Humanitarian Missions in Conflict Areas

Images capturing military personnel engaged in humanitarian aid efforts, interacting with local communities and providing assistance during ongoing conflicts.

Africa, Egypt, Luxor, Valley of the Kings. Tomb workers excavate rubble with rubber buckets (Editorial Usage Only)

Vietnam, Central Highlands, Dak Pek, Vietnam War. Dak Pek United States And Montagnard Special Forces Defensive Outpost Behind Viet Cong Lines In The Central Highlands Of South Vietnam. Underground Trenches Form Montagnard Living Quarters With Families Living There For Years On End.

U.S. Air Force Combat Controllers and U.S. Army Pathfinders land in a field and talk with the local Haitians while conducting Drop Zone surveys for future air drop sites on January 24, 2010 in Port au Prince, Haiti during Operation Unified Response.

Africa, Egypt, Luxor, Valley of the Kings. Tomb workers excavate rubble with rubber buckets (Editorial Usage Only)

011008-F-3961R-003. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Country: Unknown Scene Major Command Shown: AMC

US Air Force SGT David Rogers, from the Joint Information Buerau in Mogadishu, left, watches workers unload food sacks from a truck at a feeding distribution point in the Somali capital. It is one of 35 sites that had food deliveries escorted by coalition forces. SGT Rogers holds a M16 rifle in his right arm and points it into the air. This mission is in direct support of Operation Restore Hope. Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE Base: Mogadishu Country: Somalia (SOM)

Members of Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Detachment 7 take a water break while conducting an ordnance removal operation at a weapons cache during the multinational relief effort OPERATION RESTORE HOPE. Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE Base: Mogadishu Country: Somalia (SOM)

030206-M-5753Q-119. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Camp Coyote Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Major Command Shown: 7th Marines

Vietnam, Central Highlands, Dak Pek, Vietnam War. Montagnard Standing Next To Thatched Roof Hut At Dak Pek United States And Montagnard Special Forces Outpost Behind Viet Cong Lines In The Central Highlands Of South Vietnam

001111-M-2892H-007. Base: Jwtc State: Okinawa Country: Japan (JPN)

030222-F-9528H-011. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Country: Unknown

a back view of a 1918 French soldier in the countryside

041202-M-2353F-015. Base: Iraqi / Syrian Border State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

020524-F-2902B-011. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram Air Base State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

Cpl. Douglas Antos, a Nokesville, Va., native and team leader with 2nd platoon, Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, clears his M50 gas mask amid a flurry of CS gas during a live-fire platoon attack at the Infantry Platoon Battle Course, Range 10 in the Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawaii, July 20, 2013 as part of Exercise Lava Viper. Lava Viper is a battalion-level combined-arms exercise designed to enhance the skills of the ground combat and support element Marines participating.

DF-ST-86-08070. Country: Mediterranean Sea (MED)

Recruits with India Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, return rifles and gear during the fourth phase of training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., June 1, 2022. After being returned, the rifles and gear will be prepared to be issued to newly arriving recruits.

STAFF Sergeant, Michael Fay, USMC, uses a window as a shaving mirror at the Khandahar International Airport, Khandahar, Afghanistan during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar International Airport Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: MARCENT, MCAT

030325-M-4779G-052. Country: Iraq (IRQ)

A U.S. Marine Corps recruit with Echo Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, low crawls through a trench on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Oct. 4, 2022. This event was a segment of the crucible - the culminating event of recruit training. After completing the crucibles physically and mentally demanding challenges over the course of 54-hours with limited food and sleep, the recruits will finally have the privilege to call themselves United States Marines.

Asia, Yemen, Ma'rib. Sheik Marzook.

Rwandans refugees enter Goma after a civil war erupted in their country. In need for food and water at the camps, the US military flew in vital water purification equipment and relief cargos to help the Rwandans. An estiamted 2000 refugees die daily because of cholera epidemic. The situation is improving as fresh water provided by US military teams reach the camps that house up to 1.2 million refugees. Subject Operation/Series: Support Hope Base: Goma Country: Zaire (ZAR)

050822-A-3240S-005. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Victory, Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

NAWA, Helmand province, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Local Afghan boys sprint across a bridge in Nawa, Afghanistan, to receive gifts for the Muslim Holiday of Id al-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice, Nov. 17, 2010. Marines from 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, provided security while Afghan National Army Soldiers and U.S. Army personnel gave out supplies as a goodwill gesture during the second day of Id al-Adha. Within 15 minutes more than 300 gifts were given out. Marines and Afghan forces held three similar events across the Helmand province.

