Military Exhibits and Training

Images depict various military settings, including a WWII exhibit, a naval training center, and maintenance inspections, showcasing the blend of history and education.

Caucasian soldier talking on cell phone in airport

USA, Kansas, Abilene, Eisenhower Presidential Library area, site dedicated to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Eisenhower Presidential Library, Eisenhower Presidential Museum, WWII exhibit

GREAT LAKES, Il. (June 1, 2022) Educators with Navy Talent Acquisition Group Southwest 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 different 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.

Airman 1st Class Dariel Maldonado, 15th Maintenance Squadron non-destructive inspections journeyman, initiates a magnetic particle inspection on an aerospace ground equipment hook at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Jan. 24, 2022. NDI is responsible for ensuring the integrity of aircraft structures by utilizing multiple inspection methods such as eddy current, magnetic particle, radiographic and ultrasonic. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Alan Ricker)

A morning scene before the opening of the 2022 Fort McCoy Armed Forces Day Open House is shown May 21, 2022, at Fort McCoy, Wis. Nearly 2,000 people participated in the open house. The days activities were centered on Fort McCoys Commemorative Area, which features the History Center; five World War II-era buildings filled with historical equipment and displays, the outdoor Equipment Park, and Veterans Memorial Plaza. Visitors also were treated to cooler temps and partly sunny skies. The event also had guided installation bus tours, a sandbag-filling station, personalized ID tags, camouflage face painting, military equipment displays, marksmanship galleries, and more. (Photo by Scott T. Sturkol/Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office)

1st Lt. Samuel Lindblom, a student pilot assigned to the 149th Fighter Wing, Air National Guard, conducts preflight checks prior to launch during Coronet Cactus, Mar. 31, 2023, at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. The annual training event deploys members of the 149th Fighter Wing, headquartered at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, to another environment in order to familiarize them with accomplishing mission objectives in an unfamiliar location.

Ukraine. Sevastopol. Museum of the Black Sea Fleet. Interior. Crimean Peninsula.

New Zealand, North Island, Auckland, Devonport, Navy Museum, interior

View of spent bullet casings as U.S. and Canadian allies compete for the Schuetzenschnur, the German marksmanship badge, on Chièvres Air Base, Belgium, Sept. 08, 2022. Members of the support element to the German National Military Representation at SHAPE provided the opportunity to compete for the coveted medal.

War museum, Rovereto castle, Rovereto, Trento province, Italy

The stand of the Royal Netherlands Marine (km) during the "Scheveningen" "event.

Atomic KGB Bunker Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania

DN-ST-89-00062. Base: Naval Air Station, Sigonella State: Sicily Country: Italy (ITA)

Artifacts are shown at the Fort McCoy, Wis., History Center on Aug. 12, 2022. The History Center is part of the installations Commemorative Area. The 900 block of Fort McCoy and the 11-acre area surrounding it are at the hub of the forts history-preservation efforts and is called the Commemorative Area. The Commemorative Area consists of five World War II-era buildings set aside to help tell Fort McCoy's unique story. These facilities are representative of the types found in the cantonment area when it was constructed in 1942. Three of the buildings an administrative facility, a dining facility, and a barracks are set up to depict Soldier life during the 1940s. Display items include a World War II chapel, bunk beds, footlockers, mannequins, and potbelly stoves. Another building highlights four different modern military training venues, and a separate facility shows various training aids. The area also has the Equipment Park. Veterans Memorial Plaza is a tribute to all of the men and

Canada, Nova Scotia, Halifax, Citadel Hill National Historic Site, military display for the end of World War One centennial, Vimy Ridge Canadian Memorial Monument model

New Zealand, North Island, Auckland, Devonport, Navy Museum, interior

Vietnam, Hanoi. Ho Chi Minh Museum, Vietnam War-era exhibit

220506-N-IE405-1041 NAPLES, Italy (May 6, 2022) Members of the U.S. military visit the Archaeological Museum of Ancient Capua during a community relations project hosted by U.S. Naval Support Activity (NSA) Naples in Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Italy, on May 6, 2022. NSA Naples is an operational ashore base that enables U.S., allied, and partner nation forces to be where they are needed, when they are needed to ensure security and stability in the European, African, and Central Command areas of responsibility.

