Military Equipment Maintenance

Close-up images of military munitions and equipment, illustrating maintenance and operational standards in modern military settings.

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The French colonial administration built Hoa Lo Prison in 1896. Originally intended to hold 450 prisoners, by the 1930s the number of detainees had soared to almost 2,000, the great majority political prisoners. Hoa Lo Prison achieved notoriety during the Second Indochina War as a place of incarceration for downed US pilots, who ironically nicknamed the prison the Hanoi Hilton’. American prisoners of war held at Hoa Lo between 1964 and 1973 include Pete Peterson, who would later become the first US Ambassador to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam after the two countries established diplomatic relations in 1995; and John McCain, currently senior Republican Senator for Arizona and a recent presidential candidate, who was shot down over Hanoi in October, 1967.

DF-SC-88-02460. Country: Unknown

SSGT Catherine Segovia and A1C David Pavilatis, satellite communications technicians with the 1930th Information Systems Squadron, conduct a corrosion control inspection of a satellite communications dish. Base: Elmendorf Air Force Base State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A student in the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle Phase One course at the 88th Readiness Division Fort McCoy, Wis., Draw Yard May 4, 2022, uses a digital multimeter and a positive probe inserted into one of the pins of a wiring harness connector to check continuity.

Police officer testing the tread depth of a worn car tire, car accident of a vehicle with four completely worn out tires, Goeppingen, Goeppingen Region, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Marcos Collazo, a boatswains mate aboard USCGC Bear (WMEC 901), ensures that the gear aboard a commercial fishing vessel is in compliance with Coast Guard regulations, Atlantic Ocean, July 25, 2022. Collazo was serving as boarding team member for a living maritime resources (LMR) inspection.

221102-N-MD713-1041 PORTSMOUTH, Va. (Nov. 02, 2022) Hull Technician Fireman Matthew Townsend, from Washington, Illinois, welds a piece of angle iron aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). Ike is currently pierside at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in the basic phase of the optimized fleet response plan (OFRP).

A gauge measures oxygen flow during testing of a Deployable Oxygen Concentration System at Fort Detrick, Maryland, Aug. 10, 2022. The U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activitys Warfighter Deployed Medical Systems, the U.S. Army Medical Test and Evaluation Activity (USAMTEAC), and Soldiers with the 551st Medical Logistics Company and 51st MLC partnered at Fort Detrick to assess three commercially available medical-grade oxygen generating systems. The medical logistics and biomedical equipment specialists job during testing is to ensure the oxygen generators meet the Armys standards for performance in field-like conditions. USAMMDA is a subordinate command of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command, under the Army Futures Command. As the premier developer of world-class military medical capabilities, USAMMDA is responsible for developing and delivering critical products designed to protect and preserve the lives of Warfighters across the globe. These products include

Part of the 1400-watt AEM-SYS-2 sound system aboard an HH-46A Sea Knight helicopter. The sound system is generally referred to as the Loud Hailer and is useful during search and rescue (SAR) operations. Base: Naval Air Station Patuxent River State: Maryland (MD) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Police Officer, Rear View, Close-Up

A 9th Engineer Company EOD member attaches a shaped explosive charge to the inside wall of a bunker located outside of Celici, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in preparation to destroy this bunker. A 9th Engineer Company EOD member attaches a shaped explosive charge to the inside wall of a bunker located outside of Celici, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in preparation to destroy this bunker.

970220-F-7804S-035. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVORJOINT GUARD Base: Ramstein Air Base State: Rheinland-Pfalz Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Matt Mascaro, 29th Weapons Squadron, prepares to load equipment onto a C-130J Hercules during a mission as part of the U.S. Air Force Weapons School on Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., May 11, 2012. The Air Force Weapons School is a five-and-a-half-month training course which provides selected officers with the most advanced training in weapons and tactics employment. Throughout the course, students receive an average of 400 hours of graduate-level academics and participate in demanding combat training missions.

