Military Ordnance and Equipment

Images depict military ordnance and equipment, including rockets and bombs, in various locations, emphasizing military operations and the aftermath of conflict.

alte Waffe ist eine Artilleriekanone im Krieg in der Ukraine Ohne Soldaten old weapon is an artillery cannon in the war in Ukraine and the Kursk region of Russia Without soldiers LicenseRF Copyright: xZoonar.com/SofiiaxPotaninax 23221060

041228-M-0036Y-034. Base: Al Asad State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040920-N-1539M-008. Base: Pensacola State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

030518-M-1103B-015. Subject Operation/Series: COBRA GOLD Base: Sattahip State: Chon Buri Country: Thailand (THA) Scene Major Command Shown: Royal Thai Marine Reconnaissance

030414-M-8539K-005. Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 1ST Mar Div DM

Unexploded ordance that litters the ground is a graphic reminder of the ferocity of the battles fought to gain control in Bosnia and Herzegovina, during Operation JOINT ENDEAVOR. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

Hand grenades, land mines, mortar ammunition and other munitions stacked in a stable area before their destruction by the soldiers of the 28th Engineer Division during the Cooperative Blast mission. These were dug up at a location south of Camp Bedrock, Bosnia-Herzegovina, during Operation JOINT GUARD, 11 March 1997. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT GUARD Base: Camp Bedrock Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

041228-M-0036Y-140. Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Man builder. Strong man in uniform breaking brick wall with hammer

alte Waffe ist eine Artilleriekanone im Krieg in der Ukraine Ohne Soldaten old weapon is an artillery cannon in the war in Ukraine and the Kursk region of Russia Without soldiers LicenseRF Copyright: xZoonar.com/SofiiaxPotaninax 23221060

041228-M-0036Y-058. Base: Al Asad State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Sichuan Earthquake

4th Infantry Division Soldiers march past a puddle during the Best squad competition at Fort Carson, Colorado on May 23, 2022. During this two-day event, squads will practice team cohesion and will have to work together to bring a victory for their team.

Airmen of 944th Fighter Wing Security Forces conduct Tactical Combat Casualty Care TCCC training at Fightertown Paintball Park in El Mirage, Ariz., Aug. 12, 2022. TCCC is standardized training to equip every Airman with the basic skills to save lives in combat operations. The Airmen worked through various scenarios amidst simulated combat engagement with the goal to deliver care and or evacuation under fire or threat.

031007-M-8703S-010. Base: Magtftc Twentynine Palms State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: 4-Mar

CPL Wheeler of the Second Combat Engineers prepares a hole for a dynamite charge during Combined Arms exercises Five and Six. Base: Twentynine Palms State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A Marine automatic rifleman from India Company, Third Battalion, Eighth Marines lies prone and ready to fire an M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) with an attached blank firing apparatus and bipod. He takes cover between large snow covered rocks as he waits to ambush an objective during cold weather training at Silver Creek. Base: Bridgeport State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

041228-M-0036Y-040. Base: Al Asad State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

041207-M-0036Y-006. Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

070414-A-9834L-024SANGIN, Afghanistan - Glass on the ground serves as a reminder of the heavy fighting days before during a medical civil assistance program relief mission at the Sangin city district center in Helmand Province April 14. Afghan National and Coalition forces provided medical assistance to more than 500 Afghan civilians during the 3-day MEDCAP.

MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII, Hawaii (July 15, 2022) Service members from the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy and Republic of Korea Navy, work together on the construction of a boardwalk at the Marine Corp Base Hawaii during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022, July 15.Twenty-six nations, 38 ships, four submarines, more than 170 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 29 to Aug. 4 in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships among participants critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world's oceans. RIMPAC 2022 is the 28th exercise in the series that began in 1971. (Royal Australian Navy photo by LSIS Kylie Jagiello)

010930-N-9818S-001. Base: Dsv Rockwater 2

A 374th Civil Engineer Squadron Rapid Airfield Damage Repair team mix rapid set concrete in a crater to complete the backfill portion of RADR as part of an exercise at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Oct. 14, 2022. RADR is a multi-staged process which quickly and effectively repairs airfields, allowing for operations to continue in combat situations.

DF-ST-86-07939. Base: Cairo West Country: Egypt (EGY)

030412-M-0049F-050. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Ziona, Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

M119 105mm artillery rounds (in cardboard tubes) are stacked and ready to be fired from the howitzer by members of A Battery, 1ST Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment (Airborne), Fort Bragg, during a joint field training. Base: Fort Bragg State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

041228-M-0036Y-072. Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

DM-ST-86-08459. Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Ash

030526-M-4547R-033. Subject Operation/Series: COBRA GOLD 2003 Base: Fort Ban Can Khrem Country: Thailand (THA) Scene Major Command Shown: 9ESB

MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII, Hawaii (August 1, 2022) An Australian Army Soldier posts security during an amphibious raid for a multinational littoral operations exercise as part ofRim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022, August 1. Twenty-six nations, 38 ships, three submarines, more than 170 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 29 to Aug. 4 in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships among participants critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world's oceans. RIMPAC 2022 is the 28th exercise in the series that began in 1971.

