Military Official Activities

Images of military officials and ceremonies, showcasing leadership roles and official engagements in diverse contexts.

Chinese soldiers on drill duty in the parade area located next to Meridian Gate in the Forbidden City, Beijing, China.

Asian Officials

Panamanian National Police forces marching, Panama

Asian Officials

Russian military band, army barracks, Frankfurt Oder, East Germany/GDR, Europe

A Policeman in Beijing, China

020125-M-9902V-002. Base: Camp Hijudai State: Oita Country: Japan (JPN) Scene Major Command Shown: 3 MEF

Chinese soldiers on drill duty in the parade area located next to Meridian Gate in the Forbidden City, Beijing, China.

Soldier at The Museum of the Revolution, Habana Vieja, Old Havana, Cuba

U.S. Army General George A. Joulwan, NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, greets Russian Defense Minister, Pavel Grachev, on the Tuzla AB flightline before taking a tour of Implementation Forces (IFOR) operations during Operation Joint Endeavor. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Tuzla Air Base Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

North Korea, Pyongyang, capital city. Woman police agent managing nonexistent traffic, standing in blue uniform in middle of empty wide avenue, with no cars, huge advertisement political panel to glory of Great Leader Kim il-Sung, painted in red colors of communism.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on May 7, 2013.

Russia. Moscow. Kremlin Wall Soldier At The Unknown Soldier Flame And Alexander Garden

China, Beijing, Tiananmen Square. Foreign residents dressed up as Santa on Christmas Day marching in line with National Guards.

U.S. Army Lt. Col. Sean M. Castilla, commander of Battlegroup Poland and the commander of the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division (3-1 ABCT), delivers a speech during the Romanian Army contingent Hand Over, Take Over ceremony in Bemowo Piskie, Poland, Oct. 18, 2022. The 3-1 ABCT 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.

Monument and Two Tanks, Kiev, Uktraine

North Korean guards stand at their post providing protection for a group of people touring North Korean side of the Demarkation line. The North Korean guards are posted to keep people from defecting from North to South Korea. Both sides have guards posted at the same time and stand face to face on a daily basis. Subject Operation/Series: KOREA CD Base: Panmunjom State: Demilitarized Zone Country: Korea

Cam during a shooting festival

jsc2018e097310 - Outside the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, the Expedition 58 prime and backup crewmembers raise the flags of Russia, the United States, Canada and Kazakhstan Nov. 21 in a traditional ceremony. Anne McClain of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency will launch Dec. 3 on the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station...NASA/Victor Zelentsov.

1ST Lieutenant Yuri Melchuk, company commander of the Ukrainian Special Battalion 240, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, prepares to break a bottle with his head at his barracks, during Operation JOINT ENDEAVOR. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Sarajevo Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

Office of the Administrator (Stephen L. Johnson) - September 11th Ceremony , Environmental Protection Agency

DA-SC-88-04577. Base: Fort Irwin State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A large brass bust of famed Vietnamese Army General Vo Nguyen Giap wearing his dress military uniform, Hanoi, Vietnam.

New leader of Communist China, Hua Guofeng Chinese (left) with Ye Jianying, 6th October 1976.

Syrian Democratic Forces Law Enforcement training course graduates perform the chobi, a Kurdish folk dance, at the Vetted Syrian Opposition Academy of Excellence in the al-Shaddadi region, March 30, 2023. Coalition Forces advise, assist, and enable SDF to conduct guard force training to increase their capability of maintaining ISIS detainees in detention facilities across northeast Syria.

North Korea, Panmunjon, two Korean guards in green military uniforms standing in front of blue colored door

Soldiers in uniform during world war II near Soviet light tank T ST.PETERSBURG, RUSSIA - AUGUST 08, 2017: Soldiers in uniform during world war II near Soviet light tank T-70 amid the Winter Palace Copyright: xZoonar.com/MaximxMitsun:xmaxim-mmail.rux 11575365

Changing of the guard. Ala Too square in the city center. The capital Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. (Editorial Use Only)

East German guards stand by the newly created opening in the Berlin Wall as they wait for the official opening of the Brandenburg Gate..

Russia, Moscow, Tanks Travelling Down Street During Coup Attempt.

China, Beijing, Tiananmen Square. Guards on duty in front of the Gate of Heavenly Peace.

