Marine Dan Laws, 21, of J Company, 42 Royal Marine Commando patrols along the ridge of their overnight Forward Operating Base in the Desert of Northern Helmand, Afghanistan. J company had been deployed on Mobile Operations group, patrolling the Taleban 'badlands' of Northern Helmand in an operation designed to disrupt and interdict the Taleban insurgency (Richard Mills/The Times)
Royal Marines from J Company, 42 Royal Marine Commando open fire with mortars onto a suspected Taleban position near Sangin in Northern Helmand (Richard Mills/The Times)
Corporal James 'Reggie' Reddrop, 26, a Royal Marine from J Company, 42 Royal Marine Commando, looks through the sights of his rifle into a compound in Tizni (Richard Mills/The Times)
A Royal Marine of J Company, 42 Royal Marine Commando, loads his 0.5 calibre gun on his WIMK as the sun comes up over the company's Forward Operating Base in the desert of Northern Helmand (Richard Mills/The Times)
Marines from 1 troop, J Company, 42 Royal Marine Commando, discuss orders at sun up at their Forward Operating Base in the Desert of Northern Helmand,(Richard Mills/The Times)
Think my lovely boyfriend (well his shadow) is in this picture although obviously cannot be sure!
Tom Foster and Tom Crouch, Royal Marines from J Company, 42 Royal Marine Commando wait for orders to dismount from their Viking armoured vehicle in Tizni (Richard Mills/The Times)
A section of Royal Marines use their sights on their rifles to try and find where Taleban firing points are located in Sangin (Richard Mills/The Times)
Rory Hicklin, 23, a Royal Marine from J Company, 42 Royal Marine Commando, gives cover as a Chinook helicopter brings in supplies to his company outside Naw Zad (Richard Mills/The Times








boo-ya! do you have any more pictures of those sweet men?
Please post them and more articles like this, I'm loving it.
Its nice to finally have a place where those of us of different persuasians can get together among others and share our "blue" side.
thanks Royal Blue!
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-patriot xeno
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Posted by: Patriot Xeno | 13/07/2007 at 01:14