My weekend UPDATE LOTS OF PICS CHECK FIRST POST 56K BEWARE
 

Enjoy.

http://www.calgaryhighlanders.com/2004events/2004bb.htm

UPDATE:
JUST GOT ALL THESE PICS TODAY. THERE IS A TON OF THEM SO PLEASE BE PATIENT. THEY'LL TAKE A LONG TIME TO LOAD.

BRIEFING BEFORE ATTACK:
IN THIS FIRST PIC I AM VERY MOST TOP LEFT. I'M SURE I'M IN OTHER PICS BUT ITS HARD TO TELL
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[img]http://img64.exs.cx/img64/2337/d6-Breifing-before-W.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img116.exs.cx/img116/8812/b7-Briefing-01.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img65.exs.cx/img65/2967/25-Briefing-02.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img19.exs.cx/img19/8387/9b-Briefing-03.jpg[/img]

POW'S
[img]http://img116.exs.cx/img116/4387/ed-Escorting-POW.jpg[/img]

SECURITY ON BASE OF OPERATIONS:
[img]http://img97.exs.cx/img97/7419/91-Exterior-of-Mewat.jpg[/img]

FOURNIER HOUSE ATTACK
[img]http://img64.exs.cx/img64/3539/86-Fournia-House-Ass.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img116.exs.cx/img116/6517/f8-Fournia-House-Ass.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img29.exs.cx/img29/5495/81-Fournia-House-Ass.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img97.exs.cx/img97/1984/8e-Fournia-House-Ass.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img97.exs.cx/img97/861/2e-Fournia-House-Ass.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img97.exs.cx/img97/1386/3e-Fournia-House-Ass.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img97.exs.cx/img97/6551/55-Fournia-House-Ass.jpg[/img]
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[img]http://img114.exs.cx/img114/526/5a-Fournia-House-Ass.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img100.exs.cx/img100/6404/d2-Fournia-House-Ass.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img100.exs.cx/img100/9629/83-Fournia-House-Ass.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img15.exs.cx/img15/6574/b3-Fournia-House-Ass.jpg[/img]

HQ:
[img]http://img100.exs.cx/img100/7840/04-HICON-01.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img100.exs.cx/img100/5708/79-HICON-02.jpg[/img]

SENTRY ON BASE OF OPERATIONS.

NOTICE THE GLENGARRY HEAD DRESS. THIS IS FOR PUBLIC RELATIONS. PEOPLE TAKE MORE NOTICE OF US WITH THIS TYPE OF HEAD DRESS.
[img]http://img100.exs.cx/img100/4084/c3-Mewata-Sentry-01.jpg[/img]

OPFOR (ENEMY)
[img]http://img100.exs.cx/img100/2748/ea-OPFOR-Group.jpg[/img]

MORE POW'S. RED BERET = MILITARY POLICE
[img]http://img100.exs.cx/img100/1510/62-Protester-Take-do.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img69.exs.cx/img69/9676/59-Protester-Take-do.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img100.exs.cx/img100/3980/c3-Protester-Take-do.jpg[/img]

RETURNING FROM PATROL
[img]http://img15.exs.cx/img15/480/f6-Returning-01.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img15.exs.cx/img15/8822/c1-Returning-02.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img114.exs.cx/img114/4517/90-Returning-03.jpg[/img]

ROOFTOP SENTRY
[img]http://img114.exs.cx/img114/4084/c3-Roof-top-sentry.jpg[/img]

SENTRY
[img]http://img15.exs.cx/img15/5614/ff-Sentry-Patrol-01.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img15.exs.cx/img15/9662/a2-Sentry-Patrol-02.jpg[/img]

CHECKPOINT
[img]http://img111.exs.cx/img111/2183/49-Sentry-Patrol-03.jpg[/img]

