I even had a rather acrimonious exchange of email with a Sergeant First Class Combat Camera guy who, when I got snarky about the numerous errors in a caption (which *I* got snarked for by the assembled horde) basically said, "Hey, I'm out here in the sh*t, you're just a fat f**king civilian with nothing better to do than snipe people who do stuff you won't or can't, how dare you criticize me."
Heh. I sent him a .pdf of my VA rating letter. But, 'tudes aside, I love the Combat Camera guys, bad captions or no. They're the ones who are documenting this war, since a lot of the MSM photographers, for many good reasons and some bad, are not. This is an example of one pic that came in the mail yesterday...
03/03/2009 - U.S. Marine Corps Pfc. Jessica Gwillim, assigned to the 9th Provisional Security Forces, repaints a wheel on an M2A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle System on Camp Lemonier, Djibouti, March 3, 2009. Camp Lemonier is the hub of Combined Joint Task Force–Horn of Africa. (DoD photo by Tech. Sgt. Joe Zuccaro, U.S. Air Force/Released)
Well, from the uniform, she *is* a Marine. I'll take their word on it that it's Camp Lemonier, Djibouti.
But this isn't a M2A3 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle (which would be odd to have a Marine painting, frankly, since they don't use any of 'em), it's a US M3 105mm howitzer used by the Cannon Companies of WWII infantry regiments.
But let's test ourselves - what's the gun in the background?]]>