Picture of the Day (Other eras)

[Invincible]

Its a FN Minimi

Shamefull, I'm a minimi gunner for profession and I couldn't see it. haha,
The hand guard looks very small to me.. But it probably looks different since we use the Short barreled version.

And to still contribute to this threat:

Here is My 5.56 Minimi during training:

  

[[130.Pz]I.Kluge]

Peruvian arm Forces in 1936 ready to fight in the Great War.

From Left to Right: Infantry, Artillery, Cavalry, and Engineer. 

[Taranov]

[[130.Pz]S.Tiemann]

mmm carbine

[Ciupita]

Lieutenant Colonel George S. Patton, France 1918.

[[130.Pz]I.Kluge]

I think he means the Peru.Ecuador war.. or not?

I was being sarcastic.

That photo is in 1936.

This during the Peruvian-Ecuadorian 1941

The Peruvian First Guard handing the captured Ecuadorian 25th battalion "MONTECRISTI" standard to their officer Enrique Pontolillo for safe keeping.

[[130.Pz]I.Kluge]

Military Parade in Peru, July 28, 1938. Almost 3 years later those T-38's will be put to use.

Due to the H1N1 flu the annual parade was held on December 8 (instead of July 28), marking the 188th anniversary of independence.

[Captain Pyjama Shark]

A dead Confederate soldier at Spotsylvania.

[Kading]

ah, of course! the Civil war!
Here we find young Sgt. (yes, he was a 12 year old NCO) John Lincoln Clem, the little drummer boy who is reported to have killed a confederate colonel at chickamauga. He was the youngest NCO in US Army history. He retired in 1916 as a Major General.

[siben]

A American soldier shows his weapen to a local Afgan boy during a patrol in Khan Neshin in the province of Helmand.

[VonMudra]

so how do you know its a soldier and how it is a marine?

Dead enemy body count?

From uniform nowadays. Marines have digital desert/woodland/snow and army has that grey one.

Yep, that they're finally phasing out cuz they finally realized that grey is not camo.

Also, the marines wear the distinctive traditional dress blues uniform:



While army wears the crappy business suit uniform, made slightly better recently by the decision to change back to blue and to change back to shoulder boards for the officers:

[Captain Pyjama Shark]

Dead Union and Confederate soldiers at Little Round Top.

[Kading]

Color Sergeant Gardiner of the 42nd Highlanders, the Black Watch round about the Crimean War.

[Ts4EVER]

Talking about Special Forces, this is a soldier from the "Kommando Spezialkräfte" of the Bundeswehr, modeled after the British SAS. They were the center of some controvery a few years ago, because they were implicated in the torture of PoWs and parliament had lost control over the unit for a while.

[Fuchs]

A Dutch sniping bush...commando.