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Photos from Aviation Training Center, Mobile - 26-HK-420-62. Hurricane Katrina

NAVAL BASE KITSAP-BREMERTON, Wash. (Oct. 13, 2022) - U.S. Navy Electronics Technician (Nuclear) Trevor Schutte, from Milwaukee, uses a sound-powered phone during a general quarters drill aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). Theodore Roosevelt is undergoing a docking planned incremental availability at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility where the ship is receiving scheduled maintenance and upgrades.

U.S. Marines with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron (HMLA) 773 Detachment A, 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, conduct maintenance on a UH-1Y Venom during exercise Gunslinger 22 at Salina, Kansas on June 20, 2022. Exercise Gunslinger 22 is a joint exercise with the Kansas Air National Guard and U.S. Marine Corps designed to increase aircraft control and training for potential real world contingencies.

History Art Architecture Technology Aviation War Symbolical Image Peace 29 12 2024 Duxford, Cambridgeshire Great Britain Imperial War Museum Duxford Military Museum on the Site of A Former Military Airfield Around 20 K

A Navy man's hands behind his back.

DA-SC-90-04099. Base: Fort Monmouth State: New Jersey (NJ) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Wallonie, Beth, Belgium, Europe

Army and people concept, black binocular hanging on his chest military officer.

A SpaceX Starlink mobile satellite is seen aligning itself with the sky at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, April 21, 2022. Exercise ARDENT CROSSBOW is the first time the 633d Air Base Wing is conducting agile combat support as an Air Base Squadron as part of Air Combat Commands effort to align into the Air Forces new four-phase Force Generation model (Available to Commit, Reset, Prepare and Ready). Through the stand-up of an Air Base Squadron and a supporting A-Staff, Airmen will be prepared to deploy as task-oriented, high-performing teams who are ready for crisis before crisis emerges.

DF-ST-86-05166. Subject Operation/Series: COPE THUNDER '84-7 Country: Philippines (PHL)

Data captured by unmanned aircraft systems or drones is examined during an Expeditionary Airfield Damage Repair (ExR-ADR) exercise at Marine Corps Outlying Field (MCOLF) Oak Grove in North Carolina, June 23. The data collected allowed for accurate mapping of runway damage and the location of unexploded ordnance. The purpose of this event was to showcase integration of fleet and NECC forces, and to validate the updated ExR-ADR Tactical Memorandum. (Official Navy photo by Jeffrey Pierce)

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A U.S. Air Force Airman assigned to the 724th Air Mobility Squadron secures a humvee during the 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing annual Port Dawg Rodeo at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, July 6, 2022. The 521st AMOW annual Port Dawg Rodeo showcased the skills of Airmen within the air transportation career field.

220613-N-TO573-1042 IONIAN SEA (June 13, 2022) Aviation Structural Mechanic Airman Linxin Zha, from Bliss, New York, assigned to the Fighting Checkmates” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 211, wipes down the canopy of an F/A-18E Super Hornet in the hangar bay of USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), June 13, 2022. The Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. Naval Forces Europe area of operations, employed by U.S. Sixth Fleet to defend U.S., allied and partner interests.

Picture of a couple of dirty old used millitary boots and a gasmask

CAÑON DEL SIGLO XVI - BOMBARDA DE 1518 - PROCEDE DEL CASTILLO DE CASARRUBIAS. Location: ALCAZAR / MUSEO DEL EJERCITO-COLECCIÓN. Toledo. SPAIN.

050915-A-6634T-002. Base: Fort Gordon State: Georgia (GA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A protective cover is installed on the boom of a KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft at Royal Air Force Mildenhall, England, July 22, 2022. The Boom Cover Tool allows the cover to be more secured than the conventional method and no longer requires the cover to be removed during high winds.

