Military Communication and Technology

Images of military technicians operating advanced communications consoles aboard ships and bases, illustrating the technology used for mission support and operations.

DF-ST-87-01080. Base: Grissom Air Force Base State: Indiana (IN) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Interior Communications Technician 2nd Class Lori Richards works at the automated monitoring system console in damage control central aboard the salvage ship USS GRAPPLE (ARS-53). The GRAPPLE is towing three minesweepers to the Persian Gulf to support U.S. Navy escort operations. Country: Unknown

DF-ST-87-01080. Base: Grissom Air Force Base State: Indiana (IN) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DN-SC-86-10309. Base: USS Coral Sea (CV 43) Country: Mediterranean Sea (MED)

Interior view of the maintenance shop as SGT. Gay Wortman and STAFF SGT. Charles Snider perform their duties, during a mission briefing for the 1361st Audio Visual Squadron, Detachment Seven. Base: Charleston Air Force Base State: South Carolina (SC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Technicians monitor the propulsion system of the Aegis guided missile cruiser USS Ticonderoga (CG 47) from their stations at the engineering control board. Country: Mediterranean Sea (MED)

DN-ST-87-04780. Base: Naval Air Station, Sigonella State: Sicily Country: Italy (ITA)

Electronics Technician 3rd Class Curdal and Electronics Technician 3rd Class Coleman repair receivers in the Electronics Repair Shop of the Naval Communication Area MASTER Station, Atlantic. Base: Naval Air Station, Norfolk State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Students learn Trident missile launching procedures at the Trident Training Facility. Base: Naval Submarine Base, Bangor State: Washington (WA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

T/Sgt. Al Biller Of Communications Section Operating Air To Ground Station. Panama.

DN-SC-89-08048. Base: USS Dwight D Eisenhower (CVN 69) Country: Mediterranean Sea (MED)

TSGT Fred Crum discusses air traffic control operations with a civilian counterpart, at the Oakland Airport Control Tower. Base: Oakland State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DF-ST-88-07466. Base: Scott Air Force Base State: Illinois (IL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Work Technical Service on board Wolf-Class Frigate Hr.Ms. Jaguar (1954-1983), 1977

Members of a deployed base assistance team work at the distribution communications processor, linked to a system at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia. The equipment is used to process information during Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD DESERT STORM Country: Saudi Arabia(SAU)

An air intercept controller monitors a radar screen in the combat information center aboard the guided missile cruiser USS BUNKER HILL (CG-52) during Operation Desert Shield. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Country: Persian Gulf

980401-F-8705R-016. Base: Mountain Home Air Force Base State: Idaho (ID) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Crewmen monitor equipment inside the sonar station aboard the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI (SSN-705). Country: Unknown

Missile Technician 1ST Class (Submarines) (MT1) (SS) Bruce Gelinas sits at a control room console and participates in a simulated missile firing aboard the nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine OHIO (SSBN-726). The submarine built by General Dynamics Corp., carries TRIDENT C-4 (UGM-96) submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM). Base: Naval Submarine Base, Groton State: Connecticut (CT) Country: United States Of America (USA)

First Lieutenant Tim Schroth tests the MICROFIX battlefield intelligence analysis system. Depot technicians developed the system using commercially available computer components. Base: Tobyhanna Army Depot State: Pennsylvania (PA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DN-SC-87-02868. Base: USS Saratoga (CV 60) Country: Mediterranean Sea (MED)

DF-ST-87-11706. Subject Operation/Series: WILLIAM TELL '86 Base: Tyndall Air Force Base State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

LTC Palmer McGrew II, U.S. Army, and MSGT Willie Collins, U.S. Air Force, sit at their operations positions in the Washington terminal of the Washington-Moscow direct communications link. Country: Unknown

A crewman aboard the attack submarine USS BONEFISH (SS-582) reads gauges on a control panel during exercise Unitas XX. Subject Operation/Series: UNITAS XX Base: Talcahuano Country: Chile (CHL)

Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Wayne French reviews a videotape on a portable editing system in the Navy Combat Camera Team office at the Joint Task Force Somalia headquarters compound. The headquarters was established at the former U. S. Embassy compound during the multinational relief effort OPERATION RESTORE HOPE. Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE Base: Mogadishu Country: Somalia (SOM)

Chuck Clayton, a contract employee with the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), starts up the Victor simulator at the system console aboard an NRL P-3B Orion aircraft. Victor is flown against ships and decoy systems to collect signature data and evaluate the effectiveness of countermeasures. Base: Naval Air Station Patuxent River State: Maryland (MD) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DF-ST-85-03457. Base: Holloman Air Force Base State: New Mexico (NM) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DF-ST-89-05649. Base: Lowry Air Force Base State: Colorado (CO) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DF-ST-89-01159. Base: Maxwell Air Force Base State: Alabama (AL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DA-ST-86-06233. Country: Unknown

DA-ST-86-03023. State: Hawaii (HI) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DF-ST-89-05051. Base: Langley Air Force Base State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Boom operator on a USAF Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker aerial refueling tanker. The operator is seated in what used to be the Navigator position. After navigators were dropped from crews, the Boom operators utilized the position when not refueling

USS MISSOURI Navigating Officer, Cdr. Hylan B. Lyon, at work in the chart house, during the shakedown cruise. August 1944.

