I'm loving Rolling Thunder's posts. Here's one of my favourites:
"Sniper Platoon with Support Company attached to Number 1 Company 1st Battalion The Irish Guards, take up positions Thursday April 3, 2002, to provide cover for Royal Engineers trying to extingush an oil well fire. The action came during a dawn raid by the Irish Guards on a university factory complex situated on the outskirts of Basra. British forces came under fire from small arms and mortars, and Lynx helicopter was fired at with a SAM missile."
It's not all Changing the Guard at Buckingham Palace.......
Monster Hi-res here:
http://www.operations.mod.uk/telic/images/ops/ig_sniper_hr.jpg
and plenty more here:
http://www.defenceimagedatabase.mod.uk/f...p;search=sniper
"Sniper Platoon with Support Company attached to Number 1 Company 1st Battalion The Irish Guards, take up positions Thursday April 3, 2002, to provide cover for Royal Engineers trying to extingush an oil well fire. The action came during a dawn raid by the Irish Guards on a university factory complex situated on the outskirts of Basra. British forces came under fire from small arms and mortars, and Lynx helicopter was fired at with a SAM missile."
It's not all Changing the Guard at Buckingham Palace.......
Monster Hi-res here:
http://www.operations.mod.uk/telic/images/ops/ig_sniper_hr.jpg
and plenty more here:
http://www.defenceimagedatabase.mod.uk/f...p;search=sniper