Airmen from the 8th Fighter Wing fill sandbags to prepare the base for monsoon season at Kunsan Air Base, South Korea, June 29, 2012. During the next few weeks, the area will receive about 50 percent of its annual rainfall.

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Nicholas Danley, a weapons load crew team chief assigned to the 48th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, loads an Mk-82 bomb onto an F-15E Strike Eagle during exercise Poseidons Rage 22 at Souda Air Base, Greece, July 20, 2022. The live munitions contributed an additional 4,500 pounds to each aircraft.

Aviation Machinists Mate Airman Duc Tam Tran, from Nha Trang, Vietnam, assigned to the Tomcatters of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 31, performs routine maintenance on an F/A-18E Super Hornet on the flight deck of the first-in-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), Oct. 13, 2022. The Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group (GRFCSG) is deployed in the Atlantic Ocean, conducting training and operations alongside NATO Allies and partners to enhance integration for future operations and demonstrate the U.S. Navys commitment to a peaceful, stable and conflict-free Atlantic region.

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Matt Leahart, from O'Fallon, Mo., washes his clothes in an ammunition can on Combat Outpost Munoz, Paktika province, Afghanistan, Nov. 13, 2009. Leahart is deployed with Baker company, 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry (Airborne).

Soldiers in shikara security at Dal lake , Srinagar , Jammu and Kashmir , India Copyright: xSudharakxOlwe/xDinodiaxPhotox

Park Rangers removing tusks from African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) dead by natural causes, Masai Mara, Kenya.

011215-F-3961R-034. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM 2001 Base: Mazar-E Sharif State: Kandahar Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

040519-F-2902B-037. Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Public Affairs - Rescue - 26-HK-418-11. Hurricane Katrina

Anti-gaddafi troops Brega: A man pulls a sword from it's sheath.

Man reloading firearm in shooting range used to train and test soldiers on necessary combat skills. Army soldier loading ammo magazine in pistol, training to enhance combat readiness

Severe Storm - Saint Thomas, US Virgin Islands, August 3, 2011 Communications Specialist Sean Kielty, FEMA Region 2 IMAT, opens the door to "The Bunker". "The Bunker" is a complex of abandon World War II military bunkers on the island of ST. Thomas which is utilized by the IMAT for warehousing of equipment. The facility also serves as an alternate point of operations for the IMAT's continuity of operations plan (COOP).. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

031107-F-7234P-010. Base: Baghdad International Airport Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 501st Aviation, 1ST Armored Divi

Vietnam, Central Highlands, Kontum, Vietnam War. Siege Of Kontum. Montagnard Soldiers Wearing Gas Masks Unloading Bodies Of Dead In Plastic Body Bags From Truck To Be Shipped Back To Their Village Homes. Montagnards20092432

Portrait of a police officer in Cartagena, Colombia.

Afghan residents shovel out a drainage system while U.S. Marines with 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment meet with civilian leaders in Now Zad, Afghanistan, Dec. 17, 2009. The Marines employ local Afghans to repair the city and help with the reconstruction process.

A soldier distributes food to Kurdish refugee children as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in Northern Iraq. Country: Iraq(IRQ)

Partisans hiding in a farmhouse

Fishermen, Illyrian civilization, reenactment

050113-N-8629M-267. State: Sumatra Country: Indonesia (IDN) Scene Major Command Shown: MH-60S helo on AOE-7

Bin Jawad: heavy artillery shelling and machine gun shooting in Bin Jawad. 28 wounded and an unknown number of deaths.

Straight on medium shot of USAF Airmen First Class Thomas White as he stands next to his horse's head while holding the reins. A1C White enjoys working in the Game Warden's office on Vandenberg Air Force Base. There are only seven bases in the entire Air Force that employs Game Wardens. When asked what is his favorite part of his job, he replied, "enforcing the hunting and fishing laws." The most frequently broken laws are using an illegal weapon and fishing over the limit. Base: Vandenberg Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A recruit struggles to climb a tower on the obstacle course during basic training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot. Base: Usmc Recruit Depot,Parris Island State: South Carolina (SC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Local Afghan children watch U.S. Marines with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 6 as they patrol in Sangin, Helmand province, Afghanistan May 31, 2012. Marines conducted the patrol to survey the location of a future Afghan Local Police station.

THE AUSCHWITZ REPORT (2021), directed by PETER BEBJAK.