221009-M-BQ292-1009 (Oct. 9, 2022) Service members gather for the church service Bless the Fleet as part of San Francisco Fleet Week (SFFW). SFFW is an opportunity for the American public to meet their Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard teams and experience Americas sea services. During fleet week, service members participate in various community service effects, showcase capabilities and equipment to the community, and enjoy the hospitality of the city and its surrounding areas.

Unit 731, Japanese Germ Warfare Experimental Base, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China, Asia Copyright: MichaelxRunkel 1184-11497

New Zealand, North Island, Auckland, Devonport, Navy Museum, interior

Krisenreaktionszentrum im Auswaertigen Amt. Hier wird die Lage in Israel besprochen und sich u.a um die Ausreise deutscher Staatsbuerger gekuemmert, nachdem Israel nach dem Angriff der Hamas den Kriegszustand ausgerufen hat. Berlin, 11.10.2023

Germany, Bavaria, Obersalzberg, former Nazi air-raid bunker Obersalzberg, bunker interior

Occupation Museum of Latvia. Inside. Riga.

The Airborne and Special Operations Museum

The Wall of Remembrance at the HMAS Sydney Memorial honouring the 645 crew members who lost their lives in a sea battle in 1941, engraved in the black granite wall are the names of the lost men, Geraldton, Mid West region, Western Australia,6/13/2011

View of the targets as U.S. and Canadian allies compete for the Schuetzenschnur, the German marksmanship badge, on Chièvres Air Base, Belgium, Sept. 08, 2022. Members of the support element to the German National Military Representation at SHAPE provided the opportunity to compete for the coveted medal.

010424-A-1162K-015. Base: Fort Dix State: New Jersey (NJ) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Artifacts are shown at the Fort McCoy, Wis., History Center on Aug. 12, 2022. The History Center is part of the installations Commemorative Area. The 900 block of Fort McCoy and the 11-acre area surrounding it are at the hub of the forts history-preservation efforts and is called the Commemorative Area. The Commemorative Area consists of five World War II-era buildings set aside to help tell Fort McCoy's unique story. These facilities are representative of the types found in the cantonment area when it was constructed in 1942. Three of the buildings an administrative facility, a dining facility, and a barracks are set up to depict Soldier life during the 1940s. Display items include a World War II chapel, bunk beds, footlockers, mannequins, and potbelly stoves. Another building highlights four different modern military training venues, and a separate facility shows various training aids. The area also has the Equipment Park. Veterans Memorial Plaza is a tribute to all of the men and

PERAL, ISAAC. Spanish engineer, naval officer and designer of the Peral Submarine. He joined the Spanish navy in 1866, and developed the first electric-powered submarine which was launched in 1888. MODULE OF THE SUBMARINE IN THE EXHIBITION ON INVENTORS, 1970.

American M45 Quadmount Anti-Aircraft Gun in the Bastogne War Museum devoted to the Second World War Two Battle of the Bulge in the Belgian Ardennes, Belgium, Europe

Norfolk (October 1, 2022) Jim Beutte, one of the Volunteer Museum Docents at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum, provides some meaningful interpretation visitors who arrived as part of the USS Wisconsin annual reunion. Battleship Wisconsin is located next to the museum. (US Navy Photo by Max Lonzanida/Released).

Republic of Korea Army Maj. Gen. Lee Seo-young (ret.), a former military attaché to the ROK embassy in the United States, presented a field jacket of the late Eighth Army honorary commander, Gen. Paik Sun-yup (ret.), to Lt. Gen. Bill Burleson, Eighth Army commanding general, at the Eighth Army and Korean Theater of Operations (KTO) Museum on Camp Humphreys, South Korea, Dec. 2, 2022.

