Military Operations and Training

Images depict soldiers in various training and combat scenarios, showcasing military gear and environments, with a focus on Marines in action during exercises and operations.

A combat-ready Marine cradles his M-16A1 rifle as he crawls through the mud during a field combat training exercise. Base: Mcas, Cherry Point State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DM-SC-87-12152. Base: Beirut Country: Lebanon (LBN)

A combat-ready Marine cradles his M-16A1 rifle as he crawls through the mud during a field combat training exercise. Base: Mcas, Cherry Point State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Two US Marines with 1ST Marine Division, 2nd Battalion 5th Marines, Echo Company, 3rd platoon posts security during Kernel Blitz '99. The Marine in the foreground is aiming his 5.56mm M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) down range. Kernel Blitz '99 was a amphibious assault beach landing conducted primarily by 1ST Marine Division. Subject Operation/Series: KERNEL BLITZ '99 Base: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

970626-M-3937R-001. Subject Operation/Series: KERNEL BLITZ Base: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Members of the 3rd Bn., 327th Inf., 101st Abn. Div. defend their position with an M-60 machine gun and M-16 rifles during a mock attack by members of the Canadian Army. They are participating in the combined U.S./Canadian NATO Exercise Rendezvous '83. Subject Operation/Series: RENDEZVOUS '83 Base: Camp Wainwright State: Alberta (AB) Country: Canada (CAN)

SENIOR AIRMAN Michael Hafstad and SENIOR AIRMAN Adrian Faison, both structural engineers from the 820th Red Horse Squadron, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, prepare to sling load a tractor on a trailer to a CH-47 Chinook helicopter. The CH-47 will redeploy the equipment from Kumaka back to Camp Stephenson, Timehri Guyana. The 820th, was at Kumaka to renovate the existing regional hospital as part of this first combined humanitarian and civic assistance exercise conducted between the United States and Guyana. Military personnel from Air Force, Air Force Reserve & National Guard, Army, Army National Guard and Marine Corps participated in the exercise which included engineering and medical .... Complete Scene Caption: Senior Airman Michael Hafstad and Senior Airman Adrian Faison, both structural engineers from the 820th Red Horse Squadron, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, prepare to sling load a tractor on a trailer to a CH-47 Chinook helicopter. The CH-47 will redeploy the equipment from Kum

DA-SC-88-00453. Subject Operation/Series: COBRA GOLD '86 Country: Thailand (THA)

Firing a .30-caliber Machine Gun M1917A1 near Saarburg, Germany, Rhineland Campaign, 1945

U.S. Army Infantryman, assigned to the 4th Infantry Division, digs in on the crest of a hill while in a deflated position on March 3, 1945, Prum Valley, Germany. Other units of his division had pushed closer to the Rhine River to defend the United States. (U.S. Army photo)

US Marines from 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment, 1ST Marine Division, posing as opposition forces, on patrol. Subject Operation/Series: KERNEL BLITZ '97 Base: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A US Air Force cameraman videotapes the activities of 82nd Airborne Division troops during the multi-service, multinational Operation URGENT FURY. The soldiers are stationed near the Port Salines airfield, where a C-141 Starlifter aircraft is preparing to take off. Country: Grenada (GRD)

DA-ST-86-04586. Country: Unknown

Members of the 101st Airborne Division from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, offload their gear at auxiliary field 6 during exercise BOLD EAGLE '82. Subject Operation/Series: BOLD EAGLE '82 Base: Eglin Air Force Base State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Marines patrol a city street aboard jeeps, during their participation as members of a multinational peacekeeping force. Base: Beirut Country: Lebanon (LBN)

DA-ST-86-09452. Country: Unknown

German Soldier Waving Members of his Unit Forward, Ardennes-Alsace Campaign, Battle of the Bulge, 1945

Two 81mm mortar sections from Weapons Co., 3rd Bn., 2nd Marines, prepare to fire during Operation CAX 1-2-82, held at the Marine Corps Air-to-Ground Combat Center. Subject Operation/Series: CAX 1-2-82 Base: Twentynine Palms State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DM-SC-87-12177. Base: Beirut Country: Lebanon (LBN)

Sitting Soldier Displaying Proper Shooting Position in Field During Training Session, WWII, 2nd Battalion, 389th Infantry, US Army Military Base Indiana, USA, 1942

CAPT. Frank Gray, a "survivor" of a downed aircraft watches as two HH-53 Super Jolly helicopters from the 67th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron arrive to rescue him during pararescue training. Country: United Kingdom (UK)

A company commander requests an air strike over his radio telephone to help the onward offensive against the "enemy" during Exercise Gallant Eagle '82. Subject Operation/Series: GALLANT EAGLE '82 Base: Fort Irwin State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DN-ST-85-08780. Base: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

STAFF SGT. Robert Wheeler, A Company, Landing Support Battalion, Camp Pendleton, CA, guards ammunition as it is being transported by truck. Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE Base: Mogadishu Country: Somalia (SOM)

DN-ST-86-02274. Subject Operation/Series: OCEAN VENTURE '84 Base: Vieques Island Country: Puerto Rico (PRI)

DF-ST-88-10342. Base: Zambrano Country: Honduras (HND)

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DF-ST-87-07584. Subject Operation/Series: GALLANT EAGLE '86 Base: Edwards Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

World War II, Marines invading Tarawa, 1943.

DA-SC-90-00061. Base: Fort Irwin State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DM-ST-86-09293. Base: Kanoku Training Area, Oahu State: Hawaii (HI) Country: United States Of America (USA)

PLATOON (1986), directed by OLIVER STONE.

