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Marines on Armored Vehicle

Landscape color photograph. Six Marines gather on the front of an armored vehicle in a broad yard beneath a large, pale sky.

Six uniformed men gather on the front of an armored vehicle. One sits low at the center with a rifle across his lap; five stand or lean behind him. A wide, pale sky opens above.
Describe the photograph

Full visual description

A BRDM-2 armored reconnaissance vehicle faces the camera near the center of a broad yard. Kenny Bass sits front and center with his boots apart and a rifle across his lap. Five Marines stand or lean behind him. Sergeant McManus stands at the far viewer's left. Corporal Weaver is farther back on the left. One Marine in the rear remains unidentified. Tim Jones is behind Bass toward the viewer's right, and then-Lieutenant Borneo stands at the far viewer's right, physically to Bass's left.

One Marine wears an issued desert camouflage boonie cover. Immediately behind and to the viewer's left of the armored vehicle is a smaller-looking car destroyed by an explosion, its apparent size reduced by distance. Broken blocks, pipes, twisted metal and other debris spread across the bare foreground. Low buildings and several indistinct vehicles sit in the right background beneath a bright, nearly white sky.

Look closer

More visible detail

Bass anchors the group at the vehicle's front while the five standing figures form a shallow arc above him. He wears a headset with an earpiece and microphone connected to a small chest-mounted squad communication device. The wrecked car and scattered debris place the posed group within a visibly damaged industrial yard.

What was happening?

Historical context

Six Marines gather on a BRDM-2 armored reconnaissance vehicle at the weapons-manufacturing complex. Kenny Bass sits front and center wearing a headset connected to a small chest-mounted squad communication device. Sergeant McManus, Corporal Weaver, Tim Jones and then-Lieutenant Borneo are identified among the five standing Marines; one Marine in the rear remains unidentified.

Who made the photograph?

About this photograph

Photograph probably by Jamie Herman.

Photograph 6 of 15.

How does it connect?

Connections

  • The debris-filled yard belongs to the weapons-manufacturing complex also seen in Shooting AK / Rubble, the blue Kia Bongo photographs, the bunker photographs and Spent.
What remains uncertain?

What the photograph cannot settle

One Marine in the rear remains unidentified. The exact BRDM-2 subvariant remains unresolved.

The shutter operator is not directly remembered; Jamie Herman is probable under the project's owner-confirmed attribution rule.