From left, Polish General Jaroslaw Mika, general commander of Branches of the Polish Armed Forces fires a musket alongside Col. Marek Gmurski, outgoing commander of Drawsko Pomorskie Training Area after a change of command ceremony at Bucierz Tactical Assault Course Training Area in Oleszno, Poland. The ceremony consisted of the change of command as well as the retirement ceremony for Col. Gmurski who has served as commander of DPTA since 2010. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Tara Fajardo Arteaga)

China, Beijing, group of cheerful guards standing together for a photo

Two soldiers in Forbidden City; Beijing; China, Asia

9/14/1997 - Members of the North Korean Army bring the casket to the South Korean side of Panmunjom. South Korean officials will receive the casket from the North Korean soldiers.

CAPT. John Parsels is greeted by the Gia Lam Airport returnee delegation upon his release from a prisoner of war camp. Base: Hanoi Country: Viet Nam (VNM)

Dusk light behind Bronze Honor Guard and three soaring spires of the Air Force Memorial, One Air Force Memorial Drive, Arlington, Virginia in Washington D.C. area

Italian air force Col. Marco Schiattoni, ITAF base commander, waits for U.S. Air Force Gen. James Hecker, U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa commander, to arrive at Aviano Air Base, Italy, Oct. 6, 2022. The mission of the 31st Fighter Wing is to deter through safe, secure, effective operations, win the current fight and be ready to win the next fight. In peacetime, the 31st FW prepares for its combat role by maintaining aircraft and personnel in a high state of readiness.

Group of Russian Air Force jet fighters fly over Red Square, Moscow, Russia.

Burial of Oleg Yashchishin, Kirilo Vishivaniy, Sergey Melnik and Rostislav Romanchu at Lychatik cemetery, the four officers killed two days earlier in a Russian missile attack in a military camp near the border with Poland in Yavoriv, at least 35 people died, Lviv, Ukraine, Europe

Laos, Military, WomenS Army In The Fifth Anniversary Parade.

221010-M-VR919-1046 (October 10, 2022) U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion, Task Force San Francisco, run through the city during San Francisco Fleet Week 2022 at San Francisco, California, Oct. 10, 2022. 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 events, showcase capabilities and equipment to the community, and enjoy the hospitality of the city and its surrounding areas.

Guards in front of the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton walks with Vice Admiral Harry B. Harris, Jr., to the Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad in St. Petersburg, Russia, on June 28, 2012.

Germany, Berlin, 09. 05. 2020, Victory Day (over Hitler's fascism), Soviet Memorial Berlin-Treptow, Soviet flag, Europe

U.S. Marines with III Marine Expeditionary Force color guard teams pose for a photo with senior leaders during the III MEF change of command ceremony on Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa, Japan, Jan. 26, 2024. During the ceremony, Lt. Gen. James W. Bierman relinquished his duties as commanding general of III MEF to Lt. Gen. Roger B. Turner.

NASA and Roscosmos team members, along with Russian Search and Recovery Forces, meet at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Karaganda, Kazakhstan to discuss the readiness for the landing of Expedition 56 Commander Drew Feustel and Flight Engineer Ricky Arnold of NASA, along with Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018. Feustel, Arnold, and Artemyev are returning after 197 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 55 and 56 crews onboard the International Space Station.

U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. W. Wes E. Souza (front right), the Commanding General for U.S. Marine Corps Forces Korea, bows his head during a Republic of Korea bootcamp, Feb. 28, 2024, Pohang, Republic of Korea. ROK Marine Corps has been conducting training for bootcamp since 1949. Marine Corps

All-Union Congress of Soviets. The beginning of the U.S.S.R. (L. Kotlyarov., oil.) The First All-Union Congress of Soviets was a congress of representatives of Soviets of workers, peasants and Red Army deputies, held on December 30, 1922 in Moscow. The congress was attended by 2215 delegates

The Tiananmen, Tian'anmen or Gate of Heavenly Peace was first built during the Ming Dynasty in 1420. The gate was originally named Chengtianmen, or 'Gate of Accepting Heavenly Mandate', and it has been destroyed and rebuilt several times. it was from the rostrum of the Gate of Heavenly Peace that Chairman Mao announced the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949.

