 mm and 45 mm weapons. When two prototypes were ordered though, it was decided to create one with only a single turret, but more armour. This new single-turret tank was the KV. The smaller hull and single turret enabled the designer to install heavy frontal and turret armour while keeping the weight within manageable limits.
When the Soviets entered the Winter War, the SMK, KV and a third design, the T-100, were sent to be tested in combat conditions. The heavy armour of the KV proved highly resistant to Finnish anti-tank weapons, making it more effective than the other designs. It was soon put into production, both as the original 76-mm-armed KV-1 Heavy Tank and the 152 mm howitzer-mounting assault gun, the KV-2 Heavy Artillery Tank.
The 45-ton KV outweighed most other tanks of the era, being about twice as heavy as the heaviest contemporary German tanks. The KV's strengths included armor that was impenetrable by any tank-mounted weapon then in service except at point-blank range, good firepower, and good traction on soft ground. It also had serious flaws: it was very slow and difficult to steer, the transmission was unreliable, and the ergonomics were poor, with limited visibility and no turret basket. Furthermore its weight tended to strain smaller Russian bridges. As more armor and other improvements were made without increasing engine power, later models were less capable of keeping up with medium tanks and had more trouble with difficult terrain.
Further development
By 1942, when the Germans were fielding large numbers of long-barrelled 50 mm and 75 mm guns, the KV's armor was no longer invincible. The KV-1's side, top, and turret armor could also be penetrated by the high-velocity MK 101 carried by German ground attack aircraft such as the Henschel Hs 129, requiring the installation of additional field-expedient appliqué armour. The KV-1's 76.2 mm gun also came in for criticism. While adequate against lighter German tanks, it was the same gun as carried by smaller, faster, and cheaper T-34 medium tanks, and could no longer penetrate the frontal armour of German heavy tanks it faced in battle. The KV-1 was also much more difficult to manufacture and thus more expensive than the T-34. In short, its advantages no longer outweighed its drawbacks.
Nonetheless, because of its initial superior performance, the KV-1 was chosen as one of the few tanks to continue being built following the Soviet reorganization of tank production. Due to the new standardization, it shared the similar engine (the KV used a 600hp V-2K modification of the T-34's V-2 diesel engine) and gun (the KV had a ZiS-5 main gun, while the T-34 had a similar F-34 main gun) as the T-34, was built in large quantities, and received frequent upgrades.
When production shifted to the Ural Mountains 'Tankograd' complex, the KV-2 was dropped. While impressive on paper, it had been designed as a slow-moving bunker-buster. It was less useful in highly mobile, fluid warfare that developed in World War II. The turret was so heavy it was difficult to traverse on non-level terrain, and it was expensive to produce. Only about 250 KV-2s were made, all in 1940-41, making it one of the rarer Soviet tanks.
KV-1 produced in 1942, displayed in Finnish Tank Museum in Parola.
As the war continued, the KV-1 continued to get more armour to compensate for the increasing effectiveness of German weapons. This culminated in the KV-1 model 1942 (German designation KV-1C), which had very heavy armour, but lacked a corresponding improvement to the engine. Tankers complained that although they were well-protected, their mobility was poor and they had no firepower advantage over the T-34 medium tank.
In response to criticisms, the lighter KV-1S (Russian language: КВ-1С) was released, with thinner armour and a smaller, lower turret in order to reclaim some speed. Importantly, the KV-1S also had a commander's cupola with all-around vision blocks, a first for a Soviet heavy tank. However, the thinning-out of the armor called into question why the tank was being produced at all, when the T-34 could seemingly do everything the KV could do and much more cheaply. The Soviet heavy tank program was close to cancellation in mid-1943.
The appearance of the German Panther tank in the summer of 1943 convinced the Red Army to make a serious upgrade of its tank force for the first time since 1941. Soviet tanks needed bigger guns to take on the growing numbers of Panthers and the few Tigers.
A stopgap upgrade to the KV series was the short-lived KV-85 or Object 239. This was a KV-1S with a new turret designed for the IS-85, mounting the same 85 mm D-5T gun as the SU-85 and early versions of the T-34-85. Already-high demand for the gun slowed production of the KV-85 tremendously, and only 148 were built before the KV design was replaced. The KV-85 was produced in the fall and winter of 1943-44; they were sent to the front as of September 1943, and production of the KV-85 was stopped by the spring of 1944 once the IS-2 entered full scale production.
