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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

030518M-0367H-001. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Karbala Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040922-M-0095Z-022. Base: Fob Echo State: Al Qadisiyah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030321-M-9792P-004. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 11th Marines Regiment

Tourists on fortress wall, Essaouira, Morocco

U.S. Air Force Explosive Ordnance Disposal specialists assigned to the 378th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron, set up a breaching charge at Prince Sultan Air Base, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Aug. 18, 2022. Brig. Gen. William Betts, the commander of the 378th Air Expeditionary Wing, and other 378th AEW leadership visited the EOD team to learn about their capabilities and recognize their outstanding performers.

Ruins of former War Lord's rebel headquarters

050902-N-1467R-059. Base: Andrews Air Force Base State: Maryland (MD) Country: United States Of America (USA)

SSgt Henry Lucien, SPC Stacey Morse and SPC John Hocevar, all members of the 108th Military Police (MP) Company, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, guard the house of President Jean Bertrand Aristide at Port-au-Prince, Haiti during Operation Uphold Democracy. U.S. military forces are in Haiti to preserve law and order and to restore the democratic government of President Aristide. Exact Date Shot Unknown. Subject Operation/Series: UPHOLD DEMOCRACY Base: Port Au Prince Country: Haiti (HTI)

Sgt. Joshua Smith, a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Divisions 1st Brigade Combat Team, chats with an Afghan boy during an Afghan-led clearing operation April 28, 2012, Ghazni province, Afghanistan. The soldier studied the Pashtun language prior to his deployment to southern Ghazni.

Under the shade of camouflage netting, two civilian journalists interview Colonel Dubik Commander 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division during Operation Uphold Democracy. Subject Operation/Series: UPHOLD DEMOCRACY Base: Port Au Prince Country: Haiti (HTI)

Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge - New Orleans Flood Operations - 26-HK-398-51. Hurricane Katrina

030228-M-5150A-012. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Camp Coyote Country: Kuwait (KWT)

030826-M-7837W-003. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Jaber Air Base Country: Kuwait (KWT)

DN-ST-85-02025. Subject Operation/Series: URGENT FURY Country: Grenada (GRD)

Lt. Gen. Ken Keen, deputy commander, U.S. Southern Command and commanding general, Joint Task Force-Haiti speaks at a memorial service held for Air Force Lt. Col. Kenneth Bourland at Logistic Support Area Dragon here Feb. 12. Bourland perished in the Jan. 12 earthquake that rocked the nation of Haiti.

Kurdish men gather support poles to erect additional tents at a refugee camp near Zakhu, Iraq. U.S. and allied troops established the camp as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid the thousands of Kurds who fled their homes after fighting broke out between Kurdish groups and Iraqi government forces following Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORTDESERT STORM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Two men sit on a wall near a road sign on the edge of Zakhu. U.S. and coalition troops are patrolling the city as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq and southern Turkey. Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Base: Zakhu Country: Iraq (IRQ)

DN-ST-85-08476. Base: Freetown Country: Sierra Leone (SLE)

Members of the Navy Hot Air Balloon Team combine their efforts to fold the nylon balloon upon landing during the10th anniversary of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. Base: Nwef, Albuquerque State: New Mexico (NM) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Hospital Corpsman Julian Lawton hangs clothes out to dry after doing his laundry in the Bay of Aqaba. Lawton is in Jordan to take part in SHADOW HAWK, the segment of the multiservice Exercise BRIGHT STAR '87 that tests joint Jordan-US operations. Subject Operation/Series: SHADOW HAWKBRIGHT STAR Base: Aqaba Country: Jordan (JOR)

030413-M-0175R-068. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Soldiers in traditional dress, Amber Fort, Jaipur, Rajasthan

Kurdish refugees assist a member of U.S. Navy Beachmaster Unit 2 in dragging a tent during the establishment of a tent city near Zakhu. The encampment is being erected as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid Kurds who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq. Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq (IRQ)

DN-ST-85-02027. Subject Operation/Series: URGENT FURY Country: Grenada (GRD)

061026-N-5361G-003. Base: Limassol Country: Cyprus (CYP)

Commandoes of Rapid Action Force keeping vigil on area after bomb blast on 29th September 2008 Malegaon Maharashtra India Copyright: xManoejxPaateel/DinodiaxPhotox

Russian support personnel work to help get crew members out of the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft shortly after the capsule landed with Expedition 27 Commander Dmitry Kondratyev and Flight Engineers Paolo Nespoli and Cady Coleman in a remote area southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Tuesday, May 24, 2011. NASA Astronaut Coleman, Russian Cosmonaut Kondratyev and Italian Astronaut Nespoli are returning from more than five months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 26 and 27 crews.

