#  @UpGoons Goons Up Goons Up posts on X about iraq, afghanistan, united states, christmas the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::1119270950648856577/interactions)  - [--] Week [------] -30% - [--] Month [-------] +185% - [--] Months [---------] +173% - [--] Year [---------] +24% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::1119270950648856577/posts_active)  - [--] Months [---] +54% - [--] Year [---] +60% ### Followers: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::1119270950648856577/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +0.29% - [--] Month [------] +3.50% - [--] Months [------] +40% - [--] Year [------] +104% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::1119270950648856577/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [gaming](/list/gaming) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [currencies](/list/currencies) [finance](/list/finance) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands) [ncaa football](/list/ncaa-football) **Social topic influence** [iraq](/topic/iraq) #881, [afghanistan](/topic/afghanistan) #649, [united states](/topic/united-states), [christmas](/topic/christmas), [lima](/topic/lima), [in the](/topic/in-the), [india](/topic/india), [call of duty](/topic/call-of-duty), [guam](/topic/guam), [the first](/topic/the-first) **Top assets mentioned** [Alpha Technology Group Limited (ATGL)](/topic/alpha) [April (APRIL)](/topic/april) [Waves (WAVES)](/topic/waves) [Avalanche (AVAX)](/topic/avalanche) [Phoenixcoin (PXC)](/topic/phoenix) [GARY (GARY)](/topic/gary) [Reef (REEF)](/topic/reef) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Get that bloody gun up" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1777171555740471634) 2024-04-08T03:08Z [---] followers, 10.7K engagements "A 4th Infantry Division Soldier passes out gifts to children in a village outside Riyad a suburb of Baghdad Iraq. June 2004" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1792751023079239966) 2024-05-21T02:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements "Cpl Gene Adkins heard some of the ships playing the Marine Corps hymn over their loudspeakers as the landing craft passed by. He could see sailors on deck shouting encouragement. He recalled: the order comes lock and load your weapons funs overlock and load your weapons. The adrenaline begins to flow. Off to the left Japanese mortars and artillery begin to take their toll on other AmTracsglad its them not us. We remain indifferent to the plight of those in AmTracs as long as it isnt usa tremendous explosion at the pier serving the Japanese sugar mill. Jesus what the fuck - The AmTrac" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1801965702380745026) 2024-06-15T13:11Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "The Banzai Charge on Saipan - The avalanche hit the 105th Infantry dug in for the night with two battalions on the main line of resistance and the regimental headquarters behind them. However those two forward battalions had left a 500-yard gap between them which they planned to cover by fire. - The Japanese found this gap poured through it and headed pell mell for the regimental headquarters of the 105th. The men of the frontline battalions fought valiantly but were unable to stop the banzai onslaught. - Three artillery battalions of the 10th Marines behind the 105th were the next target." [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1809981573497757981) 2024-07-07T16:03Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "U.S. Army soldiers from the 101st Airborne division off load during a combat mission from a CH-47 helicopter March [--] [----] in Eastern Afghanistan. The soldiers were participating in the largest American offensive since the beginning of the war in Afghanistan. (Photo by Keith D. McGrew/US Army/Getty Images)" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1812174450952896596) 2024-07-13T17:17Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Men this is General Geiger. The eyes of a nation watch you as you go into battle to liberate this former American bastion from the enemy. Make no mistake it will be a tough bitter fight against a wily stubborn foe who will doggedly defend Guam against this invasion. May the glorious traditions of the Marine esprit de corps spur you to victory. You have been honored. - The generals voice ceased. The Marines hymn crashed out and the men began to go over the side. - The rockets are landing and giving them hell. Good effect on beach. Landing Craft seem to be about one thousand yards from beach. -" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1815079077067301178) 2024-07-21T17:39Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "U.S. Marines display the American flag for a photograph during the liberation of Guam July [--] [----]. I believe this flag was recaptured from the Japanese who had captured it in December [----] possibly from the Naval Yard. - The Japanese occupation of Guam lasted for approximately [--] months. During this period the indigenous people of Guam were subjected to forced labor family separation incarceration execution concentration camps and forced prostitution. Approximately [----] people died during the occupation according to later Congressional committee testimony in [----]. Some historians estimate" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1815383963348910113) 2024-07-22T13:50Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "US Marines Gunnery Sergeant J. Paget and Privates L. C. Whether and V. A. Sot with their Browning M1919 machine gun about [---] yards in-land from the Guam invasion beach Mariana Islands [--] July [----]. - On [--] July the two beachheads were linked and by [--] July the Americans secured the peninsula. - The Second Battle of Guam (21 July - [--] August 1944) was the American recapture of the Japanese held island of Guam a U.S. territory in the Mariana Islands captured by the Japanese from the U.S. in [----] during the First Battle of Guam. - Colorized by Royston Leonard" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1819181569564651988) 2024-08-02T01:20Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "#BARsaturdaya Marine BAR gunner inspects a Japanese foxhole during the Battle of Guam [----]. By LIFE photographer W. Eugene Smith" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1819884629232398638) 2024-08-03T23:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Marines of 1/4 receive 60mm and 82mm mortars while conducting operations at Al-Sadrs compound which sat in an open compound where multiple obstacles including large trucks and buses provided excellent cover. August [----]. Photo by Lucian Read" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1821711576501514547) 2024-08-09T00:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "M203 appreciation post - A U.S. soldier from the 1st Cavalry Division 2nd Battalion 7th Cavalry watches as his 40mm high explosive grenade hit its mark as he engages enemy positions during an offensive operation August [--] [----] in Najaf Iraq. Fighting continued in the holy city of Najaf after peace talks broke down between the Iraqi government and rebel Shiite Muslim militia.(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1823089289355489550) 2024-08-12T20:08Z [----] followers, 22.8K engagements "In March of [----] PVT Bill Vegso a Machine Gunner of the 65th Infantry Division sporting a mustache in Saaurlautern Germany" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1826634359757303943) 2024-08-22T14:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Marines from Echo Company 2nd Battalion 8th Marines take cover during a firefight on July [--] [----] in Main Poshteh Afghanistan" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1827441618900672837) 2024-08-24T20:23Z [----] followers, 10.4K engagements "The setting sun shines on a group of U.S. Marines from 1st Battalion 4th Marine Regiment 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit as they keep a watchful eye while taking a break in an abandoned house during the battle of Najaf in August [----]. - Photo by Lucian Read. - Repost from @devildoggraphix" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1827543558951522479) 2024-08-25T03:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Hardest video of 2021: 1/8 Aztec Guns entering HKIA. - This is the 4th time Ive posted this video with roughly the same caption and not much has changed but heres a couple things Id like to point out: - You never know when youll be called thats why its important to take this shit seriously. A week before this the Marines Soldiers Airmen and countless others in Kabul probably didnt think theyd be in this situation. So not only is it important for you to take it serious if youre in a position of leadership it should be your mission to prepare your men for the future even if you never get the" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1827766741080097036) 2024-08-25T17:55Z [----] followers, 22.9K engagements "In honor of our fallen brothers and sisters from [--] August. Navy Hospital Corpsman Max Soviak [--] of Berlin Heights Ohio. USMC LCpl Kareem Nikoui [--] of Norco California. USMC LCpl David Lee Espinoza [--] of Laredo Texas. USMC LCpl Rylee McCollum [--] of Jackson Wyoming. USMC LCpl Jared Schmitz [--] of Wentzville Missouri. USMC Cpl Hunter Lopez [--] of Riverside California. USMC SSgt Taylor Hoover [--] of Midvale Utah. USMC Cpl Daegan William-Tyeler Page [--] of Red Oak Iowa. USMC Cpl Humberto Sanchez [--] of Logansport Indiana. USMC Sgt Johanny Rosario [--] of Lawrence Massachusetts. US Army SSG Ryan Knauss" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1828046012981694496) 2024-08-26T12:25Z [----] followers, 210.2K engagements "LCpl Nathan Chandler a Logan Ohio native with 1st Battalion 9th Marines hunkers down behind a compound wall during a firefight near the Bari Gul Bazaar Nad Ali District Helmand province Afghanistan Dec. [--] 2013" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1830046030999503013) 2024-09-01T00:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Hard Brad shot" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1831691465220587936) 2024-09-05T13:50Z [----] followers, 87.9K engagements "Something about this shot just goes hard. - I found this picture a few weeks ago along with the context and another angle that included a SAW gunner on overwatch but I couldnt find it again. If you know the details let me know" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1831884563397931220) 2024-09-06T02:38Z [----] followers, 79.6K engagements "Members of Eagle Company 2-2 Cavalry Regiment patrol in the Hadar neighborhood. March [--] [----] in Baghdad Iraq" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1832532264279785544) 2024-09-07T21:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The PLAs worst nightmare: two corn fed mustachioed Machine Gunners both named David and both Georgians and with shit eating grins" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1833637649011073380) 2024-09-10T22:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Soldiers with the 101st Airborne pose for a picture in front of the main terminal of the Saddam International Airport after the Army took control of the Saddam International Airport on April [--] [----] . Jack Gruber USA TODAY" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1834382858942570782) 2024-09-13T00:05Z [----] followers, 15K engagements "Marines with Echo Company 2nd Battalion 8th Marines move into position while under fire on July [--] [----] in Mian Poshteh Afghanistan. Photo by Joe Raedle" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1835045673479422191) 2024-09-14T19:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "H-Hour [----]. Long jets of red flame mixed with thick black smoke rushed out of the muzzles of the huge battleships 16-inch guns with a noise like a thunderclap. The giant shells tore through the air toward the island Peleliu roaring like locomotives. - We waited a seeming eternity for the signal to start toward the beach. The suspense was almost more than I could bear. Waiting is a major part of war but I never experienced any more supremely agonizing suspense than the excruciating torture of those moments before we received the signal to begin the assault on Peleliu. I broke out in a cold" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1835317065403523319) 2024-09-15T13:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "2 Para humping The General in Afghanistan [----]. 🟦 - Another one for the photos that go hard list" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1836117656136561027) 2024-09-17T18:58Z [----] followers, 11K engagements "Two Currahees of Company A 1st Battalion 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment 101st Airborne Division keep a look out and belt ammo for their .30 caliber M1919A6 Browning. Theyre joined by some curious bystanders during Operation Market Garden September [----] The Netherlands. Likely Eindhoven area late September [----]. The Soldier on the left Pvt. Harold C. Boye from Audubon Iowa was killed in action on October 6th [----] at Opheusden. He was awarded the Silver Star. He was just [--] years old. - Colorized by @colourisedpieceofjake" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1836778319523520819) 2024-09-19T14:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Doc on the turret outside Camp Phoenix in [----]. Its amazing seeing how people react to seeing that barrel :) - @doc_endy A Troop 1/172 Cavalry Green Mountain Boys" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1837184704501432360) 2024-09-20T17:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#SAWsaturdaya Marine with BLT 1/2 24th MEU(SOC) kicks in a door while conducting a cordon and search mission in Jurf as Sakhr Babil province Iraq during Operation Plymouth Rock on December [--] [----]. U.S. Marine Corps official photo by Lance Corporal Zachary R. Frank" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1837520796702388720) 2024-09-21T15:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "A Marine from 1/7 Charley stands guard next to a pile of Tabuk 7.62mm assault rifles. Al Kut Iraq 2003" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1838291720871592006) 2024-09-23T18:57Z [----] followers, 14.1K engagements "Inveniam viam aut faciam - @_ethanburch_ 1/6 Guns ♦" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1838691849478783155) 2024-09-24T21:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Get That Bloody Gun Up - Repost from @timoor198 [--] Para prepare to set out from FOB Gibraltar 9th July [----] on another patrol. The base was subject to relentless Taliban attacks that summer and statistically [--] in [--] Paras would be wounded or killed" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1838764152875016380) 2024-09-25T02:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Weapons Squad 1st Platoon C Company 1st Battalion 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment pose for a photo before patrolling Rusafa Baghdad Iraq February [--] 2008" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1839073524272554074) 2024-09-25T22:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "A Marine from Bravo Company 1st Battalion 2nd Marines engages enemy insurgents in Jurf as Sakhr Iraq on December [--] [----] in support of Operation Plymouth Rock. U.S. Marine Corps official photo by Lance Corporal Zachary R. Frank" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1840136800251040081) 2024-09-28T21:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Still feels bad man - Audio is from Jocko Podcast #312 with CWO3 Mike Durant pilot of Super 6-4. The clip talks about Master Sergeant Gary Gordon and Sergeant First Class Randy Shughart who would each receive the Medal of Honor posthumously for their actions on October 3rd [----] in Mogadishu" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1841834653054873666) 2024-10-03T13:36Z [----] followers, 16.5K engagements "Soldiers of Company B 2nd Battalion 14th Infantry Regiment watch helicopter activity over Mogadishu Oct. [--] [----]. Later the same day and throughout the night the battalions A and C Companies were part of a rescue convoy assembled for nearly [---] Rangers who had become trapped in the city after two Black Hawks were shot down. Army photo" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1841979154759352830) 2024-10-03T23:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "C Squadron 1st SFOD-D operators on one of C Co 1/87s trucks after making it through what would become known as the Mogadishu Mile. [--] October 1993" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1842047806539768207) 2024-10-04T03:43Z [----] followers, 18K engagements "Marine Lance Corporal Steve Saari from Duluth Minnesota of Echo Company 2nd Battalion 7th Marines sets up a defensive position during a security patrol May [--] [----] in the area known as Zaidon in the Al Anbar province near Fallujah Iraq" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1842589097300509084) 2024-10-05T15:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "A Marine from 1/6 uses binoculars to scan a mountain where Taliban snipers are entrenched near the village of Siah Chub Kalay Afghanistan during Operation Asbury Park. June [----]. - I bring it up every time but this period in Afghanistan was largely overshadowed by Iraq obviously" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1842747890768150734) 2024-10-06T02:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt Marquez A. Moreno assigned to Police Adviser Team Delaram returns from a patrol in Delaram Helmand province Afghanistan May [--] 2013" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1843477836189082056) 2024-10-08T02:25Z [----] followers, 11.5K engagements "A proudly displayed captured North Korean flag taken in the fighting for Seoul South Korea on October [--] [----]. Left to right (front row) are: Sgt Russelll Evans SSgt Jack A. Fichter and PFC Wendel B. Champeon behind them is Pharmacists Mate third class John D. Epperson. - Colorized by @colour_history" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1844435400166867022) 2024-10-10T17:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Marine Private First Class Luther Lee Leguire raises the U.S. flag at the American Consulate in Seoul Korea while fighting for the city raged around the compound. September [--] [----]. During heavy fighting for the capture of the city of Seoul Korea Leguire had one of his many Marine claims to fame as he climbed atop the American Consulate under sniper fire where he removed the North Korean flag and replaced it with the United States flag. I just happened to go on the roof to do it Leguire said. It wasnt a set posed ceremony. We were in combat and there was a sniper shooting at me but apparently" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1844546440107839722) 2024-10-11T01:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#SAWsaturdayMarines with 2nd Battalion 8th Marine Regiment and Afghan soldiers hold security during movement in order to establish a patrol base in the Garmsir district of Helmand province Afghanistan October [--] [----]. