Official Cool Picture - Video Thread.

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[Texasgordo]

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[DubiousDan]

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Must be "Take your kid to work" day.

 

[easy rider]

Must be "Take your kid to work" day.

In nature the mother keeps it's young close for protection.

 

[DubiousDan]

A member of the 5th Marine Division uses a flamethrower to clear out a Japanese bunker during the Battle of Iwo Jima.

 

[DubiousDan]

A Marine watches a a Japanese position is shelled by naval gunfire.

 

[DubiousDan]

Two wiremen of the 5th Marine Division run through an open field and into enemy fire to establish telephone contact with positions on the front lines.

 

[DubiousDan]

U.S. Marines, while under fire, carry the first American flag up the side of Mount Suribachi, on February 23. Later the same day troops would raise the flag in a moment captured by AP photographer Joe Rosenthal which would become one of the most iconic images of the Pacific campaign

 

[DubiousDan]

A Marine, with a primed M2-2 flamethrower strapped to his back, lights a pipe on Iwo Jima.

 

[DubiousDan]

Wounded Marines are helped to a medical aid station by Navy Corpsmen and other Marines.

 

[DubiousDan]

U.S. Navy Corpsmen carry a wounded Marine away from the front lines on Iwo Jima.

 

[DubiousDan]

Riflemen lead the way as crouched Marine Flamethrower units of the Fifth Marine Division proceed along a narrow trench.

 

[DubiousDan]

Private Wilson D. Watson, nicknamed 'the one man regiment', was awarded the Medal of Honor for eliminating 90 Japanese soldiers despite being shot seven times, including in the neck. Following his discharge from the Marine Corps, he enlisted in the United States Army Air Force, and then the United States Army as a private, working as a mess hall cook. He eventually reached the rank of Staff Sergeant and finally retired from the military in 1966.

Corporal Hershel W. Williams received the Medal of Honor for his actions as a flamethrower. In March 1948, he reenlisted in the inactive Marine Corps Reserve, but was again discharged on August 4, 1949.[4]

On October 20, 1954, he joined the Organized Marine Reserve when the 98th Special Infantry Company was authorized by Headquarters Marine Corps to be located at Clarksburg, West Virginia. He transferred to the Marine Corps Reserve's 25th Infantry Company in Huntington, West Virginia on June 9, 1957, later becoming the (Interim) Commanding Officer of that unit as a warrant officer on June 6, 1960. He was designated the Mobilization Officer for the 25th Infantry Company and surrounding Huntington area on June 11, 1963.[4]

He was advanced through the warrant officer ranks during his time in the Marine Corps Reserve until reaching his final rank of Chief Warrant Officer 4 (CWO4). Although CWO4 Williams technically did not meet retirement requirements, he was honorarily retired from the Marine Corps Reserve in 1969 after approximately 17 years of service

 

[DubiousDan]

Private First Class Jacklyn H. Lucas, received the Medal of Honor for jumping on a Japanese grenade to save his fellow Marines. Lucas earned a business degree from High Point University and was initiated into the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity (Delta Omega Chapter). He joined the United States Army in 1961 and served in the 82nd Airborne Division as a paratrooper to conquer his fear of heights. He survived a training jump in which neither of his two parachutes opened. He volunteered for Vietnam, but was not allowed to go there and ended his time as a captain in 1965 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, training troops for the Vietnam War.

Private First Class Douglas T. Jacobson, received the Medal of Honor for destroying 16 Japanese positions and ultimately killing 75 Japanese soldiers. He was promoted to major on July 1, 1964 and obtained his GED in 1967 after he retired.

 

[BRD@66]

Something in my damned eye.

 

[easy rider]

At the dispensary at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard they a few walls with photos of Medal Of Honor recipients and explanations of how they earned them. While waiting on getting chest X rays for my annual physical I used to
spend the time looking and reading each, not sure how many times I looked at them.

 

[Texasgordo]

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[DubiousDan]

Eight sailors were injured aboard the USS Eisenhower when an arresting cable snapped during an E-2C Hawkeye's landing in March 2016. Read all about the incident: http://bit.ly/29xaUdZ

 

[DubiousDan]

NZ Navy vessel HMNZ Otago being pounded by a storm during an operation in the Southern Ocean!

 

[Lunyfringe]

Eight sailors were injured aboard the USS Eisenhower when an arresting cable snapped during an E-2C Hawkeye's landing in March 2016. Read all about the incident: http://bit.ly/29xaUdZ

Shows the power of 3 puckered anuses to keep a plane that size airborne!
I hope the injured sailors all make a full recovery.

I also noticed that the Letter C changed to a flashing F when the cable broke... I'm pretty sure I know what F word they were referring to when it happened.