Military Infrastructure and Training

Photos depicting military construction sites, field operations, and training exercises, showcasing soldiers and equipment in action.

Tactical group of fighters quietly sneaking in darkness across a field during a night mission.

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Francisco Dela Rosa, corpsman, Headquarters and Service Battalion (HQSVCBN), U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific (MARFORPAC), participates in the culminating event of the Aito Course in Taravao, Tahiti, French Polynesia, Sept. 9, 2022. The event provided a bilateral training opportunity between the French Armed Forces and Marines with MARFORPAC. The nine Marines and Sailor from HQSVCBN participated in the bilateral training with the French Armed Forces in order to strengthen relationships with the region. The courses name comes from the Tahitian word aito, which means warrior.

In support of Operation Provide Relief, the 823rd Redhorse Squadron, Hurlburt Field, Fl., works to repair airstrips used to bring in relief supplies. SSgt David Dreier, drives his vibrating roller through a dust cloud as other workers walk through with him as they work to repair the Hoddur airstrip. Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE RELIEF Base: Hoddur Country: Somalia (SOM)

Air Force Military Training School (Limos) Practicing with hand grenade products.

Afghanistan, Kabul

DF-ST-89-01114. Subject Operation/Series: SHADOW HAWK Base: Petra Country: Jordan (JOR)

A Border Patrol Agent sets up an infrared scope on a ridge top at sunset in San Ysidro, CA.

U.S. Army paratroopers assigned to the 173rd Brigade Support Battalion, 173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, conduct a team live-fire exercise, with M4 rifle, as part of exercise Repel Resolve II at Monte Romano Italian training area, Italy, Jan. 22, 2024. The Repel Resolve exercise series develops small-team lethality and experience, increasing the battalion's ability to operate across the Brigade Support Area of operation. The 173rd Airborne Brigade is the U.S. Army's Contingency Response Force in Europe, providing rapidly deployable forces to the United States European, African, and Central Command areas of responsibility. Forward deployed across Italy and Germany, the brigade routinely trains alongside NATO allies and partners to build partnerships and strengthen the alliance.

Sergio Matias Chontal-Harter participates in a simulated Army Combat Fitness Test with Fort McCoy Garrison Commander Col. Stephen Messenger on Feb. 12, 2024, at Fort McCoy, Wis. Matias, 6, interviewed Messenger as part of a school social studies project. Matias is the son of a Fort McCoy employee, and he also experienced what it's like to participate in the Army Combat Fitness Test and how to participate in retreat at the end of the duty day. Army

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (Oct. 27, 2015) A Marine and a Navy corpsman, both with 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, clear Marines from a dangerous area during a training event run by Division Combat Skills Center at Camp Lejeune, N.C., Oct. 27, 2015. The support provided by the DCSC enables Division units to focus on higher level task and larger exercise while ensuring that Marines and Sailors receive standardized small unit level training.

Column on the March, 1915, by Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (British, 1889-1946) oil on canvas. World war one soldiers

KANDAHAR (2022), directed by RIC ROMAN WAUGH.

Three members of a U.S. Navy sea-air-land (SEAL) team sit in a Scorpion fast attack vehicle (FAV). Mounted on the vehicle are two M-60E3 7.62mm machine guns, left and right, and an M-2 .50-caliber machine gun. On either side of the .50-caliber machine gun is a rack holding an M-136 light anti-tank weapon. Country: Unknown

Marine recruits complete an event on the obstacle course during training at the Marine Recruit Training Depot. Base: San Diego State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

An Air Force-sponsored aerostat hovers at the end of its tether above the island. The radar-equipped aerostat is used for long-range air surveillance. Base: Key West State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Line of tents during reenactment of American Revolutionary War, New Windsor, NY

Dry suits belonging to members of a U.S. Navy sea-air-land (SEAL) team hang from tree branches to dry during the joint South Korean/U.S. exercise Valiant Blitz '90. Subject Operation/Series: VALIANT BLITZ '91 Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)

The Royal Air Force in the Libyan Desert, May 1943 Crew of No 252 Squadron, Royal Air Force at improvised washbasins, with water from a jerry can. The tent has a double canopy, the outer canvas was to absorb the sun's heat.

A manikin representing a human victim rests against a truck during Tactical Combat Casualty Care training at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Nov. 18, 2022. The TCCC training consisted of moving towards injured victims, then performing proper emergency care methods and practicing evacuation by helicopter.

Terracotta army from behind in Xian, China.

