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Military Operations in Afghanistan and Iraq

Soldiers participating in various military operations, engaging with local civilians and conducting patrols in challenging environments.

060121-A-5745M-018. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MTN DIV

Soldiers from the Afghan National Army relax after a patrol in Marjah, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Feb. 14, 2010. The ANA soldiers and Marines from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, have been conducting Operation Moshtarak to eliminate Taliban presence and intimidation from the city of Marjah.

050920-A-8255A-032. Base: Al Madain State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

020418-F-2902B-009. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar Air Base Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: AMC

060311-N-6901L-120. Subject Operation/Series: Oil pipeline security Base: Taji Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 1ST Brigade, 4th Infantry Divisi

030916-F-7685H-088. Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: USAFE

060324-A-7969G-015. Base: Forward Operating Base Summerall State: Salah Ah Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST AB DIVISION

060121-A-5745M-018. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MTN DIV

060123-A-6365W-018. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fob Loyalty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST

041109-A-1067B-007. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 2-7 CAV

070324-M-2166H-030. Complete Scene Caption: An Iraqi Army Soldier in the School of Infantry (SOI) searches another Soldier during a practice exercise at Camp Yasser on Al Asad Air Base, Iraq on March 24, 2007. SOI is a ten day training school that teaches advanced fighting techniques and tactics to new Iraqi Army Soldiers before they report to their battalions. 2nd Battalion 7th Iraqi Army Division Military Transition Team is deployed as a part of MNF-W in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Anbar province of Iraq to develop the Iraqi Security Forces, facilitate the development of official rule of law through democratic government reforms and continue the development of a market based economy centered on Iraqi reconstruction. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance CPL. Michael L. Haas) (Released) Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Asad State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: MITT 2-7

051226-A-7969G-050. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Cooke State: Taji Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050814-A-5447B-036. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Rawah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

SOUTHERN SHORSHORK, Helmand province, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan First Sgt. Wesley L. Misenhimer and Capt. Luke Pernotto, the first sergeant and commanding officer of Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, listen to the concerns of local elders in Southern Shorshork, Helmand province, Afghanistan, during Operation Cobra, June 17. Operation Cobra is a joint operation between Marine Corps units and the Afghanistan National Army to disrupt enemy forces which have been using the sparsely populated region between Marjah and Nawa as a safe haven.

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Josh Williams, a supply clerk assigned to an Afghan police mentoring team, provides security alongside Afghan policemen in Zaranj, Nimroz province, Afghanistan, Dec. 30, 2011.

040613-M-5555L-055. Base: Camp Ali State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060513-A-4576B-057. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM State: Ghazni Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: NORTHEAST

U.S. Marine GySgt. Philip M. Collins, Platoon Sergeant Battery I, 3rd Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment (3/10), interacts with a local Afghan child outside Patrol Base Mahafiz, in Shorshorak, Afghanistan, April 29, 2010. The Marines and sailors assigned to 3/10 are currently deployed to Afghanistan in support of the International Security Assistance Force.

US Army (USA) Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Joseph Connell (foreground left), Commander, 2nd Battalion, 11th Field Artillery, talks with Mr. Daood Ganoom Ali (center), the Mayor from the village of Qarah Tappah, Iraq, about the significance of weapons and ammunition seized during a search of his village during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The search was conducted to locate and confiscate any illegal contraband that could be used against coalition forces. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Qarah Tappah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060322-A-5043I-025. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 3RD BRIGADE

050628-A-1566H-027. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM State: Babil Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030627-M-5505M-025. Base: Al Diwanyah State: Al Qadisiyah Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 3rd Bn 5th Marines

030412-F-1644L-019. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050712-A-8255A-089. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Sadr Al Yusufiyah Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: C CO, 2-502 CAV 101ST ABN

050417-M-0616L-004. Base: Camp Junction City State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: ISF

040610-M-5555L-023. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060104-A-7359K-030. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fob Mchenry State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION

060127-A-5745M-059. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MTN DIV

050812-A-2140D-014. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Rawah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: B 3-21

U.S. soldiers with Dog Company, 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment (Airborne), Task Force 4-25, conduct a patrol with Afghan National Army soldiers in Tatanak, Paktya province, Afghanistan June 14, 2012. Dog Company and the ANA were in Tatanak to search for weapon caches and disrupt enemy activity.

A paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Divisions 1st Brigade Combat Team gives a “high five” to an Afghan boy May 29, 2012, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. The paratrooper is on patrol with other paratroopers and Afghan soldiers.

050430-M-5213M-031. Base: Al Kharma State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 8-Mar

011231-F-3961R-014. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Sherberghan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: army

050913-A-0527A-004. Base: Camp Kackeran Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: Northeast

A local Afghan man from Nawbor Village, Bala Murghab District, Baghdis Province, Afghanistan, talks through an interpreter (right) to (left) U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Nicholas Lewis, a scout with White Platoon, Bulldog Troop, 7th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, at Fort Carson, Colo., Jan. 16, 2011. The Afghan thanked the Afghan National Army and U.S. Army scouts for ridding his village of insurgents and bringing a better life to the Nawbor children, who gathered on the hill.

050630-A-9930K-063. Subject Operation/Series: LIFELINE Base: Qasim Air Base State: Islamabad Country: Pakistan (PAK) Scene Major Command Shown: TASK FORCE EAGLE

040613-M-5555L-007. Base: Camp Ali State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

1st Lt. Colin Duffy, PMT platoon commander, and an Afghan border policeman talk with local villagers during a patrol west of Patrol Base Masood. The patrol was part of an effort to show local villagers that the ABP are here to take responsibility for the security of the surrounding villages.

040613-M-5555L-037. Base: Camp Ali State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

020703-A-5452G-039. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Organ Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

U.S. Soldiers assigned to Task Force Hurricane from the 1st Battalion, 124th Infantry Regiment, and Royal Saudi Land Force soldiers move in line during a platoon immersion in Al-Kharj, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, June 12, 2022. The immersion was a training event meant to build interoperability between the U.S Army and RSLF at the platoon level while enhancing both U.S. and partner nation skillsets.

Lance Cpl. Felipe ZapataSierra, a mortarman with 81 mm Mortar Platoon, Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, patrols through a residential area of Marjah, Afghanistan, March 27, 2010. Marines with 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, have partnered with and mentored ANA soldiers through training, joint patrolling and counterinsurgency operations. ZapataSierra, 22, is from Orlando, Fla.

051123-A-5560L-006. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Master Sgt. Jim Doten, a member of the Minnesota Army National Guard, serving with the Zabul Agribusiness Development Team talks to a village elder while inspecting a karez entrance during a village assessment in Jarullah, Afghanistan, Feb. 25, 2012.

061215-M-9057K-253. Base: Haqlaniyah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Afghan National Army and police stand in formation together inside the district center of Musa Qaleh, Afghanistan, during a reflagging ceremony held, April 2, 2010. The reflagging ceremony commemorates the partnership between the ANA and ANP as they continue to work together in providing security for the people of Musa Qaleh.

040715-F-5789F-008. Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Iraqi army soldiers from 1st Brigade, 9th Iraqi Army Division patrol in the Zafaraniyah area of East Baghdad, Iraq, May 1, 2007. The Iraqi soldiers are conducting a combined control with U.S. Army Soldiers from Bravo Battery, 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division.

Iraqi children gather around a U.S. Soldier assigned to Foxtrot Company, 425th Infantry Long Range Surveillance, Michigan Army National Guard out of Selfridge, Mich., while he pulls security in a village near the Sinjar Mountains in northern Iraq Oct. 29, 2009. The Soldiers and a representative from the Department of State are inspecting water wells in area villages during a project oversight mission.