970310-A-6435A-004. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT GUARD Base: Jusici Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

030403-M-9792P-006. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 11th Marines Regiment

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to Pima County, Arizona's border area with Mexico, where he joined U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel for meetings, tours, flights, inspections

An overview of the mobile Tactical Operations Center, headquarters for exercise Market Square III activities. Subject Operation/Series: MARKET SQUARE III Base: Pope Air Force Base State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

961228-F-8754M-005. Base: Colusa State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Balad Air Base Iraq

060527-A-0527A-010. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagran Airfield Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

Guard check point outside the Mandera prison where 5 pirates are being held.

030809-M-7837W-001. Base: Bagram Air Base State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

Asia, Vietnam, South Vietnam.

Africa's oldest civil war is being fought by men like these

060224-N-4772B-140. Base: Guinsahugon State: Leyte Country: Philippines (PHL) Scene Major Command Shown: Himbangan, Philippines

Joint Task Force 160 personnel lay out a frame for a tent that will be used to house personnel arriving to help handle the flow of Cubans fleeing Cuba. Subject Operation/Series: SEA SIGNAL V Base: Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay Country: Cuba (CUB)

Somalis gather to draw from a well in the village. The Moroccan Army maintains a base in Marka. Subject Operation/Series: UNOSOM II Base: Marka Country: Somalia (SOM)

Afghan Man in Traditional Pashtun Outfit Atop Sandbagged Wall

050703-A-1906W-001. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Tallil Area Office Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: USACE

A local Albanian documents the protest near the town of Domerovce, Kosovo. After two Serbian men disappeared, Serbians believed Albanians abducted the men and began to make threats and road obstructions to stop Albanians from traveling safely through town. Albanians began to form a mob to confront the Serbians until United States Army and Russian Kosovo Force (KFOR) troops made a wall between the opposing sides. Task Force Falcon, Opeation Joint Guardian, 14 August 2000. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT GUARDIAN Base: Domorovce State: Kosovo Country: Yugoslavia (YUG)

Kurdish refugees converse in a field beside a tent city on the outskirts of Zakhu as an UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter delivers supplies in the background. The encampment was established as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid those fleeing the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq. Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq(IRQ)

Russian support personnel work around the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft shortly after it landed n a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan with Expedition 62 crew members Jessica Meir and Drew Morgan of NASA, and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos, Friday, April 17, 2020. Meir and Skripochka returned after 205 days in space, and Morgan after 272 days in space. All three served as Expedition 60-61-62 crew members onboard the International Space Station.

Alaska Air National Guard Senior Airman Emily Batchelor, a public affairs specialist with the 176th Wing from Eagle River, explains how service members from Joint Task Force - Bethel are going to repair a damaged porched as part of Operation Merbok Response in Toksook Bay, Alaska, Sept. 24, 2022. More than 130 members of the Alaska Organized Militia, which includes members of the Alaska National Guard, Alaska State Defense Force and Alaska Naval Militia, were activated following a disaster declaration issued Sept. 17 after the remnants of Typhoon Merbok caused dramatic flooding across more than 1,000 miles of Alaskan coastline. (Alaska National Guard photo by 1st Lt. Balinda O'Neal)

030417-M-1112H-139. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: An Nasariyah State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Nomads in mock combat, Kenya, Africa.

040710-A-3978J-015. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Mosul Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 2-3 INF

Rwanda prisons hold thousands of suspected genocidaires.