A U.S. Marine with Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF) Alpha Company prepares to demonstrate a highline rescue during a visit from Lt. Gen. Brian W. Cavanaugh, commanding general, Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic, Marine Forces Command, Marine Forces Northern Command, at the Naval Support Facility Indian Head and Annex Stump Neck, Maryland, Oct. 17, 2022. During the visit, Lt. Gen. Cavanaugh received briefs from CBIRF command staff, toured facilities used by CBIRF, talked to CBIRF Marines and Sailors, and received a demonstration of the response forces capabilities in case of a crisis.

In the background, one of the towers inhabited by US Marine Snipers, Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) at Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar International Airport Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: 26 MEU

A villager waits outside the Wema Catholic Mission in Mombasa, for a delivery of food during Joint Task Force Kenya, operation Noble Response. (Duplicate image, see also DM-SD-02-04697 or search 980305-M-4605W-001). Subject Operation/Series: NOBLE RESPONSE Base: Mombasa Country: Kenya (KEN)

Spc. Phillip Arellano, human resource specialist, 1st Theater Sustainment Command, spots a battle buddy during Blackjack Time Training on Fort Knox, Kentucky, April 28, 2022. The spotter's primary role is to support the Soldier performing the event if their grip were to fail.

Buzkashi Game: Riders try to put dead Calf in Goal, Mazar-I-Sharif, Afghanistan

Flight deck crewmen aboard the aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY (CV-41) crowd around actress Brooke Shields following her arrival for a visit sponsored by the United Service Organizations (USO). The MIDWAY is in the gulf to support Operation Desert Shield. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Country: Unknown

Compiègne, Oise, Picardie, France forest of Compiègne the stables of a military camp , 1916 - Regions at war Meuse, Haute -Marne, Oise, Somme - Stéphane Passet - (February -30 July) (French - Compiègne , Oise , Picardie , France Forêt de Compiègne les écuries d' un camp militaire). Military uniform, forest , wood, camp, domestic object, domestic life, forehead, hairy, ephemeral architecture, man, Clothing, daily life, First World War, Habitat , Architecture, Human Starries, France, Compiègne, Compiègne forest

U.S Marine Corps recruit Akzayakatl Zambrano with Hotel Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, executes a forward shoulder roll during the combat conditioning course at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, Sept. 7, 2022. The combat conditioning course was designed to increase recruits' stamina and ability to perform Marine Corps Martial Arts Program techniques. Zambrano was recruited out of Vidor, Texas with Recruiting Station Houston, Texas.

scene of the conquest of Majorca,Memorial Cross landing in Gran Via de la Creu. Santa Ponça, It was inaugurated in 1929, on the occasion of the commemoration of the seventh anniversary of the conquest, Calvia, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.

Manila, Philippines. American officers, partly mounted

DF-ST-89-06038. Subject Operation/Series: DEFENDER CHALLENGE 87 Base: Little Rock Air Force Base State: Arkansas (AR) Country: United States Of America (USA)

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Thomas Freckleton, an infantry Marine with 2d Battalion, 2d Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division, drinks water out of a vine as part of a bilateral jungle training event in Manaus, Brazil, Sept. 28, 2022. Throughout the training event, U.S. Marines applied tactics and knowledge given to them by the Brazilian Marines, who regularly operate in the Amazon jungle. Exercises and bilateral training events like Brazils jungle training provide the opportunity for U.S. Marines to train alongside partner forces in unique and complex environments to develop and improve readiness. Training in austere locations provide the opportunities to develop skills that are critical to force readiness and employment in the future operating environment.

Bounding mines being displayed during a Marine training exercise. Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Man dressed as medieval warrior on a galloping horse.

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Derek Love, an explosive ordnance disposal technician with 3d Littoral Logistics Battalion, 3d Marine Littoral Regiment, 3d Marine Division, marks the surrounding area during a joint EOD 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.

Monument to Kaspar III. Winer

Teammates having fun in an airsoft game

Caucasian soldiers standing in river

historic war gun on the hill at sunset historic war gun on the hill at sunset Copyright: xZoonar.com/StanislavxRishnyakx 16447412

CPT Luke Closson, Executive Officer to BGEN Donald A. Streater, commander of the A-10 recovery effort, scans the ground below for any A-10 debris that may have impacted the Negro Basin area. CPT Closson is in a CH-47 helicopter from Detachment 1, Company G, 140th Aviation, Nevada Army National Guard. Base: Gold Dust Peak State: Colorado (CO) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Toronto, Canada, Knights fighting in the arena in Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament.

A band of Kung hunter gatherers makes a stealthy approach towards an antelope, their bows and arrows at the ready.The Kung live in the harsh environment of a vast expanse of flat sand and bush scrub country straddling the Namibia Botswana border.

