Originally Posted by PhilFo

This is true.

I got my Mitutoyo vernier caliper while on patrol in the city of Fallujah, Iraq two days after we began "the Push", and the day after my unit entered the city behind the Marines. I had just taken this photo of the most surreal scene I could think of.

The caliper was sitting on the ground, amidst a bunch of other metal junk, just outside the wall of Jolan Park. I picked it up, looked to see if it was straight, stuck them in my camera bag (I was a combat photographer with the Seabees) and went back to work.