Military Operations in Iraq

Action-oriented images depicting military vehicles and personnel operating in the challenging environments of Iraq. Illustrates logistics and combat operations.

060411-A-6365W-224. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Gabe Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST

060108-A-4545F-084. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Butoma Country: Iraq (IRQ)

041110-A-1067B-015. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 2-7 CAV

A convoy of cargo trucks from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force rolls into Kuwait at the start of the ground phase of Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Kuwait (KWT)

030318-M-9124R-015. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Country: Kuwait (KWT)

DF-ST-89-00941. Subject Operation/Series: SHADOW HAWK Base: Al Jafr Country: Jordan (JOR)

060405-A-1211S-113. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Cob Speicher Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: NORTHEAST

US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines assigned to Charlie Company, 1ST Battalion, 7th Marines, move into position with an Amphibious Assault Vehicle (AAV7A1) to engage Iraqi ground forces at an abandoned oil storage facility near Az Zubayr, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. (Substandard image). Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Az Zubayr Country: Iraq (IRQ)

U.S. Army sappers assigned to the 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, mark a breach in an obstacle during a live-fire exercise as part of Defender Europe at Oberlausitz Training Area, Germany, May 19, 2022. Defender Europe 22 is a series of U.S. Army Europe and Africa multinational training exercises in Eastern Europe. The exercise demonstrates U.S. Army Europe and Africas ability to conduct large-scale ground combat operations across multiple theaters supporting NATO.

A soldier assigned to Bravo Company, 52nd Brigade Engineer Battalion, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, runs toward an M1132 Engineer Squad Vehicle after making a lane during engineer qualification tables, June 14, 2022, at Ft. Carson, Colo. Engineer qualification tables allow soldiers in the unit to demonstrate their proficiency at engineer tasks. U.S. Army photo by Maj. Jason Elmore.

060411-A-6365W-224. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Gabe Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST

A member of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5 stands watch while other Seabees uses a bulldozers to prepare an area for camp during Operation Desert Storm. Exact Date Shot Unknown. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU)

030317-M-4419R-002. Base: Camp Bear Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Major Command Shown: 5TH MARINES

U.S. Army Soldiers from 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, playing the opposing force returns simulated fire on the assaulting element on Pohakuloa Training Grounds, Nov. 2, 2022. Realistic training exercises, like JPMRC 23-01, strengthen defense relationships, foster multinational interoperability, increase U.S. readiness, and reinforce the unified regional land power network that supports a Free and Open Indo-Pacific.

A convoy of Soldiers assigned to the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, drive to a checkpoint inside the box at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, August 5, 2022. The Soldiers attended the 22-09 rotation at NTC to test their unit and personal mastery of skills and task management.

U.S. Soldiers assigned to 299th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division moves to the Brigade Support Area (BSA) during Decisive Action Rotation 22-09 at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, Calif., Aug. 5, 2022.

A gunner mans the 20mm M-168 Vulcan gun on an M-163A1 self-propelled anti-aircraft gun during Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Saudi Arabia(SAU)

Artillery rounds called in by 3rd Tracks impact on their designated targets simulating the enemy during the live fire Exercise Desert Knight located at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California in December of 1999. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT KNIGHT 99 Base: Mcagcc, Twentynine Palms State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

060410-A-6365W-133. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Gabe Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST

Marines and sailors with Company C, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, unload from amphibious assault vehicles, Jan. 20 before storming Combat Center Range 210. The company was forced to halt training due to inclement weather conditions.

DF-ST-86-08657. Base: Fort Irwin State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

060521-A-7969G-001. Base: Al Fatah State: Salah Ah Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: NORTHEAST

240108-N-HA192-1093VOLOS, GREECE (Jan. 8, 2024) Boatswains Mate 3rd Class Abel Aguirre, assigned to Beachmaster Unit 2, directs a landing craft air cushion, attached to Assault Craft Unit 4 and embarked aboard the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Mesa Verde (LPD 19), into Volos, Greece, Jan. 8. Mesa Verd, a part of the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group, is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. Naval Forces Europe area of operations, employed by U.S. Sixth Fleet to defend U.S. allied and partner interests.

