Seiko samurai
A Marine motor transport operator with 2/11, Corporal John Brown, out in the field at Twentynine Palms, desert MARPAT sleeve rolled back over a blacked out Seiko Samurai on a NATO strap. Motor transport is the trade that moves everything the artillery needs to shoot, and the Combat Center is where they do it in the heat and the dust. A Marlboro pack and a pack to sit on, the field kit stays simple. If you have a wrist shot from somewhere that matters, submit at the link in bio. Tempus Est Potentia.
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Seiko Prospex Samurai
The Samurai takes its nickname from the creased, faceted case that looks folded rather than machined. It is a 200 meter ISO diver running Seiko's 4R35 automatic, and this one wears a blacked out case with a textured dial on a striped NATO. It is a common sight on deployment and in the field, bought because it is tough, legible, and replaceable if the desert wins.
2/11, Twentynine Palms
The submitter is a motor transport operator with 2nd Battalion, 11th Marines, an artillery battalion, photographed at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms. Motor transport hauls the guns, the ammunition, the water, and the Marines across terrain that eats vehicles, the logistics tail without which the artillery is just heavy metal sitting still. The Combat Center is the Marine Corps' largest training base and its hardest desert.