Picture of the day

[diopter]

" Paratrooper Sergeant Regageles Cachucho
In this illustrative photo, there is a Paratrooper Sergeant in Mozambique during the sixties, in which the importance of Paratrooper Sergeants is based, during the 14 painful years that lasted the African war, they were often fathers to soldiers, and brothers to officers, it was they who often guided them in the art of making war.
Most of them fulfilled three or four commissions, still gave instruction in Tancos, and fought in the woods, often wronged in their recognition, they were all men in the flower of youth, in their twenties. However, their faces carried 40's features.
HONOR IF THE HOMELAND OF SUCH PEOPLE
Mor Serrano Rosa's photo
Pedro Castanheira
Note: cousin of Francisco Regageles, also a paratrooper sergeant who became known for the capture of Captain Peralta (Cuban) in Guinea."

 

[Georgian Pistol]

And Trudumb says we’ll help out. It would be interesting to add our numbers to the chart (some rows would be blank!)

 

[AP]

how many hours/miles have you carried a '25' set under radio silence ... only to find out when you needed it ... it didnt work...?

 

[Ganderite]

^^ What is all that gear strapped to the radio? I think I see some spare batteries.

 

[AP]

^^ What is all that gear strapped to the radio? I think I see some spare batteries.

I see a flashlight and the pouch for the long whip antenna ... what I dont see is the earphone and head strap that he would normally be wearing if he was monitoring. I think the spare battery is in that plastic bag - not sure how he has secured it though and its a big bastard ... The other 'buff' coloured box may be another. I have never seen a load secured that way. Nor do I know what that white 'spaghetti' hanging down is. And of course the shotgun is interesting ... presumably Viet Nam

 

[Canadian Sig]

^^ What is all that gear strapped to the radio? I think I see some spare batteries.

The 77 set was capable of internal secure voice crypto. The older 25 set wasn't and needed a "Nestor" system or if the troop was lucky a lighter Seimens MSC-2001 unit. Hard to tell but it could be batteries on the bottom and a Seimens unit strapped to the top.

 

[Canadian Sig]

Thankfully things got lighter..not light, but lighter. I have 3 separate radios in this picture

 

[Canadian Sig]

But it's still not light...lol

 

[AP]

The 77 set was capable of internal secure voice crypto. The older 25 set wasn't and needed a "Nestor" system or if the troop was lucky a lighter Seimens MSC-2001 unit. Hard to tell but it could be batteries on the bottom and a Seimens unit strapped to the top.

Thats very interesting but if that is Viet Nam .... the Americans were gone in '73 ... before Siemens brought out the MSC-2001. Could be Nestor but thats a big unit.(which I was never exposed to thankfully!) Anyway excellent info.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

And Trudumb says we’ll help out. It would be interesting to add our numbers to the chart (some rows would be blank!)

I suspect if Putin rolled West, he'd be on the Atlantic by the end of the week.

Grizz

 

[CV32]

I suspect if Putin rolled West, he'd be on the Atlantic by the end of the week.

The Russian Army is still only a shadow of what it used to be. They could muster roughly 1,100 tanks in all of western Europe. (Granted, NATO forces have also shrunk.)

 

[weimajack]

I see a flashlight and the pouch for the long whip antenna ... what I dont see is the earphone and head strap that he would normally be wearing if he was monitoring. I think the spare battery is in that plastic bag - not sure how he has secured it though and its a big bastard ... The other 'buff' coloured box may be another. I have never seen a load secured that way. Nor do I know what that white 'spaghetti' hanging down is. And of course the shotgun is interesting ... presumably Viet Nam

Shotgun is a Winchester Mod. 12

 

[bdft]

I suspect if Putin rolled West, he'd be on the Atlantic by the end of the week.

Grizz

Justin would dress like a Cossack and be waiting for him in Newfoundland.

 

[diopter]

Justin would dress like a Cossack and be waiting for him in Newfoundland.

Guess which charter would be Justin in this scene.

 

[chofo]

I suspect if Putin rolled West, he'd be on the Atlantic by the end of the week.

Grizz

I might be totally wrong here (since I don't really keep up with this stuff...) but don't both the US and France still maintain an active, and quite deliverable, nuclear detterence that might serve to discourage any such "adventures and explorations" ? Seems to have worked so far... from about 1949... iirc.

 

[sigpig]

Thankfully things got lighter..not light, but lighter. I have 3 separate radios in this picture

Were you stuck with the elcan or was it a personal preference??

 

[Canadian Sig]

Were you stuck with the elcan or was it a personal preference??

I was issued the 1-4 elcan and an Eotech and magnifier. I preferred the Elcan on my short barrel. My long barrel had the Eotech/mag combo. As I carried with my supressor mounted much of the time I opted for my short barrel upper.

 

[Canadian Sig]

It's a pic thread so.....Niger 2015(ish)

 

[Ganderite]

^ A great airplane. Barely fast enough to kill you.

 

[HuskyDude]

How the US army shipped colt 1911 pistols in WW2