Maintenance in the cockpit of a breeder F.27-300M Troopship on the Soesterberg airbase.

DN-SC-87-10043. Base: Navy Annex Building, Washington State: District Of Columbia (DC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

SGT Amy J. Hearn of the 37th Component Repair Squadron repairs an APX-76 transmitter in the squadron's communications shop. Base: George Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DN-SN-89-04807. Base: USS Belleau Wood (LHA 3)

970210-F-7415S-025. Base: Randolph Air Force Base State: Texas (TX) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: AETC

CAPT. Bonita Nolan and CAPT. Wendy McNiel from the 90th Missile Wing/Minuteman Crew, reset a tripped circuit breaker in the Missile Procedures Trainer. The Inspector General Team tested the ability of the base to respond to battle conditions, power outages, mobility deployments, aircraft and automobile accidents, hostage situations, bomb threats, armed robberies, terrorism, and communication problems. Subject Operation/Series: Operational Readiness Inspection, 90th Space Wing, 11-25 Mar Base: Francis E. Warren Air Force Base State: Wyoming (WY) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Sighting Iceberg Target. Lieutenant (jg) Thomas F. Budinger, USCGR, looks through the bombsight aboard the Coast Guard UF-2G plane preparatory to squeezing the trigger with his right hand that will release a 1,000-lb. general purpose conventional type bomb on the iceberg target. LT Budinger hails from Springfield, Ill. He was also bombardier on the aerial Iceberg Destruction Tests conducted during the 1959 International Ice Patrol. On that mission he devised a simple bombsight which enabled making direct hits on iceberg targets with very few misses. He is using the same device on this year's tests.

Bushfires - Radio Control Units - Misc. October 3, 1946. (Photo by Frederick John Halmarick/Fairfax Media).

Cuban Missile Crisis.1960S -- Strategic Air Command personnel interpreting reconnaissance photo during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. (U.S. Air Force

Officers monitor communications and command consoles in the command post of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Cheyenne Mountain Complex. State: Colorado (CO) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A radar weapons controller team monitors a radar console for possible targets during exercise William Tell '80. Subject Operation/Series: WILLIAM TELL '80 Base: Tyndall Air Force Base State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

An instructor and students go over material at the Military Airlift Command's Airlift Training Center. The center provides initial training for pilots, navigators and flight engineers and also provides courses for C-141 Starlifter and C-5 Galaxy aircraft. Base: Altus Air Force Base State: Oklahoma (OK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DF-ST-88-09953. Base: Whiteman Air Force Base State: Missouri (MO) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Some of the officers of Attack Squadron 176 (VA-176) attend a meeting in the squadron ready room aboard the aircraft carrier USS FORRESTAL (CV 59). Base: USS Forrestal (CV 59) Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)

DF-ST-89-05041. Base: Langley Air Force Base State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Doctors use a microfiche machine to help them identify a Marine casualty inside a processing center. The casualty is the result of a terrorist bomb attack at the Marine barracks and headquarters building in Beirut, Lebanon. Base: Rhein-Main Air Base Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)

DN-ST-90-00625. Base: Naval Air Station, Sigonella State: Sicily Country: Italy (ITA)

TSGT Kathy D. Lavender confirms the completed maintenance of an A-10 Thunderbolt. TSGT Lavender is from the 110th Fighter Group, Air National Guard Base, Battle Creek, Michigan. The 110th Fighter Group is deployed to Aviano to relieve the 81st Fighter Squadron of Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, in time for the Christmas holidays. The 81st and the 110th are deployed to Aviano to enforce the United Nations no-fly zone over war-torn Bosnia-Herzegovina. Subject Operation/Series: DENY FLIGHT Base: Aviano Air Base State: Pordenone Country: Italy (ITA)

SRA Mark Walker of the 37th Equipment Maintenance Squadron works on a belt of 20mm cannon ammunition in the squadron armament shop. Base: George Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Naval AIRMAN Elizabeth L. Miller, right, and Aviation Electronics Technician AIRMAN Karry N. Philbin keep watch over the flight line and runways from the crash tower. The tower is part of the crash barn, which houses the air station's fire equipment and crash trucks. Base: Naval Air Station, Sigonella State: Sicily Country: Italy (ITA)

