Military Community Service Activities

Images depict military personnel engaging in community service, including food preparation and distribution at various locations, showcasing teamwork and support for local communities.

The United States Army's most qualified uniformed interrogation teams met at Fort Bragg, North Carolina to compete in the inaugural Army Interrogation Olympics to determine the Army's Best Interrogation Team of the Year. Military Intelligence Soldiers from Regular Army, Army Reserve, and Army National Guard components met and thrived in an austere field environment while refining and improving individual and collective HUMINT, analytical, leader, and Soldier skills. The competition was hosted by the 525th Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade from August 8 to 10, 2022.
The United States Army's most qualified uniformed interrogation teams met at Fort Bragg, North Carolina to compete in the inaugural Army Interrogation Olympics to determine the Army's Best Interrogation Team of the Year. Military Intelligence Soldiers from Regular Army, Army Reserve, and Army National Guard components met and thrived in an austere field environment while refining and improving individual and collective HUMINT, analytical, leader, and Soldier skills. The competition was hosted by the 525th Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade from August 8 to 10, 2022.
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Spc. William Cook of Hana, Hawaii, distributes milk to the children of the Ban Pong Wua School in rural Thailand as part of the Cobra Gold joint humanitarian mission hosted at the Ban Nong Buatong School in the Chanthaburi District of Thailand Jan. 24 to Feb. 11. Present on the new classroom facility job site were the Hawaii National Guard, 230th Engineer Company, Vertical and the Royal Thai Marine Engineer Battalion.
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A volunteer with the New Bern Chamber of Commerce Military Allianceserves food to a U.S. Marine at the 2022 Fall Chicken Pickin on Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, Oct. 5, 2022. The event allowed service members to gather and enjoy free food and music. The New Bern Chamber of Commerce Military Alliance prepared and served more than 100 chickens to service members and their families.
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U.S. Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Luke D. Lyon, Bioenvironmental Engineering, left, and Airman 1st Class Celeste Lopez, Bioenvironmental Technician, right, of the 185th Air Refueling Wings Medical Group, sort mock mosquitos at the Savannah Combat Readiness Training Center in Savannah, Georgia, on June 23, 2022. Medical Group Airmen are at the CRTC as a part of their annual training period.
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Lt. Cmdr. Anna Achlenker, a clinical nurse specialist assigned to the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), passes out translator wristbands at the medical site in Jeremie, Haiti, during Continuing Promise 2022, Dec. 12, 2022. Comfort is deployed to U.S. 4th Fleet in support of CP22, a humanitarian assistance and goodwill mission conducting direct medical care, expeditionary veterinary care, and subject matter expert exchanges with five partner nations in the Caribbean, Central and South America.
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The City of Belleville, Ill., and Belleville Mayor Patty Gregory, 932d Airlift Wing Honorary Wing Commander, hosted a military appreciation lunch for the 932d, May 15, 2022, at Scott Air Force Base, Ill. The lunch was gifted to the 932d as a thank you from the local community and Casa Maria Mexican Grill and Tienda El Ranchito provided food and Mayor Gregory provided beverages and decorations.
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Soldiers with the 1-221 Cavalry process shipments of medical supplies in response to COVID-19, Wednesday, Apr. 08, 2020, Las Vegas, Nevada.
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A member of Team Kirtland receives an informational pamphlet during a base helping agencies open house at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., April 21, 2022. KAFB hosted the event to highlight services from agencies such as the Airman and Family Readiness Flight, Base Chapel, Military OneSource and more.
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Leaders of the 10th Mountain Division and 34th Infantry Division break bread with members of the Iraqi Media May 3 in Contingency Operating Base Basra. The gathering was to introduce the media to the organizations and to begin a relationsip of openness.
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U.S. service members and their families receive autographs from Atlanta Falcons team members during their visit to Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, Sept. 20, 2022. The National Football League players showed their appreciation for JBLM service members by participating in military demonstrations, touring the units on base and meeting service members.
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The first step on the Protect Program escape room scenario, held May 4, takes place in a bar. Soldiers participating in the program are looking for clues to find a journal entry that gives them a peek into the mind of a Soldier that has been sexually assaulted, as well as prompting them onto the next step in their journey.
