In fighting since March of last year against Syrian strongman Bashar Assad’s regime, more than 26,000 civilians, including a small but couuragoiuse group of freefom fighters, have been killed. Its a war of T-72s main battle tanks and Mi-24 attack choppers against rebels with AKs and the occasional RPG. Dirty street to street fighting in a part of the world known for brutality. The Daily Mail has a ghostly series of photographs taken at the time of one of these battles.
Global Post photographer Tracey Shelton caught this haunting picture of three soldiers the Moment they died: The photographer captures the split second the tank shell hit the check-point killing three men as it detonates
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About laststandonzombieisland
Let me introduce myself. I am a bit of a conflict junkie. I am fascinated by war and warfare, assassination, personal protection and weaponry ranging from spud guns and flame throwers to thermonuclear bombs and soviet-trained Ebola monkeys. In short, if it’s violent or a tool to create violence it is kind of my thing.
I have written a few hundred articles on the dry encyclopedia side for such websites as History Times, Firearms Talk.com, GUNS.com, Suite 101 (where I am the contracted Feature Writer for Military History) and Combat Forums; as well as for print publications like England Expects, and Strike First Strike Fast. Several magazines such as Sea Classics, Military Historian and Collector, Mississippi Sportsman and Warship International have carried my pieces. Additionally I am on staff as a naval consultant and writer for Eye Spy Intelligence Magazine.
Currently I am working on several book projects, including a section in the upcoming Mississippi Encyclopedia (to be published by Ole Miss this summer), an alternative history novel about the US-German War of 1916, and a biography of Bennett Doty. My first novel, about the coming zombie apocalypse was released this Spring by Necro Publications and can be found at Amazon.com.
In my day job I am a contractor for the US federal government in what could best be described as the ‘Force Protection’ field. In this I am a certified Firearms, and less-than-lethal combat instructor.
This looks like a video game scene…odd???