Military Camps and Bivouacs

Images showcasing military encampments, tents, and soldiers in various operational settings, including desert environments and medical tents.

Berber tent at the bivouac at Chigaga dunes, Draa Valley, Morocco, North Africa, Africa

070414-A-9834L-021SANGIN, Afghanistan - A Paratrooper from the 82nd Airborne Division keeps a lookout over a main avenue of approach in the Sangin city district center of Helmand Province, Afghanistan, April 14.

Members of the 150th Tactical Fighter Group, Air National Guard, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., erect the tent that is to be their home during exercise BRIGHT STAR '80. Subject Operation/Series: BRIGHT STAR '80 Base: Cairo West Country: Egypt (EGY)

Berber tent at the bivouac at Chigaga dunes, Draa Valley, Morocco, North Africa, Africa

Members of the 554th Civil Engineering Squadron are reading training manuals in a medical tent. The unit is participating in a joint Red Horse Team mobility training exercise. Base: Camp Stalion Country: South Korea

020512-F-2902B-017. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Sayat Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

Lance Cpl. Edgar Jimenezrojas, a military policeman assigned to Afghan National Civil Order Police (ANCOP) Advisory Team, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, remains vigilant while conducting a dismounted patrol near Forward Operating Base Now Zad, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Dec. 18, 2012. The advisory team works and trains with ANCOP to improve security, operational readiness and stability in the district.

Barbed wire framing walls and defences on Ammunition Hill - Jerusalem

070110-M-5585B-020. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Taqaddum Country: Iraq (IRQ)

U.S. Marines with 1st Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, I Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, drape camouflage netting over the combat operation center during company field exercise 1-23 at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Oct. 11, 2022. 1st ANGLICO conducted COFEX 1-23 to develop, sustain, and enhance core competencies required to support I Marine Expeditionary Force across the companys Training and Readiness standards and the Warfighting Functions.

Members of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 1 (NMCB-1) smooths a rough edge with an electric grinder. NMCB-1 is conducting a civic action project at a local school during the multinational relief effort OPERATION RESTORE HOPE. Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE Country: Somalia (SOM)

011215-F-3961R-025. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM 2001 Base: Mazar-E Sharif State: Kandahar Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

DM-ST-86-08315. Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

050823-A-3240S-007. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Victory, Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

A view of an Afghan village near the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM. Note the civilian trucks passing by with the new Afghan flag mounted. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar International Airport Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

030205-F-7203T-008. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Sud Homboli Country: Djibouti (DJI)

060328-A-7969G-015. Base: Fatah State: Salah Ah Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST AB DIVISION

041222-M-4697Y-015. Base: Jalalabad Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: 3RD BN, 3RD MARINES

U.S. Marines walk down an alley during a patrol in Nawa District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan on Sept. 21, 2009. U.S. Marines with 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, are conducting security patrols in order to speak with the local populace to identify their issues and concerns. 1/5 is the combat element of Regimental Combat Team 3, whose mission is to conduct counter insurgency operations in partnership with the Afghan national security forces in southern Afghanistan.

240102-N-PI330-1029 ROTA, Spain (Jan. 2, 2023) Seabees, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133 (NMCB 133), set up tents for a command post exercise on Camp Mitchell in Rota, Spain, Jan. 2, 2023. NMCB 133 is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. Naval Forces Europe area of operations, employed by the U.S. 6th Fleet to defend U.S., allied and partner interests.

DM-ST-86-08318. Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

U.S. Airmen from the 386th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron spread concrete over a rapidly repaired damaged crater during an exercise at Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait, April 4, 2022. This exercise showcased multi-capable airmen within CE cross-training with heavy machinery.

DF-ST-86-07771. Base: Cairo West Country: Egypt (EGY)

NAWA, Helmand province, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Afghan National Police officers search motorists at a vehicle checkpoint as part of security for the Nawa District bazaar in Helmand province, Afghanistan, Sept. 3, 2010. The Marines supervise and provide additional security during the checkpoint. Afghanistan National Police officers perform most of the checkpoint duties.