A U.S. serviceman relaxes in a hammock during the joint Thai-U.S. training exercise Cobra Gold '92. Subject Operation/Series: COBRA GOLD '92 Base: Korat Country: Thailand (THA)

A view of the Kibumba refugee camp. An estimated 1.2 million Rwandan refugees flew to Zaire after a civil war erupted in their country. Subject Operation/Series: SUPPORT HOPE Base: Goma Country: Zaire (ZAR)

Colombia, St Isabel, Hernando, Macuna Indian Hunter

060221-A-7969G-010. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fob Summerall State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: A1-187

Dolls, armed Vietnamese soldiers sitting in a jungle camp, Cu Chi caves, Vietnam, Southeast Asia

Paintball, target training or woman with gun in shooting game playing with on fun battlefield mission. Aim, hero or focused soldier with army weapons gear in survival military challenge competition

041201-M-5901F-006. Base: Jurf As Sakhr State: Babil Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Staff Sgt. Stephen Webb, 820th Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers special capabilities instructor, measures the length of a borehole at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, Oct. 20, 2022. Airmen measured the depth of boreholes to get the correct amount of blasting agent and explosive.

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Helwin Acabal, left, and Sgt. Alexander Mount, combat engineers, Marine Wing Support Squadron (MWSS) 273, Marine Aircraft Group 31, operate chainsaws during a training event at Hunting Island State Park, South Carolina, Aug. 16, 2022.The partnership between MWSS-273 and Hunting Island State Park allows Marines to refine their skills and provide community service by clearing unwanted trees and reforming dunes.

MEL GIBSON in GALLIPOLI (1981), directed by PETER WEIR.

BERLIN GERMANY PEOPLE CHIPPING AWAY AT BERLIN WALL MAUERSPECHTE HISTORICAL GOVERNMENT

Kebbi, Nigeria - 16 February 2026: View of an archer, bow drawn, against the backdrop of the Kofar fada, a study in concentration and tradition.

Airmen receive their hot meals at the camp mess hall during exercise Brim Frost '81. Subject Operation/Series: BRIM FROST '81 Base: Clear Creek State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

020528-M-9902V-073. Country: Indonesia (IDN) Scene Major Command Shown: 3 MEF

Boatswain's Mate 3rd Class Jesse R. Montez, U.S. Navy Beachmaster Unit 2, Beach Party Team B3, coordinates the placement of tents in a tent city being positioned near Zakhu. The encampment is being erected as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid Kurdish refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq. Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Thai Sergeant Khvunchi Pinij, Air Training School, Nakhon Pathom, applies facial camouflage during a Search and Rescue drill for Exercise COBRA GOLD 96. Subject Operation/Series: COBRA GOLD '96 Country: Thailand (THA)

Guatemala, Antigua, An Armed Guard Outside The Entrance To A Prison.

Ruins of former War Lord's training camp

Fusion in a blacksmith's forge, re-enactment

030322-F-6449C-011. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base Country: Romania (ROM) Scene Major Command Shown: USAFE

030217-F-1798W-003. Subject Operation/Series: COPE TIGER 2003 Base: Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base Country: Thailand (THA)

031002-M-2267A-014. Base: Marine Corps Base, Quantico State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Cambodia, Kompong Thom, Motorbike Army Patrol On National Route 6.

Royal Thai marines with the Royal Thai Marine Corps Construction Company of Combat Engineers pour concrete for a sidewalk at the Ban Prakaet School construction site at Chanthaburi, Thailand, Feb. 27, 2024. Marines of Marine Wing Support Squadron 171 lent their engineering expertise to multilateral humanitarian efforts during Cobra Gold 24. Joint exercise Cobra Gold is the largest joint exercise in mainland Asia and a concrete example of the strong alliance and strategic relationship between Thailand and the United States. This is the 43rd iteration of the multilateral exercise held from Feb. 27 to March 8, 2024. Marine Corps

050124-N-1810F-592. Base: Najaf Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Rwanda prisons hold thousands of suspected genocidaires.

A U.S. Air Force Pararescueman from the 23rd Special Tactics Squadron, Air Force Special Operations Command, Hurlburt Field Fl., stands on top of a demolished building during search and rescue operations in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan 17, 2010 following a magnitude 7 earthquake that hit the city on Jan. 12, 2010. Department of Defense assets have been deployed to assist in the Haiti relief effort

Men practising a traditional Buzkashi game, Yaklawang, Afghanistan, Asia

030916-F-7685H-162. Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: USAFE

Soldiers, World War II, Historical reenactment

Vatari, anti-poaching patrol member, showing animal snare, Parc National des Volcans, Rwanda

THE BATTLE: ROAR TO VICTORY (2019), directed by SHIN-YEON WON.