Compressed and twisted metal of WWI remnants like rifles, helmets near the IJzertoren, Yser Tower, First World War One memorial at Diksmuide, Dixmude, West Flanders, Belgium, Europe

051005-A-3240S-137. Country: Iraq (IRQ)

U.S. Army Sgt. Austin Bartscher assigned to 842nd Engineer Compay, South Dakota Army National Guard, marks wood during a sidewalk build in support of Golden Coyote Training Exerfcise at Camp Rapid, South Dakota, June 12, 2022. Golden Coyote is a three-phase, scenario-driven training exercise conducted in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming, which enables commanders to focus on mission essential task requirements, warrior tasks, and battle drills.

Remains of military aircraft punched shell fragments, splinter effect

US Marine Corps (USMC) personnel assigned to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Special Operations Capable (SOC) display seized Iraqi ammunition, captured during a raid on an El Fedayeen Headquarters location in Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060606-N-7987M-066. Base: Fort Story State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A close-up view of a plastic bomb casing found near the 2nd Marine Division main area during Operation Desert Storm. The bomb was used by coalition forces to deliver psychological operations leaflets. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Kuwait (KWT)

U.S. Soldiers assigned to 173rd Airborne Brigade pull security and maintain fighting positions during Saber Junction 22 in Hohenfels, Germany, Sept. 12, 2022. Saber Junction 22 is a multinational rotational exercise designed to assess the readiness of the U.S. Armys 173rd Airborne Brigade to execute unified land operations in a joint, combined environment and to promote interoperability with more than 4,500 participants from the U.S. and Allied and partner nations at the U.S. Armys Grafenwoehr and Hohenfels training areas.

(FORT BENNING, Ga) - David E. Grange Jr. Best Ranger Competition - Day 1.

Captured Iraqi weapons are displayed after US Marine Corps (USMC) 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Special Operations Capable (SOC) Marines raided a El Fedayeen Headquarters location in Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

DF-ST-89-09186. Base: Pope Air Force Base State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A U.S. Army Soldier assigned to Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa completes a mountain obstacle course at Centre Dentrainment Au Combat (CECAD), Djibouti, Sept. 21, 2022, while participating in the French Desert Commando Course (FDCC). The FDCC is a multi-day course held by the French at CECAD that challenges both U.S. and French service members by challenging the participants physically and mentally through land and water obstacles and endurance exercises while surviving in austere field conditions.

Camp Castor, photographed in Gao, 12.04.2022., Gao, Mali, Africa

Inflatable tents are prepared for use at the 41st Combat Support Hospital during the Ahuas Tara II training exercise. Subject Operation/Series: AHUAS TARA II Base: Comayagua Country: Honduras (HND)

An Iraqi T-72 main battle tank destroyed during Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Iraq(IRQ)

U.S. Marines with 3d Battalion, 12th Marines, 3d Marine Division, process notional High Mobility Artillery Rocket System fire missions from a concealed position on Okinawa, Japan, Jan. 28, 2022. The training demonstrates the joint forces ability to integrate command and control, expand battlefield awareness, and conduct long-range precision strikes as an enduring, stand-in-force. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Ujian Gosun)

Hands tying a figure eight follow through onto a harness

CPL Michael J. Knapp of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (24th MEU) washes his clothes in an ammunition can while assigned to the humanitarian services support base established for Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq and southern Turkey. Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Base: Silopi Country: Turkey (TUR)

Salvage Engineering Response Team - New Orleans - Early October - 26-HK-351-193. Hurricane Katrina

Asia, Mongolia, Bayan-Olgii, setting up and dismantling a Ger (yurt).

The Utah National Guard FEMA Region VIII Homeland Response Force held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Collapsed Structure Venue Site May 10, 2022. The CSVS is one of only three military owned Urban Search and Rescue training venues west of the Rocky Mountains. This CSVS will allow both military search and extract and civilian search and rescue teams the opportunity to train together and build those necessary partnerships needed in an all hazards response.

