Military Training and Assistance

Images of soldiers conducting training, providing aid, and interacting with locals in a war-torn area. Captures a mix of training exercises and humanitarian efforts.

060326-A-5745M-005. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MTN

Staff Sgt. Nathan Camp, a squad leader with the 3rd Platoon, Company C, 2nd Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment, directs an Iraqi national policeman's rifle to cover his sector of fire during room clearance training, Aug. 14, 2008, in the Jaza'ir community of southern Baghdad. Camp, who hails from Paxton, Ill., is attached to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division - Baghdad, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

041109-A-1067B-034. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 2-7 CAV

060326-A-5745M-005. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MTN

Charlotte, N.C., native Lt. Col. Jason Hayes, the commander of the 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, gives a child trail mix in the village of Aneel, Sept. 5.

030424-M-3692C-007. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050729-A-9889G-006. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fob Danger, Tikrit State: Salah Al Din Country: Iraq (IRQ)

051101-N-9885M-029. Base: Tall Afar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040614-M-8530M-010. Base: Karabilah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: K/03/7

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Lorie Jewell, Multi-National Forces - Iraq Photographer, helps an Iraqi boy practice his English phone etiquette before rejoining an entourage led by U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, Multi-National Force - Iraq Commander, and Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih as they walk through the Thawra 1 neighborhood of the Sadr City district of Baghdad, Iraq, June 4, 2008.

050816-A-0575B-016. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram Airfield State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: CJTF76

020521-F-2902B-011. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

June 24, 2013 - A Georgian Army soldier interacts with Afghan children during Operation Northern Lion in Mohammadabad, Helmand province, Afghanistan.

040501-F-9927R-015. Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: STRATCOM

030409-M-9792P-011. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 11th Marines Regiment

050329-A-3240S-064. Base: Mamadia Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040604-M-0706S-003. Base: Al Shahabi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 1/5, B Co.

060422-A-5745M-025. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MTN

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Michael Kendrick, from Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, interacts with residents of Al Buaytha, Iraq, Nov. 17, 2007.

060105-A-5745M-071. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MNT 2ND BDE

Lance Cpl. Timothy Driscoll, a machine gunner with Bravo Company, Combat Logistics Battalion 6, 1st Marine Logistics Group (Forward), learns the finer points of sling shot technique from a young villager here, May 9. After completing a combat logistics patrol to the area, the Marines spent time with dozens of curious locals who gathered near their vehicle staging area.

U.S. Army Pvt. Zakery Jenkins, front, with Charlie Troop, 3rd Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, provides security in Mush Kahel village, Ghazni province, Afghanistan, July 23, 2012.

040421-F-2902B-006. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060526-D-1906W-079. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Tallil Area Office Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: USACE

050718-A-9039F-087. Subject Operation/Series: SWARMER Base: Command Operating Base Samarra State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION (AA)

060225-A-7969G-006. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fob Summerall State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: C1-187

040713-M-5505M-005. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

051227-A-2718K-235. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Mosul Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060526-A-3749Z-006. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Charikar State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Bill Schalck, attached to the Marine Corps 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, examines a local Afghan child during a combined medical engagement in Now Zad, Afghanistan, Dec. 18, 2009. Schalck is providing medical care for all who come to the engagement.

A U.S. Marine on Patrol in Afghanistan's Helmand Province Shakes Hands with a Local Boy

U.S. Army Sgt. Tierney Nowland, from 982nd Combat Camera, poses for a picture with Iraqi children during a combined cordon and search with Soldiers from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division and Iraqi army soldiers in Ghazaliya, Iraq, March 21, 2007.

U.S. Army Lt. Col. Drew Meyerowich and fellow Soldiers pass out soccer balls to Iraqi children prior to the opening of the Sen Al Thebban water project March 20, 2007, in the Hawijah district of the Kirkuk province of Iraq. The project will support 10 villages north of Hawijah and is capable of providing clean drinking water for approximately 20,000 people. Meyerowich is the commander of 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division.