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt Pete Thibodeau/Released)" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1845258604317745662) 2024-10-13T00:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "3rd Platoon Alpha Company 2-8 IN Soldiers SPC Patrick Trujillo [--] of Reserve NM left and SPC Michael Newsom [--] of Bakersfield CA prepare to depart the platoons location near the Muqdadiya police station for a dismounted patrol through the market area of Muqdadiya on October [--] [----]. The rest of the company is deployed at FOB Normandy a former Iraqi mechanized military base in Muqdadiya Iraq" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1845967768169959731) 2024-10-14T23:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "LCpl Thomas Hanney a Nanuet NY native and Machine Gunner with 1st Battalion 9th Marines hauls his M240 machine gun during an operation near the Bari Gul Bazaar Nad Ali District Helmand province Afghanistan December [--] 2013" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1846371560128462879) 2024-10-16T02:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "An American Soldier keeps a constant reminder of his girlfriend back home with his helmet band filled with her photographs. Cu Chi May 1968" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1847069408919015800) 2024-10-18T00:17Z 10K followers, [----] engagements "SGT Leonard Zajas 2nd Ranger Bn of Detroit MI cleans his Browning Automatic Rifle during a rest period after several days hard fighting in Germany. December 1944" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1847632807394267634) 2024-10-19T13:36Z 10K followers, [----] engagements "#SundayGunday3/6 India Cowboy Guns Section Leader (Cpl England) received the Iroquois Axe for exceptional work during the MEU work up. - Rah" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1848120132910162061) 2024-10-20T21:52Z 10K followers, [----] engagements "#240Tuesdaycouldnt find context for this photo but its definitely 101st probably Iraq [----] or [----]. If you know comment below. I also used an app on my phone to color it which makes it look like they got the [---] from the US Navy" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1848817488185757864) 2024-10-22T20:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The President of the United States of America in the name of Congress takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Sergeant John Manila John Basilone United States Marine Corps for extraordinary heroism and conspicuous gallantry in action against enemy Japanese forces above and beyond the call of duty while serving with the First Battalion Seventh Marines First Marine Division in the Lunga Area. Guadalcanal Solomon Islands on the night of [--] - [--] October [----]. - While the enemy was hammering at the Marines defensive positions Sergeant Basilone in charge of two sections of heavy" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1849444556414038521) 2024-10-24T13:35Z 10K followers, [----] engagements "82nd Airborne Division Paratroopers during the Invasion of Grenada codenamed Operation Urgent Fury October [--] [----] in St Georges Grenada. - The invasion began on October [--] [----] and was the first major military action by the United States since the end of the Vietnam War" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1849844713131569199) 2024-10-25T16:05Z 10K followers, [----] engagements "US Marines with the 1st Battalion 7th Marine Regiment load onto a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter after a three day mission July [--] [----] in Gereshk Helmand province Afghanistan" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1851475484460118480) 2024-10-30T04:05Z 10K followers, [----] engagements "A couple of my favorite photos to post on Halloween. - About this time [--] years ago I was part of a platoon conducting battlefield shaping operations for the second battle of Fallujah. I have no clue how but this mask turned up and I had a little Halloween photo op with the disposable camera I carried in my cargo pocket. That night I disassembled removed and destroyed an IED that was on a bridge that would become the primary medevac route during the battle. Coincidentally I blew the mortars up in a fighting position that my younger brother had dug when he was there earlier in the year" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1852173807043190814) 2024-11-01T02:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Another one of my Halloween favorites. - This is Dawud Sabater 3/1 Lima 3rd Plt in Fallujah November [----]. - Good night boys. Happy Halloween. 🎃" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1852197884982100289) 2024-11-01T03:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#FiftyCalFriday3/1 Kilo SPMAGTF Baghdad Iraq [----] - Adrian Jimenez" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1852543405752045647) 2024-11-02T02:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#SAWsaturday@muttonchoppers 3/2 Lima Company Police Embedded Team [--] Nowzad Helmand province Afghanistan 2011" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1852726976257106192) 2024-11-02T14:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "LCpl Brandon Pearson in Bridgeport. Brandon was KIA with 3/5 Lima November [--] [----] in Sangin Afghanistan" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1852858942596260241) 2024-11-02T23:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#SundayGunday.Cpl Anthony Casamento D Co 1/5 was presented the Medal of Honor by President Jimmy Carter on September [--] [----] in a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden [--] years after Cpl Casamentos heroism on Guadalcanal [--] November [----]. - For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving with Company D First Battalion Fifth Marines First Marine Division on Guadalcanal British Solomon Islands in action against the enemy Japanese forces on November [--] [----]. Serving as a leader of a machine gun section Corporal Casamento directed" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1853177191242330147) 2024-11-03T20:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Happy Birthday to Eugene Sledge. Born this day in [----]. - Photo enhanced by @dearmomimdead" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1853465426824515888) 2024-11-04T15:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Happy Birthday to Hector Cafferata. Born this day in [----]. - The President of the United States of America in the name of Congress takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Private Hector Albert Cafferata Jr. United States Marine Corps Reserve for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty on [--] November [----] while serving as a rifleman with Company F Second Battalion Seventh Marines FIRST Marine Division (Reinforced) in action against enemy aggressor forces on Toktong Pass near the Chosin Reservoir North Korea. - When all the" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1853596890064941067) 2024-11-05T00:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "A US Soldier from 3-187 Rakkasans 101st Airborne Division sits in front of a destroyed building inside a captured Republican Guard compound following an overnight battle [--] April [----] in the area near Baghdad international Airport southwest of the capital. - The Solder in the photo appears to be Brandon Wallace. When I looked him up I found that Brandon passed away on September [--] [----]. He was a veteran of both Afghanistan and Iraq. Rest Easy Brother. ⛩" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1853660260977758557) 2024-11-05T04:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Soldiers assigned to B Company 1st Battalion 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment conduct a foot patrol through Nowabab Afghanistan [--] October 2004" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1854310110879002700) 2024-11-06T23:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "3/5 Kilo Machine Gun Section in the staging area on the outskirts of Fallujah November [--] [----] prepping for the attack into the city the next day. - Submitted to @3rdbattalion5thmarineshistory by then Sgt Green (far right) now retired Captain Green @mwgreen1" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1854323616701186099) 2024-11-07T00:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "At [----] the sky lit up on the eastern horizon and a distant rumble rolled in from Camp Fallujah. A white phosphorus smoke barrage shrouded the entire northern edge of the city. More 155mm howitzer rounds came screaming in like freight trains exploding on enemy targets and shaking the ground a mile from their point of impact. Then at last the main attack was launched with several coordinated breaching operations at key points along the railroad tracks. - General Natonski had planned to throw the enemy off balance by conducting a pair of deep and rapid mechanized-armor thrusts into the city." [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1854653247753273415) 2024-11-07T22:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "1/8 Bravo 3rd Platoon right before the assault in Fallujah. - Anthony Silva - [--] years later Im almost [--] and I look at the faces of guys from my generation and I dont know why but it just struck me how young we were. Just kids fighting wars for old men. So it goes" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1855286587736600999) 2024-11-09T16:29Z [----] followers, 55K engagements "A Soldier from the 1st Infantry Divisions 2nd Battalion-2nd Regiment fires his squad automatic weapon from the doorway of a house during heavy fighting November [--] [----] in Fallujah Iraq" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1855370496214208838) 2024-11-09T22:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Its more than a branch; its a cult its a mindset its a way of life its a culture its a family its about the ones that came before its about your brothers its about the ones that will come after its hard to put into words. Uphold the legacy. - One of the few pictures I have from my time in. Please Please Please take more pictures. - Happy Birthday Marines. Semper Fidelis. - And to the cult within the cult Guns Up I love you all" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1855838738091556991) 2024-11-11T05:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Specialist Marcos Chavez from Los Angeles CA of the 2nd Battalion 2nd Infantry Regiment 1st Infantry Division posted atop a captured house on November [--] [----] on the frontline of the second battle for Fallujah" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1856508299757142173) 2024-11-13T01:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "A Machine Gunner from Lima Company 3rd Battalion 6th Marines outside the city of Karabilah during the sixth day of Operation Steel Curtain on Thursday November [--] [----]. - Photo by Lucian Read" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1856536136367116534) 2024-11-13T03:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Corporal R.J. Mitchell and his fellow Marines of 3/1 Kilo before charging into the Hell House to rescue the first two waves of Marines who were trapped and mostly wounded inside. November [--] [----]. Photo by Lucian Read" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1856807348091691010) 2024-11-13T21:12Z [----] followers, 12.2K engagements "#WeaponsWednesday3/5 Thumper Gun [--] hangin and bangin - @christian.betzsold" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1856882977105485963) 2024-11-14T02:12Z [----] followers, 27.7K engagements "Welcome to the WEZ motherfucker" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1856935243602702789) 2024-11-14T05:40Z [----] followers, 68.1K engagements "Soldiers of 2-2 IN kick in a gate on the first day of the Second Battle of Fallujah" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1857852694465229263) 2024-11-16T18:26Z [----] followers, 10.7K engagements "Royal Marines from [--] Cdo pause in a ditch whilst on patrol in Afghanistan during cycle two of Operation Aabi Toorah. [----] I believe" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1857980225528770635) 2024-11-17T02:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Fallujah SAW dump. - I think that Cpl Tim Milholin 1st LAR in [--] of the [--] photos" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1858012948674847044) 2024-11-17T05:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "LCpl Pham a Machine Gunner from Kilo 3/5 humps the gun through the streets of Fallujah November [--] [----]. - Photo by Patrick Baz. - You know I have to post this one every year" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1858373364932284846) 2024-11-18T04:55Z [----] followers, 20.6K engagements "Have to throw this one up again. - @3_5_getsome making the A4 look like an M4" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1858731724789760281) 2024-11-19T04:39Z [----] followers, 16.1K engagements "2 Rifles Machine Gun Platoon in Kenya - @bigmeeeerch" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1858915045465280919) 2024-11-19T16:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The other month I posted hard Brad shots (whos Brad and whys he hard) anyway today Im posting hard LAV shots so send them in - At a base in Kandahar Afghanistan U.S. Marines on a LAV-25 prepare to go on patrol as an AH-1W SuperCobra helicopter flies overhead. [--] December 2001" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1858932737291546796) 2024-11-19T17:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Some LAV shots from @fop_fields: - Sunset photo: Brown [--] C Co 1stLAR Aug [----] after destroying enemy VBIED factory western Al Anbar desert. 2nd photo: White [--] during resupply Feb [----] Sinjar. Last photo: Red [--] providing over watch on the Euphrates west of Rahwah summer 2007" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1858962629567672557) 2024-11-19T19:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I wasnt LAR is this bad" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1859046690335981996) 2024-11-20T01:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "This picture man. - Overlooking the Euphrates river in Rawah Iraq TCP [--]. September [----]. @native_0313 2D LAR A Co. 3rd PLT. (No fucking Shit 🤘)" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1859088886548377694) 2024-11-20T04:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Iconic LAV photo. - US Marines of 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance (LAR) company as part of 1st Battalion 3rd Marines move down a street as they clear houses on November [--] [----] in Fallujah Iraq. - Got a ton of LAV pictures today a lot I didnt even get to yet so well do it again soon" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1859106008557097399) 2024-11-20T05:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Within a span of [--] minutes the Amtracs had landed over [----] Marines on Betios north shore but the follow on waves in the landing craft could not clear the reef due to a neap tide. - The Amtracs ferried Marines from the landing craft at the reef to the beach but more and more Amtracs were being knocked out stalled sunk or just ran out of fuel so after about [----] on D-Day follow on waves of men had to wade in 500-1000yds from reef. - 3/2 on Red Beach [--] was especially hard hit King and Item Companies both lost half their men in the first two hours and Maj Ryans L Co didnt fair much better" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1859411904491340042) 2024-11-21T01:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "1/8 (pictured) had been wallowing in their landing craft the entire first day practically forgotten about. But at the end of the first day someone realized they were there and at the beginning of the second day of battle they were called ashore. They were ordered to land close to the pier but that last part wasnt relayed and they came in directly to Red Beach [--] where the Japanese still controlled the approaches. - No one who witnessed the Eighth Marines bloodbath will ever forget it. - William Rogal A/1/2 - One of the fresh battalions is coming in. Its Higgins boats are being hit before they" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1859724186601550122) 2024-11-21T22:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Hit the beach. Follow Me. Uphold the legacy" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1859828773195219090) 2024-11-22T05:18Z [----] followers, 15.1K engagements "Tarawa D+2 - It looks as though the Marines are winning on this blood-soaked bomb-hammered stinking little abattoir of an island. - Keith Wheeler of the Chicago Daily News the morning of [--] November [----]. - Col Red Mike Edson 2nd Marine Divisions Chief of Staff who came ashore the night before to take some pressure off of Shoup so he could control his RCT2 ordered 1/6 to attack east to link up with 1/2 and 2/2. Elements of 1/2 along with some stragglers from 2/2 had pushed across the airfield and had become isolated in a pocket there. - 1/8 was to attack west along the north beach to" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1859955814259163367) 2024-11-22T13:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#FiftyCalFridaywhere you at Platoon Sergeants - The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Platoon Sergeant Arnold N. Stensland United States Marine Corps for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity while serving with Company B First Battalion Second Marines Second Marine Division during action against enemy Japanese forces at Tarawa Gilbert Islands on [--] November [----]. - With several enemy machine guns still in operation to the left of his beachhead defense line and firing relentlessly on or troops as they waded ashore Platoon Sergeant" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1860008223471796433) 2024-11-22T17:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The price. - Uphold the legacy and never forget the ones who came before us" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1860468635677966636) 2024-11-23T23:41Z [----] followers, 17.3K engagements "@TRHLofficial" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1861069893321314642) 2024-11-25T15:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Stepping back into the battlefield U.S. Marines of the Light Armored Reconnaissance (LAR) company of 1st Battalion 3rd Marines clear houses at the site where four insurgents staged a bloody counter-attack killing one American and wounding many others November [--] [----] in Fallujah Iraq" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1861152033375502830) 2024-11-25T20:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "2nd LAR Charlie Co Afghanistan [----] - @awcoville" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1861636600863572115) 2024-11-27T05:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Enjoy yourselves make room for the next man pogey bait and cigarettes outside WASH YOUR MESS GEAR. - Members of a rifle team of the Second Battalion Fifth Marine Regiment dig in at Thanksgiving dinner in a mess hall near Chosin Reservoir North Korea Nov. [--] [----]. From left are: Cpl. James Balog Pfc. Richard Dulac and Nunzio Tonderella. On the blackboard pogey bait refers to treats such as candy and junk food. - AP - Thanksgiving [----] fell on November 23rd. A few days later (tonight) the Chinese would be descending on their positions from the frozen ridges around Chosin and these Marines" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1861897550451617966) 2024-11-27T22:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Flares