{"id":228,"date":"2017-02-28T16:50:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T16:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thekitchat.eu\/?p=228"},"modified":"2025-08-19T18:17:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T18:17:25","slug":"2003-operation-iraqi-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekitchat.eu\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"2003 – Operation Iraqi Freedom – The early days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A-Squadron reenactment team 3rd op<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The conclusion of an eventful week-end. While the Tora Bora op was the main event, we took the opportunity of a great place to shoot some more photos. Goodbye Afghanistan, and welcome back to Iraq at the very beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The early 2003 Delta Force in its glory : Blackhawk D.O.A.V.s and full lengh M4A1s (left<\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the setting also came with a quite well expected difficulty. None of us owns any military vehicle. So, we’re doing a photo op of what was mostly a mounted armed reconnaissance without the main course. It’s OK, we assumed operators still had to dismount and take photos without showing their workhorses.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another fun bit for myself : no more UKSF, I’d be an extra Delta operator this time. Thankfully, my comrades were able to outfit me with a spare D.O.A.V. and matching accessories for my L119A1…I mean my M4A1.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Thanks again to Yannick and Beezman for being the utmost dedicated photographers on this one too !<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A-Squadron does have its own Instagram account.<\/em><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The third A-Squadron photo op sends us into the very early beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,18,16],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reenactcag","category-reenactmentjsoc","category-reenactment","tag-reenactment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekitchat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekitchat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekitchat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekitchat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekitchat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thekitchat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"https:\/\/thekitchat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekitchat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekitchat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekitchat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekitchat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}