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Military Picture of the Day
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Doesn't look bad you know. In fairness why go to all the expense of a Leopard 2 or M1A1(or Challenger 2 for that matter) if you don't need one. They're expensive bits of kit!
Royal Marines disembark from a landing craft during a training mission.
Royal Marines disembark from a landing craft during a training mission.
th_battleaxe
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The memorial commemorating the defenders of the forts of Liège during the opening weeks of August 1914, donated by Greece.
And a poem:
THE lads of Liege, beyond our eyes
They lie where beauty's laurels be —
With lads of old Thermopylæ,
Who stayed the storming Persians.
The lads of Liege, on glory's field
They clasp the hands of Roland's men,
Who lonely faced the Saracen
Meeting the dark invasion.
The lads — the deathless lads of Liege,
They blazon through our living world
Their land — the little land that hurled
Olympian defiance.
"Now make us room, now let us pass;
Our monarch suffers no delay.
To stand in mighty Cæsar's way
Beseems not Lilliputians."
"We make no room; you shall not pass,
For freedom says your monarch nay!
And we have stood in Cæsar's way
Through freedom's generations.
"And here we stand till freedom fall
And Cæsar cry, ere we succumb,
Once more his horum omnium
Fortissimi sunt Belgæ."
The monarch roars an iron laugh
And cries on God to man his guns;
But Belgian mothers bore them sons
Who man the souls within them:
They bar his path, they hold their pass,
They blaze in glory of the Gaul
Till Cæsar cries again "Of all
The bravest are the Belgians!"
O lads of Liege, brave lads of Liege,
Your souls through glad Elysium
Go chanting: horum omnium
Fortissimi sunt Belgæ!
And a poem:
THE lads of Liege, beyond our eyes
They lie where beauty's laurels be —
With lads of old Thermopylæ,
Who stayed the storming Persians.
The lads of Liege, on glory's field
They clasp the hands of Roland's men,
Who lonely faced the Saracen
Meeting the dark invasion.
The lads — the deathless lads of Liege,
They blazon through our living world
Their land — the little land that hurled
Olympian defiance.
"Now make us room, now let us pass;
Our monarch suffers no delay.
To stand in mighty Cæsar's way
Beseems not Lilliputians."
"We make no room; you shall not pass,
For freedom says your monarch nay!
And we have stood in Cæsar's way
Through freedom's generations.
"And here we stand till freedom fall
And Cæsar cry, ere we succumb,
Once more his horum omnium
Fortissimi sunt Belgæ."
The monarch roars an iron laugh
And cries on God to man his guns;
But Belgian mothers bore them sons
Who man the souls within them:
They bar his path, they hold their pass,
They blaze in glory of the Gaul
Till Cæsar cries again "Of all
The bravest are the Belgians!"
O lads of Liege, brave lads of Liege,
Your souls through glad Elysium
Go chanting: horum omnium
Fortissimi sunt Belgæ!
theantipop
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Australian solider during an Exercise in August 2014.
Feldmeijer
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Tracksion Wars!
Vulcan XH558 landed today for the last time this season after touring all the Cold War V-Force airfields.
FYI - V-Force was the UK aircraft-mounted nuclear deterrent before it was stood down when the Trident submarine based system
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Feldmeijer
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Now THAT is a war crime. ;(
Alex
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Sorry if anyone disagrees with me, but whoever thinks that's "art" should be shot!
Feldmeijer
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Dutch DAF Pantserwagen M39, notice the rather bulky Lewis coaxial machine-guns.
MausRatte
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Katyusha, invented in 1939, still used today. I like to think of it as a German soldier's hell.
Katyusha Gif
Katyusha Gif
applebloom_mlp
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The one smoking the cigarette, is my great great grandfather.
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