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U.S. Army Service members, civilian employees assigned to US Army Garrison Fort Hamilton, and community partners from the US Marine Corps and US Coast Guard attended the Fort Hamilton Community Information Exchange at the post's fitness center on Jan. 24, 2024. The event allowed garrison staff and organizations to provide service members, families and civilians with current information and practices from installation support partners to increase awareness and sustain the mission and family readiness on and off the post.
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100829-A-1182G-059 U.S. Army Maj. Michael Gardner, with a civil military support team gives jars of jam to residents in the village of Bahshekel in the Parwan province of Afghanistan on Aug. 29, 2010. Civil military support team members and a South Korean provincial reconstruction team visited the village to inspect an irrigation site.
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041221-M-3988H-001. Base: Al Asad State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)
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As Samawah, April 23, 2004. © Henry Westendorp / Royal Navy. "Women's Day" for Japanese and Dutch female soldiers. On this day the ladies visited each other's camp and introduced each other to the folklore of their country and some aspects of their work in Iraq.
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U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Stephen E. Liszewski, commanding general of Marine Corps Installations Pacific, Marine Corps Base Camp Butler, visits a barracks renovation construction site during a station tour on Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa, Japan, June 27, 2022. Liszewski visited MCAS Futenma as his first tour of all MCIPAC installations after he assumed command. The tour included a brief about the historical location of the station, a visit to the flight line, and the Marines barracks.
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Inter-American Defense College Leadership greeted dignitaries for a Central American Independence Day Celebration hosted by students at the IADC on Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C., Sept. 15, 2022. IADC students celebrate the Independence Day of all nations represented by students with a presentation about the country, food and a 5k run.
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Staff Sgt. Kristina Robbins, the logistics noncommissioned officer in charge assigned to 2nd Battalion, 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade, poses in front of the unit's donation area, Dec. 13, at Fort Benning, Ga. The unit held its third annual toy and food drive this year where Soldiers from across the organization came together to donate over 1,500 items. The most rewarding part about this for me is to be a part of an organization that can give back so much with everything else going on the entire battalion still came through, still showed up and was able to prioritize and contribute that many items to the community.Im very proud of them and that it this is just a way to show that this organization is so much more than just come into work and going a nine to five.U.S. Army photo by Maj. Jason Elmore
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U.S. Army Sgt. Jeremy Gardner and U.S. Army Sgt. Christopher An, members assigned to Joint Task Force - Bravo (JTF-B), learn from a local representative about their organization and how to work to address food stability during a natural disaster at the Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response Seminar in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, 2 Nov. CP22 is a humanitarian assistance and goodwill mission conducting direct medical care, expeditionary veterinary care, and subject matter expert exchanges with five partner nations in the Caribbean, Central and South America.
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031004-F-3378P-005. Base: Great Falls Intl Airport State: Montana (MT) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: Air National Guard
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The Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Committee poses for a group photo for Recce Connect Day at Beale Air Force Base, Cali. on Sept. 16, 2022. Recce Connect Day was held as an opportunity to unite the Beale AFB community.
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US Air Force MASTER Sergeant Lisa Archie, Air Combat Command, Air Operations Squadron, serves cookies inside the First Sergeant's Morale Van for exercise players during the 1ST Fighter Wing's Operational Readiness Inspection (ORI) at Langley AFB, Virginia. Base: Langley Air Force Base State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to Moody Air Force Base come together during a Combined Awareness Event at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, April 11, 2022. April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, Month of the Military Child, Child Abuse Awareness Month, Alcohol Abuse Awareness Month and Autism Awareness Month. Instead of each helping agency on the installation hosting their own smaller event to bring awareness to their specific cause, they collectively came together to host one large event.
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Team members with the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity
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Soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division partake of a hearty Thanksgiving meal Nov. 22 at the dining facilities across Fort Drum, as culinary specialists worked throughout the night to decorate the facilities and prepare the menu. (Photo by Mike Strasser, Fort Drum Garrison Public Affairs)
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011025-F-5795G-003. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Country: Unknown Scene Major Command Shown: CENTAF
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220529-N-VQ947-1135 LOS ANGELES (May 29, 2022) Teams from the Army, Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard compete in “Galley Wars”, a cooking competition aboard the Battleship Iowa Museum during Los Angeles Fleet Week, May 29, 2022. LAFW is an opportunity for the American public to meet their Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard teams and experience America’s sea services. During Fleet Week, service members participate in various community service events, showcase capabilities and equipment to the community, and enjoy the hospitality of Los Angles and its surrounding areas.