Humvee En Route to Bagram Air Field

Members of the 343rd Defense Artillery Squadron operate their satellite communications system while participating in exercise Roving Sands '96, the US military's largest annual joint air defense training exercise. Subject Operation/Series: ROVING SANDS '96 Base: Fort Bliss State: Texas (TX) Country: United States Of America (USA)

030214-M-3138H-070. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Major Command Shown: 5TH MARINES

A M198 155mm Towed Howitzer from Bravo Battery, 1ST Battalion, 12th Marines, 3rd Marine Regiment from Marine Corp Base Hawaii is ready for the start of the combined arms live fire exercise. The M198 is constructed of aluminum and steel, and is air transportable by CH-53E helicopter and C-130 or larger fixed-wing aircraft. Maximum effective range with conventional ammunition is 22,400 meters (13.92 miles) and with a rocket-assisted projectile, 30,000 meters (18.64 miles). Base: Mcb, Hawaii State: Hawaii (HI) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Military police of the 3rd Brigade, 1ST Armored Division, 7th Corps inspect a BMP-1 armored personnel carrier of the Iraqi Republican Guard damaged during Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Kuwait(KWT)

040410-A-0259W-056. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram Airfield State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

070319-M-7404B-022. Complete Scene Caption: An instructor with the 2nd Brigade 7th Iraqi Army Division Military Transition Team (MiTT 2-7) instructs an Iraqi army soldier while he fires a PKC machine gun from the turret of a high mobillity multi wheeled vehicle (HMMWV) during a live fire exercise at the fire and maneuver range on Asad Air Base, Iraq on March 9, 2007. 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 CPL. Sheila M. Brooks) (Released) Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Asad State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: MITT 2-7

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Samuel Schouten from 2nd Battalion, 14th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, guides an M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) back to a concealed position during Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course2-22, near Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range, California, April 13, 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.

030228-M-5150A-013. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Camp Ripper Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Major Command Shown: 7th Marines

050607-A-1566H-016. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Charlie Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Approximately 80 Idaho Army National Guard Soldiers with the 1st Battalion of the 148th Field Artillery Regiment, along with counterparts from several states to include California, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Wisconsin are training with the Royal Moroccan Army in the northern Sahara Desert as part of African Lion 22. Idahos battalion, from the 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team and headquartered in Pocatello, left the United States June 18 for the two-week exercise overseas with the international partner. Idaho Soldiers spent the first week preparing for the combined arms live-fire multinational mission that is the primary focus of the second week and conducted annual crew certification on the M109A6 Howitzer. During the exercise, the battalion provided ground support with preparatory and destructive fires, as well as obscuration using white smoke fires. At the end of the two-week exercise, the Idaho National Guard and the four counterpart states will conduct the combined arms live-fire

040610-M-7514K-007. Base: Ar Ar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: Navy Sea Bees

DF-ST-85-09846. Subject Operation/Series: OCEAN VENTURE '84 State: Puerto Rico (PR) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DM-ST-88-07774. Subject Operation/Series: BRIGHT STAR Base: El Hamman Country: Egypt (EGY)

060422-A-6365W-025. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Remagen State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST

030301-M-5150A-015. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Camp Coyote Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Major Command Shown: 7th Marines

030321-M-5150A-103. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Armed military personnel watch over a berm as a fire burns in the desert during Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Saudi Arabia(SAU)

040328-M-5753Q-086. Base: Haqlaniyah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Zaragoza, 10/30/2015. HM King Felipe Vi, attends the Trident Juncture exercise, at the Cenad de San Gregorio Maneuver Field. Photo: Fabian Simón Archdc.

041111-M-3658J-003. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030403-M-9792P-040. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 11th Marines Regiment

Light spills out from a M992 Field Artillery Ammunition Support Vehicle, also known as a CAT, ready to supply the M109 Paladin crew with ammunition during a night-time livefire held on Orchard Combat Training Center, June 10, 2022, for Western Strike 22. Western Strike 22 is an eXportable Combat Training Capabilities exercise led by the 65th Field Artillery Brigade, Utah National Guard, that provides National Guard Soldiers immersed training similar to a combat training center and aims to increase participating unit's readiness and lethality.

