Pics from My Future Brother-In-Law
http://spaces.msn.com/sra-pol/photos/
He Spent 149 Days....... over there Doing Fuel Duty......

Nice pics Matt. What country flies that attack heli. Looks like a small apache?

Its an Italian Version of the Apache

whoa, looks like EOD was having some fun!

What color would you use for those M109s (?) almost looks like tamiya panzer dark yellow right out of the can. Most of the others look like lightened modelmaster marine / army tan

Testors US Army / Marine Sand seems to be the Best match. Yeah Russ got to Help the EOD guys a few times........ And He looks WAY too happy in the Pick of Him with a M16 in ftont of the Wrecked T-54/55

Yeah testors for most stuff. But those M109s look extra yellow. Even taking lighting variation into account

I liked the EOD pictures. I found it really interesting to see the Iraqi's had AT-4's, an old WW2 60MM mortar, a stinger missile, and some other American weapons in their [auto-censored]nal.

I think it is the lighting. The out of the bottle match for modern CARC Sand is Tetors MM Sand, FS33531, Testors #1706. Army/Marine Gulf War Sand is too dank and not based on any FS#, but a locally bought sand paint from Saudi used to quickly repaint vehicles sand before ODS. It is too dark for CARC Sand.

Is your brother -in-law USAF or Army. Looks like he got to take alot of great pictures. I know when I was in Saudi we had to sneak pictures because Security Forces would confiscate your camera if you were taking photo's in restricted areas.

Cheers,
Salvo

USAF he was doing Army Fuel (With the Occasional convoy) duties as there's a Shortage (to some extent) of Personel. He was based at the Bagdad Airbort I believe. He has more pics.... But that's all he posted so far. There's ways around Security w/ Digi cams, A Laptop.... and Cd's........

I agree although that is not always a good thing. I am not here to lecture anyone, but it's my military training that nags me about things like this. I enjoy seeing the photo's as much as the next person, but OPSEC is a big deal.

If you don't know what OPSEC is, in a nutshell it is being able to piece together the big picture using little pieces that you pick up here and there.

But again, I am not here to lecture anyone. Nice pics and good reference stuff.

Later,
Salvo

I can't say if the stuff was screened or not.... but i don't see anything Major that could Be pieced together from those pics...... Well, not that anyone there wouldn't be able to see "Live"

Yep I agree. Like I said I am not trying to rock the boat. Just putting in my two cents. No harm, no foul.

Later,
Salvo

Looks like an A129 Mangusta.

Mongoose