EXTINCION DE UN FUEGO POR EL CUERPO DE BOMBEROS.

1970s CONFLAGRATION OUT OF CONTROL RAGING HOUSE FIRE FLAMES CONSUMING THE ROOF ANONYMOUS FIREMEN IN THE YARD WATCHING

THE BATTLE: ROAR TO VICTORY (2019), directed by SHIN-YEON WON.

Educators from the 8th Marine Corps District attempt to complete leadership challenges at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif. April 21, 2022. The 8th Marine Corps District is home to Recruiting Stations, Denver, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Fort Worth, Albuquerque, Phoenix, and Salt Lake City. Educators were welcomed to the depot to receive a first-hand experience on what recruit training is like.

Air Force Reserve flight surgeons strapped to a small metal sled are being dragged by the others in a simulated parachuting exercise during pararescue training. Base: Fort Benning State: Georgia (GA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

War, apocalypse and military transport, army in a post apocalyptic background and conflict with smoke and dust. Survival, mission and warrior with fight on battlefield, action and tank for battle

LCPL Nathaniel Wentzel of the 3d Force Service Support Group, Marine Expeditionary Camp-Pohang MEC-P), plays with LCPL Rock, a stray dog at MEC-P, Oct. 11, 19998. Stray dogs are part of the permanant party personnel and was recently promoted to his current grade at MEC-P with a full promotion ceremony, where all personnel were in attendence. Subject Operation/Series: KOREA CD Base: Marine Expeditionary, Pohang Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Tyler May, a reconnaissance Marine with the maritime raid force, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, participates in an endurance course during a bilateral field training for Iron Fist 24, at Jungle Warfare Training Center, Camp Gonsalves, Okinawa, Japan, Feb. 26, 2024. Bilateral training tests readiness and ability to respond to crises in challenging and time-sensitive conditions. Iron Fist is an annual bilateral exercise designed to increase interoperability and strengthen the relationships between the U.S. Marine Corps, the U.S. Navy, the JGSDF, and the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force. May is a native of Oklahoma. Marine Corps

060323-N-2420K-025. Base: Pointe Noire Country: Congo (COG)

1978 - Soldiers climb a large wooden ladder while on an obstacle course..

U.S. Marines with Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, establish a defensive position during Mountain Training Exercise 1-23 at Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center Bridgeport, California, Sept. 30, 2022. During MTX, the Marines learned various skills to become more proficient in combat and survival in an austere mountain environment.

U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Sebastian Crawford, assistant team leader from the 4th Civil Affairs Group, writes down feedback from locals Jun. 21, 2022, after a medical event in El Caoba, Guatemala. The Resolute Sentinel Civil Affairs team used collected information to evaluate the event's effectiveness, outreach, and public perception.

hunting, army, military service and people concept - young soldier with backpack looking to binocular over sky observing area. soldier with backpack looking to binocular

Hawk airscaping rockets in a beautiful hilly landscape.

040612-M-5555L-012. Base: Camp Ali (AR RAMADI) State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

The My Lai massacre, was the mass murder of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops in Son Tinh District, South Vietnam, on 16 March 1968 during the Vietnam War. Between 347 and 504 unarmed people were killed by U.S. Army soldiers.

Paintball, no people and army workout ground in nature in the morning on a battlefield. Training, exercise and war game base for competition and fight games outdoor isolated for shooting on grass

DF-ST-87-08478. Subject Operation/Series: BRIM FROST Base: Fort Greely State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Palestine is a name given to the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. The region is also known as the Land of Israel, the Holy Land and the Southern Levant. In 1832 Palestine was conquered by Muhammad Ali's Egypt, but in 1840 Britain intervened and returned control of the Levant to the Ottomans in return for further capitulations. The end of the 19th century saw the beginning of Zionist immigration and the Revival of the Hebrew language. The movement was publicly supported by Great Britain during World War I with the Balfour Declaration of 1917. The British captured Jerusalem a month later, and were formally awarded a mandate in 1922. In 1947, following World War II and the Holocaust, the British Government announced their desire to terminate the Mandate, and the United Nations General Assembly voted to partition the territory into a Jewish state and an Arab state. The Jewish leadership accepted the proposal but the Arab Higher Committee rejected it; a

Stalker with gun. Man in gas mask and camouflage holding gun. Disaster concept

Anefo photo collection. Dodewaard nuclear power plant secured barbed wire i.v.m. announced blockade; blockade. October 17, 1980. Dodewaard

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

060313-A-5043I-017. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Ramadi Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 109TH INFANTRY