MAIN ASSAULT ON WAREHOUSE HOUSING TERRORISTS
[img]http://img15.exs.cx/img15/8849/8f-Warehouse-Assault.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img33.exs.cx/img33/8029/d8-Warehouse-Assault.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img111.exs.cx/img111/2681/df-Warehouse-Assault.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img111.exs.cx/img111/9160/35-Warehouse-Assault.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img111.exs.cx/img111/9514/04-Warehouse-Assault.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img33.exs.cx/img33/714/a3-Warehouse-Assault.jpg[/img]
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[img]http://img26.exs.cx/img26/7271/79-Warehouse-Assault.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img47.exs.cx/img47/6365/5a-Warehouse-Assault.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img47.exs.cx/img47/6471/75-Warehouse-Assault.jpg[/img]

OPFOR LEADER
[img]http://img47.exs.cx/img47/1931/8a-Warehouse-Assault.jpg[/img]

Nice

Bizatch

Very cool! Thanks for protecting my pansy ass, ninty.

rock:

oorah

are you in the pics?

No i'm not.

There is supposed to be probable 10-20 pictures, but they haven't been put up yet. If thier up[ anytime soon, i'll post them as well.

I was part of the assaulting platoons. We had 3 platoons assaulting the building. 2 platoon took the main floor, 1 platoon the upstairs floor, and my platoon the basement. We didn't even get to the basement. 2 platoon was having a lot of trouble clearing this one section of the main floor. So they sent in 3 platoon to get slaughtered. The enemy has some crazy crossfire shit going on. They had also barricaded the door that led to a hallway. So when we got the door down, there was so much rubble and shit in the way it was very difficult to manuver. in the hallway there are 2 rooms offset on either side of the hallway. However we did not know about one of the rooms. My fire team partner and I were sent in to kill the guys in the one room we could see, however, i sson realized after crawling through the rubble and firing a full mag on full auto, that they had an LMG in the opposite room to cut guys down. Needless to say I probably got 10 5.56 rounds in me. Sucks because I had some zip strip handcuffs and some sand bags on me and I wanted to take a few guys prisoner.

Intelligence had pegged tge resistance at 12-15 people in the building, and the threat was medium-high. When we got there, the resistance was high-high, and there were more than 25 enemy in the building. GG intel. If we were going to take out 25 guys, we would require a full company. The odds we play are are usually 3-1 for us. In there we were probably 2-1. OPFOR had also laid mines all teh way up the stairs to the upstairs, and all downstairs. They would then drop grenades ontop of us when we were trying to disable the mines. They also had a lot of wire obstacles and shit in the way everywhere. What would have happened in real life to get the doors down is take a 84mm carl gustav anti tank weapon and blow a hole through it or a wall. in training we can't really do that. in real life we couldn't really have used grenades either because most of the walls were drywall and shrapnall could go through the walls and hit friendlies. However, we could probably just set up a c6 GPMG and shot a few belts of 7.62 through the walls. That would have worked best I think.

I don't blame those guys in Iraq who have to do house clearing for civy casualties. I've realized that if I had to really assault a house, i'm pretty much blasting everything I can. It's sad to say, but true. If there's 1 hostile, and 3 civies, its really tough to tell them apart. especially with bullets going over your head.

Also I was always an advocate of aimed single shots. I hate seeing movies where people are shooting from the hip in full auto. But in house clearing I can see where full auto can come into play. Thats pretty much the ONLY situation I can see it being useful.

CAN I PLAY ARMY WITH YOU?

whats the point of a canadian army? lol
ignore my idiocy im a little boozed up right now

biggrin:

ask the dutch survivors of WWII...

DRUNK ON THE NET............NO WAY DUDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE


P.S your wasting a valueable buzz being on a fourm, kill yourself

[img]http://img100.exs.cx/img100/627/killyou.gif[/img]

FUCKIN OWNED!!!11

down the road, not across the street

you part of B company or A Company aka (where you an insurgent or Soldier ??)

[img]http://www.jesusburger.net/upload/spider.jpg[/img]

LMAO thank you happy:

i posted the animated version at AAN of that


they got uber pissed at me

I'm A company short. I was part of the assaulting force.

kool stuff nints rock: cool: rather you than me with all that kit & running round etc though musta been hard work.

