Military Training and Construction

Images of soldiers engaged in training activities, such as rifle qualifications and construction projects, depicting military readiness and operations.

Danger No Entry Undetonated explosives sign at Vimy Ridge

Marines with the 2nd Battalion, 24th Marines (2/24) complete M4 rifle qualification requirements July 26, 2022, on Range 18 on North Post at Fort McCoy, Wis. The 2/24 is an infantry battalion based out of Chicago consisting of approximately 1,000 Marines and Sailors. The battalion falls under the 24th Marine Regiment and the 4th Marine Division. The 2/24 was holding annual training at Fort McCoy.

041201-M-0036Y-041. Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

220929-N-PI330-1064 Gulfport, Mississippi (September 29, 2022) Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133 (NMCB 133) assemble the a bridge during a bridge building trainer course on Naval Construction Battalion Center, Gulfport, Mississippi, September 29, 2022. NMCB 133 is at homeport in Gulfport, Mississippi conducting training cycles.

A view of Camp Comfort, a tent city established to accommodate the participants of Operation Comfort. Subject Operation/Series: COMFORT Base: Twentynine Palms State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Royal Air Force Lakenheath hosts 48th Civil Engineering Squadron, 48th Fighter Wing, Royal Air Force Lakenheath, United Kingdom, Prime BEEF (Base Emergency Engineer Force) bivouac exercise. The exercise was held to test the troops ability to set up camp and secure it. Subject Operation/Series: PRIME BEEF Base: Raf Lakenheath State: East Anglia Country: England / Great Britain (ENG)

Danger No Entry Undetonated explosives sign at Vimy Ridge

Marines with 2nd Battalion, 24th Marines conduct training July 26, 2022, during on North Post at Fort McCoy. The 2/24 is an infantry battalion based out of Chicago consisting of approximately 1,000 Marines and Sailors. The battalion falls under the 23rd Marine Regiment and the 4th Marine Division. The 2/24 is holding their 2022 annual training at Fort McCoy.

FRANCE, NORMANDY, BATTERIE DE LONGUES, GERMAN FORTIFICATIONS

State police inspect the crash scene of a Grumman AA-1B aircraft, owned by COL Edwin L. Harvey, Headquarters, Tactical Air Command. Harvey was piloting the plane at the time of the crash, which occurred near Andrews Air Force Base, and sustained minor injuries. Base: Brandywine State: Maryland (MD) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Peleliu, Palau. WWII plane wreckage on Peleliu, palau

The Bois de la Paix, Wood of Peace dedicated to the American veterans who fought in the Ardennes, Belgian combatants and all the civilians and military who died in the winter of 1944-45, Bizory, Bastogne, Luxembourg, Belgium, Europe

A view of a camouflaged tent complex in use during joint readiness training exercise SOLID SHIELD '77. Subject Operation/Series: SOLID SHIELD '77 Base: Shaw Air Force Base State: South Carolina (SC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DF-ST-86-07968. Base: Cairo West Country: Egypt (EGY)

A view of the Korean village that will be destroyed to provide facilities for the 18 A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft that will be transferred here. Base: Suwon Air Base Country: Korea

My Lai Massacre ruins, March 16. 1968 massacre committed by U.S. Charlie Company troops killing around 500 Vietnamese civilians, My Lai, Vietnam, Southeast Asia, Asia

Italian tank cemetery in Asmara capital of Eritrea

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to Vicksburg National Military Park, Vicksburg, Mississippi, for touring, participation in events highlighting the restoration project--funded jointly by the National Park Service and the Friends of the Vicksburg National Military Park and Campaign, as part of the National Park Centennial Initiative--aimed at replacing interpretive battlefield markers and conserving the array of bronze statuary and stone monuments at the Civil War site. Joining Secretary Kempthorne for the events, including the unveiling of the first group of 22 metal markers identifying the specific locations of various Union and Confederate artillery batteries during the siege and defense of Vicksburg, were National Park Service Director Mary Bomar, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Chairman John Nau III, and country music star Trace Adkins, among other dignitaries.

Europe, Poland, Lubusz Voivodeship, Fortified Front Oder-Warthe-Bogen (Festungsfront Oder-Warthe-Bogen) / Miedzyrzecki Rejon Umocniony

Propeller and bomb on the wing of a wrecked World War II aircraft, Gua Binsari, Biak, West Papua (Irian Jaya), Indonesia, Asia

A McDonnel RF-4C Phantom AR 65-944, 10TRW, of the American Air Force, stationed in Alconbury Air Force Base in Great Britain.