An interior view of new barracks is shown May 18, 2022, after a special ribbon-cutting ceremony to open the new fiscal year 2019-funded transient troops training barracks at Fort McCoy, Wis. Fort McCoys senior leadership, state and federal representatives and staffers, and dozens of installation community members as well as several local media representatives celebrated the opening and participated in the ceremony. A $20.6 million contract was awarded to L.S. Black Constructors, Inc., in September 2019 to build the barracks, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Resident Office at Fort McCoy which managed the project. The barracks, which is built in the 1600 block on the Fort McCoy cantonment area, is different than traditional barracks that are located throughout the installation. This new building is four stories and is able to house 400 people in approximately 60,000 square feet.

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

Equipment, uniform, Kalashnikov, House 1, Stasi Headquarters, Ruschestrasse, Lichtenberg, Berlin, Germany, Europe

As part of Operation Tomodachi, the United States military has humanitarian assistance capabilities positioned in the affected region that are supporting emergency relief efforts at the request of the government of Japan.

U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. -- U.S. Air Force Academy cadets commute across the terazzo to their first class of the spring semester on January 9th, 2024.

War posters and wall graphics of the time. Imperial War Museum, London, United Kingdom. Architect: Casson Mann, 2015.

Incident Command Post - Alexandria - 26-HK-152-20. Hurricane Katrina

West Point, New York, United States. West Point Naval Museum.

040831-F-4916M-002. Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Italy, Piedmont, Turin, Carignano palace, National Museum of the Italian Risorgimento

Bunker telephone and poster of Goering from a civil air-raid shelter in World War II, Nuremberg, Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Siege of the Alcázar of Toledo (21 July to 27 September 1936). Model of the Alcazar destroyed, by Angel Pedraza, 1940. Plaster, metal and pigments. It features the state in which the building was left after the mines were blown up, artillery hits and the air raids it suffered during the siege. It was made according to photographs of the period and documentation provided by Colonel Eduardo Lagarde Aramburu. Army Museum. Toledo, Spain.

Shaw Air Force Base hosts the 75th annual Air Force Ball celebrating the U.S. Air Forces 75th birthday at the Carolina Skies Club at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., Sep. 16, 2022. The 75th Annual Air Force Ball recognizes a history of progress and achievements made by the U.S. Air Force since its inception in 1947.

Canada, Ontario, Thousand Islands Region, Kingston, C, Canadian military uniforms

Recreation of the disposal of the remains found in Cala Busquets, Museu Municipal de Ciutadella,. Bastió de sa Font, Ciutadella, Menorca, Spain.

Beale Air Force Base civic leaders learn the history of the Thunderbirds during a tour at Nellis AFB, Nevada, Feb. 1, 2023. The civic leader program creates opportunities to educate key community members about the missions of the United States Air Force.

120716-O-ZZ999-004PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (July 16, 2012) Neil McBride, right, a protocol officer for Maritime Forces Pacific, helps Peter MacKay, Canadian Minister of National Defense, lay a wreath to honour the victims of the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Two of the victims were Canadian. Twenty-two nations, more than 40 ships and submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in the biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise from June 29 to Aug. 3, in and around the Hawaiian Islands. The world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity that helps participants foster and sustain the cooperative relationships that are critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world's oceans. RIMPAC 2012 is the 23rd exercise in the series that began in 1971. (Canadian Forces

Interior of the USS Alabama museum battleship at the Battleship Memorial Park in Mobile, Alabama.

Norfolk (September 19, 2022) Chief Petty Officer selectees from various commands in the Hampton Roads, Virginia region participate in history and heritage facilitated by Museum Educator Zach Smyers of the Hampton Roads Naval Museum. The presentation centered around the U.S. Navys involvement in the Vietnam War, and occurred in the museums exhibit The Ten Thousand-Day War at Sea: The U.S. Navy in Vietnam, 1950-1975. The presentation was part of the museums 21st Annual Chief Petty Officer Heritage Days event. The three-day event allows CPO selectees to receive history and heritage training at the museum and aboard the Battleship Wisconsin, and is hosted by the museum and area commands. The event is the largest and longest running of its kind in Virginia. (US Navy Photo by Max Lonzanida/Released).

010329-A-1162K-013. Base: Fort Dix State: New Jersey (NJ) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Airmen with the 914th Aeromedical Staging Squadron construct a tent to maintain readiness June 5, 2022 on Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station, New York. In deployed environments, these tents are constructed and used as staging facilities to triage patients before being airlifted to a medical facility.