A field is scattered with mines dispensed from an M-56 mine dispersing subsystem installed aboard a helicopter. Country: Unknown

040921-M-2306K-050. Complete Scene Caption: Rocket-propelled grenades (RPG), found by Iraqi Security Forces during a raid of a Muqtada al Sadr safe house in An Najaf, An Najaf Province, Iraq, are displayed by U.S. Marine Corps Marines, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Special Operations Capable, Sept. 21, 2004. These caches were found in different buildings among the city and are in direct violation of the peace agreement between the Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Husaini al-Sistani, highest religious authority and leader of the Hawza (Najaf), and al Sadr, an agreement blessed by the Iraqi Interim Government. The 4th MARDIV is engaged in Security and Stabilization Operations (SASO) in the Al Anbar Province in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by CPL. Dick S. Kotecki) (Released) Base: An Najaf State: An Najaf Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030406-M-4505L-043. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Az Zubayr Country: Iraq (IRQ)

A U.S. Marine with 7th Communication Battalion, III Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, maneuvers through the endurance course at the Jungle Warfare Training Center, Camp Gonsalves, Okinawa, Japan, May 27, 2022. Marines with 7th Comm. Bn. took part in a Basic Jungle Survival Skills course conducted May 22-27 to prepare for jungle operations. III MIG functions as the vanguard of III MEF, operating in the Indo-Pacific regions information environment, and supports Marine Air Ground Task Force operations with communications, intelligence, and supporting arms liaison capabilities.

Kosovo Force (KFOR) Soldier with the U.S. Army assesses mock injuries of a role-playing patient during Operation Cavalry Guardian emergency response training near Camp Novo Selo, Kosovo, on Jan. 10, 2023. During the training, Soldiers from Austria, the U.S., and Great Britain competed to provide the best reaction to an emergency scenario involving role players and emergency response personnel from KFOR.

A U.S. Marine assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, inspects a piece of debris at Bombing Target 11 (BT-11), North Carolina, April 13, 2022. Marines swept target areas to locate, identify, and remove all ordnance that no longer possess explosive hazards from BT-11 and handed over certified materials to Cherry Targets for proper disposal.

Aftermath - People Return Home - 26-HK-43-6. Hurricane Katrina

060403-A-2403G-020. Base: Buedingen Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)

030211-M-5266H-004. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Ahmed Al Jaber Air Base State: Al Ahmadi Country: Kuwait (KWT)

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jacob Carralez, a rifleman assigned to Ground Sensor Platoon, 3rd Intelligence Battalion, III Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, plants a ground sensor during a surveillance field exercise at the Jungle Warfare Training Center, Camp Gonsalvez, Okinawa, Japan, Sept. 13, 2022. GSP is a scalable specialized unit whose mission is to collect enemy signatures in order to provide Marine Air-Ground Task Force commanders advanced warning of offensive attacks, counter enemy reconnaissance, and aid in force protection.

Range finding coordinates and images of landscape elements painted on upper edge of German World War Two bunker at Utah Beach, Normandy, France, Europe

Pile of Water Bottles Against A Hesco Barrier at a U.S. Marine Corps Forward Operating Base in Afghanistan's Helmand Province.

U.S. Coast Guard DV2 David Blincoe, a Coast Guard diver assigned to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), conducts dive operations during an underwater recovery mission in Wewak, Papua New Guinea on Sept. 01, 2022. DPAA personnel arrived to conduct an underwater excavation operation in an effort to find a U.S. aircraft crew lost over Papua New Guinea during World War II. DPAA's mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and the nation.

041228-M-0036Y-150. Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

020914-M-7031-002. Base: Yausubetsu State: Hokkaido Country: Japan (JPN) Scene Major Command Shown: K 3/12

Enemy casualty resulting from a firefight with US Marine Corps (USMC) Scouts assigned to White/ Platoon, Delta/Company, 1ST Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1ST Marine Division, at a road overpass in Baghdad, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. (Substandard image). Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Drizzt Garcia-Washburn, a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System operator with 3d Battalion, 12th Marines, 3d Marine Division, provides security from a hide site on Okinawa, Japan, Jan. 28, 2022. The training demonstrates the joint forces ability to integrate command and control, expand battlefield awareness, and conduct long-range precision strikes as an enduring, stand-in-force. Garcia-Washburn is a native of Las Cruces, New Mexico. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Lorenzo Ducato)

Finnish soldiers assigned to Satakunta Jaeger Battalion and U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 4th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, look for simulated explosive ordnance scattered across the ground during Finnish unexploded ordnance and mine awareness training at Säkylä, Finland, July 14, 2022. The 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, and the Pori Brigade of the Finnish army began summer training in Finland to strengthen relations and help build interoperability between the two nations.

Members of the California National Guards Chemical, Biological, Radialogical/Nuclear, and Explosive Enhanced Force Pakage Team, arrive on the scene of a mock parking garage collapse during Vigilant Guard Guam, Aug. 25, 2010

A U.S. Navy Seabee with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 1 levels concrete during Summer Pioneer 2022 at Marine Corps Outlying Field Atlantic Oak Grove, Atlantic, North Carolina, July 23, 2022. Summer Pioneer 2022 is a naval engineering exercise demonstrating integrated U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Navy formations to establish and sustain Expeditionary Advanced Bases and Maritime Domain Awareness.