I was in a parade for my weekend warrior stuff

[img]http://www.ukstudentlife.com/Ideas/Album/LordMayorsShow/LordMayor4.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.ukstudentlife.com/Ideas/Album/LordMayorsShow/LifeGuard.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.ukstudentlife.com/Ideas/Album/LordMayorsShow/FootGuards2.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.ukstudentlife.com/Ideas/Album/LordMayorsShow/Cannon.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.ukstudentlife.com/Ideas/Album/LordMayorsShow/Navy.jpg[/img]
^ I'm somewhere, prolly just out of pic

[img]http://www.ukstudentlife.com/Ideas/Album/LordMayorsShow/Soldiers2.jpg[/img]

We have the queen coming to visit her regiment in May, so it should be a good time parading in front of her and geting inspected by her. rock:

wow cool, i saw charly once but havent seen the Queen, give her my regards from the fluff rock: its cool to have another countrys army kinda assosciated with us in that way. cool:

Bump

LOOK AT THE VERY FIRST POST FOR TONS OF NEW PICS.

[img]http://www.ukstudentlife.com/Ideas/Album/LordMayorsShow/Soldiers2.jpg[/img]


those rifles are leet but those hats look gay.

ahh damn those are awesome, looks like hard work, but fun beer:

ninty, you are 1337

rock:

Who decided on the initial strategy for the warehouse taking ? What about
during the assault ?

thats awesome, worth the 45 MB of content...haha

beer:

Initial strategy was done by Major Vernon. He's the one by the white board in teh second pic. Well I shouldn't say it was done by him. It was done by all those officers around computers you see in some of those pics at HQ. It's a group effort. Major Vernon would have been the #1 in command because I don't think the CO was there that night.

Maj Vernon gave the briefing, then he would consult with the Platoon warrants and tell them what he wants each platoon to do. Then the platoon warrants tell each section commander wahat to do with their section.

In battle, there are company objectives (capturing the enemy, building etc), platoon objectives (1st floor, 2nd floor etc) and section objectives (hallway, room etc). So in the battle its pretty much broken down into sections of 10-12 people. The platoon warrant would tell his section commanders what he wants done, then the section commanders will take their troops and do the task.

What if there's a conflict between what the officers want done and what
the actual fighting soldiers observe and believe should be attempted ?
Would you really trust your life to a man who isn't by your side, asking
you to charge ahead regardless that you believe it is a bad decision ?

Clarification: do you have some leeway regarding how to achieve an objective ? How much so ?

so many pics :)

damn dude, I enjoyed looking at these pics, thanks

caps

awsome pictures, it looks like fun. beer:

in the second picture, the guy standing with the glasses on looks like the guy from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart happy:

I see where you're going with this.

I don't know. I have never been in a real battle. I think that most of us trust our officers. We know that if we were in a real battle, they would not throw our lives away. And, actually the officers are by our side. Major Vernon was in the Warehouse. So was all of the platoon officers. I saw the 3 platoon (my platoon) 2nd lieutenant Mills in the warehouse with his signaler. He was in communication with all the other platoon officers, and with Major Vernon.

The Offiers are not stupid. A lot of thought goes into the decisions they make. They have to live with the decisions. I wouldn't think it would be very easy just to say "ah hell, who cares if an entire platoon dies".

Nice pics rick james

wow, i didnt even notice 90s pics to begin with ... very nice. the scope heavy mg looks awesome ... looks like good fun.

I just realized that in this pic, the one closest in the pic is me:

[img]http://img97.exs.cx/img97/1386/3e-Fournia-House-Ass.jpg[/img]

I didn't even realize it until I looked over the pics for about the 3rd time.

I am dog tired right there. Legs could hardly move. Doing a section attack with the flack jackets and 300 rounds of ammo and all my gear is really tiring.

Salute to those boys in Iraq.

nice pics, looks intense...

Damn ninty nine you got some old school flak jackets lol. But your equipment looks better than ours, plus i cant take pics like that lol they dont let us sometimes for obviously safety reasons and security reasons.


EDIT: Maybe ill suit up with all my gear on, grab my M4 airsoft gun and get sexy pictures for you all.