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Soldiers with Task Force Marauder transported cargo via a sling load with a CH-47 Chinook, Nov. 12, 2017. Task Force Marauder is made up of Soldiers from South Carolina National Guard, Illinois National Guard, Iowa National Guard, as well as active duty component and provides aviation capabilities with AH64 Apaches, UH60 Black Hawks, CH47 Chinooks, and MEDEVAC assets in Afghanistan under the 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade while deployed. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Capt. Jessica Donnelly, Task Force Marauder)
Air Force Gen. Joseph Lengyel, chief, National Guard Bureau, visits New York National Guard Soldiers and Airmen assigned to Joint Task Force Empire Shield who work at various locations throughout New York City Dec. 12, 2017. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Michelle Gonzalez)
U.S. Army soldiers from the 1-150th Assault Helicopter Battalion ready their UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during joint training with New Jersey Task Force One at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., June 28, 2017. The primary mission of New Jersey Task Force One is to provide advanced technical search and rescue capabilities to victims trapped or entombed in structurally collapsed buildings. Task Force One is made up of New Jersey National Guard Soldiers and Airmen, as well as civilians. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Matt Hecht/Released)
Caricatura encomendada por Thaís Sartori para celebrar seu casamento com Juliano. Obrigado Thaís por sua doação.
Caricature made to Thais Sartori marriage with Juliano. Thanks Thaís for your donation to my campaign.
Soldiers with the 29th Infantry Division, Task Force Spartan, receive their end of tour awards during a ceremony, June 17, 2017, at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Kimberly Browne)
Jean and Andy collaborate on a large canvas. Andy outlines a Mobil
Oil winged horse.
Jean paints it out. To the side he paints a penguin with a hat.
ANDY WARHOL
That was my favorite part!
BASQUIAT
We can do better. It needed more white.
Andy watches as Jean lights a joint and continues working on his
penguin.
ANDY WARHOL
Jean, you make me feel worthless. You're
so famous.
Andy paints an Amoco logo next to the penguin.
BASQUIAT
I don't even have any friends anymore
besides you. And everyone says "Warhol?
That death-warmed over person on drugs?
He's just using you."
ANDY WARHOL
Gee. You shouldn't take it so seriously,
Jean. That's why you can't stop taking
drugs. You always think people don't like
you. Everyone likes you.
BASQUIAT
People are only interested in you because
you're famous, not because they know a
fuckin' thing about your work.
Jean paints out part of Andy's logo.
ANDY WARHOL
Bruno called. In Europe, people are saying
you're gonna die from drugs. They think
they can cash in on your death.
BASQUIAT
When I was poor, everybody doubted I could
make it. When I got rich, everyone said,
`yeah, but he'll never keep it up.' Now
everyone says `he's killing himself.' So I
clean up, and then they say `Look. His
art's dead.' I don't take drugs, anyway.
I'm healthy now.
Jean obliterates Andy's logo.
ANDY WARHOL
If you say so. You sleep until 5:00 p.m.
You call at four in the morning. You never
show up anywhere on time – if you show up.
You're painting out everything I do!
Andy paints back in part of the horse.
BASQUIAT
That's better.
Jean adds some letters on top of Andy's logo.
ANDY WARHOL
I can't even see what's good anymore.
Thanks Jaime for your collaboration and I hope you and Brendan enjoyed the caricature.
Caricatura produzida para Jaime e Brendan por terem apoiado a minha campanha para a TASK.
Espero que gostem. Lápis, nanquim e cor no photoshop.
Canadian Armed Forces members, with the enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group Latvia, use the LAV 6.0 during Exercise ARES STRIKE in the training area of camp Adazi, Latvia, on 2, February 2024.
Photo by: Sgt Anthony Laviolette, Canadian Armed Forces Imagery Technician.
