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PostPosted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 4:05 pm 
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Hey there everyone, I am back home from my Afghanistan rotation. Thought Id share some photos I took there of a pair of Mig-21's for those of you who are interested. Actually there were 3 there, plus lots of scrap!
Yes they are T-55 tanks in the back ground.

They have been sitting there since the Soviets tucked tail, and ran!

Glad to be home-
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Cool pics Dave. Thanks for your service.

Too bad you couldnt slip one of those Migs into a C-130 for the ride back. :D

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Great pics. Lots of neat stuff out there. I saw that they recovered WW1 tank from Afghanistan and some WW2 aircraft out of Iraq.

Good stuff, please post more if you have it.

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P: Noise coming from under instrument panel. Sounds like a midget pounding on something with a hammer.

S: Took hammer away from midget.


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Glad you're back in one piece, Dave...

This is groovy stuff... the MiG-21 is my fave of all the Cold War-era Soviet birds.

Here's an older view of '375', circa 2002.

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Thanks for posting these!


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Looks like two of them have moved?

All three were sitting parallel to the runway and parallel to the tanks last summer.

There was a lot of construction going on around the big trash burner across the road, though.


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yeah, some contruction. mostly expanding the trash load.

CES uses the MIGs in their training area now.

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