Showing posts with label LAV-25. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LAV-25. Show all posts

Sunday, January 17, 2010

D.C. Parade Operation Desert Storm

LAR Marines and "War Pigs" aka LAV-25 ride along the parade for the liberation of Kuwait/Operation Desert Storm during the National Victory Celebration parade in Washington D.C. 06/08/1991. The day-long celebration was held in honor of the coalition forces that liberated Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

War Pigs on Tinian

Marines from 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance (LAR) Battalion, Twentynine Stumps, on the Island of Tinian in a WAR PIG AKA Light Armored Vehicle-25 (LAV-25), 3/29/1999.
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Friday, September 18, 2009

Once a War Pig Mechanic--Always

Former Lance Cpl. Gary Morgan stands next to the light armored vehicle he traveled in during his first deployment to Iraq in 2003. Morgan finished his contract and left the Corps in 2004, but continues to serve today by repairing LAVs at Maintenance Center, Barstow, Calif. “The payoff for me is putting out a better vehicle for my friends that are still in,” said Gary Morgan, a heavy mobile equipment mechanic at Maintenance Center Barstow. Photo courtesy of Gary Morgan

Sunday, August 09, 2009

War Pigs on 24-7 Watch Duty/Patrol

Cpl. Rodney A. Backues, with Charlie Company, 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, scans the city through a pair of binoculars in Karabilah, Iraq, June 18, 2005, while providing security atop a WAR PIG AKA LAV-25 light armored vehicle during Operation Spear.photo by Lance Cpl. Shane S. Keller
Charlie Company, 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion on security watch in a LAV-25 WAR PIG AKA light armored vehicle in Karabilah, Iraq, June 18, 2005, during Operation Spear. The Operation WAS focused on disrupting comm links and supply routes for orcs and Iraqi evil doers. USMC photo:Lance Cpl. Shane S. Keller
Operation Defeat Al Qaeda 2nd LAR Battalion, attached to Task Force Mech, provided over watch security from a Light Armored Vehicle 25 (LAV-25)WAR PIG in Salah Ad Din Province, Iraq, May 2, 2008, during Operation Iraqi Freedom. USMC photo by Sgt. Jason W. Fudge
Lance Cpl. David J. Maksim, from Alpha Company, 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, as guardian angel on top his Light Armored Vehicle-Command and Control (C-Square!) all-terrain during operations at Salah Ad Din, Iraq, May 2, 2008, during Operation Iraqi Freedom USMC photo by Sgt. Jason W. Fudge

Friday, August 07, 2009

US Marine LAV's Down Under, Mate

Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) debark a light armored vehicle from a landing craft, air cushion at Freshwater Beach at the Shoalwater Bay Training Area in Queensland, Australia, July 15, 2009. The 31st MEU came to the beach for field training in support of Talisman Sabre 2009. Talisman Sabre is a biennial combined training activity that trains U.S. and Australian forces in planning and conducting combined task force operations.
photo Sgt. Jose E. Castellon Lopez/

Saturday, August 01, 2009

Gratuitious War Pig Porn

A 3rd LAR War Pig pulling six duty during a patrol thru Ar Rutbah, Iraq in '05
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