Iraq, Ninawa province, Mosul on 2022-10-18. Report on explosive remnants of war in Iraq, one of the most contaminated countries in the world after forty years of conflict, instability and especially the recent occupation of the country by the Islamic State group, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Ottawa Treaty, the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention prohibiting the acquisition, production, stockpiling and use of mines. Here, in the old city of Mosul destroyed by Daesh, writings, posters or flags warn of the presence of explosive remains. Photograph by Martin Bertrand. Irak, province de Ninive, Mossoul le 2022-10-18. Reportage sur les restes explosifs de guerre en Irak, lun des pays les plus contamines au monde suite a quarante ans de conflits, dinstabilité et surtout par loccupation recente du pays par le groupe Etat islamique, a l'occasion des 25 ans du Traite d'Ottawa, la Convention sur linterdiction des mines antipersonnel prohibant lacquisition, la production, le

U.S. military personnel assigned to United States Central Command unpack critical supplies in support of a USAID-led humanitarian mission at Sukkur Airport, Pakistan, Sep. 10, 2022. USAID leads the U.S. Government's international development and disaster assistance, helping people emerge from humanitarian crises, such as the catastrophic flooding currently plaguing Pakistan.

Two Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133 (NMCB-133) set up a pump to drain water from a bomb crater on the runway at an Iraqi airfield. The airfield, which had been under construction prior to the start of the Persian Gulf war, is being repaired to allow relief supplies to be flown in for nearby Kurdish refugees as part of Operation Provide Comfort. Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Base: Sirsenk Country: Iraq (IRQ)

011008-F-3961R-005. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Country: Unknown Scene Major Command Shown: AMC

A shy young villager remains within a few feet of his home as he watches other children interact with the Marines of Bravo Company, Combat Logistics Battalion 6, 1st Marine Logistics Group (Forward) whom were in the area conducting a combat logistics patrol in support of the 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment here, May 9. Each time someone would try to approach him, he would run inside and then slowly make his way back to the step as the Marine drew back.

Cambodia, Phnom Penh. The Killing Fields of Choeung Ek, barbed wire in former Khmer Rouge prison camp.

A member of the Anti-Taliban Forces (ATF) scours a Soviet surface-to-air missile site looking for unexploded munitions dropped by coalition forces near his observation post near the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar International Airport Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

A convoy of United Nations trucks escorted by a High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) makes the 20-kilometer uphill trek, past hiking Rwandans, to take purified water to Kibumba, the nearest refugee camp. From AIRMAN Magazine's December 1994 issue article "Will You Please Pray for US" -Relief for Rwandan Refugees. Base: Goma Country: Zaire (ZAR)

Unidentified personnel off load supplies from a C-141B from the 438th Airlift Wing, McGuire Air Force Base, NJ. Subject Operation/Series: TANZANIA AIRLIFT Base: Mwanza Country: United Republic Of Tanzania (TZA)

041211-M-2583M-041. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

US Air Force (USAF) members of the 321st Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW) fill sand bags for a top cover on emergency shelters at a forward-deployed location, in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Country: Unknown

DF-ST-87-13362. Subject Operation/Series: TEAM SPIRIT '85 Base: Sachon Air Base Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)

030507-F-7203T-019. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad International Airport Country: Iraq (IRQ)

070105-N-1226D-036. Base: Puerto Quetzal State: Escuintla Department Country: Guatemala (GTM)

030220-M-4419R-036. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Camp Coyote Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Major Command Shown: 5th Marines

060303-M-0374B-016. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 40580

DA-SC-87-04688. Subject Operation/Series: ORIENT SHIELD '85 Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Fuji State: Honshu Country: Japan (JPN)

Afghanistan, Ghor Province, Pal-Kotal-I-Guk, 'Aimaq Nomad Camp

030501-F-8362B-014. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Tallil Air Base State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030406-M-4779G-006. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 1 RCT

060114-A-5745M-050. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST ABN DIV

030404-M-0715G-072. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 7th Marines

030412-F-5918G-014. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Umm Qasr Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Italian Batteria di Artiglieria M109L Self-propelled Howitzers in position at Slatina Base. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Sarajevo Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

031219-F-8489N-008. Country: Iraq (IRQ)

U.S. Soldiers guide a barrier down while a crane lowers it to a street opening near the Joint Security Station in Shula, Iraq, June 8, 2008.

U.S. Marines assigned to Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) conduct a specialized training exercise with members of the Kenyan Army during a Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET) in Isiolo, Kenya, July 1, 2022. The teams focused on honing basic skills such as basic marksmanship, small unit tactics, and mission planning.

040606-M-5555L-060. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Hurricane Point State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

050713-A-6108G-612. Base: Erbil Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Curious Afghan boys approach a Marine holding security during a medical engagement at the Aynak School in Afghanistan, July 24, 2010. Corpsmen and Marines partnered with Afghan physician Dr. Abdul Bari to treat more than 60 local Afghans during the three-hour event.