SATTAHIP, Thailand (June 7, 2013) Lt. j.g. Kevin Beasley, left, and Operations Specialist 3rd Class Pedro Cabrera, both assigned to the amphibious dock landing ship USS Tortuga (LSD 46), search a member of the Royal Thai Navy during a visit, board, search and seizure training event held in support of Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Thailand 2013. More than 1,200 Sailors and Marines are participating in CARAT Thailand. U.S. Navy ships participating in the exercise include the dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS Washington Chambers (T-AKE 11), Tortuga with embarked U.S. Marine Corps landing force, diving and salvage vessel USNS Safeguard (T-ARS 50) with embarked Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit (MDSU) 1, and the guided missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54). CARAT is a series of bilateral military exercises between the U.S. Navy and the armed forces of Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Timor Leste.

British soldiers fighting against boer forces at the reenactment of the Battle of Talana. Dundee. KwaZulu Natal. South Africa

Marines assigned to Marine Corps Detachment Fort Leonard Wood, Motor Transport Instruction Company, perform vehicle recovery operations in water Nov. 22 as part of the 33-day Vehicle Recovery Course at Training area 61. In this portion of the VRC, students learn how to find hookup points on disabled tactical wheeled vehicles, attach various rigging gear and remove the vehicles safely and effectively with heavy tactical wreckers.

New Zealand Army Cpl. Netana Waititi, a maintenance fitter with 3 Workshops, 3rd Combat Services Support Battalion, critiques the class welds after the completion of a welding exercise as part of exercise Harii Hamutuk 22 at Metenaro Military Base, Dili, Timor-Leste, Sep. 07, 2022. The welding exercise was designed to evaluate each soldiers ability to perform various types of welds at different angles.

Palestine is a name given to the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. The region is also known as the Land of Israel, the Holy Land and the Southern Levant. In 1832 Palestine was conquered by Muhammad Ali's Egypt, but in 1840 Britain intervened and returned control of the Levant to the Ottomans in return for further capitulations. The end of the 19th century saw the beginning of Zionist immigration and the Revival of the Hebrew language. The movement was publicly supported by Great Britain during World War I with the Balfour Declaration of 1917. The British captured Jerusalem a month later, and were formally awarded a mandate in 1922. In 1947, following World War II and the Holocaust, the British Government announced their desire to terminate the Mandate, and the United Nations General Assembly voted to partition the territory into a Jewish state and an Arab state. The Jewish leadership accepted the proposal but the Arab Higher Committee rejected it; a

A member of the Nebraska National Guard's Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and High-yield Explosives Enhanced Response Force Package evaluates a simulated casualty during exercise Vigilant Guard, a training exercise in Des Moines, Iowa, THursday, June 18, 2009. Vigilant Guard is a large scale training exercise that brings together National Guard units and local civilian agencies and allows for a realistic disaster-type training scenario.

A soldier aims his M-16A1 rifle at a defaced mural of Saddam Hussein. Base: Zakhu Country: Iraq(IRQ)

Cambodia, Phnom Pehn, Anti Khmer Rouge Demonstration Outside Their City Headquarters. Angry Crowd At A Fence Armed By Soldiers.

U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Alfredo Carrillo, a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) recovery team officer, places a hose in a wet-screen water reservoir in Quang Binh Province, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Feb. 24, 2023. DPAAs mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and our nation.

030423-M-3692C-008. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

101228-N-6383T-591KANDAHAR CITY, Afghanistan (Dec. 28, 2010) Culinary Specialist 2nd Class Antoine Jones, assigned to the Air Detachment of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 40, works on Seabee Combat Warfare qualifications in his berthing tent at Camp Nathan Smith. The Air Detachment is serving in the RC South area of operation in Afghanistan with reserve component battalion, NMCB-18. NMCB-18 is tasked with construction of combat outposts and quality of life and infrastructure improvements for forward operating bases.

990627-M-5696S-005. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT GUARDIAN State: Kosovo Country: Yugoslavia (YUG) Scene Major Command Shown: 26th Marine Expedtionary Unit

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Chris Grauel, C Company, 3-187th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division looks on as sheep are herded during a joint patrol with Afghan National Security Forces in Andar District, Afghanistan, Jan. 07, 2011. The 3-187th also known as the Iron Rakkasans are partnering with Afghan National Security Forces to bring stability to the Andar District in Eastern Afghanistan.

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