Des membres des Forces armées canadiennes déployés au sein du groupement tactique de la présence avancée renforcée en Lettonie utilisent des véhicules blindés légers (VBL) 6.0 au cours de l’exercice ARES STRIKE, dans le secteur d’entraînement du Camp Adazi, en Lettonie, le 2 février 2024.
Photo : Sgt Anthony Laviolette, technicien en imagerie des Forces armées canadiennes
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The third of D's.... we will have more shots tomorrow from a 90's crew, DOH.
A fun filled week with the entire cast of the Crowley Family out in Las Vegas. Bonus footage includes: Little Sister Katie passed out in a pile of pancakes on her 21st bday. Full teendrama.com recap at: teendrama.com/dens/index.php?task=more&e=232
Task Force Destiny, 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, Task Force Saber Pathfinder Team One conducts a Kandahar Airfield defense mission with the British Royal Air Force Regiment in Kandahar province, Afghanistan Nov. 16 during the Afghan holiday Eid-al-Qorbon, a celebration of forgiveness, friendship and peace.(U.S. Army Photo by Task Force Destiny Public Affairs Officer Sadie Bleistein/Released)
121009-N-XD935-062 ARABIAN SEA (Oct. 9, 2012) Navy Diver 3rd Class Anthony Scott, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 1, Company 1-5, conducts a salvage survey of a buoy chain. Company 1-5 is deployed with Commander, Task Group (CTG) 56.1, which provides maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Jayme Pastoric/Released)
Lt. Col. William Braman, commander of Task Force Talon, 3-82nd General Aviation Support Battalion, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division relinquished command to Lt. Col. Hise Gibson, during a change of command ceremony on Fort Bragg, N.C., June 09, 2015. A change of command is a military tradition that represents a formal transfer of authority and responsibility for a unit from one commander to another. (U.S. Army photos by Staff Sgt. Christopher Freeman/82nd CAB PAO)
Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov (Russian: Васи́лий Ива́нович Чуйко́в, Russian: 12 February 1900 – 18 March 1982) was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union. He is best known for commanding the 62nd Army which saw heavy combat during the Battle of Stalingrad in the Second World War.
Born to a peasant family near Tula, Chuikov earned his living as a factory worker from the age of 12. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, he joined the Red Army and distinguished himself during the Russian Civil War. After graduating from the Frunze Military Academy, Chuikov worked as a military attaché and intelligence officer in China and the Russian Far East. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Chuikov commanded the 4th Army during the Soviet invasion of Poland, and the 9th Army during the Winter War against Finland. In December 1940, he was again appointed military attaché to China in support of Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalists in the war against Japan.
In March 1942, Chuikov was recalled from China to defend against the German invasion of the Soviet Union. By September, he was assigned command of the 62nd Army in defense of Stalingrad. Tasked with holding the city at all costs, Chuikov adopted keeping the Soviet front-line positions as close to the Germans as physically possible. This served as an effective countermeasure against the Wehrmacht's combined-arms tactics, but by mid-November 1942 the Germans had captured most of the city after months of slow advance. In late November Chuikov's 62nd Army joined the rest of the Soviet forces in a counter-offensive, which led to the surrender of the German 6th Army in early 1943. After Stalingrad, Chuikov led his forces into Poland during Operation Bagration and the Vistula–Oder Offensive before advancing on Berlin. He personally accepted the unconditional surrender of German forces in Berlin on 2 May 1945.
After the war, Chuikov served as Chief of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (1949–53), commander of the Kiev Military District (1953–60), Chief of the Soviet Armed Forces and Deputy Minister of Defense (1960–64), and head of the Soviet Civil Defense Forces (1961–72). Chuikov was twice awarded the titles Hero of the Soviet Union (1944 and 1945) and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross by the United States for his actions during the Battle of Stalingrad. In 1955, he was named a Marshal of the Soviet Union. Following his death in 1982, Chuikov was interred at the Stalingrad memorial at Mamayev Kurgan, which had been the site of heavy fighting.