060502-A-5745M-060. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MTN

During a Humanitarian Civilian Assistance Team Village visit, STAFF Sergeant (SSG) Joel Tejeda, from A Company, 9th Psychological Operation Battalion (PSYOPS) which is attach to Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC), 1ST Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, passes out candy to the children from the village of Haji Lalay Kalacha, during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Haji Lalay Kalacha Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

040330-M-0367H-005. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060322-F-0560B-145. Base: Al Hamzah State: Qadisiyah Ad Diwahniyah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060317-A-5745M-016. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MTN DIV

060228-A-7969G-008. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Summerall State: Salah Ah Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: A1-187

While U.S. Army Alpha Company, 1st Special Troop Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, conduct a cordon and knock mission in the city of Tikrit, May 2, 2008, children come out to watch and meet with the troops.

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. James Cabrera of 3rd Platoon, Company B, 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division talks to local men from Jsir Dyala, Iraq, about the security of their neighborhood on Jan. 27.

040811-F-0193C-002. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060326-A-1211S-021. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Gabe Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: A

060317-A-5745M-007. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MTN DIV

040824-A-6713J-036. Base: Alalaa State: Salah Al Din Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Capt. Joseph Merrill works with a translator to direct a father seeking medical attention for his son. Merrill, a native of Binghamton, N.Y., is a member of the New York National Guard.

041122-M-2583M-011. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

051110-M-4314O-008. Base: Haswa State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 155 BCT

Staff Sgt. Kristen Poe, an Intelligence Analyst assigned to the 4th Special Troops Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division Long Knives, delivers a school bag to an Iraqi girl at the UR Primary School, located in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah Jan. 13. Poe, along with fellow Soldiers assigned to the battalion’s personal security detachment, handed out more than 200 school bags and supplies during the visit.

050718-A-9039F-036. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Sadr Al Yusufiyah Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 2ND BTL. 4TH BGD. 6TH IA DIV

050728-A-5930C-006. Base: Mosul Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030410-M-9792P-019. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 11th Marines Regiment

US Marine Corps (USMC) Sergeant (SGT) Dennis Howard, 6th Civil Affairs Group (CAG), armed with a KAC 5.56 mm Modular Weapon System (MWS) SOPMOD (Special Operation Peculiar Modification) M4 rifle, takes a knee to interact with some children at the displaced persons compound, during Operation Steel Curtain, part of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Base: Camp Husaybah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030911-F-6844O-004. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Tallil Air Base State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: CENTCOM

060606-A-7969G-058. Base: Bayji State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101 ABN

U.S. Army Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division train new Iraqi police officers on basic police skills as part of the Iraqi Police Prep Course on Taji, Iraq, Oct. 25, 2007.

051010-A-1327A-040. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: CJTF76

Hospital Corpsman 1ST Class Jerry Walker of Naval Environmental Preventive Medicine Unit 7 (NEPMU-7) talks to several young Kurds at a refugee camp outside the city of Zakhu. U.S. and coalition troops established the camp as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq and southern Turkey. Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050606-A-8255A-001. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Tikrit State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030317-M-5150A-022. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Camp Ripper Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Major Command Shown: 7th Marines

060428-N-2911P-014. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Kamaliya Country: Iraq (IRQ)

031022-F-7709W-004. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Kirkuk Air Base Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: CENTCOM

U.S. Army Soldiers from Charlie Troop, 4th Squadron, 9th Calvary Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Calvary Division, provide security as residents of Haifa Street receive food and aid in Baghdad, Iraq, Feb. 13, 2007.

090224-F-6454H-001.jpg NANGARHAR PROVINCE, AfghanistanArmy Staff Sgt. Keith Buteyn and Spec. Daniel Grashel, Nangarhar Provincial Reconstruction Team, greet local boys at the Hope of Mother School Feb. 24. They were providing security for the PRT, which conducted a medical assistance operation at the school and clinic. Sergeant Buteyn, from Rockford, Ill., and Specialist Grashel, from Harvard, Ill., are deployed from the Illinois National Guard’s 1-178 Infantry Brigade.

050718-A-9039F-002. Subject Operation/Series: GLORY LIGHT Base: Sadr Al Yusufiyah Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 2ND BTL. 4TH BGD. 6TH IA DIV

011217-F-3961R-012. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM 2001 Base: Mazar-E Sharif State: Kandahar Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

A US Navy Hospital Corpsman (right) treats the neck infection of a young Somali boy in the back of US Marine truck (partially shown). This is part of a medical civic action program conducted in the streets of Mogadishu, Somalia. The Corpsman is from the Marine Expeditionary Unit, Service Support Group 15, Camp Pendleton, California. This mission is in direct support of Operation Restore Hope. Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE Base: Mogadishu Country: Somalia (SOM)

030408-M-3692W-015. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: An Nasariyah State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: Echo Company

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041224-M-9015W-022. Base: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 31 MEU

040325-M-5753Q-003. Base: Rawah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

U.S. Army Soldiers of 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division train new Iraqi police officers on basic police skills during an Iraqi police preparation course in Taji, Iraq, Oct. 25, 2007.

