Awesome Military (Funny Pics)

"QUANTUM SHOT" #493
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Get your fix of funny pictures from the life in the military, and show some respect!!..

Extreme conditions, extreme training, extreme hilarity. It's all there, and more than you ask for. Having a good sense of humor, then, becomes a survival technique.

Settling in for a long flight... (somewhere in Iraq) -

This chopper means business (it can be a Decepticon, for all we know) -

(image via)

Here is how that flush toilet ended up in the middle of the desert:
(a full story is here)

Much needed equipment:

(image via)

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"A hard drill makes an easy battle" (General A. Suvorov)

This looks painful....

Question in his eyes -

Chinese paramilitary police, photo by REUTERS/Stringer (China)

Confidence training in Finland:

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Strange rituals:

New Zealand military learn from the warrior dances of Maori (see video, this time it's a 'Powhiri' welcome dance) -

(Photo by Corporal Chris Moore)

Elements of yoga:

Knights of the New Crusade? No, Chinese' paramilitary police method of improving posture:

image credit: REUTERS/Stringer (China)

Sleepy classes...

(image credit: Reuters)

There are better days:

In the end - sheer triumph!

(image credit: Reuters)

"In all seriousness" (these guys are unimpressed) -

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il poses with the soldiers of People's Army, photo AP

Propaganda never slumbers, nor sleeps:

See more cool posters here

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Who Will Rise to Defend the Motherland?

The answer is everybody, of course! - anybody who can hold a gun, that is:

(images via 1, 2)

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Problems? Challenges!

Military equipment gets wrecked, twisted, burned and generally mistreated in these - appalling! - photographs. Here are two Russian fighter jets, fighting over a runway:

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We know how birds are a huge problem for airplanes, but apparently bees are not welcome on F404s, either:

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I can almost feel the pain of getting this wire mess off...

"A Georgian Port Authority employee passes in front of a Russian rocket on August 11, 2008 in Poti, Georgia. The rocket landed on the Georgian Military Police car..." -

(Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)

Compare it with the size of WWII bomb:

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Outrageous Ammunition and Weaponry

If you guessed that anything can be converted, or serve as a weapon, you guessed right.

India also has some security force (Corps of Border) riding camels, more info.

Guess what this is... looks like a normal truck, but look closely - this is DIY rocket launcher!!! (made in Iraq, of course) -

The strangest tank... bike... something... that we'd ever seen (any info?)

Photoshop section: Here is how the myths about Russian Army super-weapons get born:

This one, however, appears to be legit:

Why not?

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Watching the Girls Go By

Not just watching...

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Good Crowds

Some vintage photographs... they don't make them like that any more:
(click to enlarge, obviously)

This is a fragment of much larger picture (see here)
Life-Guards The Emperor of Austria's Kexholm Regiment. [L.-Gv. Keksgol'mskii Imperatora Avstriiskago polk.] 3rd Guards Infantry Division. Warsaw. 1903