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nocternalrandomness · 1 day

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Strike Eagle over Afghanistan - 2008

#USAF #McDonnell Douglas #F-15 #F-15E #Strike Eagle #combat aircraft #airpower #air war #OIF #Iraq War #Operation Iraqi Freedom #combat sortie #military #aircraft #391st FS #Bold Tigers

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sgtgrunt0331-3 · 14 hours

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"Fuck that, I ain't had a war since Somalia, I had to get some. But I seriously would not have jumped ship if it meant rollin' with Delta."

(Generation Kill, 2008)

#generation kill #movies #video #usmc #us marines #recon #oif #operation iraqi freedom #military #alexander skarsgard #brad colbert

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inked-up-gentleman · 3 months

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"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what's left and live it properly."

- Marcus Aurelius

#midnight thought #words #stoic #wisdom #veteran #OIF #OEF #GWOT

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copingchaos · 3 months

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Who will fall for their lies any longer? The oppressors paint everyone who doesnt stand with them as Hamas. They now condemned UN/UNRWA members...on the same day the ICJ came to a preliminary verdict in which they "recalled"/used several testimonies of UN/UNRWA members to rule that israel needs to take provisional measures in order to prevent a genocide (in other words, the current circumstances may already consistute or give rise to a violation of the genocide convention).

#palestine #lies #israel #oif #idf #gaza #jerusalem west bank #current events #cant make this shit up #news #international #human rights #humanitarian crisis #south africa #law #justice #icj

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shai-manahan · 1 year

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Happy new year!!!

I was wondering about the flip side of the previous “i wish iInever met you” ask: how would the ROs react to MC telling them “I wish I never met you” instead?

Okay so uhhhh a reverse of this one huh

Anyway, it's under the cut if you really want to see it. (yes I know. I'm like. over a month late lmao and yes I am aware it's valentine's but oh well.)

Alonzo:

They weren't supposed to be so surprised.

They weren't supposed to be so speechless, unable to push their words out.

They weren't supposed to feel so hurt. Like their insides have been carved out. Like their world has just been turned upside down.

Like they've just lost something important.

Yet, their gaze is pulled towards the person before them. At those firm, unyielding eyes. So cold. So cruel.

Their hands tremble, wishing to touch the other's.

Their feet grow uneasy, yearning to step closer.

But when they regain their senses, when they feel in control once more, it is only their lips that move, uttering in a soft, grieving voice, "Why would you want that?"

Wesley:

"I know."

It's two simple words, and they don't trust themself to say more. They've been taught how to pretend, sure—look at the other person's eyes, straighten your back, pull the barriers up as you don the mask—but they know.

Wesley knows they can't trust themself. Wesley knows how close they are to the breaking point. That these are the only words they can say, lest they let themself turn back into their weak, pathetic self.

They can't trust themself, so they let their partner make the choice.

Leave. Stay.

They never let their sister make that decision before.

They'd make that mistake no longer.

Owen:

He searches their eyes, their movements, the very air that surrounds them. Looking for a sign. Looking for an answer.

"You don't really mean that, do you?" he asks shakily, a crack in his voice present as he pleads for what he wants to hear. "I know you don't mean it."

But he receives no answer. Only a glare full of hatred yet full of pain—a warning, meant for him and only him. Owen doesn't want to believe it, of course. How could he? After all, the others were meant to be wrong about their partner, weren't they?

"You'd be standing in front of a lynx," they said.

"The Ripper will never be whom you wish them to be," they added.

He never believed any of those, even after everything that has happened to him. To his family. To the life that was once his.

And yet here he is, blinking his tears away, looking at the person he loves, waiting for them to change their mind.

Jade:

It comes along like a cold water poured over her at first, the realization.

Jade prides herself in figuring out the possibilities. The things that could go wrong. The betrayals that could occur. Years of having to walk a thin line between life and death has done that to her, and she's never flinched in front of danger.

Today, she does.

Today, something she did not expect has occurred. Something she once feared but threw away, because why would she think that things would go this way? That the person she loved—loves—would believe that none of it has been worth it?

Was it her family? Was it her past? She can't figure it out, and that scares her.

"Think about it," she says, because there's nothing else she knows she could say. Letting out a deep breath, composing herself as much as she can, she grabs for her partner's clothes, pulling them close. "Think about it before you say that again."

It's almost pleading, the way she says it, a tone that she wishes her partner couldn't hear.