lit up the sky bugles sounded whistles blew and cymbals crashed as waves of mustard clad soldiers swarmed over the hills like pissed off ants - It was around [----] on the evening of [--] November [----] and that night it had dropped down to 20* below. Around this time the first waves of several Chinese DIVISIONS crashed into Marine lines to the west of Chosin Reservoir and Army lines to the east of the reservoir. - 5th and 7th(-) Marines were positioned around a collection of shacks called Yudam-ni. C/1/7 minus a platoon was on Hill [----] two miles to the south and F/2/7 reinforced with a" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1861971127418912777) 2024-11-28T03:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "East of Chosin pt2 - Airstrikes called in by Stamford (USMC FAC attached to RCT31) and the men of 1/32 together inflicted heavy casualties upon the CCF attackers but the battalion suffered more than [---] casualties. Two miles south the situation was similar. The CCF struck 3/31 Infantry and two batteries of the 57th Field Artillery overrunning much of the perimeter and killing or wounding most of the senior officers and noncommissioned officers. The 31sts medical company was wiped out as well. Confused fighting went on through the night with the Chinese withdrawing at dawn for fear of American" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1863018971592544259) 2024-12-01T00:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The President of the United States of America under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved July [--] [----] takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Corporal James H. Godfrey United States Army for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy of the United Nations while serving as a gunner with a 75-mm. recoilless rifle squad which was part of Company D 1st Battalion 32d Infantry Regiment 7th Infantry Division. - Corporal Godfrey distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism in action against enemy aggressor forces near" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1863332179687993698) 2024-12-01T21:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "East of Chosin pt3 - At midnight on November [--] the CCF 80th Division attacked Task Force MacLean once again. The fighting inside both perimeters1/32 and 3/31was savage and hand to hand. At [--] am MacLean still with Faith inside the 1/32 perimeter ordered the battalion to withdraw south in the darkness to 3/31s perimeter in a temporary measure to consolidate forces. Once 2/31 arrived the next day MacLean fully expected to attack north as Almond had ordered. At dawn however when the 1/32 column reached high ground overlooking 3/31s perimeter MacLean and Faith were stunned to find the perimeter" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1863430589644214460) 2024-12-02T03:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "East of Chosin pt4 - Faiths exhausted troops got a respite on the night of November [--]. Chinese probing attacks and attempts to infiltrate the Pungyuri Inlet perimeter continued throughout the night but no general coordinated attacks were launched. The CCF may have been pillaging Faiths abandoned perimeter and may have been waiting for reinforcements. - The Marines could supply Faith with air support but other than that they would have to fight their way back to Hagaru-ri on their own. The 2/31 would not arrive. To make Task Force Faiths situation even more desperate the 31st CP the 31st Tank" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1863664859172200913) 2024-12-02T19:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@RaiderCognitive If only they cared. They couldnt even congratulate the incoming vice president" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1863905849040642102) 2024-12-03T11:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#FiftyCalFridaycongrats to our boy @jordanl0331 on EASing today He bounced back from getting busted down for a video I posted a couple years back and picked up Corporal (2nd Award) before getting out. - These are from when he was with 3/1 Kilo Guns in Baghdad Iraq circa [----]. - Good luck on the outside buddy" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1865178470369697820) 2024-12-06T23:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Air raid Pearl Harbor. This is NO drill" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1865434498827006187) 2024-12-07T16:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Help us wish a Happy 100th Birthday to World War II Machine Gunner Lawrence Sid Benoit - Mr. Lawrence Sid Benolt was born Dec [--] [----]. He was born and raised in Gardner MA by his mother Viola Batt Benoit and his grandfather Joe Batt who he called a real gentleman. At the age of [--] he enlisted in the Marines during WWII joining the 21st Marines 3rd Division B (August [--] 1942). He operated the water cooled .30 caliber machine gun and was injured by a grenade in a fox hole earning him a Purple Heart. - After the war on June [--] [----] he married the love of his life Dean Bernard They lived in" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1865811087108526431) 2024-12-08T17:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "A couple shots from @torontoscottishregiments recent C16/M2 range. Video to follow. - 📸: Cpl Dominic Sobotka. - Send in your grenade launcher pictures and videos" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1866244233633386506) 2024-12-09T22:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Boys are we back Im thinking were back. - This Marine would have been the PLAs worst nightmare but you busted him down for this video and now he EASd. Do you want meat eaters or soy boys You decide" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1866540264686559451) 2024-12-10T17:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#240Tuesday3/2 Weapons FOB [----] Helmand [----] - @ilovejobs24" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1866626465669783752) 2024-12-10T23:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#FiftyCalFridayfrom the Cloverleaf. Whos been there And who remembers this armor - @bankieklanprachar CLB-8 MP Fallujah [----]. - Send in your .50 pictures today" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1867623738667414018) 2024-12-13T17:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "McSAWsaturday" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1868033752766763379) 2024-12-14T20:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "On [--] December [----] the German counter offensive which would become known as The Battle of the Bulge began. - In the early morning hours before dawn [--] German divisions attacked the Allied lines in the Ardennes. This created a deep bulge in the defensive lines as the Germans intended to split the Allied forces in two giving way to the name Battle of the Bulge. - The battle proved to be the costliest ever fought by the U.S. Army which suffered over [------] casualties. - Freezing rain thick fog deep snow drifts and record-breaking low temperatures brutalized the American troops. More than 15000" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1868697108275982420) 2024-12-16T16:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "I still have a pile of LAV shots to post. Heres a good one. - @the.bearded.caveman 2nd LAR in Iraq circa 2006-2007" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1869162377062838682) 2024-12-17T23:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#ThrowBackThursdayone of my annual Christmas time posts. Heres some of 1/2 Alpha Guns sometime around Christmas [----]. FOB Iskan Iskandariyah Iraq. - Id love to share some of your Christmas photos from over the years. So feel free to send them in and Ill post them" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1869940803339993418) 2024-12-20T03:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#SAWsaturdaytis the seasonto share this picture of my buddy @jt_evans187 3-187 dressed up like Santa SAWs in Afghanistan - Send in your Christmas photos" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1870484035623145854) 2024-12-21T14:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Merry Christmas from Camp Korean Village Iraq [----] - @jhotujec1 1st LAR - Send in your Christmas photos from over the years" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1870552568960839801) 2024-12-21T19:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@jockowillink @USMC Rah" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1870552687999398393) 2024-12-21T19:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Merry Christmas from Syria. Taken on Christmas Day [----]. - Keep sending in your Christmas photos from over the years and Ill put them up between now and Christmas ☠♠@guns_____up @tubes_____up @ass______up @tows_____up @maneuver_____up @corpsman___up @larsoc_____up @snipers___up @goose_____up @laad__up @enablers____up @comms_____up @veterans______up" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1870669096905302080) 2024-12-22T03:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Merry Christmas from Baghdad 2021" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1871209409084547332) 2024-12-23T15:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Christmas Eve [----] Helmand Province Afghanistan Nowa District PB Spotswood. - Zach Tutt 1/3 CAAT" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1871347838241927565) 2024-12-24T00:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Merry Christmas from Ramadi Iraq Qatana District Building [--] [----]. - @inshore_angler0311 2/4 Fox" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1871566791870394711) 2024-12-24T14:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Christmas Eve Jordan [----]. - @thedindino 3/7 Kilo" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1871647161974489207) 2024-12-24T20:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Christmas Dinner with the ANA. Garmsir [----]. - @chrisrico24 3/3 81s" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1871692245797322909) 2024-12-24T22:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Merry Christmas from South Korea [----] - @jeff.cohen.7777 1/8 Alpha Weapons Platoon" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1871754904899080206) 2024-12-25T03:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Merry Christmas from @__bradyking__ and the boys 2nd PLT BLACKSHEEP 1-41IN 4ID and Snipers / Scout PREDATOR Plt for the claymore pic. - Still up playing Santa Claus so I might have at least one more to post tonight. Thanks to everyone that shared their Christmas photos with me - Merry Christmas" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1871799442023551200) 2024-12-25T06:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Merry Christmas from Iraq [----] - @alphaamericanfirearms 1/4 Alpha Company" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1871813571669344713) 2024-12-25T07:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Christmas Day [----]. IVO Iskandariyah Iraq. - I dont share too much about myself but I do like to put this up every year for perspective I guess. This day is burned into my memory Im not sure why although I dont think about it as much anymore. But anyway this wasnt my first Christmas away from home. My first Christmas away from home was on Parris Island but if I think about it couldnt tell you anything about it. - Christmas [----] we were tasked with patrolling [--] hours on [--] hours off because an attack was imminent since it was Christmas. It rained all day. A cold steady soaking rain the kind" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1871922317170815186) 2024-12-25T14:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe and his staff gathered inside Bastognes Heintz Barracks for Christmas dinner December 25th [----]. This military barracks served as the Division Main Command Post during the siege of Bastogne Belgium during WWII. The facility is now a museum known as the Nuts Cave. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army)" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1872452893388783731) 2024-12-27T01:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "FOB Edinburgh Helmand Province Afghanistan [----] - @jerryandthebeans - I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1872491596228546563) 2024-12-27T03:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "3/2 India Evil Guns" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1873422590901166428) 2024-12-29T17:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Most have heard by now that 1st Battalion 4th Marines another storied Infantry battalion is disbanding and having its lineage which is a story in and of itself abandoned. Please excuse my old man yells at cloud moment I just think unit history lineage and legacy is a big deal. Moving on: part of the battalion will be absorbed into other Victor units and the rest into the 12th Littoral Combat Team. The battalion extended an invitation to all who can attend for a deactivation ceremony details below. If also like to share your photos from your time in 1/4 over the next few days/weeks so send" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1873599312145322029) 2024-12-30T05:17Z [----] followers, 15.9K engagements "#Mk19Monday1st Infantry Division FOB Danger Tikrit Iraq [----]. - @kevinknappy" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1873760590193365206) 2024-12-30T15:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Hardest video of 2024" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1874311043201327490) 2025-01-01T04:25Z [----] followers, 554.7K engagements "@eimisweatrag Cool dont care" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1874350230583619971) 2025-01-01T07:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Happy 1/1 Day boys. - Heres 1/1 No Love 81s firing on Taliban fighters July 28th [----]. - James Monnig was a squad leader at the time and took this footage he sadly passed away in [----]. To quote a guy in his squad he was a Mountain of a man - @bobophett - Send in your 1/1 pictures and videos today" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1874509659916116241) 2025-01-01T17:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Remembering Lance Corporal Brian Parrello today. - Today marks one of the hardest of the year for members of Small Craft Company. LCpl Brian Parrello was killed [--] years ago today during an ambush in Haditha Iraq. Every year those who can gather with his family in remembrance. West Milford NJ FD company [--] also dedicated Engineer [--] to Brian in [----] as it was still being built. - Rest Easy Marine" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1874681268505370984) 2025-01-02T04:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Happy 1/2 Day from Bravo Company - 1st pic is 1/2 B Co NCOs paying their respects at Gunny Basilones grave 2nd pic is B Co Hunter Killer Plt at ITX (goes hard) 3rd pic is B Co 1st Plt in Norway - @james_coonster - Keep sending in your 1/2 pictures The Instagram post with the most likes wins a 1/2 flag. Same goes for 1/1 yesterday and every other battalion coming up" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1874897471064932609) 2025-01-02T19:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Happy 1/2 Day from Palehorse Charlie - Charlie 1st platoon -Reaper 💀 Charlie Company V1/2 Palehorse - Welcum To The Show from the past year and a half. - @garrettrutan" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1874940869427736681) 2025-01-02T22:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "On 1/2 Day we remember Sgt Donald J. Lamar II 1/2 Scout Sniper Platoon KIA May [--] [----] IVO Musa Qala Helmand Province. He would be posthumously awarded the Bronze Star with V. - Rest Easy Marine. And thank you @sam_9lives for sharing this photo with me. - Whoever does not have the stomach for this fight let him depart. Give him money to speed his departure since we wish not to die in that mans company. Whoever lives past today and comes home safely will rouse himself every year on this day show his neighbor his scars and tell embellished stories of all their great feats of battle. The stories" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1875045603975069836) 2025-01-03T05:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Happy 1/3 Day from Alpha Weapons - Pic: 1/3 Alpha Weapons Christmas [----] Karma Iraq. - Video: Hasty brief for next morning Karma Iraq [----]. - @davidh0331" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1875333536816750823) 2025-01-04T00:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Happy 1/5 Day from Apache - 1: Happy 1/5 day heres Apache company weapons platoon guns section genocide guns camp mujuk South Korea during our deployment on the 15th MEU after one of our guys promotion to Cpl after a range 2: Apache company 3rd platoon plus attachments 3: Apache company weapons platoon - @jaredmayer34" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1876020116112158729) 2025-01-05T21:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "1/5 WPNS Co Thumper 81s ♠. UAE [----] - Die or Make Peace - @bandman_pm" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1876043688146874546) 2025-01-05T23:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@DocStrangelove2 What a time to be alive Watching Amos single-handedly destroy the Marine Corps was wild" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1876079550612050065) 2025-01-06T01:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Happy 1/5 Day from Cherokee - Some 1/5 C Co pics for 1/5 day - @tm_goose" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1876098717293719850) 2025-01-06T02:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Happy 1/5 Day - 1/5 CAAT Crazyhorse beach defense. These are the boys from the video. - @dukefitch" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1876119861715419442) 2025-01-06T04:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "On this 1/5 Day we remember the [--] Marines of 1/5 who were killed in action on their deployment to Sangin in [----]. - LCpl Jackson LCpl Freeman LCpl OBrien LCpl McDaniels LCpl OConnor Cpl Verbeek Cpl Singh GySgt Pate Jr. LCpl Farias Sgt Frokjer Cpl Schneider LCpl Mendez-Hernandez LCpl Greniger Sgt Patron Sgt Robinson Sgt Gonzales Jr. Cpl Dutcher - In the first photo by John Gastaldo Cpl Cody Elliott holds the dog tags of LCpl Joshua McDaniels. When McDaniels was hit by an IED Elliott running to his aid tripped a secondary. - In the last two photos is a uniform put together by @undeadkustoms." [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1876134478818767042) 2025-01-06T05:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Happy 1/6 Day from 1/6 CAAT Red - 1/6 CAAT RED Crazyhorse in Latvia on the MEU the other year. - @david_kharatishvili" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1876417010521067591) 2025-01-06T23:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "On this 1/6 Day Id like to remember these two Marines of 1/6 Cold Steel Charlie 2nd Platoon killed in action on January 24th [----] IVO Marjah Afghanistan. - Sergeant Daniel Angus LCpl Zachary Smith - On the morning of January 24th their squad found themselves in an ambush while on a probing mission around Marjah before the push. Enemy fighters opened up on the squad from multiple positions with PKMs and small arms. Anticipating the Marines reaction the enemy set up explosives inside a nearby compound. Upon initial contact the Marines ran to this compound and LCpl Smith was wounded by an IED." [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1876498378017636480) 2025-01-07T05:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Happy 1/7 Day - 1/7 Animal Company 3rd Platoon Iraq [----]. - @daddy_roeck" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1876735183627375095) 2025-01-07T20:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Happy 1/7 Day - 1/7 Dog company [----] Sangin. First pic after a fire fight and second pic passing out beanie babies on a quick stop on a patrol. - @m3_ghst_" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1876758808573165706) 2025-01-07T22:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "1/7 Alpha on the push to Baghdad [----] - Eddie Ramirez" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1876782408868979125) 2025-01-08T00:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Happy 1/8 Day - 1/8 81s Platoon 1st Section TRAP team on the 24th MEU in Saudi Arabia. Approximately [--] weeks before HKIA evac [----]. - @spackjitler" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1877072070632190228) 2025-01-08T19:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Happy 1/8 Day from 1/8 Bravo 3rd Platoon - From [----] in Fallujah to their [----] reunion - Anthony Silva" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1877139163541012878) 2025-01-08T23:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Happy 1/9 Day - 1/9 Bravo 1st Plt Afghanistan 2013-14. Sponsored by Jack Daniels - @acollins58" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1877444562404159844) 2025-01-09T19:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Happy 1/9 Day - [--]. 