Navy Frigate gun

DF-ST-85-05191. Subject Operation/Series: REFORGER/AUTUMN FORGE '83 Base: Ulrichstein Country: West Germany (FRG)

North Korea, Pyongyang, capital city, a woman police agent managing the traffic, standing in her blue uniform in the middle of a road

Holocaust Memorial Day at Yad Vashem Jerusalem

Georgia, Gori. Stalin Museum dedicated to former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, gallery of victims of political terror.

Soldiers of the Luchpinary surveillance (LB) on patrol at the 5th group of arms led to stolzau.

Asia, Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall guards at evening flag changing ceremony

North Korea, Panmunjon, two Korean guards in green military uniforms standing in front of blue colored door

JSC2012-E-044893 (25 April 2012) --- At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, outside Moscow, Expedition 31 backup crew members Kevin Ford of NASA (left) and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy (center) and Evgeny Tarelkin (right) salute the site's Yuri Gagarin statue April 25, 2012 following their press conference. Expedition 31 prime crew members Joe Acaba of NASA and cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin (not pictured) are scheduled to launch on May 15 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station.

Military machine at the exhibition under open sky. Military transport at the exhibition

A policeman prepares to check a visitor's identification as a V-100 Commando armored vehicle patrols in the background. The measures are being taken in an effort to strengthen base security following the outbreak of Operation Desert Storm hostilities between the Allied Forces and Iraq. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Base: Naval Air Station, Norfolk State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

At the Kremlin Wall in Moscow, Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank of NASA laid flowers October 24, 2011 in a traditional ceremony during the tour of Red Square he and his crewmates conducted prior to their launch to the International Space Station November 14 on the Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Burbank, Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin will arrive in Baikonur October 31 for final pre-launch preparations.

Vietnam, Dien Bien Phu. Dien Bien Phu Museum, diorama of Vietnamese soldiers atop the Bunker of Colonel Castries in 1954

970710-D-9880W-025. Base: Budapest Country: Hungary (HUN)

Russian army officer supervising cyber attacks on state networks, spreading misinformation and fake news around Europe during hybrid war. Military personnel works on scams and hacking.

Russian military commander in high tech government control room spreading fake news and war propaganda, making threats. Russian army soldier stealing classified information and state secrets.

Cuba, Military, Soldiers Descending Steps Of A Plane After Returning From Angola

Military expert from Russian army working in governmental base of operations, breaking into rival states servers to spread fake news and hybrid war propaganda. Brainwashing population. Camera A.

The North Vietnamese delegates attending the Four Joint Military conference. The conference held at Tan Son Nhut Airbase will finalize details on the release of prisoners of wars held by the four parties. Subject Operation/Series: HOMECOMING Base: Saigon Country: South Vietnam

Unit of missile launchers s-300 PM at the Palace square during a ST.PETERSBURG, RUSSIA - MAY 05, 2016: Unit of missile launchers s-300 PM at the Palace square during a rehearsal of the Victory Parade in St. Petersburg in May Copyright: xZoonar.com/MaximxMitsunx 9265409

1970s Russia - Russian soldier in Moscow ca. 1978.

Ukraine. Sevastopol. Russian Army building.

Reportage: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attends a Ceremonial Changing of the Guard, in Warsaw, Poland, on August 15, 2020.

Crew members man the rails aboard the guided missile cruiser USS PRINCETON (CG 59) as the ship prepares to get underway after a goodwill visit to the city. The guided missile frigate USS REUBEN JAMES (FFG 57) accompanied the PRINCETON on the visit. Base: Vladivostok State: Siberia Country: U.S.S.R. (SUN)

Military hacker from Russian army working in governmental control room cracking rival states network systems to spread fake news and hybrid war propaganda. Brainwashing ideology strategy. Camera B.

Beijing China - Forbidden City, policeman, Mao Tse Tung (MR)

Soldier standing in front of a building, Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China

US soldiers working in a top secret operation room with copy space on screen, ensuring national safety while studying surveillance imagery from satellite cctv. Control tower. Camera A.

The Soyuz rocket is raised vertical after having rolled out by train to the launch pad at Site 31, Tuesday, April 6, 2021, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 65 NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Oleg Novitskiy are scheduled to launch aboard their Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft on April 9.

