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Offline Vince

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This is me...then
« on: December 14, 2005, 06:35:16 PM »
So, yeah, Nate and I were talkin' bout whatever and he said it would be a good idea to perhaps, make a thread like, befores and afters. I think I have the most rapid, most dramatic change.




Me at Operation : Dark Harvest, Memorial Day Weekend '05.



Me at Opperation : Daggerfall, November '05, in the best picture of me, ever taken in airsoft. Thanks Rod!

Let's see you guys.

Man, I was (read : still am) a tool.
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« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2005, 06:47:22 PM »
Fuck yeah you were a tool, but your cool now.
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« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2005, 06:52:38 PM »
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« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2005, 07:08:28 PM »
Wow, yea ive come a long ways:

Me back in July of 2004(wow....):


and in August of 2005:
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« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2005, 07:09:33 PM »
Ahahahahah! This picture cracks me up every time I see it now!  :lol:

Me  back in my chairsofting days with absolutly NO GEAR!!!


(or maybe this one's a little more appropriate...)

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But anyways...Here I am now! Not a gear whore...yet...it's the same pose... though...

OOPS! Gotta get that dang finger off the trigger...
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« Reply #5 on: December 14, 2005, 07:41:59 PM »
Nice wet suit, Ryan.
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« Reply #6 on: December 14, 2005, 07:45:06 PM »
Quote from: "busta_cap"
Nice wet suit, Ryan.



 :lol:  :lol:

Yeah. I know. It's hideous!
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« Reply #7 on: December 14, 2005, 08:28:09 PM »
Since I could not find any old pics of myself I dug up some old gear and took some pics...
Watch the transition:










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« Reply #8 on: December 14, 2005, 08:59:14 PM »
This thread is absolutely fanfuckingtastic!

BT, in my first summer playing airsoft.  I sold an LBT Chest rig to buy that BLACKHAWK vest.  I used it once at returned it.  Even then, I kept my goddamn finger off the trigger.  Check the Skateboard kneepads and HiTec MAGNUMs.  What a cherry!


OP:RO, my first National OP.  I had a custom RAV-kinda vest that Mark made me.  I wore it on the first day and sweat my ass off.  Day2 I donned an LBV88 and SOE 3Day pack.


Badger Springs, shortly after OP:RO.  ChiComs are cool.  Same SOE pack as above.


Pre-OP:LC3 outing.  Yeah, that's a SPEAR BALCS.  I wore it on the FIRST day of the OP, at least.  6004, Hellcat Mk2, THE pack.  


Florence AO.  My SPR was nice.  This was right after OP:LC4.


After my two-week Training at Yuma Proving Grounds, I decided I needed a real M4.  Here it is.  I sold it to a nice Fed that lives out of state.  I still have the RAID pack.


The guys and I at OP:Irene.  DBT FAPC, IIIa armor cummerbund.  Real armor is heavy.  

I don't really have any clear pics of me since then.  I'll take some and post them, but you can see my transformation.  I've always been a gearwhore, just a different kind.  When I started, it was all about "looking the part" with uniforms ripped straight from pics of SF guys on militaryphotos.net.  Lately, I've just been using what works, but still try to maintain a bit of authenticity with my guns and kit.
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« Reply #9 on: December 14, 2005, 10:22:37 PM »
Ok, well I started out with an M9 and there are no pictures to my knowledge of this era.  

Then I got an Mp5, still no gear other than a pair of black pants and a woodland shirt.  But atlas the picture that used to be public is now MF Classified and unretrievable.  So since I dont have one of those early picts, Ill post my very first avatar for here.  I know its the best avatar ever!



Then I moved to Get an M4 for LC3 and upgraded to an USGI LBV. I know it was astonishing, no more pockets for magazines! I was pretty content with this set up for several years.  

Before Lc3


After Lc3


After Lc4


Then I got a nice Coyote Brown LBV, oh so much better than that USGI crap, and a Mich for Op Irene.  

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« Reply #10 on: December 14, 2005, 10:37:31 PM »
That LBV was not USGI.  

You are moving in the right direction though.  Knockoff MOLLE gear is better than a knockoff LBV88. :P
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« Reply #11 on: December 14, 2005, 10:44:21 PM »
Well yeah, my first LBV was a horrid Korean knock off. Yeah Yeah I know, evil!  :lol:
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« Reply #12 on: December 15, 2005, 02:57:30 PM »
Sadly, all my old gear.. I gave away. It was just some OD dropleg gear from JT with black belt and holster. I wore ab LBV every now and then. I never needed more than 4 mags. I never lived past the second one. No pictures, though. I was sort of like.. extremely low speed.

And, here is when I actually talked to cool people. I had a BHI rig, with camelback. Lets not forget, every pouch I had was also BHI.



Some prgress..



Some more..


(Pants way too big in every way, on me)

And it's not airsoft, but here's the most current setup!


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« Reply #13 on: December 15, 2005, 03:27:28 PM »
Nice gangster shooting Nate. Ill tell you, I had the bitch of a time, as you did, keeping my rig from saggin' like 80 year old tits at Lc4. I can see the tiredness in that pic, and J thinkin..."damn..wheres the beer?"
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« Reply #14 on: December 15, 2005, 03:55:46 PM »
LOL This thread rocks, Vince, you are right man, lots of change there hehe. - Joseph
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