Cuba, Cienfuegos Province, Cienfuegos, Museo Historico Naval Nacional, naval museum, site of anti-Batista naval uprising on September 5, 1957, museum display

The 110th Chaplain Corps holds the 22nd Annual Prayer Breakfast Oct. 16, 2022 at the Battle Creek Air National Guard Base, Battle Creek, Mich. More than 100 service members attended to share breakfast and fellowship, and listen to Native American Veterans Army Sergeant Jerry Campbell and Marine Sergeant Anthony Foerster discuss their military careers.

USA, Virginia, Yorktown Victory Center, Continental Army encampment, field desk

Military hospitals in the Czech Republic, Austro-Hungarian Army, Park benches, Gardens and parks in Ústí nad Labem Region, 1914, Ústí nad Labem Region, Theresienstadt, Garten der Garnison

Participants in a Community Leader Engagement stop at a training area May 24, 2022, at Fort McCoy, Wis. More than a dozen community leaders and local law enforcement professionals from Tomah, Sparta, Monroe County, and other nearby municipalities gathered at Fort McCoy to see the posts mission first-hand. During their visit, the community leaders received a driving tour of the installation and made stops at the Combined Arms Collective Training Facility on South Post, training areas on North Post, the Commemorative Area, Garrison Headquarters, and McCoys Community Center where they received a lunch.

Military History Museum of the German Armed Forces

Events at the re-enactment of the Battle of Talana. Dundee. KwaZulu Natal. South Africa

030227-F-6449C-003. Base: Aviano Air Base State: Pordenone Country: Italy (ITA)

DF-ST-89-01169. Base: Maxwell Air Force Base State: Alabama (AL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Injured U.S. soldiers cared for at National Naval Medical Center

England, Hampshire, Portsmouth, The Royal Amouries Military Museum Fort Nelson, Project Babylon Supergun

Canada, New Brunswick, Central New Brunswick, Oromocto, New Brunswick Military History Museum, interior

A shadow box filled with Master Sgt. Jacqueline Payne's awards and decorations sits on a table before her retirement ceremony at Jefferson Barracks Air National Guard Base, St. Louis, Missouri, Oct. 16, 2022. Payne served for 23 years.

U.S. Soldiers and Airmen observe the Pennsylvania National Guards 275th birthday during a ceremony in Edward Martin Hall here Dec. 4, 2022. The Pennsylvania National Guard traces its lineage to 1747, when Benjamin Franklin organized a militia known as The Associators. The Pennsylvania National Guard's birthday is Dec. 7 but the observance was held during a duty weekend to allow soldiers and airmen to participate.

The 156th Wing hosts a change of command ceremony at Muñiz Air National Guard Base, Carolina, Puerto Rico, Oct. 15, 2022. The change of command ceremony took place during the October regularly scheduled drill.

FORT CAMPBELL, KY - Michelle Leibold and her sister Amy Lawrence say a prayer while kneeling in front of the Gander Monument which holds the etched name of Maj. Michael R. Lawrence, their father, who was killed when Arrow Airlines Flight 1285 crashed post takeoff from Gander International Airport, ending the lives of 248 Screaming Eagle Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), December 12, 1985. Lawrence and the Soldiers were returning home from their deployment to Sinai, Egypt, where they successfully enabled peace between Israel and Egypt. Every year the 101st honors the Gander Fallen with ceremonies on post and in the neighboring communities, ensuring their Fallen Heroes as well as their Family members are never forgotten.

Commanding post in Maginot Line concrete bunker in France, Europe

U.S Marines with the 2d Marine Division Band perform at Les Invalides in Paris, France, May 24, 2022. The purpose of their visit to Les Invalides was to perform for the disabled veterans of the French Military who were wounded in war.