A USAF Security Policeman watches as Haitian Refugees line up for dinner inside a refugee camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. From AIRMAN Magazine's December 1994 issue article "Missions Increase Around the World - Ops Tempo: Why Am I Here". Base: Guantanamo Bay Country: Cuba (CUB)

030402-M-8539K-018. Base: Ash Shumali Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 1ST Mar Div DM

Waterhole in market place, Ati, Chad, Africa

A sailor from the tank landing ship USS BARNSTABLE COUNTY (LST-1197) videotapes some children playing in a village near the Gambian capital of Banjul during the annual West Africa Training Cruise. The BARNSTABLE COUNTY will visit eight nations during the six-week cruise, conducting training with the armed forces of each host nation, working on community relations projects and delivering humanitarian aid. Country: Gambia (GMB)

A demolished Iraqi BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle stands on a roadway in the Euphrates River Valley after being destroyed in an attack by Allied forces during Operation Desert Storm.. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Iraq(IRQ)

Outside view of the chapel on the American Contingent at Camp Pleso.(Exact date unknown). Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE PROMISE Base: Zagreb Country: Croatia (CRO)

Palestinians are devastated following an Israeli airstrike in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. Palestine.

Syria, desert, Beduin camp,

PETTY Officer 1ST Class Joseph Peterson takes a moment to warm himself by a fire. Peterson is a Seabee assigned to a Naval Mobile Construction Battalion that is preparing a camp in northern Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU)

Bags of mail for Marines stationed in Beirut are picked up from the flight line at Landing Zone Brown after delivery by helicopter. Base: Beirut Country: Lebanon (LBN)

031229-F-2167L-430. Base: Tallil Air Base State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: PACAF

The Prince Imperial War Memorial, near Dundee, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

U.S. and Côte d'Ivoirian special operations forces conduct Joint combined Exchange Training (JCET) in Adiake, Cote dIvoire August 23, 2022. JCETs enhance U.S. relationships with partner nations by developing and maintaining critical military-to-military connections and improving joint and allied readiness and interoperability.

Iraqi children show their support for the presence of US Marine Corps (USMC) Marine assigned to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Special Operations Capable (SOC), as a convoy makes its way North, through Southern Iraq to support Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Members of the 823rd Red Horse Squadron from Hurlbert Field Florida and the 49th Material Maintenance Group from Holloman Air Force Base New Mexico build one of 500 tents to house upwards of 4,000 personnel in support of the relocation of Operation Southern Watch. Subject Operation/Series: Desert Focus Base: Prince Sultan Air Base Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU)

Iraq, Ninawa province, Tall Afar on 2022-10-17. Report on explosive remnants of war in Iraq, one of the most contaminated countries in the world after forty years of conflict, instability and especially the recent occupation of the country by the Islamic State group, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Ottawa Treaty, the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention prohibiting the acquisition, production, stockpiling and use of mines. Here, Salih, a teenage shepherd who lived through the Daesh occupation and whose house still bears bullet holes. Photograph by Martin Bertrand. Irak, province de Ninive, Tel Afar le 2022-10-17. Reportage sur les restes explosifs de guerre en Irak, lun des pays les plus contamines au monde suite a quarante ans de conflits, dinstabilité et surtout par loccupation recente du pays par le groupe Etat islamique, a l'occasion des 25 ans du Traite d'Ottawa, la Convention sur linterdiction des mines antipersonnel prohibant lacquisition, la production, le sto

040507-F-4539R-010. Base: Tallil Air Base State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: CENTCOM

Personnel with the 16th Special Operation Squadron, Hurlburt Field, Florida, work on setting up a temper tent to be used as their operations center at an airport in east Africa. A satellite dish is located behind the tent. US Air Force aircraft are bringing in materiel and equipment to support the operation which is the withdrawal of the United Nations' peacekeepers from Mogadishu, Somalia. Subject Operation/Series: UNITED SHIELD Country: Somalia (SOM)

Tent city conditions at Rinas Airport, Tirana, Albania, continue to improve on a daily basis. Rinas is the site of the humanitarian relief mission, Sustain Hope, supporting the Kosovar refugees (not shown) US Airmen roll a wheelbarrow load of mud along a gravel walkway in front of tented living quarters. This mission is in direct support of Operation Sustain Hope. Subject Operation/Series: SUSTAIN HOPE Base: Rinas State: Tirana Country: Albania (ALB)

U.S. Marines with Battalion Landing Team, 2d Battalion, 5th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, and Philippine Marines navigate across a valley as a rehearsal for the combined-arms, live-fire exercise during KAMANDAG 6 at Colonel Ernesto Rabina Air Base, Philippines, Oct. 12, 2022. KAMANDAG is an annual, bilateral exercise between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and U.S. military designed to strengthen interoperability, capabilities, trust and cooperation built over decades of shared experiences.

