B Co “Bushmasters” 1BSTB, 1st CAV, Taji Iraq circa 2006. My buddy did the whole thing freehand with spray paint. Everyone loved it but our CSM made him redo it in a more “traditional” style because this version “looked too ghetto.”
Our familys say that understand what we are going through, but do they really? But how could they if they never been at war?
War against dirt, trash, and filth
How do we rationalize what we do here?
You can't
Perseverance:I leave, in Iraq my blood,…
Well, deep into Baghdad we shall go
To route out our elusive foe;
To quell the rebel hearts who dwell
And slither in the slums of Hell,
And sewage spilled in open street.
Plying alleys with our beat
To give the evil eye to those
Who with…
Jacobson Barrier, the memorial dedicated in honor of Airman 1st Class Elizabeth Jacobson, was retouched, updated and rededicated recently by 386th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron Airmen.
Balad Air Base, Iraq 2023- Some of the T-walls murals painted 15+ years ago at JBB are still there, but have seen better days. Some of them look like they were painted over and that grey primer they used has worn off.
Shrunken head mascot named Shaku Maku. Unit call sign was Headhunter. HHC, 425th Civil Affairs Battalion deployed to Iraq from October 2008 through August 2009. (Battalion is USAR and based in Encino, California.) Stationed at Camp Liberty…
HHC, 425th Civil Affairs Battalion deployed to Iraq from October 2008 through August 2009. (Battalion is USAR and based in Encino, California.) Stationed at Camp Liberty (Victory Base Complex) and performed G-9 functions for the Multi National…
'This memorial is dedicated to those Airmen who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and have made the ultimate sacrifice for their nation. Many were called to serve in the Global War on Terrorism, all have sacrificed. For those who are memorialized…
'Photos from the most frequented stops on our ring routes. Some of the others I didn’t get to picture was at night like Speicher, Palawada, and some undisclosed compounds.' - /u/uh60chief
Balad Air Base- Iraq 2006-09 'All these pics came from the 727th Expeditionary Air Control Squadron, 332nd Expeditionary Ops Group, 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing Balad Iraq. The ones you see with names listed are from specific unit tours. The second…
332d Expeditionary Medical Group, 332d Air Expeditionary Wing "Red Tails"
Tuskegee Medics...Right Here, Right Now
Photo Credit: Col (ret) Don Taylor
Artist: Don Taylor, Heriberto Garcia, Carole Hnatovic, Darenda Santillo and Ray Farrell
'Welcome to Fabulous EOD Iraq" Originally from COB Speicher, Iraq 2010 From Avery Dalton's album on the Project Website: https://www.warmurals.com/iraq-2010-daltons-album In 2019, the US Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 had the sign on…
T-Wall for the 457th Transportation Battalion, OIF III
This, t-wall (Texas Barrier or Bremer Wall) was painted by Sgt Julio Hernandez during the units tour in Iraq in 2005. The unit was stationed at LSA Anaconda, later known as Joint Base Balad. …
T-wall mural painted by the 1st Brigade, 34th Red Bull Infantry Division in Iraq and moved back for display at the Minnesota Military Museum- Camp Ripley, Minnesota. [ https://www.mnmilitarymuseum.org/ ]
The smiling image of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Carletta S. Davis that adorns the entrance to the clinic would, "welcome patients to one of the best level II medical facilities in Iraq," Lt. Col. Joseph R. Novack, Jr., Brigade Support Battalion commander…
Memorial On A Concrete Blast Barrier https://pbase.com/junk_camera_soldier/in_iraq&page=4
Army Staff Sgt. Jerome Lemon, 42, of North Charleston, S.C.; assigned to the 1052nd Transportation Company, South Carolina Army National Guard, Kingstree,…
Al Taqaddum Airbase (TQ), Iraq 2004
KILROY WAS HERE
'I was surfing the web and surprised to find the picture of Kilroy that my platoon and I painted over the bunker that we lived in for our first 3 months in Iraq. I served with Det 2 Co A of the…
On Sept. 4, 2004, the 21 year-old Seabee, Steelworker 3rd Class Eric L. Knott was two weeks into his second tour in Iraq with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 4 fabricating parts critical to enhancing security at Camp Fallujah when a 122mm…
"I was an embedded reporter with Army Times. The unit I was with was the 2-17 FA of 2nd ID. They left Korea, went to Iraq, and then to Fort Carson. Very difficult for them and families."
Photo via Gina Cavallaro @ginaginacav
Thank you to William Rich for submitting photos of the murals his unit created while at Convoy Support Center (CSC) Scania (Nippur), on MSR Tampa about 4 miles west of Al Shomali. These are from Iraq in 2005 I was deployed with Alpha Battery 1/623RD…