1/9 A Co 24th MEU in Aqaba Jordan [----] [--]. 1/9 A Co 1st Platoon 3rd Squad COP Segdewick Iraq [----] - @thedon7886" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1877480382368457049) 2025-01-09T22:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "1/9 CAAT in Afghanistan 2013-2014 - @crim_della and crew thankfully here to talk about it" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1877498470778483183) 2025-01-09T23:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "On this 1/9 Day Id like you to remember the Marines and Corpsmen of 1/9 lost during Operation Buffalo in July [----]. If youre unfamiliar I encourage you to look it up. - PFC Maurice Karl Mock [--]. LCpl Dee Randall Jarvis [--]. LCpl Steven Franklin Mathias [--]. Cpl. Benny Frank Nimox [--]. HM Jonathan Ansel Sawyer [--]. Pvt. Marshall George Steffans [--]. Pvt. Steven James Powers [--]. PFC James Glendale McCoy [--]. PFC Anthony Maraczi [--]. PFC ichael Lawrence Beasley [--]. PFC Paul Joseph Golembski [--]. PFC George Coutrakis [--]. PFC Bruce Allen Yoder [--]. LCpl Gary Arthur Holsclaw [--]. LCpl Walter H. Brooks Jr 19." [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1877581187213873261) 2025-01-10T05:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#FiftyCalFridayin honor of 1/4 heres CAAT from a couple years back - @hes91six" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1877839358574670284) 2025-01-10T22:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#FiftyCalFridayfrom the Ghillie Gunner himself @nikolaustinsley 1/5 CAATGuns Up" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1877872059763605966) 2025-01-11T00:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Command from Alpha Raiders 1/4 during the Battle of Najaf Iraq [----]. R to L is CoGySgt R. Synovec Capt B Sotire and 1stSgt R Young -Alpha Raiders - @metalheadvet Rah" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1878152304727134408) 2025-01-11T18:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#SAWsaturdayLCpl Nathan Chandler a Logan Ohio native with 1st Battalion 9th Marines hunkers down behind a compound wall during a firefight near the Bari Gul Bazaar Nad Ali District Helmand province Afghanistan December [--] 2013" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1878197788929933360) 2025-01-11T21:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#SundayGundaysome of 1/8 Aztec Gunz in Cyprus - @mcleishbraden" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1878501239484203171) 2025-01-12T17:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "1/4 CAAT [--] too many pictures just to choose one I agree - @nakadaisawesome" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1878941802281247062) 2025-01-13T23:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "203 Supremacy - Marine Cpl James K. Peters stands in an opium poppy field while performing a foot patrol at Sangin Afghanistan May [--] [----]. Peters and his fellow Marines assigned to Weapons Company 3rd Battalion 4th Marine Regiment Regimental Combat Team [--] are familiarizing the Battalion Commander with their area of operation during the patrol. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Jeremy C. Harris/Released)" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1879027669565690016) 2025-01-14T04:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Marine air over burning Kuwaiti oilfields" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1880481143033864323) 2025-01-18T05:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "In honor of 1/4. Whiskey 1A. Syrian border [----] - @thebear0369" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1880693426947305491) 2025-01-18T19:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Guys I wasnt LAR. Is this bad - 2nd LAR outside of Rutbah Iraq early 2007" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1880775258992697347) 2025-01-19T00:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "On this 1/24 Day we remember the [--] Marines lost during 1/24s deployment to Fallujah 2006-2007. - Sgt Brock A. Babb D.O.B. 8/13/66 D.O.D. 10/15/06 LCpl Brent E. Beeler D.O.B. 9/21/84 D.O.D. 12/7/06 LCpl Richard A. Buerstetta D.O.B. 1/22/86 D.O.D. 10/23/06 SSgt Bryan K. Burgess D.O.B. 1/20/71 D.O.D. 11/9/06 LCpl Luis J. Castillo D.O.B. 2/22/86 D.O.D. 1/20/07 Cpl Christopher E. Esckelson D.O.B. 12/30/83 D.O.D. 12/28/06 Sgt Thomas M. Gilbert D.O.B. 3/31/82 D.O.D. 10/25/06 SSgt Marcus A. Golczynski D.O.B. 3/16/77 D.O.D. 3/27/07 Pfc Tarryl B. Hill D.O.B. 10/31/87 D.O.D. 2/7/07 Cpl Joshua M. Hines" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1883022416752067060) 2025-01-25T05:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Happy 1/25 Day - 1/25 CAAT Nad Ali Helmand [----] - @j9silva" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1883192304460251251) 2025-01-25T16:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "1/24 Chillin Charlie 3rd Platoon Bravo Squad. 31DEC06. Stepping off from the CMOC to do overwatch for the Company move to the southern outskirts of Fallujah. - @lucasriflemanwebster" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1884050923670163683) 2025-01-28T01:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "2/1 Dominican Republic-WWII - The battalion was activated August [--] [----] at Santo Domingo Dominican Republic as the 2nd Battalion 1st Regiment and was assigned to the 2nd Brigade. The battalion played a role in the occupation of the Dominican Republic after which it was deactivated on July [--] [----]. - The battalion was reactivated March [--] [----] at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. The force was active for only a brief period of time during which it was deployed to Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island South Carolina. The unit was again deactivated on June [--] [----]. Shortly after the United States entered" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1885747101201777140) 2025-02-01T17:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "2/1 Echo 3rd Plt Warhammer [--] Main effort of the main effort - @kimo_malott" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1885818052031172737) 2025-02-01T22:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Happy 2/3 Day - Activated on May [--] [----] at New River North Carolina the battalion would see extensive action throughout the Pacific on Bougainville Guam and Iwo Jima. - In January [----] 2/3 was redeployed to Camp Schwab Okinawa. From there the unit deployed at various times between [----] and [----] as the Battalion Landing Team of the Seventh Fleet. In April [----] 2/3 deployed to Da Nang in the Republic of Vietnam. They fought in Vietnam from April [----] until October [----] operating from: DaNang Camp Carroll Qung Tr Cam L Dong Ha Combat Base Khe Sanh - During the night of [--] August [----] the" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1886487645808631994) 2025-02-03T18:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The President of the United States of America in the name of Congress takes pride in presenting the Medal of Honor (Posthumously) to Corporal Tony Stein United States Marine Corps Reserve for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving with Company A First Battalion Twenty-Eighth Marines FIFTH Marine Division in action against enemy Japanese forces on Iwo Jima in the Volcano Islands [--] February [----]. - The first man of his unit to be on station after hitting the beach in the initial assault Corporal Stein armed with a" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1892422462647705903) 2025-02-20T03:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Footage taken from a USN Vought OS2U Kingfisher of a USMC M4A3 Sherman tank equipped with the Navy Mark [--] flame-thrower attacking enemy positions on Iwo Jima during February 1945" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1895299307982729677) 2025-02-28T02:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Infantry Month - Being an Infantryman is the core of what the Marine Corps and the Army is. Make no mistake if youre not Infantry your sole purpose is to support the Infantry. - March is more than some sales gimmick to push merch Infantry Month is about you the Infantryman. A month to highlight you for you to take pride in being an Infantryman because being an Infantryman truly is the best job in the military I extend this to ALL Infantrymen; Marines Army doesnt matter to me youre all my brothers and March is our month. You might not realize it now but one day youll look back and think about" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1895828606258938123) 2025-03-01T13:28Z [----] followers, 22.2K engagements "Happy 3/1 Day - Weapons Co. 81s platoon Kuwait March 8th [----] before crossing line of departure" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1896070800756912301) 2025-03-02T05:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Happy 3/2 Day - Heres a collection of photos from over the course of two Iraq deployments from @glomani.bravo.lopez 3/2 Lima Co 2nd Plt. Thank you brother" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1896301475204329878) 2025-03-02T20:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Happy 3/3 Day - 3/3 India Iraq and Afghanistan" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1896604490012438545) 2025-03-03T16:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Happy 3/6 Day - 3/6 India 2nd plt w/Wpns attachments Iraq 05-06" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1897774257381200091) 2025-03-06T22:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Happy [----] Day - 1/2 Blackbeard in Norway and The Stumps. Any clime and place" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1899491786793316520) 2025-03-11T16:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "11B - 1-36 Able Co 4th platoon 2nd squad playing OPFOR for a brigade level training event at NTC after pushing an entire brigade out of a town" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1899677960786833559) 2025-03-12T04:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Happy LAR Day - 2d LAR mobile reconnaissance company during Spring Storm in Estonia" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1900218984110104748) 2025-03-13T16:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Happy [----] Day - 2nd LAR B Co 1st platoon Djibouti 2015" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1900333854780543233) 2025-03-13T23:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#WeaponsWednesday2/4 Fox Assault - @nathaniel_klitzke - Send in your [----] pics today for a chance at something free off the site No were not celebrating [----] day today its just a day during Infantry Month to give something away" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1902373743969665509) 2025-03-19T14:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#WeaponsWednesday1/4 C on the 31st MEU getting some final rounds in on the SMAW before they switched to the MAAWs" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1902436752154878342) 2025-03-19T19:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Marines prepare themselves after receiving orders to cross the Iraqi border at Camp Shoup northern Kuwait. March [--] 2003" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1902842820886409564) 2025-03-20T22:00Z [----] followers, 42.4K engagements "OIF I April 10th [----]. 2/2 Fox Company and [--] Misfit Sniper teams recover Sgt Padilla-Ramirezs body from Ash Shatrah. - A tragic story that I felt should be shared. Sgt Padilla-Ramirez was with MWSS-371 and had been captured IVO An Nasiriyah when his convoy was attacked on March [--] [----]. His body was recovered in Ash Shatrah on April [--] [----] as seen above. I wont go into what was done but I believe sympathetic locals directed the Marines from 2/2 to where they had buried him. Rest Easy Marine. - Thanks for sharing El David" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1902923538354319436) 2025-03-21T03:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Happy [----] Day to all the Recondos out there. - I dont expect to get much but if youve got photos from your time in Recon send them in and Ill send a flag to the one with the most likes" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1903078623067668704) 2025-03-21T13:37Z [----] followers, 23.8K engagements "1st Reconnaissance Battalion Force Reconnaissance Company - Last pic goes hard" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1903221370026151988) 2025-03-21T23:05Z [----] followers, 16.2K engagements "Got a few saved rounds from yesterday - 1st Recon in Iraq" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1903538745833329119) 2025-03-22T20:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Welcome to An Nasiriyah - On this day in [----] the Battle of An Nasiriyah began. - I remember watching this on TV as a senior in high school. I enlisted shortly after. One year later some of those same Marines from 1/2 that I watched on TV would be my seniors. - Thats 2/8 in the photo. 1/2 was up ahead and Task Force Tarawa was in for a hell of a fight. - Ill be reposting some posts from previous years that breakdown the battle as it began. Im not an expert on the battle but wish to tell the story if you were there and have anything to add or to correct please dont hesitate to do so. - As you" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1903804660009312697) 2025-03-23T13:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Brutal American fighting for some Applebaums Donald Trump and J. D. Vance have created a brand new stereotype for America: Not the quiet American not the ugly American but the brutal American @anneapplebaum writes. Whatever illusions Europeans ever had about Americans those are shattered. https://t.co/WasgWW4frd Donald Trump and J. D. Vance have created a brand new stereotype for America: Not the quiet American not the ugly American but the brutal American @anneapplebaum writes. Whatever illusions Europeans ever had about Americans those are shattered. https://t.co/WasgWW4frd" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1904025543630094523) 2025-03-24T04:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Happy 3/24 Day - 3/24 Scout Sniper Plt Al Taqaddum Iraq 2004" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1904329377015304268) 2025-03-25T00:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Happy 3/24 Day - Lima 3/24 Iraq [----]. Burning shitters is a core GWOT memory" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1904346591042981922) 2025-03-25T01:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Go read About Face. 🫡 https://t.co/9lhcbLrifG 🫡 https://t.co/9lhcbLrifG" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1905274289349132792) 2025-03-27T15:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#FiftyCalFridayAnti Terrorism Battalion Alpha Co. [--] - [--] Ashraf Diyala Province Iraq FOB Grizzly - Mike Carr" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1905624864414716295) 2025-03-28T14:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Happy [----] Day - V1/2 Palehorse Guns - @1castr0762" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1906835105399615780) 2025-03-31T22:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "This I love this. - 3/7 Lima Gunz grill run pt - @guapo_medina22 - Guns Up boys. Happy [----] Day" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1906919141828690286) 2025-04-01T03:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Banger from @roosteractual the other year. Worthy of a repost as we wrap up [----] Day" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1906957054897504602) 2025-04-01T06:29Z [----] followers, 10.6K engagements "#FiftyCalFriday3/25 Lima Weapons Platoon Heavy Section Vic [--] during the Battle of Barwanna 2005" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1908323105899938242) 2025-04-05T00:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "#FiftyCalFriday@nano.lora letting it eat a little" [X Link](https://x.com/UpGoons/status/1910843059991949410) 2025-04-11T23:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"Get that bloody gun up"
X Link 2024-04-08T03:08Z [---] followers, 10.7K engagements
"A 4th Infantry Division Soldier passes out gifts to children in a village outside Riyad a suburb of Baghdad Iraq. June 2004"
X Link 2024-05-21T02:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Cpl Gene Adkins heard some of the ships playing the Marine Corps hymn over their loudspeakers as the landing craft passed by. He could see sailors on deck shouting encouragement. He recalled: the order comes lock and load your weapons funs overlock and load your weapons. The adrenaline begins to flow. Off to the left Japanese mortars and artillery begin to take their toll on other AmTracsglad its them not us. We remain indifferent to the plight of those in AmTracs as long as it isnt usa tremendous explosion at the pier serving the Japanese sugar mill. Jesus what the fuck - The AmTrac"
X Link 2024-06-15T13:11Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"The Banzai Charge on Saipan - The avalanche hit the 105th Infantry dug in for the night with two battalions on the main line of resistance and the regimental headquarters behind them. However those two forward battalions had left a 500-yard gap between them which they planned to cover by fire. - The Japanese found this gap poured through it and headed pell mell for the regimental headquarters of the 105th. The men of the frontline battalions fought valiantly but were unable to stop the banzai onslaught. - Three artillery battalions of the 10th Marines behind the 105th were the next target."
