Tag: Soldier
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Toy Soldier Commercial For The Cartoon Network
I don’t know what to think of that commercial. It’s really well done, but the fact the soldier is missing his legs, and then presumably dies after turning the TV on seems to be in poor taste. Am I crazy for thinking that, what do you guys think?
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Business Proposal From A Soldier – Scam
Do people actually EVER fall for this crap? I searched google for a couple of lines from the letter and it seems that there are a lot of different “from” and “reply-to” email addresses used, which tells me it is likely used to verify working email addresses. I wonder if the actual Lawrence K. Wilson knows that…
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Gurkha Soldier Disciplined For Beheading Taliban Warlord
Full story – HERE I can see why at first the commanding officer was not impressed. But when he learned the full story about how they had no time to bring the whole body because of enemy fire i’m surprised he didn’t have a good laugh about it. Oh well.. haters gonna hate. Whoever did that beheading is…
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Lockheed Martin – Human Universal Load Carrier (HULC)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1CeBOWm67A[/youtube] Dismounted Soldiers often carry heavy combat loads that increase the stress on the body leading to potential injuries. With a HULC exoskeleton, these loads are transferred to the ground through powered titanium legs without loss of mobility. Gotta love technology. Might as well just go one step further and in case every soldier in an IronMan…
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Living Photographs Formed By Thousands Of U.S. Soldiers
Almost a century ago and without the aid of any pixel-generating computer software, the itinerant photographer Arthur Mole (1889-1983) used his 11 x 14-inch view camera to stage a series of extraordinary mass photographic spectacles that choreographed living bodies into symbolic formations of religious and national community. In these mass ornaments, thousands of military troops…
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Photos From Afghanistan (June 2010)
A member of the Afghan National Police (ANP) watches as US soldiers of the 97th MP Battalion (not pictured) search the site of a Taliban weapons cache in Kandahar City on June 14, 2010 discovered after an informant contacted NATO forces in the area. As usual, Big Picture delivers. Check out the full set – HERE