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Old Jun 26, 2008 | 11:10 AM
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what air field is pictured? Thanks
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Old Jun 26, 2008 | 11:15 AM
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This post would be better in the military hotrod club, but why do you need to know what airfield it is???
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Old Jun 26, 2008 | 11:24 AM
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someone I know sent the picture but couldn't tell me where he was. Why do you ask?
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Old Jun 26, 2008 | 11:26 AM
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probably a reason for it...
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Old Jun 26, 2008 | 11:28 AM
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I figured with a tower like that, it was probably a well established airport. Not a secret base of some sort.
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Old Jun 26, 2008 | 11:35 AM
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you hear about jeraldo rivera? or whatever his name is.. that reporter?
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Old Jun 26, 2008 | 11:46 AM
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someone I know sent the picture but couldn't tell me where he was. Why do you ask?
If he couldn't tell you where he was at, then he shouldn't have sent you the picture in the first place.
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Old Jun 26, 2008 | 11:48 AM
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looks like one we took over in 03' down the southwest end of the state.

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Old Jun 26, 2008 | 11:55 AM
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never mind. Just used Google
http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita.../airfields.htm
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Old Jun 26, 2008 | 11:59 AM
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That's in Balad dude no secret base at all. I have been in that tower before.
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Old Jun 26, 2008 | 12:12 PM
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/\/\ That's what I was going to say. Was stationed there from April 03-June 04. I hear that it's alot better than when I was there.
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Old Jun 26, 2008 | 12:32 PM
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do people in Iraq talk like "dirka dirka muhammed jihad?"
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Old Jun 26, 2008 | 12:34 PM
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Ahhhhh, not to Iraq, but twice in the stan here.
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Old Jun 26, 2008 | 12:59 PM
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3rd time in iraq now and we do have something called OPSEC....think about it
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Old Jun 26, 2008 | 01:06 PM
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oh god....not the freaking opsec argument...
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Old Jun 27, 2008 | 10:40 AM
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well those are marines in the pic...looks like al alsad air base....as far opsec....man those hoggies got pics of all the air bases out there and got people on the inside.....not telling anything new to them....maybe what's an ls1
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Originally Posted by Elcaballoloco
oh god....not the freaking opsec argument...
There is the problem. Too many people have that same attitude concerning OPSEC.
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Old Jun 27, 2008 | 11:20 AM
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What do you do in the military? What branch?
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Old Jun 27, 2008 | 11:23 AM
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Originally Posted by BlackSuperchargedLS1
There is the problem. Too many people have that same attitude concerning OPSEC.
Yeah because nobody knows we have people in Iraq and nobody knows where in Iraq we are.

OPSEC is all good and all but theres no secrecy in where our guys are in the Iraq war.
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Old Jun 27, 2008 | 11:35 AM
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Originally Posted by BlackSuperchargedLS1
There is the problem. Too many people have that same attitude concerning OPSEC.
Officer right?....most likely a Marine too?
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