United States Marine Corps M777 Howitzer at a remote combat outpost in the Helmand Province, Afghanistan

military man stands in front of crashed helicopter in desert

A close-up view of a combat-ready Marine (CPL Williams) as he uses a pair of binoculars to look at the next objective. The Marine is standing inside the turret of an M-60A1 tank. This is part of 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)

041208-M-5607G-025. Base: Mcas Yuma State: Arizona (AZ) Country: United States Of America (USA)

One Marine helps another climb into the bed of an M-1008 cargo truck near a landing zone in northern Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Storm. A CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter, left, and an AH-1T Sea Cobra helicopter are in the background. An M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) is in the foreground at left. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU)

Staff Sgt. Stan Mecham, a horizontal construction engineer with the 116th Engineer Company, 1457th Engineer Battalion, Utah National Guard guides a front loader operator while installing a new cattle guard at Dinosaur National Monument, June 13, 2022. The cattle guard replacement was one of several projects the company did at the monument as part of their annual training.

990424-M-7028L-007. Subject Operation/Series: KERNEL BLITZ Base: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: 1ST Marine Division

A US Army M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), with a camouflaged 50 Caliber Machine Gun on the Top Turret, is dressed out as Friendly Force during ASCIET (All Service Combat Identification Evaluation Test) training held at the US Army's Training and Suport Center, Fort Stewart, Georgia. Base: Fort Stewart State: Georgia (GA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

An Egyptian SA-2 surface-to-air missile is deployed during the multinational joint service Exercise Bright Star '85. Subject Operation/Series: BRIGHT STAR '85 Country: Egypt (EGY)

A Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 24 (NMCB-24) M-809 series 5-ton truck drives toward Lonesome Dove Expeditionary Airfield during Operation Desert Storm. The truck is equipped with a bituminous storage and sprayer system used to maintain the airfield. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU)

An HH-60G Pave Hawk assigned to the 66th Rescue Squadron (RQS) flies over a training target on the Nevada Test and Training at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, April 28, 2022. The 66 RQS tactically employ the HH-60G helicopter and its crew in hostile environments to recover downed aircrew and isolated personnel during day, night or marginal weather conditions in contested airspace, employing skills such as weapons employment, shipboard operations and aerial refueling.

Key leadership from the Idaho National Guard and several other U.S. states joined partner nations on June 30, 2022 in Morocco to see the capabilities of multinational armies working together simultaneously in a combined arms live-fire mission. During the exercise, Marines called in air strikes simultaneously as Idaho's 1st Battalion of the 148th Field Artillery Regiment fired the M795 high explosive rounds from the M109A6 howitzers as ground support with Oregon, Utah and Wisconsin Army National Guards, a Marine Corps Reserve unit based in California and active-duty Soldiers from Fort Hood, Texas, with preparatory and destructive fires and obscuration using M825 white smoke rounds.

030706-F-0000C-910. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Taqqadum Country: Iraq (IRQ)

U.S. Army paratroopers from 2nd Section, 2nd Platoon, Bravo Battery, 4th Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment fire their 155 mm Howitzer from Forward Operating Base Blessing in eastern Afghanistan June 28, 2007.

U.S. Army Soldiers patrol through rugged terrain in a humvee in the mountains of Tagab Valley, Kapisa Province, Afghanistan, April 1, 2008.

DF-ST-86-07760. Base: Anwar Country: Egypt (EGY)

After the opposing forces attacked and damaged the camp runway, the Rapid Runway Repair team from the 90th CES, F.E. Warren AFB, Wyo., went to work filling in the craters using dump trucks and road graders and then began assembling the AM2 runway repair mats. They are participating in Exercise Condor Contest, part of a Space Command Operational Readiness Inspection which deployed 155 members of the 90th Missile Wing, F.E. Warren AFB, Wyo. to Camp Guernsey Army National Guard Base, Wyo. Subject Operation/Series: CONDOR CONTEST Base: Camp Guernsey State: Wyoming (WY) Country: United States Of America (USA)

030903-M-7837W-020. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Babylon Country: Iraq (IRQ)

111214-N-BA263-968 CAMP BUEHRING, Kuwait (Dec. 14, 2011) Convoys drive to Camp Beuhring, Kuwait, as U.S. forces depart Iraq.

U.S. Army Soldiers from Alpha Company, 4th Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group, Fort Carson, Colo., conduct convoy operations during Emerald Warrior, March 4, 2011, at Cannon Air Force Base, N.M. Emerald Warrior is a U.S. Special Operations Command sponsored, multiservice exercise designed to leverage lessons learned from Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom to provide trained and ready forces to combatant commanders.

