Memoirs written in prose of Sergeant Robertson, Damon M. USMC while in Iraq | ...with frequent appearances of King Hammurabi.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2005

 

DMR Photos


Here are some photos that turned up on the USMC site. PhotoID: 2005111131513 Submitted by: 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing Caption: Lance Cpl. Chelsee A. Rattray (left), landing support specialist, and Cpl. Damon Robertson (right), heavy equipment operator, block their faces from wind while ensuring their teammates safely hook up a decommissioned Assault Amphibian Vehicle for an external movement. The vehicle was externally lifted Jan. 9 by a CH-53E Super Stallion from Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 166 (reinforced), Marine Aircraft Group 16, and moved from Al Asad, Iraq to an off-base aerial firing range used by elements of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing. Rattray, a 24-year-old Sunnyside, Wash., native, and Robertson, a 27-year-old San Francisco native, had to brave hurricane force winds created by the helicopter’s blades in order to help properly hook up the vehicle to the helicopter. The Marines are part of a helicopter support team with Combat Service Support Battalion 7, 1st Force Service Support Group. Photo by: Sgt. Nathan K. LaForte. --------AND-------- PhotoID: 200511114528 Submitted by: 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing Caption: Lance Cpl. Chelsee A. Rattray (left), a 24-year-old landing support specialist from Sunnyside, Wash., grounds the dual point hook from a CH-53E Super Stallion while Cpl. Damon M. Robertson, a 27-year-old heavy equipment operator from San Francisco, hooks up the external cargo cable to the helicopter. The Super Stallion, from Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 166 (reinforced), Marine Aircraft Group 16, has the ability to lift extremely heavy loads, which the helicopter support team from Combat Service Support Battalion 7, 1st Force Service Support Group, used to lift several decommissioned Assault Amphibian Vehicles and Iraqi armored personnel carriers from Al Asad, Iraq Jan. 9. The vehicles were are to be used by aerial gunners in the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing for target practice before missions. Photo by: Sgt. Nathan K. LaForte -------------- These can be seen here: http://216.239.63.104/search?q=cache:93Ji6xX86O0J:www.marines.mil/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/lookupstoryref/2005111125136+%22damon+robertson%22&hl=en
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Thanks to my brother Isaac for doing a Google search to find these photos!

 # posted by Blogger chevas : 9:39 AM

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