Marshal of the Soviet Union (Russian: Маршал Советского Союза, romanized: Marshal sovetskogo soyuza) was the second-highest military rank of the Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin wore the uniform and insignia of Marshal after World War II.
The rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union was created in 1935 and abolished in 1991 when the Soviet Union dissolved. Forty-one people held this rank. The equivalent naval rank was until 1955 admiral of the fleet and from 1955 Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union.
Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev (Russian: Васи́лий Григо́рьевич За́йцев; 23 March 1915 – 15 December 1991) was a Soviet sniper during World War II.
Between 22 September 1942 and 19 October 1942, he killed 40 enemy soldiers. Between 10 October 1942 and 17 December 1942, during the Battle of Stalingrad, he killed 225 enemy soldiers.
Zaitsev became a celebrated figure during the war and later a Hero of the Soviet Union, and he remains lauded for his skills as a sniper. His life and military career have been the subject of several books and films: his exploits, as detailed in William Craig's 1973 book Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad, served as the story for the 2001 film Enemy at the Gates, with Jude Law portraying Zaitsev. He is also featured in David L. Robbins's 1999 historical novel War of the Rats.
Mamayev Kurgan (Russian: Мама́ев курга́н) is a dominant height overlooking the city of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) in Southern Russia. The name in Russian means "tumulus of Mamai". The formation is dominated by a memorial complex commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad (August 1942 to February 1943). The battle, a hard-fought Soviet victory over Axis forces on the Eastern Front of World War II, turned into one of the bloodiest battles in human history. At the time of its installation in 1967 the statue, named The Motherland Calls, formed the largest free-standing sculpture in the world.
Battle
When forces of the German Sixth Army launched their attack against the city centre of Stalingrad on 13 September 1942, Mamayev Kurgan (appearing in military maps as "Height 102.0") saw particularly fierce fighting between the German attackers and the defending soldiers of the Soviet 62nd Army. Control of the hill became vitally important, as it offered control over the city. To defend it, the Soviets had built strong defensive lines on the slopes of the hill, composed of trenches, barbed-wire and minefields. The Germans pushed forward against the hill, taking heavy casualties. When they finally captured the hill, they started firing on the city centre, as well as on the city's main railway station under the hill. They captured the Volgograd railway station on 14 September 1942.
On the same day, the Soviet 13th Guards Rifle Division commanded by Alexander Rodimtsev arrived in the city from the east side of the river Volga under heavy German artillery fire. The division's 10,000 men immediately rushed into the battle. On 16 September they recaptured Mamayev Kurgan and kept fighting for the railway station, taking heavy losses. By the following day, almost all of them had died. The Soviets kept reinforcing their units in the city as fast as they could. The Germans assaulted up to twelve times a day, and the Soviets would respond with fierce counter-attacks.
The hill changed hands several times. By September 27, the Germans again captured half of Mamayev Kurgan. The Soviets held their own positions on the slopes of the hill, as the 284th Rifle Division defended the key stronghold. The defenders held out until January 26 1943, when the counterattacking Soviet forces relieved them. The battle of the city ended one week later with an utter German defeat.
When the battle ended, the soil on the hill had been so thoroughly churned by shellfire and mixed with metal fragments that it contained between 500 and 1,250 splinters of metal per square meter. The earth on the hill had remained black in the winter, as the snow kept melting in the many fires and explosions. In the following spring the hill would still remain black, as no grass grew on its scorched soil. The hill's formerly steep slopes had become flattened in months of intense shelling and bombardment. Even today, it is possible to find fragments of bone and metal still buried deep throughout the hill.
Memorial Complex
After the war, the Soviet authorities commissioned the enormous Mamayev Kurgan memorial complex. Vasily Chuikov, who led Soviet forces at Stalingrad, lies buried at Mamayev Kurgan; this makes him the only Marshal of the Soviet Union to be buried outside Moscow. 34,505 soldiers who were defenders of Stalingrad are buried there; sniper Vasily Zaytsev was also reburied there, in 2006.