Sgt. Shann Snyder of Billings Mont., hangs in his seatbelt while Sgt Glen Naylor works himself free during training in the Humvee Egress Assistance Trainer. Snyder and Naylor, members of the Montana Army National Guard's Detachment 2, 484th Military Police Company, were training on battle drills to learn how to react to the disorientation and confusion associated with a vehicle rollover during the 484th MP Co.s Annual Training at Ft. Harrison, Mont. The 484th MP Co. is slated to deploy in the spring of 2010.(

Airmen ready a Negative Pressure Conex-Lite for an infected patient on a C-17 Globemaster III at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Sept. 21, 2022. The NPCL is designed to treat and transport high-consequence infectious disease patients to minimize the risk of contamination and exposure.

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE - MOD PILLARD HALL OVERVIEW

Police officers running to catch suspect

A U.S. Air National Guard Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Defense Airman with 647th Civil Engineering Squadron, operates equipment used to survey chemical weapons sites during a joint explosive ordnance disposal exercise at Marine Corps Training Area Bellows, Hawaii, Sept. 21, 2022. EOD technicians around the joint force conducted a week long joint-service level exercise where service members cohesively integrated, trained, and competed with one another while utilizing experimental technology. The training demonstrated progress in the U.S. Marine Corps Force Design 2030 efforts.

B24 bomber

030223-M-8539K-003. Base: Camp Matilda Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Major Command Shown: 1ST Marine Division

U.S. Air Force Capt. John Gouldelock, a KC-46A Pegasus pilot assigned to the 344th Aerial Refueling Squadron, flies a sortie during RED FLAG-Alaska 22-3 at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. July 29, 2022. This exercise provides unique opportunities to integrate various forces into joint, coalition and multilateral training from simulated forward operating bases.

A U.S. Navy Sailor assigned to USS New Orleans (LPD 18), tightens a chain during an extraction in Kin Blue, Okinawa, Aug. 21, 2022. The combined anti-armor team provides blocking and isolation as well as anti-armor capabilities to line companies. The 31st MEU is operating aboard ships of the Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group in the 7th fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific Region.

220811-N-QI593-1070 MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Aug. 11, 2022) A pipe is brazed aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Bainbridge (DDG 96) in the Mediterranean Sea, Aug. 11, 2022. Bainbridge is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. Naval Forces Europe area of operations, employed by U.S. Sixth Fleet, to defend U.S., allied and partner interests.

Navy Breast Insignia: SSBN Deterrent Patrol Insignia. Country: Unknown

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Eric Araiza, a chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear defense specialist with Command Element, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit; and Cpl. Logan Grove, a CBRN defense specialist with Battalion Landing Team 2/5, 31st MEU, mark a room while performing reconnaissance during a CBRN Response Element exercise on Okinawa, Japan, July 13, 2022. A CRE-EX tests CBRNs ability to respond to different operations, including investigating clandestine labs, containing chemical munitions, and countering weapons of mass destruction while performing reconnaissance, decontamination, and rapid insertion for casualties. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps' only continuously forward-deployed MEU, provides a flexible and lethal force ready to perform a wide range of military operations as the premier crisis response force in the Indo-Pacific region.

DF-SN-87-13086. Base: Little Rock Air Force Base State: Arkansas (AR) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Helmet, paintball and sports with equipment on a table outdoor for military or army training on a battlefield. Safety, exercise and mask with combat accessories on a wooden surface for war simulation

RCMP Heritage Centre, Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

paintball field, Paintball Aventura Marratxi, Marratxi, Majorca, Spain.

V-22 RADOME

The launch control box for the catapult launching system of a U.S. Army RQ-7 Shadow sits on the flight line while U.S. Soldiers assigned to 588th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division conduct preflight checks at Niinisalo, Finland, July 8, 2022. The 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division is among other units assigned to the 1st Infantry Division, proudly working alongside NATO allies and regional security partners to provide combat-credible forces to V Corps, America's forward deployed corps in Europe.

A simulated M-8 chemical detection paper reads training marks during a training event at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Sept. 14, 2022. After chemical agents are detected by personnel, bioenvironmental engineering and emergency management flights deploy to conduct a more thorough test of which contaminant is present.