051215-A-4182R-010. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Karbala Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 155 BCT

Sailors, Marines, and equipment supporting training for the U.S. Navys 4th Medical Battalion are shown at the Combined Arms Collective Training Facility on Aug. 17, 2022, at Fort McCoy, Wis. Everything supporting the 4th Medical Battalion was for training supporting a Combat Support Training Exercise as well as a Global Medic exercise going on at Fort McCoy. The battalion conducted a wide variety of medical training scenarios from the training area.

A mosque was partially damaged during an encounter. Seven militants were killed and three civilians and four from the armed forces were injured in two separate gunfights in South Kashmir, which reported the highest spike of casualties in a single day this year in the region. Kashmir.

050325-N-5319A-012. State: Babil Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 155 BCT

Members of 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) and the Indonesian National Armed Forces conduct a successful High Altitude, High Opening (HAHO) military free fall rehearsal during Garuda Shield 22 near Baturaja, Indonesia, Aug. 2, 2022. Garuda Shield, a part of Operation Pathways and a longstanding annual, bilateral military exercise conducted between the U.S. military and Indonesia National Armed Forces, reinforces the U.S. commitments to our allies, and regional partners, joint readiness, and the interoperability to fight and win together. #SuperGarudaShield #FreeAndOpenIndoPacific

061224-N-5330L-069. Country: United Arab Emerites (UAE)

Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) team, work at a recovery site in Quang Binh Province, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Feb. 26, 2023. DPAAs mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and our nation.

With Joint Combat Casualty Center personnel on hand to gather information, members of a joint U.S./Vietnamese anthropological team prepare to sift through ground and rock fragments in an effort to locate personal effects of an American pilot whose A-7 Corsair II aircraft crashed at the site on Dong Nua Mountain, Quang Binh Province during the war in Vietnam.. Country: Viet Nam(VNM)

Heavily laden porters enter village gateway, Tal, Marsyandi Valley

Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Elmina. Abese Number Two, an Asafo Post that represents the role of the air force throughout Elmina's history.

040612-M-5555L-017. Base: Camp Ali (AR RAMADI) State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to Pima County, Arizona's border area with Mexico, where he joined U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel for meetings, tours, flights, inspections

Policemen inspecting site of bomb blast also large number of people gathered to look at the site at Zaveri Bazaar in busy Kalbadevi area Bombay Mumbai Maharashtra India On August 26th 2003 Copyright: xManoejxPaateel/DinodiaxPhotox

Ranger with the seized products of the poaching Kenya

The Auschwitz concentration camp, Oswiecim, Poland.

Indonesian Army soldiers conduct a cordon and search exercise during Garuda Canti Dharma II / Multinational Peacekeeping Exercise 22 at Pusat Misi Pemeliharaan, Indonesia, July 20, 2022. Cordon and search is a tactic used to secure an area, and search the premises for weapons or insurgents. Exercise Garuda Canti Dharma II enables instructors from multiple countries to integrate and provide cross education, strengthening cohesion between allies and partners.

Soldiers in traditional dress, Amber Fort, Jaipur, Rajasthan

040420-F-2902B-002. Base: Agur Quf, Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Ahamed Kiffeh, from the village of Bonta pumps water from a well installed by the 775th Engineering Detachment in Djibouti, Feb. 20, 2009. The 775th detachment falls under the 194th Engineer Brigade of the Tennessee Army National Guard, based out of Jackson, TN. The engineering detachment is currently deployed to Africa in support of Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, the primary mission of which is to help Africans solve African challenges.

030419-M-5607A-029. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Nu'Maniyah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Auschwitz concentration camp

An MP from the 511th Military Police Company, Fort Drum, New York, sits on the ground with five Somali nationals. The Somalis were hired to drive the news media from place to place. Three 500 pounds lie in front of the men in the foreground. They sit outside the entrance to one of 38 bunkers (not shown) found by MPs just north of Mogadishul, Somalia. This mission is in direct support of Operation Restore Hope. Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE Base: Afgoi Country: Somalia (SOM)

The Memorial of the Fallen Parachutists in Tunisia, in remembrance of the Italian Axis Folgore Parachute Brigade, Takrouna, Tunisia.

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