The Melon's Lion

Pictures from deployments, and stuff I like.
If you don't belong here, don't pretend to.

I believe in the Oxford comma.

Inemuri - the art of being asleep, yet present.

Inemuri - the art of being asleep, yet present.

Conway and McEwen, thinking they’re hot shit after their first mission.

Conway and McEwen, thinking they’re hot shit after their first mission.

Just so you know…

In all the years since the WWII invasion of Normandy, where over 10,000 service members died in a single afternoon, the US President has visited the D-Day Monument and honored the fallen. Every single year.

So serious is this homage to the military, that there are only three times in the last 68 years that a president has refused to pay this tribute.

Barack Obama - 2010
Barack Obama - 2011
Barack Obama - 2012


In case anyone was keeping track…

A rare glimpse of my face. Dismounting in Kut.

A rare glimpse of my face.
Dismounting in Kut.

Don’t ask, man…

Don’t ask, man…