GREAT Pics

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by Dave

i think time to go to the px since the pogues will be running for home

Hahahahaha!!! It's like anything considered negative, if you can learn to embrace it, you can eek out an advantage.

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by Archren

This is very true... just the other day we had one that rolled in while I was in the office. I walked out to have a smoke and it was quite literally orange outside. It felt weird going back indoors because the light seemed overly blue.

That being said... it makes keeping weapons clean a real bitch.

Oh not to mention daily vehicle maintenance!!! It was the best day of my deployment when some genius decided to snorkle the APCs and put nylons over the opening!

[Particle Man]

Whoa, those are some pics

[Inferno]

Cool pics, I'll have to post up some of the ones I have. We had a few where the sandstorm would roll in then it started to rain...it was litteraly raining mud

[derf]

Originally Posted by Archren

That being said... it makes keeping weapons clean a real bitch.

Condom over the barrel and masking tape over the ejector port and any small gas orifaces.

Fire it once and all the tape and condom is blown off, but it will keep all the dust and sand out. ive seen

[Archren]

Originally Posted by Amber Lamps

Oh not to mention daily vehicle maintenance!!! It was the best day of my deployment when some genius decided to snorkle the APCs and put nylons over the opening!

They have some pretty sophisticated systems now for the vehicles to deal with the sand. I'm not a mechanic, so I couldn't possibly explain how any of it works (and it's different if you're talking HMMWVS, 923s, HETs or MRAPs), but I do know that with as much convoy movement as we get just through my base alone, it has to be doing the trick. I saw some 923s the other day that had dual filters that looked like translucent cylinders with some sort of spinning mechanism inside... I have no idea how that works, but it looked bad ass to see a line of them driving down the road with those.

[Archren]

Originally Posted by derf

Condom over the barrel and masking tape over the ejector port and any small gas orifaces.

Fire it once and all the tape and condom is blown off, but it will keep all the dust and sand out. ive seen

We have plastic covers for the end of the barrel, but they don't allow us to put masking tape on our weapons (the OP is our brigade armor... I think his head would explode if anyone did that to his weapons, ). And really tape (even duct tape) isn't worth a crap in this heat, the adhesive won't keep the tape on and then what mildly sticky residue is left behind will just trap even more dust. I think cleaning weapons is fun, actually - I take a lot of pride in maintaining my arms. And I twitch pretty hard core when I see my retarded boss with a mm thick layer of grime on his M9, even though I have hounded him repeatedly to clean it (dumbass doesn't even carry his 30 rounds with him... not my problem, if he gets caught with his pants down, it'll just do the world a favor). But our OPTEMPO has been really hot and heavy the last few weeks, so even though I keep a cleaning kit at my desk, I haven't had the free time to sit down and do it as regularly as I would like.

That being said, my M4 has been locked up in the bunker since the last time I went outside the wire. On post, since I am always out and about going to project sites, I carry an M9. Thing is a piece of cake to clean... but it still pisses me off when I clean it, and then it gets filthy again the same day thanks to a dust storm.

[Inferno]

TQ/B6 April 2009

[Cutty72]

That looks cool as shit since I don't have to deal with it!

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by Cutty72

That looks cool as shit since I don't have to deal with it!

Romeo Oscar Foxtrot Lima!!!!