65 replies to this topic

[fstop61]

I'm a retired photojournalist (newspapers) and over the course of my career I would go out of my way to photograph our nation's military. I thought it might make a neat topic to see everyone's personal military-related photography. ( I need to start digging mine out of storage, but I found a couple that I can share now. Did a story on the Georgia Air National guard when they flew the B1b Lancer out of Robbins AFB. And, no I didn't get a ride-couldn't even bring my cameras inside the plane. I'll post more as I dig up my files.

Edited by fstop61, 04 January 2013 - 04:31 PM.

[lewis505]

This was taken at Sicily DZ at Fort Bragg in March 2005 - that's my HMMWV coming out of a C-17!
 

Attached Images

• 

Edited by Brig, 20 May 2014 - 01:26 PM.

[hawkdriver]

My maintenance crew conducting a PMD on a very hot day.

[patches]

Boy I wish I had a scanner, I have around 200 photos, maybe more of my time in. But all I work off is this really nice Dell 700m lap top, a very nice size, but I doubt I can start hooking up all types of gizmos to it

[BEAR]

How do you guys get pictures bigger than 150kb on your posts? I've got some great pictures but I have to keep shrinking them and then the detail sucks.
BEAR

[paulyp99]

A coast guard helicopter from the air station in Gloucester, Massachusetts that's always flying by my house

Attached Images

• 

[fstop61]

You've submitted great photos so far--keep 'em coming. I found another one-- Army Engineers struggle to move a bridge section at Ft. Polk, La.

[patches]

How do you guys get pictures bigger than 150kb on your posts? I've got some great pictures but I have to keep shrinking them and then the detail sucks.
BEAR

Bear give this page a shot, had very good results, play around with it, and you get the range.

http://www.shrinkpictures.com/

[BEAR]

Thanks Patches

[hawkdriver]

How do you guys get pictures bigger than 150kb on your posts? I've got some great pictures but I have to keep shrinking them and then the detail sucks.
BEAR

If you are using the boards method of loading, you can't use large pics. However, if you use a service like http://tinypic.com/index.php and then copy the URL they give and paste it here, you can get them about any size you want.

[hawkdriver]

If you have never seen a dust storm before, here is what it looks like. This picture is not changed, that is the actual color. I have a picture of even deeper red, but you can't see anything else.

[45govt]

I hope this is acceptable for your thread theme, if so I will post some more

A couple of cavalry soldiers in Manila

Attached Images

• 

Edited by 45govt, 06 January 2013 - 07:40 PM.

[gwb123]

Photos are supposed to be limited to 600 x 600 pixels.

[gwb123]

Graduation Day, Lackland AFB, December 2010.

Attached Images

• 

[edgeer]

I took this during the last week of Jan 1990, during one of our Cordon and search missions, during Operation Just Cause.

I'll post some more later.

Attached Images

• 

Edited by edgeer, 07 January 2013 - 07:48 PM.

[patches]

The first of many of mine, I finally got my friend across the street to scan some.

In my Barracks Room at C Co 2/12 Cav 1st Cav Div, July 1980. You know this is vintage, check out the Loni Anderson poster  

Next month in August, now assigned to a differant room, we were constanly being assigned back and forth between rooms, never could understand why.

An candid shot taken by another platoon mate, out in the field, July 1980, he had his camera this time, and later gave me a copy.

 I was still a E-2, but on this field problem my squad leader made me TC, perhaps to give me some experience in being a TC, he never said why though, I just did what I was ordered to do, but it was a change from being in the compartment, plus I got to grab hold of the 50   I do remember on the second day, we where ripping over broken terrain and I learned the hard way to keep the 50 on an angle when going fast over buppy and rugged terrain, we slamed into a shallow-ish ditch and I bounced off the spade handles with my chest as I was grasping the weapon pointed straignt forward and ahead, it was like getting a hard consentrated body blow to the upper torso, I thought I broke my chest bone   but I sucked it up and it felt better soon, and I then turned the 50 off on an angle from then on. 

Edited by patches, 27 June 2013 - 09:32 PM.

[patches]

One last one from Hood, me and one of my buddy on the left out there beyond the Cowhouse on yet another field problem, this one is from March 1981.

My good buddy here who will remain nameless is that former MP I mentioned once awhile back who was drumed out of MP Corps, well lets say for Mary Jane and reclassifed as Infantry. A Spec 4 before the trouble he turned up in our Platoon as an E-1 in the late fall of 80, and as it turned out was a good reliable soldier and platoon mate, no more problems, though when this photo was taken in March 1981 he still was a E-1.

 

He got his Mosquito Wings right before he moved over to the 2/7 Cav in May 1981, remembering that the 2/12 Cav was at that time being inactivated, with the 3/10 Cav an Armor unit taking it's place, all personel still with time left to serve in the Cav from the 2/12 Cav were transfered out to either the 2/7 Cav, the 2/5 Cav or the 1/12 Cav, the three remaining Infantry Battalion in the 1st Cav Div. Me? I was out of there, going North to Alaska after a spot of leave.

Edited by patches, 27 June 2013 - 09:53 PM.

[renfield]

Here is a picture of my late father in Germany in about 1963. He was so proud to be an Infantry Officer. I have that parade helmet in my collection.

Steve

Attached Images

• 

[SKIPH]

Ok This seems to have taken. It's an older jpg. It's me in Honduras in 1987. Lets see what happens when I post. SKIP

Attached Images

• 

[SKIPH]

Ok. The problem is somewhere in the jpg conversion. It's a good start. Rusty Canteen you called it well. SKIP

[SKIPH]

Figured it out. The pic I jpg'd hanged the order in my file. I thought it was the 2nd pic shown, but it moved into the 1st osition. I was just trying to post wrong one. Problem solved. Thanks for all the help from Rusty Canteen, and everyone else. Problem solved. SKIP

Attached Images

• 

[SKIPH]

This pic was taken of me in Feb 1972, 1/504th, 82d ABN. We jumped a C-141 that day. I took pics under parachute canopy also, if anyone cares to see them. SKIP

[SKIPH]

Here's the full sized pic. Didn't have to cut down. SKIP

Attached Images

• 

[firefighter]

You've submitted great photos so far--keep 'em coming. I found another one-- Army Engineers struggle to move a bridge section at Ft. Polk, La.
ENGINEER.jpg

 

 

Thats a great candid picture.Surprised the Army never used one like this for recruiting.

[RustyCanteen]

Ok. The problem is somewhere in the jpg conversion. It's a good start. Rusty Canteen you called it well. SKIP

 

I'm glad it worked! Those are some nice photos!

 

I have moved the other posts into their own thread so they don't clutter this one up: http://www.usmilitar...s-kind-of-file/

 

RC