Local personnel load trucks with supplies that will be driven to Rwanda to the refugee camps. Subject Operation/Series: TANZANIA AIRLIFT Base: Mwanza Country: United Republic Of Tanzania (TZA)

Alcalá de Guadaira (Seville), 09/10/2023. The Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, visits the Santa Bárbara Sistemas factory to review the VCZAP Castor and VCR 8x8 Dragon for the Army. Photo: Raúl Doblado. ARCHSEV.

Rwanda prisons hold thousands of suspected genocidaires.

050623-A-6108G-120. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Sulaymaniyah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050601-A-6108G-401. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Dohuk Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050523-A-8255A-036. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Mchenry State: Kirkuk Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Dinka tribesmen and their cattle escape attack by government forces in Sudan

In downtown Georgetown, MASTER SGT. Michael R. Shakal, TECH. SGT. David S. Bendele and TECH. SGT. Anthony Lewis from the 820th Red Horse Squadron, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada discuss the construction of St. Mary's Primary School. The 820th part of Combined Task Force Falcon will rebuild the school, by the middle of September 1997 as part of New Horizon '97, the first combined humanitarian and civic assistance exercise conducted between the United States and Guyana. Military personnel from the Air Force, Air Force Reserve & National Guard, Army, Army National Guard and Marine Corps participated in the exercise which included engineering and medical readiness training. Subject Operation/Series: NEW HORIZON '97 Country: French Guiana (GUF)

An overview of a camp built by a Naval Mobile Construction Battalion during Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU)

041118-M-2353F-002. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

An Afghan man lights a cooking fire in Now Zad, Afghanistan, while U.S. Marines with 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment survey the reconstruction process in the town. Marines employ local Afghans to repair the city and help with the restoration of shops and businesses.

A U.S. Marine with "Charley" Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, plants the Suicide Charley” flag on a hill while executing Range 400 during Integrated Training Exercise (ITX) 4-22 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC), Twentynine Palms, Calif., July 25, 2022. As the Marine Corps Reserve’s premier annual training event, ITX provides opportunities to mobilize geographically dispersed forces for a deployment; increase combat readiness and lethality; and exercise MAGTF command and control of battalions and squadrons across the full spectrum of warfare.

Shot of an entry control point to Belet Huen Field, Somalia. Canadian Forces assigned to the Joint Task Force are guarding the point. A Canadian Forced Light Armored Vehicle (LAV) is at the left while a bunker with a Canadian Flag is to the right of the frame. Some Somali Nationals gather near the bunker. This mission is in direct support of Operation Restore Hope. Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE Base: Belet Huen Country: Somalia (SOM)

USA, Virginia, Yorktown Victory Center, Continental Army encampment, surgeon's tent

050623-A-6108G-124. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Sulaymaniyah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

181107-N-WR252-068TINIAN, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (Nov. 7, 2018) Sailors assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 1 and Tinian officials erect a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) provided tent for a Tinian family whose home was destroyed by Super Typhoon Yutu, Nov. 7, 2018. Service members from Joint Region Marianas and Indo-Pacific Command are providing Department of Defense support to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands' civil and local officials as part of the FEMA-supported Super Typhoon Yutu recovery efforts.

Army paratroopers from 1ST Battalion, 509th Infantry, Vicenza, unload boxes of clothing from a UH-1H Iroquois helicopter during relief efforts after a major earthquake on November 23. Base: San Gregorio Country: Italy (ITA)

021203-F-2753-005. Base: Mountain Home Air Force Base State: Idaho (ID) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: Air combat Command

060307-A-1211S-046. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Normandy State: Diyala Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: A

Shot from a high angle down at two Somali men loading large bags of Australian wheat in the back of a truck for transport into the village of Maleel. The delivery of the donated wheat was cooperative effort between the US Marines, who provided the helicopter air support and the Australian Army, which provided ground perimeter security. This mission is in direct support of Operation Restore Hope. Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE Base: Mogadishu Country: Somalia (SOM)

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Timothy Sanders, 268th Military Police Company commander, plays soccer with a child at Chabelley Village, Djibouti, June 9, 2022. While visiting the village, Airmen with the 776th Expeditionary Air Base Squadron and Soldiers with Task Force Red Dragon built a swing set for the village school, assessed the schools electricity, and gave out clothes, toys, and sweets to children.

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