Picture of the day

[boogieman]

Playboy was not out in 1945

 

[*lawrence]

 

[x westie]

Bren Gun Girl , Veronica Foster , January 2 1922 - May 4 2000

 

[HuskyDude]

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Ah - Ronnie the Bren Gun Girl, a.k.a. Miss Veronica Foster. Pretty damn ###y, that pic.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Playboy was not out in 1945

I know, bud, and none of those ladies are PB material. That's the joke.

 

[55recce]

Let's not be going down this road. This is a thread about cool photos not how about anyone looks.......

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Fair enough. Got any pics?

 

[*lawrence]

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Jeez, that makes my knees hurt just looking at it.

 

[bearhunter]

Somehow I think that photo is staged for the folks at home.

No way that young fellow is going to be carrying that FN MAG around with a full belt and maybe a spare belt on a long walk in the Kichaka. That gun weighs over 35 pounds with a full belt.

Great general purpose machine gun though.

 

[Painkillers]

South Africa?
I knew a guy who said the farmers would pay troops in beer to clear the farms of packs of wandering baboons. He said it was night time carnage. It's just what he told me, the guy was an a$$hole and generally full of sh1t so he may have been making it up, or perhaps was borrowing truth from another units experiences? I don't really know.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Bomber Command nose art. More restrained than what the Yanks got away with generally, but still pretty indicative of young guys far from home and being badass...

Vote? That's funny.

 

[*lawrence]

South Africa?
I knew a guy who said the farmers would pay troops in beer to clear the farms of packs of wandering baboons. He said it was night time carnage. It's just what he told me, the guy was an a$$hole and generally full of sh1t so he may have been making it up, or perhaps was borrowing truth from another units experiences? I don't really know.

This is from Rhodesia. We only hunted baboons in daylight (with FN's) Baboons were very hard on mealie mealie (corn) and tobacco plants.

 

[bearhunter]

This is from Rhodesia. We only hunted baboons in daylight (with FN's) Baboons were very hard on mealie mealie (corn) and tobacco plants.

Baboons scared the hell out of me. To darn smart, strong and vicious on top of it. They ate meat when they got the opportunity.

 

[AP]

I doubt if either of those young men tip 160lbs … unlike the fat fxcks I see in some Canadian uniforms these days.

 

[*lawrence]

Baboons scared the hell out of me. To darn smart, strong and vicious on top of it. They ate meat when they got the opportunity.

Yes they are very dangerous.

 

[kamlooky]

Any more zewm awn that cancer stick and I'ddah tawt it wuzz a Malborrow or Export A advertizemint.

 

[bearhunter]

The FN MAG isn't that big of gun. Both of those fellows would be lucky to tip the scales at 140 pound soaking wet. They aren't very tall either, but then the average Rhodesian wasn't very tall either.

The fellow behind him is carrying a shotgun.

 

[Painkillers]

This is from Rhodesia. We only hunted baboons in daylight (with FN's) Baboons were very hard on mealie mealie (corn) and tobacco plants.

Ah. He made it out like something out of Apocalypse Now. Flares, murdered Baboons in a trench...like I said, the SA guy was an as$hole.