Pictures from abroad!(and elsewhere, Dial up beware)

[goldshellback]

A few shots from my times in Iraq.

that shot of the evening(?) sky on the helo flight line is a great shot

[DefensiveCarry.com]

[Duisburg]

IN the Forbidden City:


me on the greatwall of china:


Waiting for the fastest train in the world, in China:


Oktoberfest:




Heidelberg:


Grabbin some coffee in Amsterdam:


In Amsterdam after coffee:


In Austria:


Singing French Kareoki in Belgium:


Got a little lost in Belgium, my navigation system in my Audi A6:


At the 2007 Loveparade, Essen with some family (the only pics from that parade that have NO nudity):

[DrLewall]

Baghdad

[sgtD]

We stopped for a pee break and took this pick while providing convoy security, riding with contract drivers in the '91 Gulf War. (I'm the guy on the right, the one on the left is a MGSGT I worked with.



As you can see by the sign we were headed north toward Khafji when we took this pic. This photo was taken just a few days before the Battle of Khafji.
Battle of Khafji - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I was not there when the battle took place, our runs were strictly up and back, but I can still feel the sick feeling in my stomach when I learned that some of our bretheren had been killed there. IIRC, it was the first combat of the war.

This is the only pic I have on computer. I have some nice desert ops pics of AAV's, but I'll have to dig them out and scan them.

[Sheldon J]

Surreal is right. Anybody remember the 1980 movie, The Final Countdown? The plot had the USS Nimitz travelling thru a time portal back to just before the Pearl Harbor attack.

Cool pics, Kerb!

Remember it... I took my wife to see it at the drive in theater which is now a housing project.

[Kerbouchard]

sgtD, that's not much of a road you guys had there.

What's at the top left of that picture?

And DrLewall, you look a lot different w/out the kilt.

[matiki]

This is right in our backyard - Mt. St. Helens - the picture has a special meaning to us, as my wife had our daughter just a few days later.

[Paco]

Heidelberg:

Now THAT's a beer!

Grabbin some coffee in Amsterdam:

Please tell me this is an actual coffee show and not one of the famous Amsterdam "coffee" shops.

[sgtD]

sgtD, that's not much of a road you guys had there.

What's at the top left of that picture?

And DrLewall, you look a lot different w/out the kilt.

That road was like the autoban, compared to traversing breach lanes through mine fields.

As for the blemish in the pic, it's just that. The original is a polaroid, and it must have gotten damaged over the years. I noticed it was fading a little too, that's why I scanned it to my computer last week when I came across it in a box of pics I was going through.