Marines from India Battery, 3rd Battalion, 12th Marines, Twenty-Nine Palms, California, fire a live round from their 155 mm Howitzer, after using a spotting scope with which to accurately hit the target near the base of Mount Fuji. Base: Mount Fuji Country: Japan (JPN)

Trip to Europe: Germany, Hanau: Arrival at Fliegerhorst Kaserne, address, and inspection of troops and equipment, 10:45AM. President John F. Kennedy (center right, wearing sunglasses) inspects military troops and equipment at Fliegerhorst Kaserne in Hanau, West Germany (Federal Republic). Also pictured: U.S. Army in Europe Project Officer, Colonel Frank Meszar; Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, General Earle G. Wheeler; Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Lyman L. Lemnitzer; Commander in Chief of U.S. Air Forces in Europe, General Truman H. Landon; Military Aide to President Kennedy, General Chester V. Clifton; Commanding General of V Corps, Lieutenant General John H. Michaelis; Commander in Chief of the U.S. Army in Europe, General Paul L. Freeman, Jr.; Dean of the White House press corps and United Press International (UPI) reporter, Merriman Smitty Smith; White House Secret Service agents, Gerald A. Jerry Behn and Roy Kellerman.

Members of the 48th Fighter Wing don their chemical warfare suits during a base exercise. Exact Date Shot Unknown. Base: Raf Lakenheath State: East Anglia Country: England / Great Britain (ENG)

CAPT. Frank Gray, a "survivor" of a downed aircraft watches as two HH-53 Super Jolly helicopters from the 67th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron arrive to rescue him during pararescue training. Country: United Kingdom (UK)

AIRMAN David A. Farmer, a student from the Combat Control Team School at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, watches a C-130 Hercules aircraft roll along the runway during a joint Army Reserve/Air Force Reserve medical exercise. Farmer is armed with an M-16A1 carbine. Base: National Guard Camp Bullis State: Texas (TX) Country: United States Of America (USA)

The Second Indochina War, known in America as the Vietnam War, was a Cold War era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the U. S. and other anti-communist nations. The U. S. government viewed involvement in the war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam and part of their wider strategy of containment. The North Vietnamese government viewed the war as a colonial war, fought initially against France, backed by the U. S. , and later against South Vietnam, which it regarded as a U. S. puppet state. U. S. military advisors arrived beginning in 1950. U. S. involvement escalated in the early 1960s, with U. S. troop levels tripling in 1961 and tripling again in 1962. U. S. combat units were deployed beginning in 1965. Operations

990620-M-5696S-002. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT GUARDIAN Base: Camp Montieth State: Kosovo Country: Yugoslavia (YUG) Scene Major Command Shown: 26th MEU

DN-ST-85-07113. Subject Operation/Series: SOLID SHIELD '83 Base: Onslow Beach, Mcb, Camp Lejeune State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A manned Bofors 40mm air goal canon looks out at a taxi lockheed f16a.

1960S Arrival Of Us Army Soldiers In Vietnam As They Land On Beach

SPEC. 4 James Jacobs, Co. A, 6th Bn., 327th Inf. Regt., fires an M-29A1 81mm mortar during Celestial Empire '83. Subject Operation/Series: CELESTIAL EMPIRE '83 Base: Fort Richardson State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

990424-M-7910V-019. Subject Operation/Series: KERNEL BLITZ Base: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Marines wait for the arrival of President and Mrs. George Bush. The president and his wife are paying Thanksgiving Day visits to U.S. troops who are in Saudi Arabia for Operation Desert Shield. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU)

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DA-ST-85-12842. Country: Unknown

Air Force security police carrying M-16 rifles with blank firing attachments run along a mock beach at the Army base, where they are being trained in infantry tactics for air base defense. Base: Fort Dix State: New Jersey (NJ) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Members of the 1ST Cavalry Division deploy from UH-1H Iroquois helicopters during an exercise. Country: Unknown

Specalist 4 Robert Wolf of the 1ST Battalion, 27th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division, aims his M-60 machine gun toward an "enemy" Blue Force aircraft flying overhead, during the joint South Korean/US training Exercise TEAM SPIRIT '83. Subject Operation/Series: TEAM SPIRIT '83 Base: Chipyong-Ni Country: Republic Of Korea (ROK)

Three Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133 (NMCB-133) discuss plans to drain the water from a bomb crater on the runway at an Iraqi airfield. The airfield, which had been under construction prior to the start of the Persian Gulf war, is being repaired to allow relief supplies to be flown in for nearby Kurdish refugees as part of Operation Provide Comfort. Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Base: Sirsenk Country: Iraq (IRQ)

DF-ST-85-13523. Subject Operation/Series: WOUNDED EAGLE '83 Country: Unknown

Members of a U.S. Marine detachment prepare to construct a barrier during PACEX '89. Subject Operation/Series: PACEX '89 Country: United States Of America (USA)

Airborne Infantrymen Ready For Take-Off Somewhere In Sicily.

970624-M-9368G-010. Subject Operation/Series: KERNEL BLITZ Base: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Tactical Airlift Control Element (TALCE) personnel put up camouflage netting before helping to build the teams command tent. The Joint/Combined Combat Camera team is currently deployed to the Combat Support Operations Course school at Fort Dix, New Jersey. While there the team will learn to survive and operate in a field environment. Base: Fort Dix State: New Jersey (NJ) Country: United States Of America (USA)

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