WWII Japanese hideout at Ngermid Channel, Koror Island, Palau, Micronesia

Providers assigned to the Special Troops Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division conduct security operations on Fort Bragg, NC, March 29, 2022. The Field Training Exercise ensures Paratroopers stand ready to fight, win, and meet the 18 hour deployment standard.

Border fortification with K6, control strip, evidence strip, raked, uncovered field of vision and field of fire and border fence, tank traps, Spanish horsemen, Wall, inner-German border fortification, border monument, death strip, Kolonnenweg, Lochpl

Camouflage painting on rear of gun casemate, artillery bunker of WWII Batterie d'Azeville Battery, part of German Atlantic Wall, Normandy, France, Europe

Italian tank cemetery in Asmara capital of Eritrea Copyright: MichaelxRunkel 1184-11913

Die alte große Kaliberkanone an der Cornwallis Festung. The old large caliber cannon at the Cornwallis fortress. LicenseRF Copyright: xZoonar.com/MilanxVasicekx 12907295

A system of tents was set up for 2nd Marine Logistics Group command post exercise (CPX) on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Oct. 26, 2022. Marines were familiarized in the setup and usage of a combat operations center while certifying all gear was accounted for and functional.

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)

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

German bunkers at Pointe du Hoc on the coast of Normandy in northern France.

U.S. Army Sgt. Jose D. Ventura, assigned to the 35th Civil Support Team, weaves his way through the obstacle course for the West Virginia National Guard Best Warrior Competition at Camp Dawson in Kingwood, West Virginia on April 22, 2022. The obstacle course is only one of the many tasks included in the Range Run event. ( West Virginia National Guard photo by Spc. Grace Carpenter)

DF-ST-85-13533. Subject Operation/Series: WOUNDED EAGLE '83 Country: Unknown

A view of some of the five-man tents used during exercise Kernal Potlatch '89 by members of Co. C, 2nd Bn., 297th Infantry Group (Scout), Alaska National Guard. Subject Operation/Series: KERNAL POTLATCH '89 Base: Amchitka Island State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Numbered white circles on cement wall marking bullets holes sustained during No Gun Ri Incident during Korean War, South Korea, South Korea, Asia

Exchange of Fire on the Vaartse Rijn near Jutphaas. A civil war between Orangists and Patriots raged in the Dutch Republic during 1786 and 1787. In May 1787, the Stadtholders army tried to cut off the city of Utrecht, which was in the hands of the Patriots, from the neighbouring Patriot-held province of Holland. The Patriots succeeded in repelling the attack on 9 May. Seen at left are the Stadtholders troops and at the right the Utrecht Patriots.

An aerial view of the camp site of the 1ST Combat Communications, Sembach AB, and the 72nd Signal Battalion, Karlesruhe (both units out of Germany) as a Joint Task Force (JTF). Subject Operation/Series: SUPPORT HOPE Base: Pruem Air Station Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)

The trenches at Vimy Ridge in France

Krasnodar, Russia - April 15, 2015: Soviet soldier monument. Soviet soldier monument with red illustrated background.. Monument to a great victory

On the Fort Dix Range Complex soldiers train on Range 59F MOUT Site (Military Operations in Urban Terrain). On the MOUT Site soldiers learn how to navigate rooms and clear buildings. All branches of service use this facility here at Fort Dix. Shown in a few images of soldiers from the United States Air Force 621st CRW (Contingency Response Wing) here at MOUT Site. (Photos taken by the Fort Dix TSC Training Support Center)

040610-M-5555L-011. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

DA-SC-88-00079. Base: Fort Lee State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Kosmaj, Rogaca, Belgrade District, Serbia. September 12, 2024. Kosmaj Monument to World War II Ant-Fascist partisans, by Vojin Stojic.

Memorial of the heroic defense of Odessa, Ukraine

041203-M-0036Y-024. Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Denmark, Jutland, Hantsholm, WW2-era former German barricades

DF-ST-86-06553. Base: Florennes Air Base Country: Belgium (BEL)

German trenches at the First World War battlefield Le Linge at Orbey, Alsace, France, Europe

Military cemetery from the 1st World War in Bruneck in the Puster Valley, South Tyrol

Siersthal (Sierstal, Siirschel), Ouvrage Simserhof is a gros ouvrage of the Maginot Line, block 6 in Lorraine (Lothringen), Moselle (Mosel), France

Work completed by Soldiers with the Army Reserve's 389th Engineer Company of Des Moines, Iowa, at a troop project is shown Aug. 4, 2022, at Tactical Training Base Courage on South Post at Fort McCoy, Wis. The company worked on several projects to improve the training area during their 2022 annual training, including putting new metal siding on numerous buildings. Troop projects are coordinated by the Fort McCoy Directorate of Public Works and help improve the installation's infrastructure while at the same time providing training for Army engineer units.