190213-N-AP176-0122 LITTLE FALLS, Minn. (Feb. 13, 2018) Navy Diver 2nd Class Matthew Pulkrabek, assigned to Movile Diving and Salvage (MDSU) 2, surfaces through an ice hole during ice diving training on a frozen lake at Camp Ripley, Minn. The training, which is the largest independent ice diving operation held by MDSU 2 to date, trained more than 50 divers from Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Group 2, MDSU 2 and EOD Training and Evaluation Unit 2.

DM-ST-86-08466. Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Service members assigned to Joint Task Force - Bethel repair a road in Tununak, Alaska, as part of Operation Merbok Response, Sept. 22, 2022. More than 130 members of the Alaska Organized Militia, which includes members of the Alaska National Guard, Alaska State Defense Force and Alaska Naval Militia, were activated following a disaster declaration issued Sept. 17 after the remnants of Typhoon Merbok caused dramatic flooding across more than 1,000 miles of Alaskan coastline. (Alaska National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Kelly Willett)

Fire department sprayed extinguishing water during an exercise. Fire department sprayed extinguishing water from fire hoses during an exercise. Copyright: xZoonar.com/JFsxPicxFactory xThielemannx 10347570

TECH. SGT. Charles Mogazel, a member of the 314th Ground Combat Readiness Evaluation Squadron, inspects cargo nets prior to an operational readiness inspection (ORI) during the training exercise Ocean Venture '92. Subject Operation/Series: OCEAN VENTURE '92 Base: Little Rock Air Force Base State: Arkansas (AR) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Last Japanese Command Post from WW II, Saipan, Northern Marianas, Central Pacific

A US Army remote-controlled antipersonnel Mine Mini-Flail clears an area of mines near Brcko, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Operation JOINT GUARD, 20 July 1997. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT GUARD Base: Brcko Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

021209-M-3022S-016. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Manda Bay State: Coast Country: Kenya (KEN) Scene Major Command Shown: CTF 52.2

1976 - A U.S. Navy Basic Underwater Demolition/Sea-Air-Land (SEAL) (BUD/S) trainees struggle in a mud pit during a 'hell week' exercise. Phase I of BUD/S training concludes with 'hell week,' when students' physical, emotional and mental abilities are tested under adverse conditions.

011029-A-5329B-009. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT GUARDIAN II Base: Gnjilane Country: Serbia (SER)

A simulated unexploded ordnance (UXO) leans against a tree as part of a base-wide training event at Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Aug. 18, 2022. Simulated UXOs are placed during training events for post attack reconnaissance teams to discover and ensure proper procedures for removal and disposal of highly dangerous materials are followed.

060405-A-1211S-083. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Cob Speicher Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: NORTHEAST

St. David's Battery, UNESCO, four guns installed 1910 by British to defend deep water channel leading to Royal Navy Dockyard and Hamilton, Bermuda

The 171st Air Refueling Wings Civil Engineer Squadron prepares to remove a fallen tree from a van with a skid loader vehicle at a simulated rescue scene during a large-scale readiness exercise at the base in Pittsburgh, March 12, 2023. The multi-day large-scale readiness exercise involved Guardsmen from multiple sections on base working together to build skills needed to maintain readiness.

Aftermath - New Orleans Fire Department - 26-HK-40-1. Hurricane Katrina

030412-M-0049F-060. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Ziona, Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

A detail shot shows the contents of a repair bag aboard USCGC Hamilton (WMSL 753) during a damage control exercise while underway in the Atlantic Ocean, Oct. 15, 2022. Hamilton 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.

041202-M-2583M-021. Complete Scene Caption: These items, possibly used to make and repair weapons, were found in what appears to be a weapons-making factory in the back of a computer store on the first floor of an unmarked Islamic Resistance Center building, located in the city of Fallujah, Al Anbar Province, Iraq, by a U.S. Marine Corps clearing operation on Dec. 2, 2004. The Marines have cleared the building so that foreign news reporters may enter the building to gather information for their news stories. The foreign media is touring various sites in Fallujah to see the reconstruction efforts going on after the November battle between Multinational Forces and insurgents in the city of Fallujah, during Operation Iraqi Freedom. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by CPL. Theresa M. Medina) (Released) Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Interior of a warehouse where hundreds of human skeletal remains were found in wooden caskets and on the floor. (Substandard image). Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Az Zubayr Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Mass grave site in Izyum

041228-M-0036Y-033. Base: Al Asad State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

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