X Link 2024-07-07T16:03Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"U.S. Army soldiers from the 101st Airborne division off load during a combat mission from a CH-47 helicopter March [--] [----] in Eastern Afghanistan. The soldiers were participating in the largest American offensive since the beginning of the war in Afghanistan. (Photo by Keith D. McGrew/US Army/Getty Images)"
X Link 2024-07-13T17:17Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Men this is General Geiger. The eyes of a nation watch you as you go into battle to liberate this former American bastion from the enemy. Make no mistake it will be a tough bitter fight against a wily stubborn foe who will doggedly defend Guam against this invasion. May the glorious traditions of the Marine esprit de corps spur you to victory. You have been honored. - The generals voice ceased. The Marines hymn crashed out and the men began to go over the side. - The rockets are landing and giving them hell. Good effect on beach. Landing Craft seem to be about one thousand yards from beach. -"
X Link 2024-07-21T17:39Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"U.S. Marines display the American flag for a photograph during the liberation of Guam July [--] [----]. I believe this flag was recaptured from the Japanese who had captured it in December [----] possibly from the Naval Yard. - The Japanese occupation of Guam lasted for approximately [--] months. During this period the indigenous people of Guam were subjected to forced labor family separation incarceration execution concentration camps and forced prostitution. Approximately [----] people died during the occupation according to later Congressional committee testimony in [----]. Some historians estimate"
X Link 2024-07-22T13:50Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"US Marines Gunnery Sergeant J. Paget and Privates L. C. Whether and V. A. Sot with their Browning M1919 machine gun about [---] yards in-land from the Guam invasion beach Mariana Islands [--] July [----]. - On [--] July the two beachheads were linked and by [--] July the Americans secured the peninsula. - The Second Battle of Guam (21 July - [--] August 1944) was the American recapture of the Japanese held island of Guam a U.S. territory in the Mariana Islands captured by the Japanese from the U.S. in [----] during the First Battle of Guam. - Colorized by Royston Leonard"
X Link 2024-08-02T01:20Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"#BARsaturdaya Marine BAR gunner inspects a Japanese foxhole during the Battle of Guam [----]. By LIFE photographer W. Eugene Smith"
X Link 2024-08-03T23:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Marines of 1/4 receive 60mm and 82mm mortars while conducting operations at Al-Sadrs compound which sat in an open compound where multiple obstacles including large trucks and buses provided excellent cover. August [----]. Photo by Lucian Read"
X Link 2024-08-09T00:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"M203 appreciation post - A U.S. soldier from the 1st Cavalry Division 2nd Battalion 7th Cavalry watches as his 40mm high explosive grenade hit its mark as he engages enemy positions during an offensive operation August [--] [----] in Najaf Iraq. Fighting continued in the holy city of Najaf after peace talks broke down between the Iraqi government and rebel Shiite Muslim militia.(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)"
X Link 2024-08-12T20:08Z [----] followers, 22.8K engagements
"In March of [----] PVT Bill Vegso a Machine Gunner of the 65th Infantry Division sporting a mustache in Saaurlautern Germany"
X Link 2024-08-22T14:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Marines from Echo Company 2nd Battalion 8th Marines take cover during a firefight on July [--] [----] in Main Poshteh Afghanistan"
X Link 2024-08-24T20:23Z [----] followers, 10.4K engagements
"The setting sun shines on a group of U.S. Marines from 1st Battalion 4th Marine Regiment 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit as they keep a watchful eye while taking a break in an abandoned house during the battle of Najaf in August [----]. - Photo by Lucian Read. - Repost from @devildoggraphix"
X Link 2024-08-25T03:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Hardest video of 2021: 1/8 Aztec Guns entering HKIA. - This is the 4th time Ive posted this video with roughly the same caption and not much has changed but heres a couple things Id like to point out: - You never know when youll be called thats why its important to take this shit seriously. A week before this the Marines Soldiers Airmen and countless others in Kabul probably didnt think theyd be in this situation. So not only is it important for you to take it serious if youre in a position of leadership it should be your mission to prepare your men for the future even if you never get the"
X Link 2024-08-25T17:55Z [----] followers, 22.9K engagements
"In honor of our fallen brothers and sisters from [--] August. Navy Hospital Corpsman Max Soviak [--] of Berlin Heights Ohio. USMC LCpl Kareem Nikoui [--] of Norco California. USMC LCpl David Lee Espinoza [--] of Laredo Texas. USMC LCpl Rylee McCollum [--] of Jackson Wyoming. USMC LCpl Jared Schmitz [--] of Wentzville Missouri. USMC Cpl Hunter Lopez [--] of Riverside California. USMC SSgt Taylor Hoover [--] of Midvale Utah. USMC Cpl Daegan William-Tyeler Page [--] of Red Oak Iowa. USMC Cpl Humberto Sanchez [--] of Logansport Indiana. USMC Sgt Johanny Rosario [--] of Lawrence Massachusetts. US Army SSG Ryan Knauss"
X Link 2024-08-26T12:25Z [----] followers, 210.2K engagements
"LCpl Nathan Chandler a Logan Ohio native with 1st Battalion 9th Marines hunkers down behind a compound wall during a firefight near the Bari Gul Bazaar Nad Ali District Helmand province Afghanistan Dec. [--] 2013"
X Link 2024-09-01T00:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Hard Brad shot"
X Link 2024-09-05T13:50Z [----] followers, 87.9K engagements
"Something about this shot just goes hard. - I found this picture a few weeks ago along with the context and another angle that included a SAW gunner on overwatch but I couldnt find it again. If you know the details let me know"
X Link 2024-09-06T02:38Z [----] followers, 79.6K engagements
"Members of Eagle Company 2-2 Cavalry Regiment patrol in the Hadar neighborhood. March [--] [----] in Baghdad Iraq"
X Link 2024-09-07T21:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The PLAs worst nightmare: two corn fed mustachioed Machine Gunners both named David and both Georgians and with shit eating grins"
X Link 2024-09-10T22:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Soldiers with the 101st Airborne pose for a picture in front of the main terminal of the Saddam International Airport after the Army took control of the Saddam International Airport on April [--] [----] . Jack Gruber USA TODAY"
X Link 2024-09-13T00:05Z [----] followers, 15K engagements
"Marines with Echo Company 2nd Battalion 8th Marines move into position while under fire on July [--] [----] in Mian Poshteh Afghanistan. Photo by Joe Raedle"
X Link 2024-09-14T19:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"H-Hour [----]. Long jets of red flame mixed with thick black smoke rushed out of the muzzles of the huge battleships 16-inch guns with a noise like a thunderclap. The giant shells tore through the air toward the island Peleliu roaring like locomotives. - We waited a seeming eternity for the signal to start toward the beach. The suspense was almost more than I could bear. Waiting is a major part of war but I never experienced any more supremely agonizing suspense than the excruciating torture of those moments before we received the signal to begin the assault on Peleliu. I broke out in a cold"
X Link 2024-09-15T13:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"2 Para humping The General in Afghanistan [----]. 🟦 - Another one for the photos that go hard list"
X Link 2024-09-17T18:58Z [----] followers, 11K engagements
"Two Currahees of Company A 1st Battalion 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment 101st Airborne Division keep a look out and belt ammo for their .30 caliber M1919A6 Browning. Theyre joined by some curious bystanders during Operation Market Garden September [----] The Netherlands. Likely Eindhoven area late September [----]. The Soldier on the left Pvt. Harold C. Boye from Audubon Iowa was killed in action on October 6th [----] at Opheusden. He was awarded the Silver Star. He was just [--] years old. - Colorized by @colourisedpieceofjake"
X Link 2024-09-19T14:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Doc on the turret outside Camp Phoenix in [----]. Its amazing seeing how people react to seeing that barrel :) - @doc_endy A Troop 1/172 Cavalry Green Mountain Boys"
X Link 2024-09-20T17:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#SAWsaturdaya Marine with BLT 1/2 24th MEU(SOC) kicks in a door while conducting a cordon and search mission in Jurf as Sakhr Babil province Iraq during Operation Plymouth Rock on December [--] [----]. U.S. Marine Corps official photo by Lance Corporal Zachary R. Frank"
X Link 2024-09-21T15:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"A Marine from 1/7 Charley stands guard next to a pile of Tabuk 7.62mm assault rifles. Al Kut Iraq 2003"
X Link 2024-09-23T18:57Z [----] followers, 14.1K engagements
"Inveniam viam aut faciam - @ethanburch 1/6 Guns ♦"
X Link 2024-09-24T21:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Get That Bloody Gun Up - Repost from @timoor198 [--] Para prepare to set out from FOB Gibraltar 9th July [----] on another patrol. The base was subject to relentless Taliban attacks that summer and statistically [--] in [--] Paras would be wounded or killed"
X Link 2024-09-25T02:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Weapons Squad 1st Platoon C Company 1st Battalion 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment pose for a photo before patrolling Rusafa Baghdad Iraq February [--] 2008"
X Link 2024-09-25T22:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"A Marine from Bravo Company 1st Battalion 2nd Marines engages enemy insurgents in Jurf as Sakhr Iraq on December [--] [----] in support of Operation Plymouth Rock. U.S. Marine Corps official photo by Lance Corporal Zachary R. Frank"
X Link 2024-09-28T21:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Still feels bad man - Audio is from Jocko Podcast #312 with CWO3 Mike Durant pilot of Super 6-4. The clip talks about Master Sergeant Gary Gordon and Sergeant First Class Randy Shughart who would each receive the Medal of Honor posthumously for their actions on October 3rd [----] in Mogadishu"
X Link 2024-10-03T13:36Z [----] followers, 16.5K engagements
"Soldiers of Company B 2nd Battalion 14th Infantry Regiment watch helicopter activity over Mogadishu Oct. [--] [----]. Later the same day and throughout the night the battalions A and C Companies were part of a rescue convoy assembled for nearly [---] Rangers who had become trapped in the city after two Black Hawks were shot down. Army photo"
X Link 2024-10-03T23:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"C Squadron 1st SFOD-D operators on one of C Co 1/87s trucks after making it through what would become known as the Mogadishu Mile. [--] October 1993"
X Link 2024-10-04T03:43Z [----] followers, 18K engagements
"Marine Lance Corporal Steve Saari from Duluth Minnesota of Echo Company 2nd Battalion 7th Marines sets up a defensive position during a security patrol May [--] [----] in the area known as Zaidon in the Al Anbar province near Fallujah Iraq"
X Link 2024-10-05T15:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"A Marine from 1/6 uses binoculars to scan a mountain where Taliban snipers are entrenched near the village of Siah Chub Kalay Afghanistan during Operation Asbury Park. June [----]. - I bring it up every time but this period in Afghanistan was largely overshadowed by Iraq obviously"
X Link 2024-10-06T02:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt Marquez A. Moreno assigned to Police Adviser Team Delaram returns from a patrol in Delaram Helmand province Afghanistan May [--] 2013"
X Link 2024-10-08T02:25Z [----] followers, 11.5K engagements
"A proudly displayed captured North Korean flag taken in the fighting for Seoul South Korea on October [--] [----]. Left to right (front row) are: Sgt Russelll Evans SSgt Jack A. Fichter and PFC Wendel B. Champeon behind them is Pharmacists Mate third class John D. Epperson. - Colorized by @colour_history"
X Link 2024-10-10T17:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Marine Private First Class Luther Lee Leguire raises the U.S. flag at the American Consulate in Seoul Korea while fighting for the city raged around the compound. September [--] [----]. During heavy fighting for the capture of the city of Seoul Korea Leguire had one of his many Marine claims to fame as he climbed atop the American Consulate under sniper fire where he removed the North Korean flag and replaced it with the United States flag. I just happened to go on the roof to do it Leguire said. It wasnt a set posed ceremony. We were in combat and there was a sniper shooting at me but apparently"
X Link 2024-10-11T01:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#SAWsaturdayMarines with 2nd Battalion 8th Marine Regiment and Afghan soldiers hold security during movement in order to establish a patrol base in the Garmsir district of Helmand province Afghanistan October [--] [----]. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt Pete Thibodeau/Released)"
X Link 2024-10-13T00:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"3rd Platoon Alpha Company 2-8 IN Soldiers SPC Patrick Trujillo [--] of Reserve NM left and SPC Michael Newsom [--] of Bakersfield CA prepare to depart the platoons location near the Muqdadiya police station for a dismounted patrol through the market area of Muqdadiya on October [--] [----]. The rest of the company is deployed at FOB Normandy a former Iraqi mechanized military base in Muqdadiya Iraq"
X Link 2024-10-14T23:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"LCpl Thomas Hanney a Nanuet NY native and Machine Gunner with 1st Battalion 9th Marines hauls his M240 machine gun during an operation near the Bari Gul Bazaar Nad Ali District Helmand province Afghanistan December [--] 2013"
X Link 2024-10-16T02:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"An American Soldier keeps a constant reminder of his girlfriend back home with his helmet band filled with her photographs. Cu Chi May 1968"
X Link 2024-10-18T00:17Z 10K followers, [----] engagements
"SGT Leonard Zajas 2nd Ranger Bn of Detroit MI cleans his Browning Automatic Rifle during a rest period after several days hard fighting in Germany. December 1944"
X Link 2024-10-19T13:36Z 10K followers, [----] engagements
"#SundayGunday3/6 India Cowboy Guns Section Leader (Cpl England) received the Iroquois Axe for exceptional work during the MEU work up. - Rah"
X Link 2024-10-20T21:52Z 10K followers, [----] engagements
"#240Tuesdaycouldnt find context for this photo but its definitely 101st probably Iraq [----] or [----]. If you know comment below. I also used an app on my phone to color it which makes it look like they got the [---] from the US Navy"