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todaysdocument · 10 months

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A US Army Soldier assigned to the 3rd Infantry Division, Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, Division Artillery, smiles and holds her daughter in her arms after her return from Iraq, on July 17, 2003.

Record Group 330: Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense

Series: Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Image description: A woman in a sand-colored camouflage Army uniform holds a small girl (preschool-aged) on her hip and gazes at her. In the background are other military members embracing their families.

#archivesgov #July 17 #2003 #2000s #military #U.S. Army #Operation Iraqi Freedom #OIF #3rd Infantry Division

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casposters · 1 year

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(via Stu Shepherd Art - Fine Art America)

#USAF #A-10 Warthog #OIF #Aviation

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salem-poor-squadron-75 · 1 year

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#operation iraqi freedom #oif #20 years #iraq veterans

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benlowy · 1 year

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20 years ago I was in Camp Pennsylvania on the Kuwait/Iraq border waiting for 101st Airborne to cross and enter the war. It was the middle of the night and three successive blasts woke me. My tent was burning down around me and a scud middle alert went off. At the same time a British Tornado jet crashed at the outskirts of the camp. Half naked and wearing a gas mask I ran into the night. This was what confronted me. Army Sgt Asan Akbar threw grenades into his commander’s tents and mortally wounded Maj Gregory Stone. Years later I would be walking in Arlington Cemetery during Memorial Day and randomly came across Major Stone’s tombstone. I have never understood how I ended up there. #iraqwar #iraq #oif #kia https://www.instagram.com/p/CqYb08hOdtM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#iraqwar #iraq #oif #kia

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alchemisoul · 8 months

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Buddy just sent this clip of me from Kuwait, on the way home from Fallujah - roughly a year or so after my picking fingers were mangled and damn near blown off in Afghanistan.

It changed the way I played. For the better, in hindsight. I'm light years better than I was back then. I couldn't play chords anymore, well not the way I used to with the limited mobility in my ring and middle fingers and the missing tip of my pinky made certain posturings more painful.

I had to learn how to trace my way through progressions with my fingers which wasn't entirely radical to my style and in conjunction I dropped the pic altogether as a result to fill in the gaps and play in sync or create dissonance or feedback loops in odd time signatures.

Never looked back, and I've became sort of a snob about it looking down on anything other than finger picking aside from technical metal necessities.

"That's how it is now,

Thats how it always be,

I never change,

This is always me."

- Hov

#guitar #guitarist #musician #artist #art #marines #usmc #Fallujah #Kandahar #deathwalkers #onesixhard #caat #combinedantiarmorteam #oef #oif #oefoif

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captainjellystudio · 2 years

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#planning #brochure #agenda #mockup #movies #cannes #date #francophonie #oif

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sgtgrunt0331-3 · 28 days

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U.S. Marines from 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, engage Iraqi forces in running gun battles through the streets of Baghdad, in order to capture the bridge on the east side of the capital city on April 6, 2003.

(Photo by Christophe Calais/Corbis via Getty Images)

#usmc #us marines #infantry #grunts #oif #operation iraqi freedom #baghdad #military #history #warrior wednesday

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frenchlanguageday · 1 month

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Evénements qui seront tenues dans le monde autour du 20 Mars 2024.

Explore la liste des activités et conferences qui seront tenues dans le monde autour du 20 Mars 2024.

#journéeinternationaledelafrancophonie #20 mars #francophonieweek #la francophonie #current events #OIF

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lohhainmeeeee · 2 months

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SHG

#3RH0UWE0JHFIJSWDHE7RJOIqyrhfoiegyf84yyfhueiiiiiibbbbbxzj ncue #oIF

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head-post · 4 months

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Niger suspends co-operation with OIF

The African nation announced a complete suspension of co-operation with the International Organisation of the Francophonie (OIF) amid a rupture in relations with France.

A spokesman for Niger’s military government stated on Sunday that the 88-member body “has always been used by France as an instrument to defend French interests.”

The military took power in Niger after July’s coup, which was strongly condemned by France and other Western allies. French troops who had helped fight the decade-long armed conflict were soon forced to leave the West African country.

Long ago, the French body announced a mission to promote the language, support peace and democracy, as well as foster education and development in French-speaking countries, many of which were former French colonies.

The government of Niger calls on the African people to decolonise their minds and promote their own national languages in accordance with the ideas of the founding fathers of Pan-Africanism.