030404-M-6538A-016. Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 5th Marines

031030-F-0981H-061. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: AMC

041102-M-3658J-015. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050718-A-9039F-043. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Sadr Al Yusufiyah Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 2ND BTL. 4TH BGD. 6TH IA DIV

060124-A-7969G-017. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Cooke (TAJI) State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 4BGECA

041211-M-0036Y-016. Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030821-M-7837W-023. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Kut State: Wasit Country: Iraq (IRQ)

As Samawah, Camp Smitty, April 5, 2004. © Henry Westendorp / Royal Navy. The toy action. At the initiative of a female corporal of logistics service goods management of Her Majesteits Schiteful Marine der Nederlanden, a toy collection campaign in the Netherlands has started during SFIR2. This project has expanded in a reasonably rapid pace in the Netherlands and has a sea container a lot of toys. The toy is now divided by Sfir3 soldiers and brought to various schooltains.

051219-A-7969G-024. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Cooke State: Taji Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: A490CA

Military Photographer of the Year Winner 1998 Title: Walk This Way! Please. Category: Combat Camera Place: Honorable Mention Combat Camera Chirchek, Uzbekistan - Uzbekistani soldiers control an acting unhappy local during CENTRAZBAT 98 demonstrating how they control the unruly people. Uzbekistan is hosting the multi-national Partnership for Peace nations military exercise running from Sept. 22nd to Sept. 29th. Country: Unknown

040708-F-1351B-050. Base: Amman Country: Jordan (JOR) Scene Major Command Shown: CENTCOM

030411-F-8362B-008. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: An Nasariyah State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

U.S. and Iraqi Soldiers gather around for an after-action review with after an improvised explosive device reaction training exercise July 2, 2008, on Camp Echo, Iraq. The U.S. Soldiers are from Operational Detachment Alpha, Team 0326; the Iraqi soldiers are from the 8th Division Iraqi Army.

Marine Col. Randy Newman provides a brief to the Chief of Staff of the Army, Gen. George W. Casey Jr., at the bazar in Marja, Afghanistan, Apr. 29, 2010.

A little Iraqi boy smiles as he sits with his mother and waits to be seen by a U.S. Army medic from Charlie Company, 203rd Medical Support Battalion, and 3rd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division during a medical civic action program at the medical clinic in Narhwan, Iraq, Oct. 8, 2007.

041230-M-9015W-025. Base: Harwan State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

A Honduran soldier boards a C-130 Hercules aircraft provided by the 317th Tactical Airlift Wing from Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina. Honduran troops are being air-lifted to various locations in Honduras as part of Exercise AHUAS TARA (BIG PINE) III. Subject Operation/Series: AHUAS TARA (BIG PINE) Base: Tegucigalpa Country: Honduras (HND)

030121-F-7203T-032. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram Air Base State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

040903-F-2034C-019. Base: Fob Paliwoda State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ)

U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Timothy Barkdoll, attached to the Marine Corps 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, examines a local Afghan child during a combined medical engagement in Now Zad, Afghanistan, Dec. 18, 2009. Local Afghans are being provided medical care throughout the day.

030121-F-7203T-024. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram Air Base State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

A personal photo of Sergeant 1st Class Jared C. Monti, the first Soldier recipient for actions in Afghanistan/Operation Enduring Freedom.

U.S. Army Spc. Kirby Wasson, from 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, interacts with an Iraqi child after searching the house Oct. 29, 2007, in Baghdad, Iraq.

Cpl. Clayton Carroll , a driver with 2nd Battalion, 15th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) and native of Pleasanton, Calif., patrols the streets of Martyrs Market as local nationals buy and sell items in Mahmudiyah Iraq Feb. 14. The Iraqis celebrated the opening of the marketplace throughout the day.

060506-A-5745M-052. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MTN DIV

050304-F-8584G-060. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Iskandariyah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

070527-A-1906W-009. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Tallil Area Office Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: USACE

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