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by Flying Monkey » Wed Dec 14, 2011 3:53 pm

Here are some random shots from Afghanistan last year. Ill probably add more later

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Caught an IED explosion as I was taking a random picture
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by Trail X » Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:03 pm

Wow, thank you for sharing! Incredible shots you got there.

Curious, what is this thing?

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by fishsticks » Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:10 pm

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Who's he planning on giving the shocker to? You? :mrgreen:
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by Flying Monkey » Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:26 pm

JamesDowning wrote:Wow, thank you for sharing! Incredible shots you got there.

Curious, what is this thing?




Thats the wretch. Loads connexes....flipped over
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by Flying Monkey » Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:27 pm

fishsticks wrote:Image


Who's he planning on giving the shocker to? You? :mrgreen:



Thats me lol
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by Trail X » Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:30 pm

Flying Monkey wrote:Thats the wretch. Loads connexes....flipped over


Ah, I see it now, how did it flip over?
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by Flying Monkey » Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:33 pm

JamesDowning wrote:
Flying Monkey wrote:Thats the wretch. Loads connexes....flipped over


Ah, I see it now, how did it flip over?



Front wasnt taken off and rolled off trailor loading it.....no wasnt me lol
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by NC_IslandRunner » Wed Dec 14, 2011 11:53 pm

Who were you gonna give the shocker to? You can tell now days... :poke: :finger:
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by Flying Monkey » Thu Dec 15, 2011 10:06 am

NC_IslandRunner wrote:Who were you gonna give the shocker to? You can tell now days... :poke: :finger:



LOL luckily transportation units are coed, so at least I had some to look at (although a fews gender was in question).
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by janesy86 » Thu Dec 15, 2011 12:01 pm

Flying Monkey wrote:
NC_IslandRunner wrote:Who were you gonna give the shocker to? You can tell now days... :poke: :finger:



LOL luckily transportation units are coed, so at least I had some to look at (although a fews gender was in question).



Nice pics! And I believe thats what my sister did over there, but she didn't take many pics at all. So its cool to see some shots from over there.

And I hear ya on the questionable gender thing, haaha. Back a few years I saw a few at my sisters graduation a Paris Island.
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by v7guy » Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:18 pm

Some wild pics for sure, thanks for postin them up
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by navigator » Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:23 am

the one with all the cars on top of the buses amazed me.
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by Flying Monkey » Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:45 am

Thats nothing...hodgie can load a vehicle lol
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by navigator » Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:51 am

hodgie is that a real guy or from Johnny Quest?
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by navigator » Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:54 am

this guy was using the hi-lift right?

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by Flying Monkey » Fri Dec 16, 2011 1:54 pm

Hodgie is what we call the nationals over there and Iraq. Kinda like charlie in viet nam, and gerry in germany.

The PLS in that pic had just hit an IED. He was 2 trucks behind us and it rocked my truck and filled our cab with smoke and sand....was great. As hard as it rocked us we thought we had hit it. What saved us on pressure plate IED's was our cabs being fowrad of the first axle. So by the time we ran it over and it went off the cab was past it for the most part...Het's arent so fortunate as you can see in the picture right before that one.
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