Successor
A new heavy tank design entered production late in 1943 based on the work done on the KV-13. Because Kliment Voroshilov had fallen out of political favour, the new heavy tank series was named the Iosif Stalin tank, after Iosif (Joseph) Stalin. The KV-13 program's IS-85 prototype was accepted for production as the IS-1 (or IS-85, Object 237) heavy tank. After testing with both 100 mm and 122 mm guns, the D-25T 122 mm gun was selected as the main armament of the new tank, primarily because of its ready availability and the effect of its large high-explosive shell when attacking German fortifications. The 122mm D-25T used a separate shell and powder charge, resulting in a lower rate of fire and reduced ammunition capacity. While the 122mm armour piercing shell had a lower muzzle velocity than similar late German 7.5 cm and 8.8 cm guns, proving-ground tests showed that the 122mm AP shell could defeat the frontal armour of the German Panther tank, and the HE shell would easily blow off the drive sprocket and tread of the heaviest German tank or self-propelled gun. The IS-122 replaced the IS-85, and began mass production as the IS-2. The 85 mm gun saw service in the lighter SU-85 and T-34-85.
A destroyed Soviet KV-1 in Olonets, September 1941, during the Continuation War
Some KVs remained in service right up to the end of the war, although in greatly diminishing numbers as they wore out or were knocked out. The 260th Guards Heavy Breakthrough Tank Regiment, based on the Leningrad front, operated a number of 1941-vintage KV-1s at least as late as the summer of 1944 before re-equipping with IS-2s. A regiment of KVs saw service in Manchuria in August 1945, and a few KV-85s were used in the Crimea in the summer of 1944. The Finnish forces had two KVs, nicknamed Klimi, a Model 1940 and Model 1941, both of which received minor upgrades in their service, and both of which survived the war. A single captured KV-2 was used by German forces in 1945 against US forces in the Ruhr.
Combat history
Raseiniai
When Operation Barbarossa began, the Red Army was equipped with 508 new KV tanks (Zaloga & Grandsen 1984:125). So effective was its armour that the Germans were incapable of destroying it with their tanks or anti-tank weapons and had to rely on air support and anti-aircraft artillery (flak) or 105 mm howitzers to knock them out. Most of these tanks and the effective T-34s were parcelled out to units in small numbers and poorly supplied, but at the Battle of Raseiniai they were used to good effect. On 23–24 June, a single KV-2 effectively pinned down elements of the German 6th Panzer Division for a full day at the bridgeheads of the Dubysa River below Raseiniai, Lithuania, playing a prominent role in delaying the advance of Panzergruppe 4 on Leningrad [2] until it ran out of ammunition and the crew was forced to abandon the tank and withdraw.
Krasnogvardeysk
On August 14, 1941, the vanguard of the German 8th Panzer Division approached Krasnogvardeysk (Gatchina) near Leningrad (St Petersburg), and the only Soviet force available at the time to attempt to stop the German advance consisted of five well-hidden KV-1 tanks, dug in within a grove at the edge of a swamp. KV-1 tank no. 864 was commanded by the leader of this small force, Lieutenant Zinoviy Kolobanov.
German tank vanguard attack plan and positions of three soviet KV-1 tanks
Soviet newspaper article of 1941
German forces attacked Krasnogvardeysk from three directions. Near Noviy Uchkhoz settlement the geography favoured the Soviet defenders as the only road in the region passed the swamp, and the defenders commanded this choke point from their hidden position. Lieutenant Kolobanov had carefully studied the situation and readied his detachment the day before. Each KV-1 tank carried twice the normal amount of ammunition, two-thirds being armour-piercing rounds. Kolobanov ordered his other commanders to hold their fire and await orders. He did not want to reveal the total force, so only one exposed tank at a time would engage the enemy.
On August 14, the German 8th Panzer Division's vanguard ventured directly into the well-prepared Soviet ambush, with Kolobanov's tank knocking out the lead German tank with its first shot. The Germans falsely assumed that their lead tank had hit an anti-tank mine, and failed to realize that they had been ambushed. The German column stopped, giving Kolobanov the opportunity to destroy the second tank. Only then did the Germans realize they were under attack, but they failed to find the source of the shots. While the German tanks were firing blindly, Kolobanov knocked out the trailing German tank, thus boxing in the entire column.
Although the Germans correctly guessed the direction of fire, they could only spot Lieutenant Kolobanov's tank, and now attempted to engage an unseen enemy. German tanks moving off the road bogged down in the surrounding soft ground, becoming easy targets. 22 German tanks and 2 towed artillery pieces fell victim to Kolobanov's No. 864 before it ran out of ammunition. Kolobanov ordered in another KV-1, and 21 more German tanks were destroyed before the half-hour battle ended. A total of 43 German tanks were destroyed by just five Soviet KV-1s (two more remained in reserve).
After the battle, the crew of No. 864 counted a total of 135 hits on their tank, none of which had penetrated the KV-1's armour. Lieutenant Kolobanov was awarded the Order of Lenin, while his driver Usov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. Later on, former Captain Zinoviy Kolobanov was again decorated by Soviet authorities, despite having been convicted and downgraded after the Winter War for "fraternizing with the enemy." After the end of World War II, Lieutenant Kolobanov served in the Soviet occupation zone in East Germany, where he was convicted again when a subordinate escaped to the British occupation zone, and was transferred to the reserves.