A Navy corpsman, assigned to Combat Service Support Detachment 15 (CSSD-15), assists a Somali man. The corpsman is participating in a medical civic action program during the multinational relief effort Operation Restore Hope. Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE Base: Modadishu Country: Somalia (SOM)

Major General (MGEN) Herbert A. Altschuler, Commander, US Army (USA) Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (USACAPOC), right, meets with staff and local Afghans at the Artificial Insemination Complex in Kabul, during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kabul Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

030410-M-4779G-006. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Saddam City Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030917-F-7685H-086. Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: USAFE

041112-M-0173F-005. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

A U.S. Army Soldier attached to 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment hands out informational flyers in Mosul, Iraq, Jan. 4, 2008.

050630-A-9930K-065. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: CJTF-76

040824-A-6713J-038. Base: Alalaa State: Salah Al Din Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040409-M-8096M-003. Base: Tirin Kot District State: Oruzgan Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

2nd Lt. Mark H. Tetzel, Company D platoon commander, 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, contacts his interpreter to assist him in communicating with local community members near the newly-established Patrol Base Khanjar Aug. 17, 2009. Many locals have a misconception that the Marines will leave the area shortly after the Aug. 20 elections. This patrol base is meant to give the community peace of mind that the Marines arent leaving any time soon.

070317-M-2819S-022. Complete Scene Caption: Soldiers with the Iraqi Army search civilians that were suspected to have planted an Improvised Explosive Device. Soldiers of the Iraqi Army and Marines with the Military Transition Team attached to 2nd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, and 1ST Division of the Iraqi Army conduct mounted security patrols as a combined forces exercise on March 7, 2007. Regimental Combat Team 6 is deployed with II Marine Expeditionary Force in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Anbar Province of Iraq (Multi-National Forces-West) to develop the Iraqi Security Forces, facilitate the development of official rule of law through democratic government reforms, and continue the development of a market based economy centered on Iraqi Reconstruction. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by CPL. Neill A. Sevelius) (Released) Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 2-2-1 MTT

060315-M-0374B-004. Subject Operation/Series: California Dreaming/ Operation Iraqi Freedom 05-07 Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: Fox Co 2/6

060322-A-5043I-017. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 3RD BRIGADE

Mr. Abdul Manaf, Governor Nawa District, greets a local Afghan interpreter outside the local administrative building where the Marines assigned to Battery I, 3rd Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment (3/10), were having a scheduled meeting with the local village elders in Shorshorak, Afghanistan, April 29, 2010. The Marines and sailors assigned to 3/10 are currently deployed to Afghanistan in support of the International Security Assistance Force.

060315-A-2718K-002. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Mosul Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060301-A-2718K-091. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Mosul Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060322-A-5043I-041. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 3RD BRIGADE

060225-A-7969G-022. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fob Summerall State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: C1-187

060118-A-5560L-010. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Unknown

051112-A-7186W-002. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Tall Afar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030408-M-4419R-018. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 5th Marines

031007-F-5586B-006. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Kuwaiti paratroopers stand with an American counterpart during Exercise Eager Mace 92-1, the first major U.S./Kuwaiti combined service exercise since the end of Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: EAGER MACE 92-1 Country: Kuwait (KWT)

Capt. Sean Popravak, company commander for Badger Troop 3-116 Cavalry Regiment of the Oregon Army National Guard, conducts an operations brief with members of the Jordanian Armed Forces during Exercise Eager Lion, Sept. 11, 2022. Eager Lion 22 is a multilateral exercise hosted by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, designed to exchange military expertise, and improve interoperability among partner nations.

060224-A-7969G-013. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fob Summerall State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: HHC1-187 MORTARS

060521-A-4576B-006. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM State: Ghazni Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: NORTHEAST

060531-N-4614W-057. Base: At Ta 'Mim Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060124-A-5745M-011. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MTN DIV

Members of Sons of Iraq conduct a dismounted patrol outside Joint Security Station Bab al Sheikh in the al Rashid section of Baghdad, Iraq, May 28, 2008. The patrol is being conducted with U.S. Soldiers from Bravo Troop, 3rd Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division.

