HomeBrew's Military thread

[Homebrew]

“From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.” Randall Jarrell, 1945

[Homebrew]

B-2 Spirit dropping a GBU-57 A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) weighing 30,000 pounds. GPS-guided, earth-penetrating strike weapon used against hard and deeply buried targets.

[Homebrew]

North American F-82B "Twin Mustang" taxiing in the snow. Very unique aircraft.

[Homebrew]

A 10-year-old Armenian boy loads Kalashnikov cartridges as troops exchange fire with Azeri forces near the village of Adillu in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) on February 24, 1993, during the height of the 1988-1994 First Nagorno-Karabakh War.

[Homebrew]

XQ-58A Valkyrie, a highly autonomous, low-cost tactical UAV. It is designed to act as a loyal wingman controlled by a parent aircraft to accomplish tasks such as scouting, defensive fire, or absorbing enemy fire. 23 Feb 2023

[CentralTexasCrude]

XQ-58A Valkyrie, a highly autonomous, low-cost tactical UAV. It is designed to act as a loyal wingman controlled by a parent aircraft to accomplish tasks such as scouting, defensive fire, or absorbing enemy fire. 23 Feb 2023

Man, they sure have evolved drone technology into some deadly weapons. I wondered how Ukraine was sinking Russian ships. It's not that but similar and smaller.

[Homebrew]

March 13th is National K9 Veterans Day!

On March 13, 1942, that the U.S. Army began training for its new War Dog Program, also known as the "K-9 Corps," marking the first time that dogs were officially a part of the U.S. Armed Forces.

The rest, as they say, is history. Officially a part of the service or not, the dogs of war span centuries and include such heroes as Sgt. Stubby, the original war dog; Chips, the most decorated dog in World War II; Lex, who retired with his fallen owners family; and Cairo, the Navy SEAL working dog on the bin Laden raid.

[CentralTexasCrude]

Lou Conter, last surviving member of the USS Arizona dead at 102

[Homebrew]

On April 9, 2003, U.S. Marine Cpl. Edward Chin of 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, covers the face of a statue of Saddam Hussein with an American flag before toppling the statue in Baghdad, Iraq.

[peterosehaircut]

On April 9, 2003, U.S. Marine Cpl. Edward Chin of 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, covers the face of a statue of Saddam Hussein with an American flag before toppling the statue in Baghdad, Iraq.

Excellent!

[stonedmegman]

[Homebrew]

On May 2, 2011, U.S. Special Operations Forces conducted Operation Neptune Spear. Members of SEAL Team Six and the U.S. Army's 160th SOAR, took part in a daring, nighttime raid into the city of Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Their mission was to end a 10-year long manhunt and eliminate the world's most wanted terrorist... Osama Bin Laden.

Mission Accomplished.

[Homebrew]

German women of Namering ordered by Military Government with Third Army to view bodies of 800 murdered Russians, Czechs, and French who were inmates of Flossenburg Prison Camp. Bodies were exhumed by townspeople of Namering from stream bank and reburied. May 17, 1945

[CHEEZY17]

So I dont live all that far from Selfridge Air Force Base which is having an air show this weekend. Today a fucking B-52 flew over head on descent.
Jeezus H. Christ are those things big.

[Homebrew]

So I dont live all that far from Selfridge Air Force Base which is having an air show this weekend. Today a fucking B-52 flew over head on descent.
Jeezus H. Christ are those things big.

B-52 Stratofortress. 70,000 lbs payload (about 23 average cars) for weapons of choice, including nukes. Fighters win fights, Bombers win wars.

[Homebrew]

June 14th is Flag Day!

It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777 by resolution of the Second Continental Congress.

Pictured above: U.S. Marines from Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, pose holding an American flag shortly before leaving Patrol Base Khodi Rhom in Garmsir District of Helmand province in Afghanistan, April 20, 2010.

[Homebrew]

A sergeant of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps bandages the wounded ear of 'Jasper', a mine-detecting dog at Bayeux in Normandy, 5th July 1944.

[Blast]

June 14th is Flag Day!

It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777 by resolution of the Second Continental Congress.

Pictured above: U.S. Marines from Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, pose holding an American flag shortly before leaving Patrol Base Khodi Rhom in Garmsir District of Helmand province in Afghanistan, April 20, 2010.

I went to Iraq with 2/2. 17 memorial services in country with a few for multiple Marines, who knows how many combat patrols with weapons company, 26 weapons caches.

[stonedmegman]

June 14th is Flag Day!

It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777 by resolution of the Second Continental Congress.

Pictured above: U.S. Marines from Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, pose holding an American flag shortly before leaving Patrol Base Khodi Rhom in Garmsir District of Helmand province in Afghanistan, April 20, 2010.

I went to Iraq with 2/2. 17 memorial services in country with a few for multiple Marines, who knows how many combat patrols with weapons company, 26 weapons caches.

And now you are really in the shit.

[Blast]

June 14th is Flag Day!

It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777 by resolution of the Second Continental Congress.

Pictured above: U.S. Marines from Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, pose holding an American flag shortly before leaving Patrol Base Khodi Rhom in Garmsir District of Helmand province in Afghanistan, April 20, 2010.

I went to Iraq with 2/2. 17 memorial services in country with a few for multiple Marines, who knows how many combat patrols with weapons company, 26 weapons caches.

And now you are really in the shit.

fucker...

[Homebrew]

June 14th is Flag Day!

It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777 by resolution of the Second Continental Congress.

Pictured above: U.S. Marines from Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, pose holding an American flag shortly before leaving Patrol Base Khodi Rhom in Garmsir District of Helmand province in Afghanistan, April 20, 2010.

I went to Iraq with 2/2. 17 memorial services in country with a few for multiple Marines, who knows how many combat patrols with weapons company, 26 weapons caches.

I can't thank you enough Marine. Very glad you made it home.

[Antknot]

[Homebrew]

August 7th is National Purple Heart Day.

The Purple Heart was first created on this day in 1782 by the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, General George Washington.

Then known as the Badge of Military Merit, it was awarded to 3 Revolutionary soldiers in 1783. Take a moment today to remember all the brave servicemen and women who have been wounded or killed while serving in our armed forces.

[Homebrew]

During the Battle of Najaf, U.S. Marine James Hassell, risked his life to carry his wounded buddy, Ryan Borgstrom, 60 yards through open gunfire.

When the photographer captured the moment, Hassell simply said, "We're Marines. That's what we do." The Marines of Charlie Company 1st Battalion 4th Marine Regiment carried out a raid on the Najaf residence of Moqtada al-Sadr during the Battle of Najaf on August 12, 2004.

[Homebrew]

During the Battle of Najaf, U.S. Marine James Hassell, risked his life to carry his wounded buddy, Ryan Borgstrom, 60 yards through open gunfire.

When the photographer captured the moment, Hassell simply said, "We're Marines. That's what we do." The Marines of Charlie Company 1st Battalion 4th Marine Regiment carried out a raid on the Najaf residence of Moqtada al-Sadr during the Battle of Najaf on August 12, 2004.