Comments on: Liberian solider

By: dhg4983

dhg4983 — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:04:30 +0000

the mags taped to together used to be very common, especially during WW2, and its still common for people who cant afford proper webbing gear.

By: teezy weezy

teezy weezy — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:01:24 +0000

You sure they are mags?
www.myconfinedspace.com/2008/06/15/clips-vs-magazines/

By: DasMaus

DasMaus — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:21:45 +0000

Not Liberian soldier, LURD (Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy) – thugs with something resembling an organized chain of command. Mostly criminals, some idealists. My bet is that he’s a former soldier though, good trigger discipline.

By: bytehead

bytehead — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:48:43 +0000

It’s truly sad what has gone on in that country, although I thought that the fighting

A coworker was a former prime minister of Liberia, and I’d get dispatches about what I would hear the next day in the news about Liberia. I told him I didn’t want his phone bill, and I didn’t want to be getting up at 3AM to take and make those calls either.

By: natedog

natedog — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:24:38 +0000

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Dey be steelin mah chickins

By: captainobvious

captainobvious — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:43:45 +0000

Should have watched some Star Trek:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshirt_(character)

By: MonkeyHitman

MonkeyHitman — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:57:47 +0000

marco polo has always been a great game in africa… .. on battlefield you have no time to fix your helmet .. i can understand these guys but lil kids with fucking ak-47 … fuck man .. when you watch them your like oh a lil kid you pace 2x and hes blasting ak’s at your ass.. *sigh* .. no nom nom

By: AgZed

AgZed — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:22:12 +0000

If you look carefully, you can see the soldier. Just look at the crazy guy with the red shirt’s gun arm, and you can see a bit of his head, and you can see his shoulder in the little triangle between Red’s arm and his body.

As for how clean his shirt is, for the answer to that you have to look to his other hand. The gesture he is making is a common African hand gesture that means, roughly translated, “No, I did not just steal this shirt from your store. How dare you, sir. I quite resent this affront to my good name. You are lucky that I am late to the opera, otherwise I would challenge you to pistols at dawn.”

By: the_redstar_swl

the_redstar_swl — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:10:29 +0000

Looks like he’s got the helmet on backwards too.

By: storminator

storminator — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:02:29 +0000

Soldiers like that are the reason I’ll never go near those conflicted third-world nations…

very scary.