030617-F-5435R-006. Base: Charleston Air Force Base State: South Carolina (SC) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: 437th Airlift Wing/AMC

Rose Connolly of the Soldiers' Aid Society of Springfield, Ill., displays what Soldiers received from family and friends when they were fighting in the Civil War as part of the Illinois State Military Museum's Christmas at the Front event on Dec. 10 at the museum in Springfield. The Illinois State Military Museum's mission is to preserve and exhibit the military heritage of the Illinois National Guard.

An adult explorer in a cork helmet over an old wooden table paves a route using old maps. Cork Helmet Explorer

Netherlands, Amsterdam, captain of the Indiaman The Amsterdam at the Maritme Museum, reenactment

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - USS Monitor 30th Anniversary

England, London, Tower of London, The White Tower, Display of Medieval Armour

Georgia, St. Mary's. Cumberland Island Museum, historic military uniforms.

A series of command awards sit ready during a U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity

FORT RILEY, Kan. - In recognition of their heroism, Enoch and Poulin were honored during a ceremony at Fort Riley Garrison Headquarters Feb. 6, 2023. Fort Riley Garrison Commander, Col. Michael Foote, expressed gratitude for Enoch and Poulin's selfless actions that day, remarking that they had saved multiple lives with their courageous efforts. Army

Canada,Canadian,North America,American,Grosse Ile,Irish Memorial National historical history Site,immigration quarantine island 1832 1937,medical wago

Small conference table for private conversations between Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt during 1945 Yalta Conference in Livadia Palace, Yalta, Ukraine.

DA-ST-85-01146. Base: Arlington State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

041123-M-2583M-011. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Guard of the Air Force Monitoring (LB), at the Leeuwarden airbase gateway.

North Carolina First Flight Centennial Commission Chairman, Ken Mann, left, and National Park Service historian Darrell Collins, center, were among the featured participants in events marking the centennial of the first powered flight, Wright Brothers National Memorial, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina

DM-SC-89-07867. Base: Marine Corps Base, Quantico State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

030207-A-7362S-001. Base: Fort Buchanan, San Juan State: Puerto Rico (PR) Country: United States Of America (USA)

011117-F-1851B-154. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Masirah Air Base Country: Oman (OMN)

Vessels are presented during the chief petty officer (CPO) pinning ceremony for Sailors from the first-in-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 8, Destroyer Squadron Two and Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 12, Oct. 21, 2022. Fifty six Sailors were pinned during the CPO pinning ceremony held in the hangar bay, Oct. 21, 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.

U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Francis Evon, left, the Connecticut Adjutant General, and Uruguayan Army Maj. Gen. Luis Mangini, right, Army Chief of Staff, study a painting commemorating the Battle of Las Piedras inside the Comando General del Ejército, Montevideo, Uruguay, August 9, 2022. The Battle of Las Piedras was a major victory for Uruguayan revolutionaries and ultimately led to the independence of Uruguay.

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Marina Esquivel, a food service specialist with Food Service company, Combat Logistics Regiment 37, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, views artifacts recovered after the battle of Okinawa at the Battle of Okinawa Historical Display on Camp Kinser, Okinawa, Japan, June 16, 2022. Marines with Food Service company visited different World War II battle sites of Okinawa during a professional military education event to better understand their history and culture.

A U.S. Air Force photo interpreter examines a set of reconnaissance negatives on a light table during Reconnaissance Air Meet '86. Reconnaissance pilots, photo interpreters and maintenance crews from the U.S. Air Force, Air National Guard, Navy and Marines, Royal Australian Air Force and the United Kingdom are competing in the event sponsored by the Tactical Air Command. Subject Operation/Series: RECONNAISSANCE AIR MEET '86 Base: Bergstrom Air Force Base State: Texas (TX) Country: United States Of America (USA)

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Cheyeanne Campbell, combat photographer, Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron (H&HS) looks up at an exhibit at the Museum of Charleston, during a trip, March 31, 2023, Charleston, South Carolina. Marines learned about the impact women had on historical Charleston.

DN-SC-85-07477. Base: USS Enterprise (CVN 65)

DF-ST-88-02889. Base: Mather Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Japanese weapons, uniforms and flags from the Second World War on display at the Memorial de Caen, museum and war memorial in Caen, Normandy, France, Europe

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - USS Monitor 30th Anniversary

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