DF-ST-85-12566. Base: Davis-Monthan Air Force Base State: Arizona (AZ) Country: United States Of America (USA)

110504-F-ET173-002 PAITA, Peru (May 4, 2011) First Assistant Engineer Steve Willis, one of more than 70 civil service mariners aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), brazes a fitting for Peruvian navy divers. Comfort is deployed in support of Continuing Promise 2011, a five-month humanitarian assistance mission to Central and South America and the Caribbean.

120mm grenade

Insturition room and model hall on the Sergeant Major Schickkazerne. A German v1 flying bomb on the ceiling. Sergeant-Major Schickkazerne, Gutenbergweg 10, 4104 BA Culemborg. In use with the explosive clearance service (EOD) of Defense from 1983 to 2011.

Madrid, 05/26/2022. Transfer to the Prado Museum of 'The Surrender of Breda' or 'The Lances', by Velázquez. Photo: Ignacio Gil. ARCHDC.

Castillo de San Marcos National Monument St. Augustine Florida USA

DN-ST-89-09606. Base: Naval Base, San Diego State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

The first-in-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Fords (CVN 78) anchor windlass lowers the ships anchor during a precision anchoring evolution inside of the ships focsle Oct. 5, 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.

221128-N-ET093-2066 NAPLES, Italy (Nov. 28, 2022) The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), along with the embarked staff of Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 10, arrives in Naples, Italy, for a scheduled port visit, Nov. 28, 2022. The George H.W. Bush CSG is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. Naval Forces Europe area of operations, employed by U.S. Sixth Fleet to defend U.S., allied and partner interests.

040607-M-0706S-049. Base: Al Shahabi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 1/5, B Co.

Magazines filled with simulation rounds sit on the ground during the 35th Security Forces Squadrons Guard and Protect exercise at Misawa Air Base, Japan, Nov. 8, 2022. Guard and Protect exercises a bilateral agreement stating Japan will augment security forces at U.S installations during heightened force protection postures.

Portland, Ore., July 19, 2014 ; These participants navigate their route to the next one. Smart phones or mapping devices are not allowed in the Portland Disaster Relief Trials, so riders are given the addresses of the checkpoints and a map.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Senior Airman Edwin Brown, from the 96th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, holds a bugle prior to a full-honors funeral demonstration at the Honor Guard graduation ceremony Jan. 26, 2024 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. Approximately 13 new Airmen graduated from the 120-plus-hour course. The graduation demonstration includes flag detail, rifle volley, pallbearers and bugler for friends, family and leadership.

Retired Lt. Col. John Casteel shows off his custom-made tie to Lt. Col. Kelly Church, 203rd Air Refueling Squadron commander, April 30, 2022, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The tie design was inspired by a historic KC-135R Stratotanker. Casteel and his aircrew became the first air-refueling crew to earn the McKay Trophy by performing the 'most meritorious flight of the year' aboard the same aircraft in 1967. The Stratotanker, numbered 60-0329, was inducted into the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force after completing an operation career of more than 60 years.

Material from Vice Admiral Allen - Principal Federal Official - 26-HK-370-114. File Unit includes photographs of Admrial Allen on CNN and Visits by Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton among others. Hurricane Katrina

Medal of Honor wall within the 2nd Infantry Division 8th Army Korean Theater of Operations Museum at Camp Humphreys, South Korea on Oct. 19, 2022. The wall honors those awarded the MOH while serving on the Korean Penninsula.

HOUSTON (Oct. 25, 2012) Children at the Houston Aquarium are greeted by an explosive ordnance disposal robot operated by Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 3 as part of an event during Houston Navy Week, one of 15 Navy weeks planned across America this year. Navy weeks are intended to show Americans the investment they have made in their Navy and increase awareness in cities that do not have a significant Navy presence. The U.S. Navy has a 237-year heritage of defending freedom and projecting and protecting U.S. interests around the globe. Join the conversation on social media using #warfighting.