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Senator Carl Levin, D-MI, (right) and Senator John Warner, R-VA, former Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, serve Thanksgiving dinner to military members deployed to a forward operating location in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. In response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 at the New York World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President George W. Bush initiated Operation ENDURING FREEDOM in support of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), fighting terrorism abroad. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Country: Unknown
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YOKOSUKA, Japan (Sept. 22, 2022) Vice Adm. Yancy Lindsey, Commander, Navy Installations Command, receives a tour through the Yokosuka Commissary onboard Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka (CFAY), escorted by Store Director, William Hicks, as part of a base tour. For more than 75 years, CFAY has provided, maintained, and operated base facilities and services in support of the U.S. 7th Fleets forward-deployed naval forces, tenant commands, and thousands of military and civilian personnel and their families.
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220812-N-RB283-10244MIDPAC hosts Mental Health Fair with mental health professionals to provide resources for sailors at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, July 14, 2022.
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Texas Guardsmen participate in a food point of distribution in Fort Worth, Texas, on November 20, 2020, in support of the Tarrant Area Food Bank's mission to provide meals to Texans prior to Thanksgiving. Since April 2020, the Texas Military Department has provided support to food banks across the state of Texas to serve local communities in response to increased demand due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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U.S. Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and U.S. Navy Sailors assigned to the amphibious assault carrier USS America (LHA 6), sing along during a karaoke and ice cream social while conducting routine operations in the Philippine Sea, Feb. 10, 2024. The event was held to increase cohesion and strengthen joint-force partnership of Marines and Sailors. The 31st MEU is operating aboard ships of the America Amphibious Ready Group in the 7th Fleet area of operations, the U.S. Navys largest forward-deployed numbered fleet, and routinely interacts and operates with allies and partners in preserving a free and open Indo-Pacific region. Marine Corps
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220525-N-VQ947-1102 LOS ANGELES (May 25, 2022) Master Sgt. Javier Acfalle, left, from Dededo, Guam, and Sgt. Maj. Oranjel Leavy, right, from Charleston, S.C., both assigned to the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit and embarked with San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland (LPD 27), distribute clothing donations at St. Francis Center during a Los Angeles Fleet Week community relations outreach, May 25, 2022. LAFW is an opportunity for the American public to meet their Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard teams and experience America’s sea services. During Fleet Week, service members participate in various community service events, showcase capabilities and equipment to the community, and enjoy the hospitality of Los Angles and its surrounding areas.
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Sheri Yerrington, the Harker Heights Executive Director of the Armed Services YMCA, gives a tour of the five-star food market to Maj. Gen. Michael Keating, III Armored Corps deputy commanding general-support in Harker Heights, Texas, Oct. 27, 2022. The Armed Services YMCA Harker Heights and Killeen is committed to the goals of strengthening military families, supporting healthy lifestyles, and assisting service members and their families in connecting to the community.
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Garrison Command Sgt. Maj. Cesar Duran signs the ceremonial donation check of $137,206 to the Army Emergency Relief July 21. Of that total, about $78,000 was generated through payroll deducted donations and the remaining fund generated through individual donations offered through payment kiosks located at the Shoppettes and The Exchange.
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U.S. Marines with 4th Civil Affairs Group and U.S. Marine Corps Forces, South participate in a Disaster Field Operations Course (DFOC) hosted by Florida International University at their Biscayne Bay Campus, Florida, July 15-17, 2022. The DFOC is an interagency exercise designed to provide graduate students with experience in Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief while in a foreign disaster scenario. Graduate students in the Academy for International Disaster Preparedness program conduct the course at FIUs Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine as part of their annual capstone event.