Remains of the ironclad C.S.S. Neuse State Historic Site and Governor Richard Caswell Memorial, North Carolina, United States of America, North Americ...

fortified trench in a field for combat operations

010501-F-0697K-025. Subject Operation/Series: UNION FLASH 01 Base: Ramstein Air Base State: Rheinland-Pfalz Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU) Scene Major Command Shown: USAFE

BLOKHAUSE Nº 13, BUNKER DE LA GUERRA CIVIL.

The German Military Cemetery of World War I in Vladslo Belgium

DF-ST-85-12619. Subject Operation/Series: NIGHT TRAIN/GLOBAL SHIELD '84 Base: Davis-Monthan Air Force Base State: Arizona (AZ) Country: United States Of America (USA)

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

WW11 aircraft wreckage, near Kimbe; West New Britain, Papua New Guinea

American landing craft 2nd World War, Peleliu Island, Micronesia, Palau, Oceania

White circles on cement wall marking bullets holes sustained during No Gun Ri Incident during Korean War, South Korea, South Korea, Asia

Bunker des Atlantikwall aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg *** Bunker of Atlantic Wall from the second World War II 1130000805

Reconstruction of German First World War One trench showing Heinrich shelter, wooden duckboards and woven wickerwork branches at Zonnebeke, Belgium, Europe

Fields pocked with craters and full of unexploded bombs from WWI near the Canadian National Vimy Memorial (First World War Memorial) near Arras.

Service members from the Royal Thai Marine Corps, Republic of Korea Navy and Marine Corps, and the U.S. Marine Corps finish the reconstruction of a new roof for Miss Bunnam Inproms home during Exercise Cobra Gold 23 (CG23) at Chanthaburi, Kingdom of Thailand, March 2, 2023. U.S. Marines and partner nations teamed up to build a new roof for Inproms home, which was destroyed by termites. Marine Wing Support Squadron (MWSS) 171 and MWSS-172 participated in the 42nd iteration of the Cobra Gold series of exercises, where they lended their engineering expertise to multilateral humanitarian efforts.

Interior of cagna, hideout of the Belgian resistance fighters, the maquisards, at the Wolfsschlucht I, Grand Quartier General Allemand 1940, open air museum with Adolf Hitler's bunker in the forest at Bruly-de-Pesche, Ardennes, Belgium, Europe

An aerial view of Fort George showing damage sustained during Operation Urgent Fury. Subject Operation/Series: URGENT FURY Country: Grenada (GRD)

Fields pocked with craters and full of unexploded bombs from WWI near the Canadian National Vimy Memorial (First World War Memorial) near Arras.

Senior Airman Tori Neuville, 18th Munitions Squadron stockpile management technician, prepares to inspect a shipment of GBU-39 small diameter bombs before storage during an annual inventory restock at Kadena Air Base, Japan, July 13, 2022. This multi-service operation included over 120 personnel from the U.S. Air Force, Army, Navy, Marine Corps and local Japanese contractors that took part in realigning the munitions stockpile within the Pacific theater by moving and organizing over 350,000 pounds of explosive munitions within 48 hours.

A view of damage caused to the beach area by high tides and heavy rains near the Officer's Club at the Pacific Missile Test Center. Base: Naval Air Station, Point Mugu State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Various aircrews attended the Advanced Airlift Tactics Training Centers Advanced Tactics Aircrew Course in Fort Huachuca, Arizona, from April 11-15, 2022 including the U.S. Air Force Reserve Commands 302nd Airlift Wing, Rhode Island Air National Guards 143rd Airlift Wing, New York ANGs 105th Airlift Wing, the Royal Danish Air Forces 721 Squadron, and the U.S. Air Forces 517th Airlift Squadron. During ATAC, students spend their first week at Rosecrans Air National Guard Base in St. Joseph, Missouri, and their second week at Fort Huachuca.

Exercise operations are shown Aug. 11, 2022, at Fort McCoy, Wis., for the Air Force operations in the 2022 Patriot Warrior Exercise. The exercise took place in August 2022 at Fort McCoy at mainly the Sparta-Fort McCoy Airport on South Post at the installation. Hundreds of Airmen participated in the exercise, including Airmen with the 908th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, 433rd Airlift Wing, 934th Airlift Wing, 349th Air Mobility Wing, and 514th Air Mobility Wing. Patriot Warrior is Air Force Reserve Commands premier exercise providing Airmen an opportunity to train with joint and international partners in airlift, aeromedical evacuation, and mobility support.