United States Air Force officers train on T-45 navigator simulators as Instructor Navigator MAJ Robert Woodrow and Control Operator TSGT Ernest Gergmann, left to right, operate the controls of the complex. Base: Mather Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DA-ST-87-01545. Base: Fort Lee State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DF-SC-85-12927. Base: Griffiss Air Force Base State: New York (NY) Country: United States Of America (USA)

STAFF SGT. Stanton Yarbrough, a maintenance technician with the1957th Information Systems Group (ISG), adjusts a radiometer as Eugene Kraus looks on at the Palehua Solar Observatory. The 1957th ISG also maintains radio communication between commanders, air bases and military forces throughout the Pacific area, and is responsible for data automation, telephone systems, power production, the Military Affiliated Radio System and various other responsibilities. Base: Oahu State: Hawaii (HI) Country: United States Of America (USA)

US Navy AIRMAN Apprentice (AA) Robert Ging monitors the pressure gauge on an Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) fire fighting agent, pump station aboard the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS NIMITZ (CVN 68). The NIMITZ and her embarked air wing continue to conduct normal ship board maintenance and preparation, while patrolling the waters and the skies in the Northern Persian Gulf. U.S. Forces are enforcing UN sanctions against Iraq under Operation SOUTHERN WATCH, 24 November 1997. US Navy Airman Apprentice (AA) Robert Ging monitors the pressure gauge on an Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) fire fighting agent, pump station aboard the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS NIMITZ (CVN 68). The NIMITZ and her embarked air wing continue to conduct normal ship board maintenance and preparation, while patrolling the waters and the skies in the Northern Persian Gulf. U.S. Forces are enforcing UN sanctions against Iraq under Operation SOUTHERN WATCH, 24 November 1997.

980216-F-1434K-001. Base: Nellis Air Force Base State: Nevada (NV) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: ACC

Air Force personnel from the 678th Air Defense Group work in the control room during exercise Ocean Venture '82. Subject Operation/Series: OCEAN VENTURE '82 Base: Tyndall Air Force Base State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DN-SC-86-12422. Base: USS Saratoga (CV 60) Country: Mediterranean Sea (MED)

Sgt. 1ST Class Robert France 7th Infantry Division (Light), enters information into a computer terminal at the forward area support facility during exercise Brim Frost '87. Subject Operation/Series: BRIM FROST '87 Base: Fort Greely State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A1C David Tobin and SRA Anthony Zielinski, telephone switching specialists with the 1930th Information Systems Squadron troubleshoot Autovon trucks on the base's rotary dial system. Base: Elmendorf Air Force Base State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DA-SC-86-02992. Base: Fort Bragg State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DF-ST-85-03489. Base: Homestead Air Force Base State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Soldiers participate in a computer training session in the computer room of the National Training Center. Base: Fort Irwin State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A Sergeant of Aircraft Quadron 320 (VSQ 320) warms up a meal in the pantry on board a Lockheed P-3C Orion of the Marine Aviation Service (MLD).

Officer (LTZ2) in Daags hold (holding 6).

A member of the 2179th Information Systems Group repairs a speaker for a public address system. Base: Patrick Air Force Base State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DN-SC-90-00735. Base: Naval Air Station, Miramar State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Crewmen watch television while sitting at a table in the crew lounge aboard the nuclear-powered fleet ballistic missile submarine OHIO (SSBN-726). The crewmen are assigned to precommissioning duty aboard the submarine built by General Dynamics Corp. Base: Naval Submarine Base, Groton State: Connecticut (CT) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DA-SC-88-03359. Base: Tobyhanna Army Depot State: Pennsylvania (PA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DN-SN-89-07472. Base: Naval Air Station, Cubi Point Country: Philippines (PHL)

SGT Barry M. Jacobs, Instrument System Section, 316th Field Maintenance Squadron, tests an airspeed indicator. Base: Yokota Air Base Country: Japan (JPN)

Data Processing SEAMAN Apprentice (DPSA) Maverick Ramirez tracks jobs on his computer for the up keep of submarines on board the submarine tender USS HOLLAND (AS-32). Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)

A crewman aboard the attack submarine USS BONEFISH (SS-582) makes an adjustment on a control panel during exercise Unitas XX. Subject Operation/Series: UNITAS XX Base: Talcahuano Country: Chile (CHL)

DF-ST-89-01151. Base: Maxwell Air Force Base State: Alabama (AL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Ms. Livingston, the Under Secretary of the Army for...chats with members of the Armed Forces Inaugural Committee (AFIC), J-6 directorate during her visit to the AFIC. Base: Washington State: District Of Columbia (DC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

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