A convoy of Bradley Fighting Vehicles assigned to 1st Battalion, 635th Armored Regiment, Kansas Army National Guard, conduct a movement to contact maneuver at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, California, June 6, 2021. The 1-635th, based in Kansas City, Kansas, is an organic element of the 155th Armored Brigade Combat Team, Mississippi Army National Guard. The NTC rotation allows the 155th and supporting units to build teamwork and combat readiness for future missions. (Mississippi National Guard

Royal Jordanian Land Force soldiers wait for U.S. Air Force Joint Tactical Air Controllers from the 13th Air Support Operations Squadron as part of the Falcon Air Meet 2010 near Azraq, Jordan, Oct. 25, 2010. The purpose of The Falcon Air Meet is to improve international military relations and joint air operations.

August 22, 2013 - U.S. Marine Corps gunner provides aerial security with a GAU-21 .50 caliber machine gun inside a CH-53E Super Stallion over Helmand province, Afghanistan.

Approaching convoy of United States Marine Corps MRAPs or Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle, Camp Leatherneck, Helmand Province, Afghanistan

030420-M-5607A-021. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Nu'Maniyah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Person's hand holding a machine gun in a helicopter, Al Anbar, Iraq

Army personnel from Fort Ord, California, move in formation along the beach after disembarking a utility landing craft (LCU-1645), during Exercise Crisex '81. Subject Operation/Series: CRISEX '81 Base: Garrucha Country: Spain (ESP)

040622-M-2900S-066. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Dulab State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

A member of Georgias Defense Force works with a U.S. Soldier and Joint Terminal Attack Controller while conducting a live fire demonstration during the Noble Partner 22 closing ceremonies at the 11th polygon of Vaziani, Georgia, Sept. 9, 2022. The Noble Partner 22 exercise consists of 2,400 military personnel from more than 21 countries and is designed to enhance Georgian, regional ally, partner, and U.S. forces' readiness.

030403-M-9792P-042. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 11th Marines Regiment

Camp Fallujah, Iraq, November 11, 2004 - U.S. Marines engage enemy targets with an M-198 155mm Howitzer.

Key leadership from the Idaho National Guard and several other U.S. states joined partner nations on June 30, 2022 in Morocco to see the capabilities of multinational armies working together simultaneously in a combined arms live-fire mission. During the exercise, Marines called in air strikes simultaneously as Idaho's 1st Battalion of the 148th Field Artillery Regiment fired the M795 high explosive rounds from the M109A6 howitzers as ground support with Oregon, Utah and Wisconsin Army National Guards, a Marine Corps Reserve unit based in California and active-duty Soldiers from Fort Hood, Texas, with preparatory and destructive fires and obscuration using M825 white smoke rounds.

Aerial view as a Russian MI-24 Hind attack helicopter attacks a convoy of military vehicles using a smoke generator that simulates a NBC (Nuclear, Biological & Chemical) attack. The Russian helicopter is operated by members of Optec Threat Support Activity during the world's largest joint service, multi-nation tactical air operations exercise. Subject Operation/Series: ROVING SANDS 97 Base: El Paso State: Texas (TX) Country: United States Of America (USA)

970408-F-4116M-104. Subject Operation/Series: ROVING SANDS Base: El Paso State: Texas (TX) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DA-ST-88-04805. Base: Fort Irwin State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Lance Cpl. Brandon King, a driver with Delta Company, 1st Tank Battalion, performs maintenance on an M1 Abrams Tank at Forward Operating Base Shir Ghazay, Afghanistan, April 5, 2013. Gen. John Paxton, the Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps and other staff conducted a battlefield circulation to FOBs Shukvani, Shir Ghazay, Kajaki, and Delaram to meet with Marines and discuss important issues with key leaders.

MIM-104 Patriot Surface-to-air missile system

Thirty pounds of confiscated dynamite is detonated by German soldiers on the outskirts of Belet Weyne. The Germans are of the UN contingent supporting Operation CONTINUE HOPE. Subject Operation/Series: CONTINUE HOPE Base: Belet Uen Country: Somalia (SOM)

A T-55 tank destroyed by NATO forces in the desert north of Ajdabiya, Libya. A war betwean Gaddafi army and Libya's Transitional National Council army with air support from NATO started on March 17, 2011.

A pallet of equipment skids along the ground after being pulled from the cargo hold of a C-130 Hercules aircraft during a low-altitude parachute extraction system (LAPES) exercise at the Cicerly Drop Zone. Base: Pope Air Force Base State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

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