Barracks at the Grande Guerra theme trail on the battles in World War 1, Malborghetto Valbruna, Udine Province, Italy, Europe

020424-A-1526R-123. Base: Crabbs Training Area Country: Antigua And Barbuda (ATG) Scene Major Command Shown: USSOUTHCOM

DN-SC-04-10882. Base: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

USA, Virginia, Arlington The Pentagon, Pentagon 911 Memorial, memorial dedicated to Lt. General Timothy J. Maude, highest ranking US military officer killed in the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks

Hurricane 'Betsy' - Puerto Rico - 8/12/1956 , Houses, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Soldiers from 2nd Platoon, Able Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment (Airborne), walk up a steep incline to talk to villagers during Operation Destined Strike in Chowkay Valley, Afghanistan Aug. 22. The villagers told 2nd Platoon that Taliban were rampant in the area.

FBI agents and Marines with 1st Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company, 7th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, walk to a safe zone prior to a controlled detonation as part of a Large Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device Post Blast Analysis course with the FBI at Range 800 on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Jan. 25, 2022. The course focuses on collecting attack-related material such as munition fragments, projectiles, casualty information and explosive residue following a VBIED attack. Through post blast analysis, EOD Marines can provide intelligence sections with the information needed to assess how an explosive threat was manufactured. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Hope Straley)

At the site of the barracks of the Soviet Armed Forces in Germany, which now houses a residential complex, Cyrillic script signs still remind us of this time. The Group of Soviet Armed Forces in Germany were units of the land and air forces of the Soviet Army stationed in the Soviet Occupation Zone, the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany from 1954 to 1991

Fortaleza Santa Tereza is a military fortification located at the northern coast of Uruguay close to the border of Brazil, South America Fortaleza Santa Tereza is a military fortification located at the northern coast of Uruguay close to the border of Brazil, South America. Copyright: xZoonar.com/ThiagoxxSantosx 21225540

U.S. Marine Corps Recruits with Mike Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, climb an obstacle during the confidence course at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, Sept. 20, 2022. The confidence course is made up of different obstacles used to instill confidence in recruits.

Arlington National Cemetary, Washington, D.C., USA

Impact of bullets on damaged casemate, artillery bunker of WWII Batterie d'Azeville Battery, part of German Atlantic Wall, Normandy, France, Europe

Aerial view of the land fill area at Port au Prince. U.S. military are in Haiti for Operation Uphold Democracy and Operation Restore Democracy. Subject Operation/Series: UPHOLD DEMOCRACY Base: Port Au Prince Country: Haiti (HTI)

Political billboards showing Iraq Abu Ghraib Prison abuse pictures at American Embassy in Havana, Cuba

Construction work for a reconnaissance, or RECCE, range area is shown Aug. 4, 2022, near Range 26 on North Post at Fort McCoy, Wis. The project, coordinated by the Army Corps of Engineers, was approximately 8 percent completed as of Aug. 2, 2022. The contract cost for the project is $9,972,321 and the completion date is February 2024.

The sun sets on tent-city at Manas International Airport, Ganci Air Base, Kyrgyzstan. When completed this tent city will be able to house and support over 3,000 people. The base is named in honor of Peter J. Ganci Jr., New York City Fire CHIEF killed after he took 50 firemen to safety before the second tower of the World Trade Center (WTC) collapsed. Ganci died upholding the same creed the military follows leave no man behind. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Peter J. Ganci Jr. Air Base State: Chuskaya Oblast Country: Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)

Blown-up gas chamber, concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Auschwitz, Poland, Europe

An advanced Air Force Security Forces sniper team observe potential targets during training.

040127-F-7996H-003. Base: Shaw Air Force Base State: South Carolina (SC) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: ACC

An emplacement for a 15 Pounder field gun, from WWII. Blacknor, Portland, Dorset, England, Europe.

DA-SC-89-07904. Base: Unknown

Gun from the 2nd World War, Micronesia, Palau, Oceania

The Auschwitz concentration camp, Oswiecim, Poland.

The radar tower is silhouetted against a cloudy sky during Exercise Coronet Stroke '88. Subject Operation/Series: CORONET STROKE '88 Base: Travis Field, Savannah State: Georgia (GA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Cannon battery at Historic Fort Sumter National Monument, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America, North America

A view of the emergency medical treatment room of the field hospital being operated by U.S. Army medical personnel during the medical readiness training Exercise MEDRETE '85. Subject Operation/Series: MEDRETE '85 Base: Palmerola Air Base Country: Honduras (HND)

An overview of entryways to underground shelters being installed on base. Base: Rhein-Main Air Base Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)

Odessa, Ukraine - 09.18.2018. Memorial of the heroic defense of Odessa in a sunny summer day. Coastal artillery no. 411. Memorial of the heroic defense of Odessa

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