X Link 2024-10-22T20:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The President of the United States of America in the name of Congress takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Sergeant John Manila John Basilone United States Marine Corps for extraordinary heroism and conspicuous gallantry in action against enemy Japanese forces above and beyond the call of duty while serving with the First Battalion Seventh Marines First Marine Division in the Lunga Area. Guadalcanal Solomon Islands on the night of [--] - [--] October [----]. - While the enemy was hammering at the Marines defensive positions Sergeant Basilone in charge of two sections of heavy"
X Link 2024-10-24T13:35Z 10K followers, [----] engagements
"82nd Airborne Division Paratroopers during the Invasion of Grenada codenamed Operation Urgent Fury October [--] [----] in St Georges Grenada. - The invasion began on October [--] [----] and was the first major military action by the United States since the end of the Vietnam War"
X Link 2024-10-25T16:05Z 10K followers, [----] engagements
"US Marines with the 1st Battalion 7th Marine Regiment load onto a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter after a three day mission July [--] [----] in Gereshk Helmand province Afghanistan"
X Link 2024-10-30T04:05Z 10K followers, [----] engagements
"A couple of my favorite photos to post on Halloween. - About this time [--] years ago I was part of a platoon conducting battlefield shaping operations for the second battle of Fallujah. I have no clue how but this mask turned up and I had a little Halloween photo op with the disposable camera I carried in my cargo pocket. That night I disassembled removed and destroyed an IED that was on a bridge that would become the primary medevac route during the battle. Coincidentally I blew the mortars up in a fighting position that my younger brother had dug when he was there earlier in the year"
X Link 2024-11-01T02:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Another one of my Halloween favorites. - This is Dawud Sabater 3/1 Lima 3rd Plt in Fallujah November [----]. - Good night boys. Happy Halloween. 🎃"
X Link 2024-11-01T03:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#FiftyCalFriday3/1 Kilo SPMAGTF Baghdad Iraq [----] - Adrian Jimenez"
X Link 2024-11-02T02:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#SAWsaturday@muttonchoppers 3/2 Lima Company Police Embedded Team [--] Nowzad Helmand province Afghanistan 2011"
X Link 2024-11-02T14:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"LCpl Brandon Pearson in Bridgeport. Brandon was KIA with 3/5 Lima November [--] [----] in Sangin Afghanistan"
X Link 2024-11-02T23:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#SundayGunday.Cpl Anthony Casamento D Co 1/5 was presented the Medal of Honor by President Jimmy Carter on September [--] [----] in a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden [--] years after Cpl Casamentos heroism on Guadalcanal [--] November [----]. - For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving with Company D First Battalion Fifth Marines First Marine Division on Guadalcanal British Solomon Islands in action against the enemy Japanese forces on November [--] [----]. Serving as a leader of a machine gun section Corporal Casamento directed"
X Link 2024-11-03T20:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Happy Birthday to Eugene Sledge. Born this day in [----]. - Photo enhanced by @dearmomimdead"
X Link 2024-11-04T15:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Happy Birthday to Hector Cafferata. Born this day in [----]. - The President of the United States of America in the name of Congress takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Private Hector Albert Cafferata Jr. United States Marine Corps Reserve for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty on [--] November [----] while serving as a rifleman with Company F Second Battalion Seventh Marines FIRST Marine Division (Reinforced) in action against enemy aggressor forces on Toktong Pass near the Chosin Reservoir North Korea. - When all the"
X Link 2024-11-05T00:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"A US Soldier from 3-187 Rakkasans 101st Airborne Division sits in front of a destroyed building inside a captured Republican Guard compound following an overnight battle [--] April [----] in the area near Baghdad international Airport southwest of the capital. - The Solder in the photo appears to be Brandon Wallace. When I looked him up I found that Brandon passed away on September [--] [----]. He was a veteran of both Afghanistan and Iraq. Rest Easy Brother. ⛩"
X Link 2024-11-05T04:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Soldiers assigned to B Company 1st Battalion 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment conduct a foot patrol through Nowabab Afghanistan [--] October 2004"
X Link 2024-11-06T23:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"3/5 Kilo Machine Gun Section in the staging area on the outskirts of Fallujah November [--] [----] prepping for the attack into the city the next day. - Submitted to @3rdbattalion5thmarineshistory by then Sgt Green (far right) now retired Captain Green @mwgreen1"
X Link 2024-11-07T00:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"At [----] the sky lit up on the eastern horizon and a distant rumble rolled in from Camp Fallujah. A white phosphorus smoke barrage shrouded the entire northern edge of the city. More 155mm howitzer rounds came screaming in like freight trains exploding on enemy targets and shaking the ground a mile from their point of impact. Then at last the main attack was launched with several coordinated breaching operations at key points along the railroad tracks. - General Natonski had planned to throw the enemy off balance by conducting a pair of deep and rapid mechanized-armor thrusts into the city."
X Link 2024-11-07T22:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"1/8 Bravo 3rd Platoon right before the assault in Fallujah. - Anthony Silva - [--] years later Im almost [--] and I look at the faces of guys from my generation and I dont know why but it just struck me how young we were. Just kids fighting wars for old men. So it goes"
X Link 2024-11-09T16:29Z [----] followers, 55K engagements
"A Soldier from the 1st Infantry Divisions 2nd Battalion-2nd Regiment fires his squad automatic weapon from the doorway of a house during heavy fighting November [--] [----] in Fallujah Iraq"
X Link 2024-11-09T22:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Its more than a branch; its a cult its a mindset its a way of life its a culture its a family its about the ones that came before its about your brothers its about the ones that will come after its hard to put into words. Uphold the legacy. - One of the few pictures I have from my time in. Please Please Please take more pictures. - Happy Birthday Marines. Semper Fidelis. - And to the cult within the cult Guns Up I love you all"
X Link 2024-11-11T05:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Specialist Marcos Chavez from Los Angeles CA of the 2nd Battalion 2nd Infantry Regiment 1st Infantry Division posted atop a captured house on November [--] [----] on the frontline of the second battle for Fallujah"
X Link 2024-11-13T01:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A Machine Gunner from Lima Company 3rd Battalion 6th Marines outside the city of Karabilah during the sixth day of Operation Steel Curtain on Thursday November [--] [----]. - Photo by Lucian Read"
X Link 2024-11-13T03:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Corporal R.J. Mitchell and his fellow Marines of 3/1 Kilo before charging into the Hell House to rescue the first two waves of Marines who were trapped and mostly wounded inside. November [--] [----]. Photo by Lucian Read"
X Link 2024-11-13T21:12Z [----] followers, 12.2K engagements
"#WeaponsWednesday3/5 Thumper Gun [--] hangin and bangin - @christian.betzsold"
X Link 2024-11-14T02:12Z [----] followers, 27.7K engagements
"Welcome to the WEZ motherfucker"
X Link 2024-11-14T05:40Z [----] followers, 68.1K engagements
"Soldiers of 2-2 IN kick in a gate on the first day of the Second Battle of Fallujah"
X Link 2024-11-16T18:26Z [----] followers, 10.7K engagements
"Royal Marines from [--] Cdo pause in a ditch whilst on patrol in Afghanistan during cycle two of Operation Aabi Toorah. [----] I believe"
X Link 2024-11-17T02:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Fallujah SAW dump. - I think that Cpl Tim Milholin 1st LAR in [--] of the [--] photos"
X Link 2024-11-17T05:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"LCpl Pham a Machine Gunner from Kilo 3/5 humps the gun through the streets of Fallujah November [--] [----]. - Photo by Patrick Baz. - You know I have to post this one every year"
X Link 2024-11-18T04:55Z [----] followers, 20.6K engagements
"Have to throw this one up again. - @3_5_getsome making the A4 look like an M4"
X Link 2024-11-19T04:39Z [----] followers, 16.1K engagements
"2 Rifles Machine Gun Platoon in Kenya - @bigmeeeerch"
X Link 2024-11-19T16:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The other month I posted hard Brad shots (whos Brad and whys he hard) anyway today Im posting hard LAV shots so send them in - At a base in Kandahar Afghanistan U.S. Marines on a LAV-25 prepare to go on patrol as an AH-1W SuperCobra helicopter flies overhead. [--] December 2001"
X Link 2024-11-19T17:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Some LAV shots from @fop_fields: - Sunset photo: Brown [--] C Co 1stLAR Aug [----] after destroying enemy VBIED factory western Al Anbar desert. 2nd photo: White [--] during resupply Feb [----] Sinjar. Last photo: Red [--] providing over watch on the Euphrates west of Rahwah summer 2007"
X Link 2024-11-19T19:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I wasnt LAR is this bad"
X Link 2024-11-20T01:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This picture man. - Overlooking the Euphrates river in Rawah Iraq TCP [--]. September [----]. @native_0313 2D LAR A Co. 3rd PLT. (No fucking Shit 🤘)"
X Link 2024-11-20T04:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Iconic LAV photo. - US Marines of 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance (LAR) company as part of 1st Battalion 3rd Marines move down a street as they clear houses on November [--] [----] in Fallujah Iraq. - Got a ton of LAV pictures today a lot I didnt even get to yet so well do it again soon"
X Link 2024-11-20T05:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Within a span of [--] minutes the Amtracs had landed over [----] Marines on Betios north shore but the follow on waves in the landing craft could not clear the reef due to a neap tide. - The Amtracs ferried Marines from the landing craft at the reef to the beach but more and more Amtracs were being knocked out stalled sunk or just ran out of fuel so after about [----] on D-Day follow on waves of men had to wade in 500-1000yds from reef. - 3/2 on Red Beach [--] was especially hard hit King and Item Companies both lost half their men in the first two hours and Maj Ryans L Co didnt fair much better"
X Link 2024-11-21T01:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"1/8 (pictured) had been wallowing in their landing craft the entire first day practically forgotten about. But at the end of the first day someone realized they were there and at the beginning of the second day of battle they were called ashore. They were ordered to land close to the pier but that last part wasnt relayed and they came in directly to Red Beach [--] where the Japanese still controlled the approaches. - No one who witnessed the Eighth Marines bloodbath will ever forget it. - William Rogal A/1/2 - One of the fresh battalions is coming in. Its Higgins boats are being hit before they"
X Link 2024-11-21T22:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Hit the beach. Follow Me. Uphold the legacy"
X Link 2024-11-22T05:18Z [----] followers, 15.1K engagements
"Tarawa D+2 - It looks as though the Marines are winning on this blood-soaked bomb-hammered stinking little abattoir of an island. - Keith Wheeler of the Chicago Daily News the morning of [--] November [----]. - Col Red Mike Edson 2nd Marine Divisions Chief of Staff who came ashore the night before to take some pressure off of Shoup so he could control his RCT2 ordered 1/6 to attack east to link up with 1/2 and 2/2. Elements of 1/2 along with some stragglers from 2/2 had pushed across the airfield and had become isolated in a pocket there. - 1/8 was to attack west along the north beach to"
X Link 2024-11-22T13:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#FiftyCalFridaywhere you at Platoon Sergeants - The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Platoon Sergeant Arnold N. Stensland United States Marine Corps for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity while serving with Company B First Battalion Second Marines Second Marine Division during action against enemy Japanese forces at Tarawa Gilbert Islands on [--] November [----]. - With several enemy machine guns still in operation to the left of his beachhead defense line and firing relentlessly on or troops as they waded ashore Platoon Sergeant"
X Link 2024-11-22T17:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The price. - Uphold the legacy and never forget the ones who came before us"
X Link 2024-11-23T23:41Z [----] followers, 17.3K engagements
"@TRHLofficial"
X Link 2024-11-25T15:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Stepping back into the battlefield U.S. Marines of the Light Armored Reconnaissance (LAR) company of 1st Battalion 3rd Marines clear houses at the site where four insurgents staged a bloody counter-attack killing one American and wounding many others November [--] [----] in Fallujah Iraq"
X Link 2024-11-25T20:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"2nd LAR Charlie Co Afghanistan [----] - @awcoville"
X Link 2024-11-27T05:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Enjoy yourselves make room for the next man pogey bait and cigarettes outside WASH YOUR MESS GEAR. - Members of a rifle team of the Second Battalion Fifth Marine Regiment dig in at Thanksgiving dinner in a mess hall near Chosin Reservoir North Korea Nov. [--] [----]. From left are: Cpl. James Balog Pfc. Richard Dulac and Nunzio Tonderella. On the blackboard pogey bait refers to treats such as candy and junk food. - AP - Thanksgiving [----] fell on November 23rd. A few days later (tonight) the Chinese would be descending on their positions from the frozen ridges around Chosin and these Marines"
X Link 2024-11-27T22:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Flares lit up the sky bugles sounded whistles blew and cymbals crashed as waves of mustard clad soldiers swarmed over the hills like pissed off ants - It was around [----] on the evening of [--] November [----] and that night it had dropped down to 20* below. Around this time the first waves of several Chinese DIVISIONS crashed into Marine lines to the west of Chosin Reservoir and Army lines to the east of the reservoir. - 5th and 7th(-) Marines were positioned around a collection of shacks called Yudam-ni. C/1/7 minus a platoon was on Hill [----] two miles to the south and F/2/7 reinforced with a"