Denture models are displayed during a base visit at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, Feb. 12, 2024. During the visit, Brig. Gen. Leigh Swanson, Air Mobility Command command surgeon and Chief Master Sgt. Daneen Jeziorske, AMC medical enlisted force, had the opportunity to learn about the 19th MDGs daily operations and engage with numerous Airmen across various career fields that contribute to preparing and maintaining medical readiness. Air Force

A U.S. Air Force Airman using a hand-held video game controller in a virtual simulator during an exercise VIRTUAL FLAG: Battle Management in a synthetic, joint combat environment, ensuring joint operational and tactical warfighter readiness in the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command area of responsibility at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, and eight distributed locations, Aug. 15-19, 2022. The 705th CTS, also known as the Distributed Mission Operations Center, used its live, virtual, and constructive, or LVC, environment capabilities to connect simulators and live aircraft in a dynamic battlespace to challenge air, land, and maritime combatants in the USINDOPACOM AOR and incorporating multiple U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and U.S. Army platforms.

DF-SC-89-09113. Base: Vandenberg Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Interior view, cross, Imperial War Museum, Trafford Park, Manchester, England, Great Britain

Naval ships - United States Navy monitor USS Roanoke, 1855. Color illustration

The name William L. Taylor is being rubbed with a pencil during the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund ceremony to add the name of U.S. Army Lt. Col. Taylor to Panel 7W, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, Dc, May 4, 2010,

A new and more suitable barracks room is shown to members of the media during the media day hosted by XVIII Airborne Corps, Sept. 8, 2022 at the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade barracks, Fort Bragg, N.C. The XVIII Airborne Corps hosted eight media outlets allowing them to tour the affected Smoke Bomb Hill barracks, as well as the more suitable barracks our Soldiers are being relocated. Fort Bragg is committed to increasing funding, hiring and training of maintenance personnel at Fort Bragg and across installations to address a trend in degraded preventive maintenance within barracks.

Interior Operations - 26-HK-81-19. CG Interior Ops ---close-up of Coast Guardsman working in dim light, 050829. Hurricane Katrina

Scott Desjardins, Normandy American Cemetery superintendent, holds the rosette prior to placing it on the Wall of the Missing in honor of U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. William J. McGowan July 9, 2022. The rosette was placed next to his name after the burial ceremony to indicate he has now been accounted for.McGowan was laid to rest at Normandy American Cemetery, France, nearly 80 years after he was killed during operations in France during World War II. McGowan was laid to rest with full military honors with family, friends and local officials in attendance. He was interred approximately 350 miles away from his uncle and namesake, who died during World War I and is buried at the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, France.Prior to his identification and burial, McGowans name was recorded on the Walls of the Missing at NOAC, which features the inscribed names of approximately 1,600 individuals missing from WWII.

Russia, Moscow, Kremlin, Alexandrovsky Garden area. Unknown Soldier Memorial, The Eternal Fire of Glory. (RF)

U.S. Marines with III Marine Expeditionary Force take part in a cake cutting ceremony for the Marine Corps 247th birthday during Keen Sword on Amami, Japan, Nov. 10, 2022. Keen Sword exercises the combined capabilities and lethality developed between 3d Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, and the Japan Self-Defense Force. This bilateral field-training exercise between the U.S. military and JSDF strengthens interoperability and combat readiness of the U.S.-Japan Alliance.

Japan, Man Visiting Exhibition At Atomic Bomb Museum; Nagasaki

221115-N-XM133-0002 JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii (Nov. 15, 2022) Navy wounded warriors (NWW) assigned to various commands around Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam participate in woodworking as part of the 3rd annual NWW R.E.S.E.T. event sponsored by the Navy Wounded Warrior program in commemoration of Warrior Care Month. In 2008, the Secretary of Defense designated November as Warrior Care Month in order to inform members of the military and their families and communities about the programs and initiatives currently being provided through the Warrior Care system and the forthcoming improvements.

World War Two British army water, oil and petrol cans

980623-F-9580Z-012. Base: Mcchord Air Force Base State: Washington (WA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

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