pix from "the box"

[bluefalcon]

here at fort irwin, ca our training area is known as the box. i have a few pictures from the last rotation that we trained on from this month, july.


looking down the CCO (close combat optic aka aimpoint) on an m4.

now here is how i prefer to shoot, flip up the back up sights and aim using those...

here is my baby dressed down for the field...

out there we sleep in connexes ( containers that are on container ships)...

now we had a couple privates(cherries) that made some "mistakes" so they had to build a sandbag pyramid hand filling and carrying each sandbag about 100 meters. do you notice the mock ak 47 in the background? yeah, thats to help remind new soldiers to clear their weapons, ensure their weapons are on safe when not being fired, and that they carry their weapons with them at all times(its a 4x4 piece of wood)! lol

 

[Ice hearted killer]

haha nice

 

[Jorzonator]

Aww man...
I'll be filling my military service in the next couple of years (I'm waiting that day like a madman) and now my anticipation just grows...
Even after the service (it's 'madnatory' here) I've planned to stay there and pick a career at the army.
Great pics, can't wait for my turn =)

 

[NiMiK]

lol nice! I love that last picture man! we need more pix! get a pix of an actual m16/m203 on it too.

 

[Hypno Toad]

lol.. why didnt you pull any from the bace towers or the connys.. are they still there or did they pull them out.. and you should pull one from the mount village if they let you...

 

[The Yeti]

A friend of mine just came back from Fort Irwin today. He lives right outside of Ft Carson like myself.

 

[bluefalcon]

i was never much of a pic taker, but am now due to my anticipated departure from the army next may... here is the only 203 pic i have as of now...

 

[bluefalcon]

found a couple more...

our weapons and ammo layout of m240b machine guns and rpgs...

heres the 50 cal(worlds most unforgiving weapon!) and the rpg as well...

lastly here is a 240 with 800 rounds of ammo. but do you see that case? it has a stinger missle inside! awesome!

 

[air_nith]

These are awesome pictures Blue!:thumbup:

 

[PIMP DADDY SMURF]

Damn man that is bad ass... They let you take pictures there? Thought that was like secret information, like the locations and all.

 

[bluefalcon]

yeah we get to take pix as long as its not classified and none of that stuff is. notice my stinger pic is of it still in the box! lol google earth has really done a number on our locations.

 

[Un4Gvn]

AWESOME PICTURES!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Would absolutely love to shoot that 203.

 

[Viktum]

Brings back memories, what i would do to be back.....Thx for the pictures, awesome.

 

[Hypno Toad]

found a couple more...

our weapons and ammo layout of m240b machine guns and rpgs...

heres the 50 cal(worlds most unforgiving weapon!) and the rpg as well...

lastly here is a 240 with 800 rounds of ammo. but do you see that case? it has a stinger missle inside! awesome!

ahh the 240B that was my baby out the windo of the nasty airbus... CH-47D chinook thats what i did

 

[USCG Hammer]

heres the 50 cal(worlds most unforgiving weapon!) and the rpg as well...

You can say that again. I hate having to take that thing apart after an offshore gun shoot. The 240B is what we carry every time we get under way for security patrols in Tampa Bay.

Let me see if I can find some pics from our last vessel on vessel use of force training we did. It looked like Apocalypse Now (for those of you that are old enough to remember that movie)

 

[PIMP DADDY SMURF]

Damn that would be awesome Hammer and get some pictures of what a boat looks like after y'all have made made Swiss cheese of them!!

OH man I completely forgot about google maps, yeah that would be a beach to walk on... all the enemy has to do is google it :mellow:

 

[bluefalcon]

hammer im anxiously waiting your reenactment of apocalypse now! that sounds like fun.


i upset my 1sg once and he had me show up at the company at 5 am on my day off with my IBA, kevlar, and assault pack to sign out an M240B, the spare barrel, and tripod. i then marched from the middle of fort irwin to a hill outside of the housing area known as blackie. blackie is very very steep. some places i was crawling. at the top i did M240B gunner drills consisting of moving to contact, implacing the gun on the tripod, engaging targets, and calling out the three D's. i was practicing a 1 man gun team as i was doing all the work to include barrel changes. lol, needless to say, after the long march back home, i dusted off the weapon, turned it in, and the 1sg and i had a laugh about my "corrective training"! i actually thought it was fun and proposed all gun teams do the training i did as it would definitely help them get used to sucking with heavy equipment while relying on each other for support. but i didnt smart off to him again. im my1sg's favorite soldier... imagine what he does to the guys he hates! lol

 

[PIMP DADDY SMURF]

LOL Damn that looks like it sucks even without seeing the hill that you had to climb.

 

[Hypno Toad]

Oh come on BF you know that with the 1sg the favorite soldier get the worst of it because he wants to make you look better then everyone els...

 

[bluefalcon]

Oh come on BF you know that with the 1sg the favorite soldier get the worst of it because he wants to make you look better then everyone els...

lol, yeah thats true. i got an article 15 last year and it was swept under the rug with no punishment! he used to walk by and smoke me so bad! when my platoon sergeant(who really hates me) gave me a bad ncoer the 1sg took me with him in the cp and threw the ncoer at him and told him to give me what i deserved! but this year there was an unavoidable situation of me with another article 15... with pride my1sg stripped me of e5 and pinned me as an e4 again after my sqd ldr and i had an "altercation" in formation. my sqd ldr's e6 was ripped off him and the e5 rank was tossed down for him to pick up. lol. he was at fault and i was defending my soldier's safety but i did help elevate the situation until it got out of control.

the guys my 1sg hates get article 15's with severe punishments, chaptered out of the army, horrible details like scrubbing the bathroom grout with toothbrushes and pulling ammo guard, etc. but they are usually true blue falcon's who drag our unit down with them. those are the worst kind of soldiers and the one's who make us other self-sacrificing soldiers look like a bunch of blood thirsty, disrespectful, cowboys.