U.S. Army Col. Javier Soria, deputy director of Military Advisor Group - North, Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve, meets 1st Supporting Forces Command members at a graduation ceremony, Duhok, Iraq, Dec. 5, 2022. The event recognized twenty-eight officers' completion of the three-monthlong heavy weapons and artillery training.

030120-A-5273C-014. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM 2003 Base: Kohi Sofi Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

An Afghan National Army Soldier Shows Off an M240B Medium Machinegun at a Remote, Austere Combat Outpost in Afghanistan's Helmand Province

040817-M-8683D-003. Base: Khowst State: Paktia Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

070317-M-2819S-010. Complete Scene Caption: A soldier with 2nd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, and 1ST Division of the Iraqi Army checks some paperwork of an Iraqi man while his vehicle is being searched. Soldiers of the Iraqi Army and Marines with the Military Transition Team attached to 2nd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, and 1ST Division of the Iraqi Army search vehicles during a mounted patrol as a combined forces exercise on March 7, 2007. Regimental Combat Team 6 is deployed with II Marine Expeditionary Force in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Anbar Province of Iraq (Multi-National Forces-West) to develop the Iraqi Security Forces, facilitate the development of official rule of law through democratic government reforms, and continue the development of a market based economy centered on Iraqi Reconstruction. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by CPL. Neill A. Sevelius) (Released) Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown

040511-M-8683D-002. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Fob Surobi Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: 3d BN 6th Mar

U.S. Army Soldiers from Charlie Company, 6th Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division speak with local men during a patrol in Muqadiyah, Iraq, Sept. 20, 2007.

051027-A-3749Z-005. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Yaqubi Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: 1ST BDE 504PIR 82ND ABN DIV

BRIAN PRESLEY and CURTIS JACKSON in HOME OF THE BRAVE (2006), directed by IRWIN WINKLER. Copyright: Editorial use only. No merchandising or book covers. This is a publicly distributed handout. Access rights only, no license of copyright provided. Only to be reproduced in conjunction with promotion of this film.

An unidentified Free Iraqi Forces (FIF) Soldier talks with local Iraqi citizens in the town of Umm Qasr, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Base: Umm Qasr Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050712-A-8255A-038. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Abu Ghraib State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: A CO. 1/81 INF. 10TH MNT. DIV.

040613-M-5555L-002. Base: Camp Ali State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

051119-A-0527A-001. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar Army Air Field Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

Afghan national army of the 6th Codec, 2nd Brigade, 201st Corp, 1st Company soldiers load ammunition into their magazines for a weapons qualification with the M16 A1 rifle on FOB Bostick at Bostick Afghanistan, Jan. 16.

041130-M-3658J-002. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: CSSC-115

051010-A-1327A-035. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: NORTHEAST

U.S. Marines with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) (26th MEU(SOC)) and Italian San Marco Brigade Marines exchange sniper tactics, techniques, and procedures during a bilateral exercise at Massafra, Italy, Feb. 24, 2024. The 26th MEU(SOC), embarked aboard USS Mesa Verde (LPD 19), conducted Marine Air-Ground Task Force interoperability training with Italian San Marco Brigade Marines and maritime forces to sustain readiness in core mission essential tasks. The Bataan Amphibious Ready Group, with embarked 26th MEU(SOC), is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. Naval Forces Europe area of operations, employed by U.S. 6th Fleet to defend U.S., Allied, and partner interests. Marine Corps

030331-M-3138H-006. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

070317-M-2819S-008. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 2-2-1 MTT

040823-F-1351B-003. Base: Forward Operating Base Duke State: An Najaf Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030113-F-7203T-008. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram Air Base State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

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