X Link 2024-11-28T03:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"East of Chosin pt2 - Airstrikes called in by Stamford (USMC FAC attached to RCT31) and the men of 1/32 together inflicted heavy casualties upon the CCF attackers but the battalion suffered more than [---] casualties. Two miles south the situation was similar. The CCF struck 3/31 Infantry and two batteries of the 57th Field Artillery overrunning much of the perimeter and killing or wounding most of the senior officers and noncommissioned officers. The 31sts medical company was wiped out as well. Confused fighting went on through the night with the Chinese withdrawing at dawn for fear of American"
X Link 2024-12-01T00:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The President of the United States of America under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved July [--] [----] takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Corporal James H. Godfrey United States Army for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy of the United Nations while serving as a gunner with a 75-mm. recoilless rifle squad which was part of Company D 1st Battalion 32d Infantry Regiment 7th Infantry Division. - Corporal Godfrey distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism in action against enemy aggressor forces near"
X Link 2024-12-01T21:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"East of Chosin pt3 - At midnight on November [--] the CCF 80th Division attacked Task Force MacLean once again. The fighting inside both perimeters1/32 and 3/31was savage and hand to hand. At [--] am MacLean still with Faith inside the 1/32 perimeter ordered the battalion to withdraw south in the darkness to 3/31s perimeter in a temporary measure to consolidate forces. Once 2/31 arrived the next day MacLean fully expected to attack north as Almond had ordered. At dawn however when the 1/32 column reached high ground overlooking 3/31s perimeter MacLean and Faith were stunned to find the perimeter"
X Link 2024-12-02T03:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"East of Chosin pt4 - Faiths exhausted troops got a respite on the night of November [--]. Chinese probing attacks and attempts to infiltrate the Pungyuri Inlet perimeter continued throughout the night but no general coordinated attacks were launched. The CCF may have been pillaging Faiths abandoned perimeter and may have been waiting for reinforcements. - The Marines could supply Faith with air support but other than that they would have to fight their way back to Hagaru-ri on their own. The 2/31 would not arrive. To make Task Force Faiths situation even more desperate the 31st CP the 31st Tank"
X Link 2024-12-02T19:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@RaiderCognitive If only they cared. They couldnt even congratulate the incoming vice president"
X Link 2024-12-03T11:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#FiftyCalFridaycongrats to our boy @jordanl0331 on EASing today He bounced back from getting busted down for a video I posted a couple years back and picked up Corporal (2nd Award) before getting out. - These are from when he was with 3/1 Kilo Guns in Baghdad Iraq circa [----]. - Good luck on the outside buddy"
X Link 2024-12-06T23:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Air raid Pearl Harbor. This is NO drill"
X Link 2024-12-07T16:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Help us wish a Happy 100th Birthday to World War II Machine Gunner Lawrence Sid Benoit - Mr. Lawrence Sid Benolt was born Dec [--] [----]. He was born and raised in Gardner MA by his mother Viola Batt Benoit and his grandfather Joe Batt who he called a real gentleman. At the age of [--] he enlisted in the Marines during WWII joining the 21st Marines 3rd Division B (August [--] 1942). He operated the water cooled .30 caliber machine gun and was injured by a grenade in a fox hole earning him a Purple Heart. - After the war on June [--] [----] he married the love of his life Dean Bernard They lived in"
X Link 2024-12-08T17:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A couple shots from @torontoscottishregiments recent C16/M2 range. Video to follow. - 📸: Cpl Dominic Sobotka. - Send in your grenade launcher pictures and videos"
X Link 2024-12-09T22:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Boys are we back Im thinking were back. - This Marine would have been the PLAs worst nightmare but you busted him down for this video and now he EASd. Do you want meat eaters or soy boys You decide"
X Link 2024-12-10T17:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#240Tuesday3/2 Weapons FOB [----] Helmand [----] - @ilovejobs24"
X Link 2024-12-10T23:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#FiftyCalFridayfrom the Cloverleaf. Whos been there And who remembers this armor - @bankieklanprachar CLB-8 MP Fallujah [----]. - Send in your .50 pictures today"
X Link 2024-12-13T17:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"McSAWsaturday"
X Link 2024-12-14T20:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"On [--] December [----] the German counter offensive which would become known as The Battle of the Bulge began. - In the early morning hours before dawn [--] German divisions attacked the Allied lines in the Ardennes. This created a deep bulge in the defensive lines as the Germans intended to split the Allied forces in two giving way to the name Battle of the Bulge. - The battle proved to be the costliest ever fought by the U.S. Army which suffered over [------] casualties. - Freezing rain thick fog deep snow drifts and record-breaking low temperatures brutalized the American troops. More than 15000"
X Link 2024-12-16T16:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I still have a pile of LAV shots to post. Heres a good one. - @the.bearded.caveman 2nd LAR in Iraq circa 2006-2007"
X Link 2024-12-17T23:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#ThrowBackThursdayone of my annual Christmas time posts. Heres some of 1/2 Alpha Guns sometime around Christmas [----]. FOB Iskan Iskandariyah Iraq. - Id love to share some of your Christmas photos from over the years. So feel free to send them in and Ill post them"
X Link 2024-12-20T03:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#SAWsaturdaytis the seasonto share this picture of my buddy @jt_evans187 3-187 dressed up like Santa SAWs in Afghanistan - Send in your Christmas photos"
X Link 2024-12-21T14:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Merry Christmas from Camp Korean Village Iraq [----] - @jhotujec1 1st LAR - Send in your Christmas photos from over the years"
X Link 2024-12-21T19:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@jockowillink @USMC Rah"
X Link 2024-12-21T19:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Merry Christmas from Syria. Taken on Christmas Day [----]. - Keep sending in your Christmas photos from over the years and Ill put them up between now and Christmas ☠♠@guns_____up @tubes_____up @ass______up @tows_____up @maneuver_____up @corpsman___up @larsoc_____up @snipers___up @goose_____up @laad__up @enablers____up @comms_____up @veterans______up"
X Link 2024-12-22T03:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Merry Christmas from Baghdad 2021"
X Link 2024-12-23T15:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Christmas Eve [----] Helmand Province Afghanistan Nowa District PB Spotswood. - Zach Tutt 1/3 CAAT"
X Link 2024-12-24T00:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Merry Christmas from Ramadi Iraq Qatana District Building [--] [----]. - @inshore_angler0311 2/4 Fox"
X Link 2024-12-24T14:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Christmas Eve Jordan [----]. - @thedindino 3/7 Kilo"
X Link 2024-12-24T20:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Christmas Dinner with the ANA. Garmsir [----]. - @chrisrico24 3/3 81s"
X Link 2024-12-24T22:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Merry Christmas from South Korea [----] - @jeff.cohen.7777 1/8 Alpha Weapons Platoon"
X Link 2024-12-25T03:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Merry Christmas from @bradyking and the boys 2nd PLT BLACKSHEEP 1-41IN 4ID and Snipers / Scout PREDATOR Plt for the claymore pic. - Still up playing Santa Claus so I might have at least one more to post tonight. Thanks to everyone that shared their Christmas photos with me - Merry Christmas"
X Link 2024-12-25T06:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Merry Christmas from Iraq [----] - @alphaamericanfirearms 1/4 Alpha Company"
X Link 2024-12-25T07:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Christmas Day [----]. IVO Iskandariyah Iraq. - I dont share too much about myself but I do like to put this up every year for perspective I guess. This day is burned into my memory Im not sure why although I dont think about it as much anymore. But anyway this wasnt my first Christmas away from home. My first Christmas away from home was on Parris Island but if I think about it couldnt tell you anything about it. - Christmas [----] we were tasked with patrolling [--] hours on [--] hours off because an attack was imminent since it was Christmas. It rained all day. A cold steady soaking rain the kind"
X Link 2024-12-25T14:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe and his staff gathered inside Bastognes Heintz Barracks for Christmas dinner December 25th [----]. This military barracks served as the Division Main Command Post during the siege of Bastogne Belgium during WWII. The facility is now a museum known as the Nuts Cave. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army)"
X Link 2024-12-27T01:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"FOB Edinburgh Helmand Province Afghanistan [----] - @jerryandthebeans - I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas"
X Link 2024-12-27T03:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"3/2 India Evil Guns"
X Link 2024-12-29T17:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Most have heard by now that 1st Battalion 4th Marines another storied Infantry battalion is disbanding and having its lineage which is a story in and of itself abandoned. Please excuse my old man yells at cloud moment I just think unit history lineage and legacy is a big deal. Moving on: part of the battalion will be absorbed into other Victor units and the rest into the 12th Littoral Combat Team. The battalion extended an invitation to all who can attend for a deactivation ceremony details below. If also like to share your photos from your time in 1/4 over the next few days/weeks so send"
X Link 2024-12-30T05:17Z [----] followers, 15.9K engagements
"#Mk19Monday1st Infantry Division FOB Danger Tikrit Iraq [----]. - @kevinknappy"
X Link 2024-12-30T15:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Hardest video of 2024"
X Link 2025-01-01T04:25Z [----] followers, 554.7K engagements
"@eimisweatrag Cool dont care"
X Link 2025-01-01T07:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Happy 1/1 Day boys. - Heres 1/1 No Love 81s firing on Taliban fighters July 28th [----]. - James Monnig was a squad leader at the time and took this footage he sadly passed away in [----]. To quote a guy in his squad he was a Mountain of a man - @bobophett - Send in your 1/1 pictures and videos today"
X Link 2025-01-01T17:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Remembering Lance Corporal Brian Parrello today. - Today marks one of the hardest of the year for members of Small Craft Company. LCpl Brian Parrello was killed [--] years ago today during an ambush in Haditha Iraq. Every year those who can gather with his family in remembrance. West Milford NJ FD company [--] also dedicated Engineer [--] to Brian in [----] as it was still being built. - Rest Easy Marine"
X Link 2025-01-02T04:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Happy 1/2 Day from Bravo Company - 1st pic is 1/2 B Co NCOs paying their respects at Gunny Basilones grave 2nd pic is B Co Hunter Killer Plt at ITX (goes hard) 3rd pic is B Co 1st Plt in Norway - @james_coonster - Keep sending in your 1/2 pictures The Instagram post with the most likes wins a 1/2 flag. Same goes for 1/1 yesterday and every other battalion coming up"
X Link 2025-01-02T19:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Happy 1/2 Day from Palehorse Charlie - Charlie 1st platoon -Reaper 💀 Charlie Company V1/2 Palehorse - Welcum To The Show from the past year and a half. - @garrettrutan"
X Link 2025-01-02T22:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"On 1/2 Day we remember Sgt Donald J. Lamar II 1/2 Scout Sniper Platoon KIA May [--] [----] IVO Musa Qala Helmand Province. He would be posthumously awarded the Bronze Star with V. - Rest Easy Marine. And thank you @sam_9lives for sharing this photo with me. - Whoever does not have the stomach for this fight let him depart. Give him money to speed his departure since we wish not to die in that mans company. Whoever lives past today and comes home safely will rouse himself every year on this day show his neighbor his scars and tell embellished stories of all their great feats of battle. The stories"
X Link 2025-01-03T05:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Happy 1/3 Day from Alpha Weapons - Pic: 1/3 Alpha Weapons Christmas [----] Karma Iraq. - Video: Hasty brief for next morning Karma Iraq [----]. - @davidh0331"
X Link 2025-01-04T00:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Happy 1/5 Day from Apache - 1: Happy 1/5 day heres Apache company weapons platoon guns section genocide guns camp mujuk South Korea during our deployment on the 15th MEU after one of our guys promotion to Cpl after a range 2: Apache company 3rd platoon plus attachments 3: Apache company weapons platoon - @jaredmayer34"
X Link 2025-01-05T21:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"1/5 WPNS Co Thumper 81s â™ . UAE [----] - Die or Make Peace - @bandman_pm"
X Link 2025-01-05T23:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@DocStrangelove2 What a time to be alive Watching Amos single-handedly destroy the Marine Corps was wild"
X Link 2025-01-06T01:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Happy 1/5 Day from Cherokee - Some 1/5 C Co pics for 1/5 day - @tm_goose"
X Link 2025-01-06T02:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Happy 1/5 Day - 1/5 CAAT Crazyhorse beach defense. These are the boys from the video. - @dukefitch"
X Link 2025-01-06T04:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"On this 1/5 Day we remember the [--] Marines of 1/5 who were killed in action on their deployment to Sangin in [----]. - LCpl Jackson LCpl Freeman LCpl OBrien LCpl McDaniels LCpl OConnor Cpl Verbeek Cpl Singh GySgt Pate Jr. LCpl Farias Sgt Frokjer Cpl Schneider LCpl Mendez-Hernandez LCpl Greniger Sgt Patron Sgt Robinson Sgt Gonzales Jr. Cpl Dutcher - In the first photo by John Gastaldo Cpl Cody Elliott holds the dog tags of LCpl Joshua McDaniels. When McDaniels was hit by an IED Elliott running to his aid tripped a secondary. - In the last two photos is a uniform put together by @undeadkustoms."