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220517-N-OL632-1007 NAVAL STATION NORFOLK (May 17, 2022) The Navy Child and Youth Program participates in a resiliency rodeo hosted by the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) to offer resources to Sailors preparing to deploy, May 17, 2022. George H.W. Bush provides the national command authority flexible, tailorable warfighting capability as the flagship of a carrier strike group that maintains maritime stability and security in order to ensure access, deter aggression and defend U.S., allied and partner interests.
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030528M-0367H-004. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Karbala Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 3rd BN 7th MAR
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U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Brian W. Cavanaugh, center, the commanding general of Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic, Marine Forces Command, Marine Forces Northern Command, judges in a crab soup cooking competition during Maryland Fleet Week & Flyover Baltimore in Baltimore, Maryland, Sept. 9, 2022. Maryland Fleet Week & Flyover Baltimore is an annual public event that celebrates the contributions of the U.S. sea services and maritime capabilities from the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard. More than 2,300 service members participated in Maryland Fleet Week & Flyover Baltimore 2022 engaging and assisting with ship tours, live bands and static equipment displays.
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Army Community Services at Camp Darby sponsor the Domestic Violence Awareness Month Proclamation for the year 2022 to kick off October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month, spreading the message that domestic abuse is incompatible with Army Values and will not be tolerated on our installation, and to provide resources and support to victims. The whole community participates in the event. Camp Darby, Italy, Oct. 05, 2022.
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220607-N-DF648-1008 ATLANTIC OCEAN (June 7, 2022) Culinary Specialist Seaman Lyle Alizna, right, and Culinary Specialist Seaman Xavier Washington move food supplies from storage aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), June 7, 2022. The George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group (CSG) is underway completing a certification exercise to increase U.S. and allied interoperability and warfighting capability before a future deployment. The George H.W. Bush CSG is an integrated combat weapons system that delivers superior combat capability to deter, and if necessary, defeat America's adversaries in support of national security.
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GREAT LAKES, Il. (June 22, 2022) Educators with Navy Talent Acquisition Group Richmond and Navy Recruiting Command tour Recruit Training Command and Naval Station Great Lakes as part of the Educator Orientation Visit (EOV) to familiarize teachers with differnt aspects of the Navy. Opened in 1911, NSGL is the Navys largest training installation and the home of the Navys only Boot Camp. Located on over 1600 acres overlooking Lake Michigan, the installation includes 1,153 buildings with 39 on the National Register of Historic Places. NSGL supports over 50 tenant commands and elements as well as over 20,000 Sailors, Marines, Soldiers, and DoD civilians who live and work on the installation.
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Army Community Services at Camp Darby sponsor the Domestic Violence Awareness Month Proclamation for the year 2022 to kick off October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month, spreading the message that domestic abuse is incompatible with Army Values and will not be tolerated on our installation, and to provide resources and support to victims. The whole community participates in the event. Camp Darby, Italy, Oct. 05, 2022.
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LOS ANGELES (May 26, 2022) Sgt. Andrew McLaughlin, right, from Colorado Springs, Colo., and Sgt. Addison Dorn, left, from Cleveland, Ohio., distribute meals at St. Francis Center in Downtown Los Angeles during Los Angeles Fleet Week (LAFW), May 26, 2022. LAFW is an opportunity for the American public to meet their Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard teams and experience America's sea services. During fleet week, service members participate in various community service events, showcase capabilities and equipment to the community, and enjoy the hospitality of Los Angeles and its surrounding areas.
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Fort McCoy community leaders participate in a proclamation signing ceremony April 5, 2022, declaring April as Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month at McCoys Community Center at Fort McCoy, Wis. The installation held the special proclamation signing ceremony at the center that was organized by the Fort McCoy Army Community Service office and the Fort McCoy Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention program office. Fort McCoy Garrison Commander Col. Michael Poss; Command Sgt. Maj. Raquel DiDomenico, garrison command sergeant major; and other unit leaders were on hand for the presentation.
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The U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activitys (USAMMDA) Warfighter Deployed Medical Systems (WDMS) Project Management Office setup a Battalion Aid Station at the Military Health System Research Symposium in Kissimmee, Fla., Sept. 12, 2022. As the premier developer of world-class military medical capabilities, USAMMDA is responsible for developing and delivering critical drugs, vaccines, biologics, devices and medical support equipment to protect and preserve the lives of Warfighters across the globe.