The crew chief and another Marine direct a group of Kurdish men as they disembark from a Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 264 (HMM-264) CH-46E Sea Knight Helicopter upon their arrival at a refugee camp near Zakhu, Iraq. U.S. and allied troops established the camp as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid the thousands of Kurds who fled their homes after fighting broke out between Kurdish groups and Iraqi government forces following Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORTDESERT STORM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Steven M. Scher, a logistics officer from North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, assigned to Marine Wing Support Squadron 272, Marine Air Control Group 28, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, measures simulated spalls on a runway, while conducting a basic recovery after attack (BRAAT) mission, during Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course 1-23, at Auxiliary Airfield II, near Yuma, Arizona, Sept. 30, 2022. WTI is a seven-week training event hosted by Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One, providing standardized advanced tactical training and certification of unit instructor qualifications to support Marine aviation training and readiness, and assists in developing and employing aviation weapons and tactics.

Military Museum of the Citadel which houses weapons of the First and Second World War. Room. Gjirokaster Castle. Republic of Albania.

041228-M-0036Y-066. Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050913-A-6004S-044. Base: Pearlington State: Mississippi (MS) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Military housing for soldiers lead by George Washington during the American Revolution at Valley Forge, PA

U.S. Army Pacific Best Warrior competitors conducted Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Systems training June 7 during the 2022 USARPAC Best Warrior Competition at the 25th Infantry Division's Lightning Academy, Schofield Barracks East Range, Hawaii. The USARPAC BWC 2022 is an annual week-long competition consisting of competitors from multiple USARPAC units across the Indo-Pacific. The noncommissioned officers and junior enlisted Soldiers are evaluated in several categories such as general military knowledge, basic Soldier skills, and physical fitness.

030523M-0367H-015. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Karbala Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 3rd BN 7th MAR

DA-SC-88-00072. Base: Fort Lee State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A U.S. Marine with 9th Engineer Support Battalion, 3d Marine Logistics Group, fires an M18 pistol during a live fire range on Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, Sep. 25, 2022. The range was held as a tryout for III Marine Expeditionary Force and Marine Corps Installations Pacific Marines to represent their individual units at the upcoming Far East Division Matches shooting competition. 3d MLG, based out of Okinawa, Japan, is a forward deployed combat unit that serves as III MEFs comprehensive logistics and combat service support backbone for operations throughout the Indo-Pacific area of responsibility.

Women's Timber Corps Training Camp at Culford, Suffolk Jean Sheehan, a Land Army girl, chopping a tree.

Italy - Abruzzo National Park - Park guard on horseback

Sergeant (SGT) Robert Guest with "A" Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), White Devils, 82nd Airborne Division, makes his way up to a cave entrance in the mountains of ADI Ghar mountains, Afghanistan, in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

Honduran paratroopers on a runway after an airdrop from C-130 Hercules aircraft, during the joint US/Honduras training Exercise AHUAS TARA II (BIG PINE). Subject Operation/Series: AHUAS TARA II (BIG PINE) Base: Aguacate Country: Honduras (HND)

Head Wrangler, Jacob Painter, Yvonne Skrzypczak with packhorse and Sam Agnew. Philmont Scout Ranch, New Mexico

Soldier with gun and boiler in uniform of World War I, resting on the pavement. Costume accord the times of World War I. Photo made at cinema city Cinevilla in Latvia.

DN-SC-87-06157. Base: USS Dwight D Eisenhower (CVN 69)

Mary-sur-Marne, France , 1914-1915 - Devastated zones, North and East of France - Jean Brunhes, Auguste Léon and Georges Chevalier - (December 1914 -April 1915) (French - Mary-sur-Marne , France). Military uniform, car transport, route, commercial registration, man, army, Clothing, transport, registration , information, human beings, company, France, Mary sur Marne, a truck on the road

DN-ST-85-08604. Base: Naval Air Facility, Atsugi Country: Japan (JPN)

monument of the Veteran Ski Climbers of Viella, Montcorbison, Aran Valley, Lérida province, Spain.

Elk203-1403 Canada, British Columbia, Fort Langley National Historic Site, period reenactors

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides to Pima County, Arizona for tours of the Mexican border area, discussions with local Interior staff and Customs and Border Patrol personnel

Coast Guard Personnel - Miscellaneous - 26-HK-90-171. Coast Guardsman dropping off water in grassy area near helo, civilians nearby6. Hurricane Katrina

location of the battle of mallorca, Son Servera, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.

An air-to-air left side view of an F-4G Phantom II Wild Weasel aircraft from the 81st Tactical Fighter Squadron. The aircraft is armed with a Shrike AGM-45A air-to-surface missile. Base: Spangdahlem Air Base State: Rheinland-Pfalz Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)

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