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Military Expositions and Events

Snapshots from military events in the mid-20th century showcasing aircraft and naval officers, highlighting significant military gatherings.

Sailors fall overboard and struggle in the ocean in this television style reenactment of the War of 1812.

Silhouetted against the sun, a USAF crew chief cleans the canopy of an F-16 Falcon fighter aircraft while a maintenance man sit in the cockpit checking the aircraft systems. Exact Date Shot Unknown. Country: Unknown

Sonar Technician 3rd Class Richard Cruthers helps set up the studio in the photo lab for officers portraits. Base: Naval Submarine Base, Kings Bay State: Georgia(GA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

ESU Incident Command Post New Orleans - Commandant Thomas H. Collins and President George W. Bush Visit - 26-HK-304-24. Hurricane Katrina

U.S. Marines with Alpha Company, Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF), search a collapsed building for notional casualties during Scarlet Response 2022 at Guardian Centers of Georgia, Georgia, May 19, 2022. CBIRF Marines are trained in technical rescue for vehicle extrication, trench rescue, collapsed structure and confined space rescue. Scarlet Response 2022 is designed to physically and mentally test CBIRF personnel and the units joint partners, the 911th Technical Rescue Engineer Company, in a simulated joint disaster response.

A U.S. special tactics operator observes a military free fall (MFF) from a U.S. Air Force MC-130J Commando II assigned to the 352d Special Operations Wing over Udbina, Croatia, July 21, 2022. The MFF was part of a Joint Combined Exchange Training, which included members of the U.S. Air Forces 352d Special Operations Wing, the U.S. Armys 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) and the Zapovjedništvo specijalnih snaga (Croatian Special Operations Forces Command). Ready and trained response forces, particularly special operations forces, are important capabilities contributing to deterrence.

Captain H.D. Denny's tent. The Robin G. Stanford Collection, Digitized 2015 Funding from Center for Civil War Photography. Pennsylvania, National Guard, Infantry Regiment, 18th

A barbed wire fence surrounds the memorial and museum at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oświęcim, Poland, Sept. 16, 2022. Soldiers with Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion of the 1st Infantry Division on rotation in Europe visited the site as part of an effort to develop a better understanding of significant historical events.

An air-to-air right side view of three F-15 Eagle aircraft from the 59th Tactical Fighter Squadron as they fly over the Castle Neuschwanstein during REFORGER '82. Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)

230202-N-MJ302-1081 SOUTH CHINA SEA (Feb. 2, 2023) U.S Navy Sailors combat a simulated casualty during a general quarters drill aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68). Nimitz is in U.S. 7th fleet conducting routine operations. 7th Fleet is the U.S. Navy's largest forward-deployed numbered fleet, and routinely interacts and operates with Allies and partners in preserving a free and open Indo-Pacific region.

A radar is displayed from one of the watercrafts used during an amphibious infiltration exercise on Marine Corps Auxiliary Landing Field Bogue, North Carolina, Nov. 29, 2022. The raid was one of several training events part of Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Interoperability course, an Expeditionary Operations Training Group led training and evaluation event focused on combining elements of the MAGTFduring the initial training phases of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unitpre-deployment training program.

A hand reaches for ammunition

U.S. Army OH-58 Kiowa Warrior Helicopter Gunship Patrols The Skies Above an Afghan National Army Observation Post

Second World War. Soviet Union. Front pictures. Machine gun on a trench

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Julian Larsen, a scout sniper with Battalion Landing Team 2/5, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, fires at a target during a night aerial live fire exercise in the Philippine Sea, Sept. 24, 2022. The scout snipers conducted the live fire to hone their skills and maintain proficiency in any environment. The 31st MEU is operating aboard ships of the Tripoli ARG 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.

Military, enemy and target in night vision, overlay or dark green silhouette of spy, agent or terrorist risk to soldier. Police, surveillance and security people in infrared scope for army mission

An A-10 Thunderbolt II from the 25th Fighter Squadron taxis on a runway after flying a night sortie for a wing training event at Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Sept. 14, 2022. The A-10 has short takeoff and landing capability to permit operations in and out of locations near the front lines.

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

220426-N-EE352-1295 PACIFIC OCEAN (Apr. 26, 2022) A pilot performs pre-flight checks in the cockpit of an F/A-18E Super Hornet, assigned to the Flying Eagles of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 122, on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), April 26. Vinson is currently underway conducting routine maritime operations in the Pacific Ocean.

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