X Link 2025-01-06T05:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Happy 1/6 Day from 1/6 CAAT Red - 1/6 CAAT RED Crazyhorse in Latvia on the MEU the other year. - @david_kharatishvili"
X Link 2025-01-06T23:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"On this 1/6 Day Id like to remember these two Marines of 1/6 Cold Steel Charlie 2nd Platoon killed in action on January 24th [----] IVO Marjah Afghanistan. - Sergeant Daniel Angus LCpl Zachary Smith - On the morning of January 24th their squad found themselves in an ambush while on a probing mission around Marjah before the push. Enemy fighters opened up on the squad from multiple positions with PKMs and small arms. Anticipating the Marines reaction the enemy set up explosives inside a nearby compound. Upon initial contact the Marines ran to this compound and LCpl Smith was wounded by an IED."
X Link 2025-01-07T05:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Happy 1/7 Day - 1/7 Animal Company 3rd Platoon Iraq [----]. - @daddy_roeck"
X Link 2025-01-07T20:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Happy 1/7 Day - 1/7 Dog company [----] Sangin. First pic after a fire fight and second pic passing out beanie babies on a quick stop on a patrol. - @m3_ghst_"
X Link 2025-01-07T22:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"1/7 Alpha on the push to Baghdad [----] - Eddie Ramirez"
X Link 2025-01-08T00:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Happy 1/8 Day - 1/8 81s Platoon 1st Section TRAP team on the 24th MEU in Saudi Arabia. Approximately [--] weeks before HKIA evac [----]. - @spackjitler"
X Link 2025-01-08T19:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Happy 1/8 Day from 1/8 Bravo 3rd Platoon - From [----] in Fallujah to their [----] reunion - Anthony Silva"
X Link 2025-01-08T23:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Happy 1/9 Day - 1/9 Bravo 1st Plt Afghanistan 2013-14. Sponsored by Jack Daniels - @acollins58"
X Link 2025-01-09T19:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Happy 1/9 Day - [--]. 1/9 A Co 24th MEU in Aqaba Jordan [----] [--]. 1/9 A Co 1st Platoon 3rd Squad COP Segdewick Iraq [----] - @thedon7886"
X Link 2025-01-09T22:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"1/9 CAAT in Afghanistan 2013-2014 - @crim_della and crew thankfully here to talk about it"
X Link 2025-01-09T23:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"On this 1/9 Day Id like you to remember the Marines and Corpsmen of 1/9 lost during Operation Buffalo in July [----]. If youre unfamiliar I encourage you to look it up. - PFC Maurice Karl Mock [--]. LCpl Dee Randall Jarvis [--]. LCpl Steven Franklin Mathias [--]. Cpl. Benny Frank Nimox [--]. HM Jonathan Ansel Sawyer [--]. Pvt. Marshall George Steffans [--]. Pvt. Steven James Powers [--]. PFC James Glendale McCoy [--]. PFC Anthony Maraczi [--]. PFC ichael Lawrence Beasley [--]. PFC Paul Joseph Golembski [--]. PFC George Coutrakis [--]. PFC Bruce Allen Yoder [--]. LCpl Gary Arthur Holsclaw [--]. LCpl Walter H. Brooks Jr 19."
X Link 2025-01-10T05:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#FiftyCalFridayin honor of 1/4 heres CAAT from a couple years back - @hes91six"
X Link 2025-01-10T22:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#FiftyCalFridayfrom the Ghillie Gunner himself @nikolaustinsley 1/5 CAATGuns Up"
X Link 2025-01-11T00:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Command from Alpha Raiders 1/4 during the Battle of Najaf Iraq [----]. R to L is CoGySgt R. Synovec Capt B Sotire and 1stSgt R Young -Alpha Raiders - @metalheadvet Rah"
X Link 2025-01-11T18:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#SAWsaturdayLCpl Nathan Chandler a Logan Ohio native with 1st Battalion 9th Marines hunkers down behind a compound wall during a firefight near the Bari Gul Bazaar Nad Ali District Helmand province Afghanistan December [--] 2013"
X Link 2025-01-11T21:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#SundayGundaysome of 1/8 Aztec Gunz in Cyprus - @mcleishbraden"
X Link 2025-01-12T17:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"1/4 CAAT [--] too many pictures just to choose one I agree - @nakadaisawesome"
X Link 2025-01-13T23:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"203 Supremacy - Marine Cpl James K. Peters stands in an opium poppy field while performing a foot patrol at Sangin Afghanistan May [--] [----]. Peters and his fellow Marines assigned to Weapons Company 3rd Battalion 4th Marine Regiment Regimental Combat Team [--] are familiarizing the Battalion Commander with their area of operation during the patrol. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Jeremy C. Harris/Released)"
X Link 2025-01-14T04:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Marine air over burning Kuwaiti oilfields"
X Link 2025-01-18T05:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"In honor of 1/4. Whiskey 1A. Syrian border [----] - @thebear0369"
X Link 2025-01-18T19:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Guys I wasnt LAR. Is this bad - 2nd LAR outside of Rutbah Iraq early 2007"
X Link 2025-01-19T00:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"On this 1/24 Day we remember the [--] Marines lost during 1/24s deployment to Fallujah 2006-2007. - Sgt Brock A. Babb D.O.B. 8/13/66 D.O.D. 10/15/06 LCpl Brent E. Beeler D.O.B. 9/21/84 D.O.D. 12/7/06 LCpl Richard A. Buerstetta D.O.B. 1/22/86 D.O.D. 10/23/06 SSgt Bryan K. Burgess D.O.B. 1/20/71 D.O.D. 11/9/06 LCpl Luis J. Castillo D.O.B. 2/22/86 D.O.D. 1/20/07 Cpl Christopher E. Esckelson D.O.B. 12/30/83 D.O.D. 12/28/06 Sgt Thomas M. Gilbert D.O.B. 3/31/82 D.O.D. 10/25/06 SSgt Marcus A. Golczynski D.O.B. 3/16/77 D.O.D. 3/27/07 Pfc Tarryl B. Hill D.O.B. 10/31/87 D.O.D. 2/7/07 Cpl Joshua M. Hines"
X Link 2025-01-25T05:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Happy 1/25 Day - 1/25 CAAT Nad Ali Helmand [----] - @j9silva"
X Link 2025-01-25T16:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"1/24 Chillin Charlie 3rd Platoon Bravo Squad. 31DEC06. Stepping off from the CMOC to do overwatch for the Company move to the southern outskirts of Fallujah. - @lucasriflemanwebster"
X Link 2025-01-28T01:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"2/1 Dominican Republic-WWII - The battalion was activated August [--] [----] at Santo Domingo Dominican Republic as the 2nd Battalion 1st Regiment and was assigned to the 2nd Brigade. The battalion played a role in the occupation of the Dominican Republic after which it was deactivated on July [--] [----]. - The battalion was reactivated March [--] [----] at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. The force was active for only a brief period of time during which it was deployed to Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island South Carolina. The unit was again deactivated on June [--] [----]. Shortly after the United States entered"
X Link 2025-02-01T17:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"2/1 Echo 3rd Plt Warhammer [--] Main effort of the main effort - @kimo_malott"
X Link 2025-02-01T22:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Happy 2/3 Day - Activated on May [--] [----] at New River North Carolina the battalion would see extensive action throughout the Pacific on Bougainville Guam and Iwo Jima. - In January [----] 2/3 was redeployed to Camp Schwab Okinawa. From there the unit deployed at various times between [----] and [----] as the Battalion Landing Team of the Seventh Fleet. In April [----] 2/3 deployed to Da Nang in the Republic of Vietnam. They fought in Vietnam from April [----] until October [----] operating from: DaNang Camp Carroll Qung Tr Cam L Dong Ha Combat Base Khe Sanh - During the night of [--] August [----] the"
X Link 2025-02-03T18:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The President of the United States of America in the name of Congress takes pride in presenting the Medal of Honor (Posthumously) to Corporal Tony Stein United States Marine Corps Reserve for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving with Company A First Battalion Twenty-Eighth Marines FIFTH Marine Division in action against enemy Japanese forces on Iwo Jima in the Volcano Islands [--] February [----]. - The first man of his unit to be on station after hitting the beach in the initial assault Corporal Stein armed with a"
X Link 2025-02-20T03:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Footage taken from a USN Vought OS2U Kingfisher of a USMC M4A3 Sherman tank equipped with the Navy Mark [--] flame-thrower attacking enemy positions on Iwo Jima during February 1945"
X Link 2025-02-28T02:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Infantry Month - Being an Infantryman is the core of what the Marine Corps and the Army is. Make no mistake if youre not Infantry your sole purpose is to support the Infantry. - March is more than some sales gimmick to push merch Infantry Month is about you the Infantryman. A month to highlight you for you to take pride in being an Infantryman because being an Infantryman truly is the best job in the military I extend this to ALL Infantrymen; Marines Army doesnt matter to me youre all my brothers and March is our month. You might not realize it now but one day youll look back and think about"
X Link 2025-03-01T13:28Z [----] followers, 22.2K engagements
"Happy 3/1 Day - Weapons Co. 81s platoon Kuwait March 8th [----] before crossing line of departure"
X Link 2025-03-02T05:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Happy 3/2 Day - Heres a collection of photos from over the course of two Iraq deployments from @glomani.bravo.lopez 3/2 Lima Co 2nd Plt. Thank you brother"
X Link 2025-03-02T20:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Happy 3/3 Day - 3/3 India Iraq and Afghanistan"
X Link 2025-03-03T16:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Happy 3/6 Day - 3/6 India 2nd plt w/Wpns attachments Iraq 05-06"
X Link 2025-03-06T22:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Happy [----] Day - 1/2 Blackbeard in Norway and The Stumps. Any clime and place"
X Link 2025-03-11T16:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"11B - 1-36 Able Co 4th platoon 2nd squad playing OPFOR for a brigade level training event at NTC after pushing an entire brigade out of a town"
X Link 2025-03-12T04:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Happy LAR Day - 2d LAR mobile reconnaissance company during Spring Storm in Estonia"
X Link 2025-03-13T16:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Happy [----] Day - 2nd LAR B Co 1st platoon Djibouti 2015"
X Link 2025-03-13T23:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#WeaponsWednesday2/4 Fox Assault - @nathaniel_klitzke - Send in your [----] pics today for a chance at something free off the site No were not celebrating [----] day today its just a day during Infantry Month to give something away"
X Link 2025-03-19T14:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#WeaponsWednesday1/4 C on the 31st MEU getting some final rounds in on the SMAW before they switched to the MAAWs"
X Link 2025-03-19T19:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Marines prepare themselves after receiving orders to cross the Iraqi border at Camp Shoup northern Kuwait. March [--] 2003"
X Link 2025-03-20T22:00Z [----] followers, 42.4K engagements
"OIF I April 10th [----]. 2/2 Fox Company and [--] Misfit Sniper teams recover Sgt Padilla-Ramirezs body from Ash Shatrah. - A tragic story that I felt should be shared. Sgt Padilla-Ramirez was with MWSS-371 and had been captured IVO An Nasiriyah when his convoy was attacked on March [--] [----]. His body was recovered in Ash Shatrah on April [--] [----] as seen above. I wont go into what was done but I believe sympathetic locals directed the Marines from 2/2 to where they had buried him. Rest Easy Marine. - Thanks for sharing El David"
X Link 2025-03-21T03:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Happy [----] Day to all the Recondos out there. - I dont expect to get much but if youve got photos from your time in Recon send them in and Ill send a flag to the one with the most likes"
X Link 2025-03-21T13:37Z [----] followers, 23.8K engagements
"1st Reconnaissance Battalion Force Reconnaissance Company - Last pic goes hard"
X Link 2025-03-21T23:05Z [----] followers, 16.2K engagements
"Got a few saved rounds from yesterday - 1st Recon in Iraq"
X Link 2025-03-22T20:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Welcome to An Nasiriyah - On this day in [----] the Battle of An Nasiriyah began. - I remember watching this on TV as a senior in high school. I enlisted shortly after. One year later some of those same Marines from 1/2 that I watched on TV would be my seniors. - Thats 2/8 in the photo. 1/2 was up ahead and Task Force Tarawa was in for a hell of a fight. - Ill be reposting some posts from previous years that breakdown the battle as it began. Im not an expert on the battle but wish to tell the story if you were there and have anything to add or to correct please dont hesitate to do so. - As you"
X Link 2025-03-23T13:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Brutal American fighting for some Applebaums Donald Trump and J. D. Vance have created a brand new stereotype for America: Not the quiet American not the ugly American but the brutal American @anneapplebaum writes. Whatever illusions Europeans ever had about Americans those are shattered. https://t.co/WasgWW4frd Donald Trump and J. D. Vance have created a brand new stereotype for America: Not the quiet American not the ugly American but the brutal American @anneapplebaum writes. Whatever illusions Europeans ever had about Americans those are shattered. https://t.co/WasgWW4frd"
X Link 2025-03-24T04:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Happy 3/24 Day - 3/24 Scout Sniper Plt Al Taqaddum Iraq 2004"
X Link 2025-03-25T00:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Happy 3/24 Day - Lima 3/24 Iraq [----]. Burning shitters is a core GWOT memory"
X Link 2025-03-25T01:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Go read About Face. 🫡 https://t.co/9lhcbLrifG 🫡 https://t.co/9lhcbLrifG"
X Link 2025-03-27T15:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#FiftyCalFridayAnti Terrorism Battalion Alpha Co. [--] - [--] Ashraf Diyala Province Iraq FOB Grizzly - Mike Carr"
X Link 2025-03-28T14:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Happy [----] Day - V1/2 Palehorse Guns - @1castr0762"
X Link 2025-03-31T22:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This I love this. - 3/7 Lima Gunz grill run pt - @guapo_medina22 - Guns Up boys. Happy [----] Day"
X Link 2025-04-01T03:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Banger from @roosteractual the other year. Worthy of a repost as we wrap up [----] Day"
X Link 2025-04-01T06:29Z [----] followers, 10.6K engagements
"#FiftyCalFriday3/25 Lima Weapons Platoon Heavy Section Vic [--] during the Battle of Barwanna 2005"
X Link 2025-04-05T00:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"#FiftyCalFriday@nano.lora letting it eat a little"
X Link 2025-04-11T23:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
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