Posted on Nov 27, 2013
What is your favorite historical military photo?
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Please post your favorite (historical) military photo in this thread and vote for your favorite. I'll start off with what is one of the greatest moments captured on film, the flag raising on Iwo Jima, plus a few more angles that are rarely seen.<div><br></div><div>Please add your favorite historical photos... they can be as old as the Civil War or as recent as Afghanistan (they don't need to be black and white!).</div>
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<p>A more recent pic that helps me forget about my whiny piddly everyday stuff is this one.</p><p>I have read the story a couple times and maybe some one actually knows him. He was blown up by a remote triggered IED. Knowing the insurgent was close enough to see, he refused to be carried to the medevac...instead he stood up and walked. Making sure that the insurgent knew he failed.</p><p>My apologies if this violates TOS.<br><br><br></p>
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SPC David Wyckoff
My sincere thanks, LT Annala. GySgt Burghardt and Cpl Woodridge, who beat a Taliban fighter to death with his own weapon, are guys that remind me I have exactly zero to bitch about each morning.
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I remember hearing Gunny Burghardt talking about the incident during an interview. Semper Fi!!!
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GySgt Brian Robinson
If I remember correctly the crazy part is I don't think this was his only time being hit by an IED either.
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<p>Jack McNiece and the other filthy thirteen from the 101st Airborne Division prior to D-Day. There is no more zen feeling in the world than getting ready for a big mission. </p><p>And the face paint is classic.</p>
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I love this. Right after I got of the military, during my second break in service, I got the same hair cut. I thought it was pretty badass but my wife thought otherwise. After a few weeks I got rid of it.
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SSG John Caples
I was stationed at Ft. Campbell from 99 to 04 and those guys know the meaning of Brotherhood/Sister Hood they live eat and sleep mission and one another while on a mission,no on in the military is more Proficient than this DIVISION Hooah 106th TBN/ 594TH TC. - 129TH CSG/ 494TH TC
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<span style="color: rgb(78, 86, 101); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(250, 251, 251); ">Graphic but an amazing depiction of the dedication to his brother in arms. </span>
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US Army Spc Jacob Moore
This was only published five months after it was taken, once Jake had recovered and returned to his unit, and given his considered, written consent.
You can read the accompanying article, including an interview with Jake and his comrades, here: bit.ly/oN00ip
CAPTION: Specialist Jacob William Moore, 21, stares into the distance as he clutches the hand of a seriously wounded comrade on board a medevac air ambulance racing towards Kandahar Air Field in southern Afghanistan, Nov 22, 2010. Spc Moore was part of a stretcher team carrying a wounded man to safety when they hit a second explosive device, buried in their path. The men, from the 2-502 Infantry's Attack Company were operating in Nalgham, in Zhari district. Two Americans and one Afghan soldier were killed in the attacks, four others, including Spc Moore, were wounded.
The troops are part of the 101st Airborne Division - known as the screaming eagles - sent to Afghanistan in June 2010 as part of Barack Obama's surge. Moore and his comrades paid tribute to their fallen as "phenomenal soldiers". They said the general public in America have no idea what is going on in Afghanistan. Moore returned to active duty and finished out his tour in Afghanistan.
In 2012 he returned to Afghanistan for a second tour of duty.
Photographer: Jerome Starkey
Taken on November 22, 2010
Kandahar, AF
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