Avenue of Poplars; Stand To the Death!
Mamayev Kurgan is accessible by a flight of stairs leading to the Avenue of Poplars, flanked on either side by poplar trees. From there, a second flight of steps leads to the statue of a muscular and shirtless Russian soldier. This statue, named Stand To the Death!, is carved from rock and surrounded by a large pool of water; it bears the inscription ...And not a step back!
Symbolic Ruined Walls; Square of Heroes
From Stand To the Death!, a third flight of stairs leads between the Symbolic Ruined Walls; these represent the ruins of Stalingrad, while immortalizing the Soviet heroes who defended the city. Carved into the walls are faces of numerous soldiers, their eyes closed to indicate death in battle. Also inscribed on the walls are numerous quotes from actual defenders of Stalingrad; these words were originally carved, by the soldiers themselves, upon the sides of various ruined buildings throughout the city.
Atop the steps, past the walls, is the Square of Heroes; this is dominated by another large pool of water. On one side of the pool is a wall bearing this inscription: With an iron wind blowing straight into their faces, they were still marching forward; and fear seized the enemy. Were these people who were attacking? Were they even mortal at all? On the other side of the pool are six sculptures, the first of which bears the inscription: "We've stood out and defeated death." The second and third sculptures commemorate military nurses and, respectively, sea soldiers. The fourth sculpture is dedicated to the officers who led the battle to protect Stalingrad. The fifth sculpture tells the story of "Saving the Banner". The sixth sculpture commemorates the eventual triumph of the Russian army over the Germans.
Hall of Military Glory
Past the Square of Heroes is the Hall of Military Glory, whose outer façade is decorated with Russian artwork of Soviet soldiers celebrating the war's end...and with the inscription "Our people will keep alive their memory of the greatest battle in the history of warfare, within the walls of Stalingrad."
An indoor flight of stairs leads to the Hall's circular main chamber; at the chamber's center is the Eternal Flame, a large sculpture of a hand holding a torch. The Eternal Flame is constantly under armed guard, which is changed every hour. The main chamber is considered sacred ground, with mournful music being played on a loop; out of respect, visitors are strongly discouraged from speaking aloud. The chamber's walls are covered in glass-foil mosaics; these bear the names of 7,200 Russian soldiers who died in the battle for Stalingrad. Around the ceiling of the chamber is the following inscription: "...Yes, we were mere mortals, and few of us survived (the German siege). But we all fulfilled our patriotic duty to our sacred Motherland."
Mother's Sorrow
The hall's upper exit leads to the base of a pathway, which in turn zigzags uphill to the Mother Russia Is Calling! statue itself. Also at the hill's base is a third shallow pool, this one surrounding a stone monument named Mother's Sorrow.
The hill itself is an unmarked grave for over 34,500 Russian troops killed at Stalingrad; even this is a tiny percentage of the overall Soviet casualties from the battle. The grass on the hill is considered sacred, and visitors are forbidden to step on it. The top of the hill gives a panoramic view of the city of Volgograd.
Mamayev Kurgan is open to the public 24 hours a day, and there is no charge for admission.
The monumental memorial was constructed between 1959 and 1967, and is crowned by a huge allegorical statue of the Motherland on the top of the hill. The monument, designed by Yevgeny Vuchetich, has the full name The Motherland Calls! (Russian: Родина-мать зовёт! Rodina Mat Zovyot!). It consists of a concrete sculpture, 52 meters tall, and 85 meters from the feet to the tip of the 27-meters sword, dominating the skyline of the city of Stalingrad (later renamed Volgograd).
The construction uses concrete, except for the stainless-steel blade of the sword, and is held on its plinth solely by its own weight. The statue is evocative of classical Greek representations of Nike, in particular the flowing drapery, similar to that of the Nike of Samothrace.