Irregular Army
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Neo-Nazi swastika fl ag confi scated from billeting in Iraq in 2008 by military police. [Provided by Hunter Glass]
A US Marine scout sniper unit posing with neo-Nazi SS lightning bolts fl ag in Sangin, Afghanistan. [Widely available on the internet]
Gang-tattooed arm of former airman Rico Williams, the leader of the gang that beat fellow soldier Juwan Johnson to death during his initiation into the Gangster Disciples while on active duty in Germany. [Photo provided by Hunter Glass]
Army cooks based at Fort Lewis, Washington, show their “west-side” gang allegiance. [Photo provided by Hunter Glass]
Two soldiers in their barracks on Fort Bragg, both members of the Gangster Disciples, a Chicago gang. The soldier on the right is throwing the pitchforks sign of the GD; the other is throwing the rival Latin Kings gang sign downwards in a show of disrespect. [Photo provided by Jeffrey Stoleson]
Sergeant Jeffrey Stoleson sitting in front of a blast wall at Forward Operating Base Scania, two hours south of Baghdad, 2006. Graffi ti is for Diablos 69, a subgroup of the Norteños gang, based on the west coast of the US. [Photo from Jeffrey Stoleson]
Stoleson at Forward Operating Base Scania in 2006. Graffi ti reads “El Moco,” the moniker of the individual that did the tag, while below is the name of Mexican gang La Eme (By the Wings), one of largest drug dealers and smugglers in the US. [Photo provided by Stoleson]
Photo taken in Taji, Iraq, shows graffi ti of outlaw motorcycle group 69ers, out of Brooklyn, New York, displaying their “1 per cent” patch on a tank. [Photo by Jeffrey Stoleson]
Photo taken in 2009 outside Forward Operating Base Anaconda, outside Balad, Iraq. The letters “BK” on the military vehicle denote “Blood Killas,” a tag put up by the Bloods’ rivals, usually the Crips. [Photo provided by Jeffery Stoleson]
Tank yard in Taji, Iraq, 2010. Graffi ti on tank spells out Sactown Norte, a criminal gang out of Sacramento, California. [Photo provided Jeffery Stoleson]
Gang warfare in Iraq. The Mexican prison gang Sur 13 put a line through the tag of a rival gang and replaced it with their own insignia. [Picture from Jeffrey Stoleson]