Ukrainian Army First Lieutenant Yuri Melchuk, Ukrainian Special Battalion Company Commander 240, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, breaks a bottle with his head at Tito barracks during Operation JOINT ENDEAVOR. Ukrainian Army First Lieutenant Yuri Melchuk, Ukrainian Special Battalion Company Commander 240, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, breaks a bottle with his head at Tito barracks during Operation JOINT ENDEAVOR.

Trucks with missiles for launchers s-300 PM at the Palace square ST.PETERSBURG, RUSSIA - MAY 05, 2016: Trucks with missiles for launchers s-300 PM at the Palace square during a rehearsal of the Victory Parade in St. Petersburg in May Copyright: xZoonar.com/MaximxMitsunx 9265414

Lebanon High School Army JROTC Warrior BN take part in the 71st Annual Linn County Veterans Day Parade in Albany, Oregon on Nov. 11, 2022. The event is recognized as one of the largest Veterans Day parades in the United States each year. (National Guard photo by John Hughel, Oregon Military Department Public Affairs)

Parade commemorating the liberation of Odessa from the Nazis, Odessa, Ukraine, Europe

Wall mural of Kim Il Sung, Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum, Pyongyang, Democratic People´s Republic of Korea DPRK, North Korea, Asia

Museum guide in the uniform of a major of the Staatssicherheit national security, the Stasi, Bunkermuseum museum Frauenwald, Thuringia, Germany, Europe

Parade commemorating the liberation of Odessa from the Nazis, Odessa, Ukraine, Europe

Warrior statues below the 20 meter high bronze statue of Kim Il-Sung at Mansudae, Pyongyang, North Korea

China, Beijing. Female Soldier Wearing Surgical Mask

A group of young Vietnamese soldiers training behind barbed wire fence during site visit program of Vietnamese military academies at Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam. Focus on barbed wire.

Syrian Internal Security Forces training academy members march during a graduation ceremony in the al-Shaddadi region, Syria, April 3, 2023. Detention Capabilities Assessment Team personnel assigned to Alpha Company, 1-148th Infantry, 37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Task Force Buckeye conduct law enforcement fundamentals courses with Asayish partners to equip them with skills needed to secure northeast Syria against ISIS. Coalition Forces advise, assist, and enable Syrian Democratic Forces in the enduring defeat of ISIS.

A signalman uses semaphone to communicate to crewmen aboard the first Aegis guided missile cruiser USS TICONDEROGA (CG-47) during commissioning ceremonies at Ingalls Shipbuilding. Base: Pascagoula State: Mississippi (MS) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Soldiers from the Bundeswehr Guard Battalion, photographed during a reception with military honours in the courtyard of the Federal Chancellery in Berlin, 12.04.2024

The Tiananmen, Tian'anmen or Gate of Heavenly Peace was first built during the Ming Dynasty in 1420. The gate was originally named Chengtianmen, or 'Gate of Accepting Heavenly Mandate', and it has been destroyed and rebuilt several times. it was from the rostrum of the Gate of Heavenly Peace that Chairman Mao announced the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949.

An outing for workers at the Secret Camps, Kim Il Sung's headquarters from 1936 to 1943 where he lived and held meetings with anti-Japanese guerillas, and also alleged birthplace of Kim Jong Il, North Korea

DN-ST-86-01547. Base: Kiev Country: U.S.S.R. (SUN)

Military parade of Russian cadets in front of the Hermitage at Palace Square in the city Saint Petersburg, Russia, Europe

Low angle view of a young woman in army uniform standing in front of a palace, Forbidden Palace, Beijing, China

President Chun Doo Hwan of South Korea meets with staff officers of the 25th Infantry Division at their field headquarters during the joint Korean/United States training exercise TEAM SPIRIT '83. Subject Operation/Series: TEAM SPIRIT '83 Base: Hongchon Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)

Soldiers of the Mongolian army, taken as part of a training course for Mongolian soldiers for deployment in UN peace missions by a Bundeswehr training team at the Nalaikh barracks. Nalaikh, 30.06.2023., Nalaikh, Mongolia, Asia

China, Beijing, Forbidden City. Gate of Heavenly Peace with Mao portrait, entry to the Forbidden City from Tiananmen Square. Uniformed guard.

North Korean soldier

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