The battle for Krasnogvardeysk was covered up by Soviet propaganda. A monument dedicated to this battle was installed in the village of Noviy Uchkhoz in 1980, at the place where Kolobanov's KV-1 was dug in, due solely to the demands of the villagers. Unfortunately it was impossible to find a KV-1 tank, so an IS-2 heavy tank was installed there instead.[4]
The Soviet victory was the result of a well-planned ambush in advantageous ground and of technical superiority. Most of the German tanks in this battle were Panzer IIs, armed with 20 mm guns, and a few Panzer IIIs armed with 37 mm KwK 36 L/46.5 guns. The German tank guns had neither the range nor the power of the 76 mm main gun of a KV-1, and the narrower track width of the German tanks caused them to become trapped in the swampy ground.
According to Panzer Operations, however, the tank (said to be a KV-1) after destroying several antitank guns, their crews, and an 88 mm flak gun, was hit repeatedly with rounds from another 88 mm cannon. The crew was knocked unconscious, and recovered only to be killed by an exploding grenade. They were buried with full honors, uncommon for other troops. The English version indicates that Erhard Raus, the author, may have mistaken similar events and people, so this may be an error
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This is a wharf in Scots Bay after post tropical storm Arthur hit the maritimes. The link is a video that someone shot during the storm www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDuc7zVWOfY
The Armed Forces Memorial is a national memorial in the United Kingdom, dedicated to the 16,000 servicemen and women of the British Armed Forces killed on duty or through terrorist action since after the Second World War. It is within the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.
The creation of a national memorial for members of the Armed Forces killed on duty was announced by the Secretary of State for Defence in a statement in the House of Commons on 10 November 2000, to be funded by public subscription.
An international competition was held for the design of the Memorial, which was won by Liam O'Connor Architects and Planning Consultants, with Ian Rank-Broadley, Sculptor. The project design team consisted of Liam O'Connor (architect), Christopher Barrett (project manager), Alan Baxter & Associates (structural & civil engineers), Christina Godiksen, Robert Rhodes, and Daniel Benson. Liam O'Connor also designed the Commonwealth Memorial Gates on Constitution Hill in London. Ian Rank-Broadley conceived and executed the sculpture of the Memorial. He earlier sculpted the effigy of Queen Elizabeth II which has appeared on coins in the UK and Commonwealth coins since 1998. The letter cutting was done by Richard Kindersley. The design of the Memorial was officially unveiled at the Imperial War Museum, London on 6 April 2005.
The Memorial was officially dedicated on 12 October 2007 in a ceremony presided by Queen Elizabeth II and attended by Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams. It was opened to the public on 29 October 2007. At the unveiling Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales said:
"The magnificence of this new memorial will, at long last, provide a fitting recognition for all those killed on duty since the end of the Second World War. It does not differentiate between those killed in the heat of battle or on a training exercise, by terrorist action or on peace-keeping missions."
Lithuanian Special Forces undergo timed range evaluations during a bilateral exercise with U.S. Special Forces, held in Kaunas, Lithuania, March 10, 2022.
A Lithuanian Special Forces member rapidly fires during a timed range evaluation as part of a bilateral exercise with U.S. Special Forces, held in Kaunas, Lithuania, March 10, 2022.
These joint range day evaluations are used to exchange tactics, enhance mission readiness and maintain advanced combat marksmanship skills while promoting a strong partnership with allied forces.
U.S. Army photo by Spc. Alisha Grezlik
Norwegian Special Forces during an anti-terrorist training exercise Gemini 2012 and was the first major anti-terror exercise after the terrorist attack on Norway on 22 last July
Doing my bit for TRANS Atlantic relations by reclining on a GI's gun. After a good oiling, it was working rather well.
A Canadian Forces soldier and captain discuss some tactics under the cover of some camo netting...
A vig I built a while back for fun. The camo netting was really fun to build and I fell in love with it. I also really like the Amazing Armory vest.
Special Forces disembarking behind enemy lines
Location: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Mindful%20Cove/199/174/27
Helicopter: French army Helicopter mesh box
Boat: Seals storm boat mesh box
Beret: Box beret commandos marine fr
Face paint: Inked kitty
Vest: [WAZ] Tactical Micro Chest Rig
Street fight fashions AK-47 Automatic weapon with Aimpoint scope
An Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) from 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) waits onboard a C-130 from the Royal Air Force to ascend the altitude of 12,500 feet to conduct a high altitude low opening (HALO) parachute jump with members of the Canadian Special Operations Regiment and Para-Rescue Airmen from the Air forces Special Operations Command Hurlburt Field, Fl., April. 25, 2013. Special operations members from coalition forces participated in Halo jumps during Exercise Emerald Warrior, Emerald Warrior is an exercise designed to provide irregular training at the tactical and operational levels. The exercise involved all branches of the U.S. military and special operations members from allied countries. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Steven Young)