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Military Vehicles and Equipment

Images of military equipment and vehicles in operational settings, including preparation for missions during Operations Desert Shield and Enduring Freedom.

An Oklahoma Army National Guard vehicle prepares to dump illegally grown marijuana in Pontotoc County, Oct. 5, 2022. The Oklahoma National Guard supported the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics with collecting large amounts of illegally grown marijuana from Sept. 27 to Oct. 7, 2022. (Oklahoma Army National Guard photo by Spc. Tyler Brahic)

DF-ST-87-07758. Base: Pago Pago State: Tutuila Island Country: American Samoa (ASM)

Soldiers unchain M-973 small unit support vehicles from railroad flat cars during exercise Brim Frost '87. Subject Operation/Series: BRIM FROST '87 Base: Seward State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DF-ST-85-09821. Subject Operation/Series: OCEAN VENTURE '84 Base: Nas, Roosevelt Roads State: Puerto Rico (PR) Country: United States Of America (USA)

U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Jackson Helzer, command chief of the Air Expeditionary Wing, operates a Ditch Witch H910 Trencher, during a Roll Up Sleeves visit to Airmen of the 378th Expeditionary Communication Squadron, at Prince Sultan Air Base, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, April 22, 2022. Leadership from the 378th AEW, regularly visit Airmen under their command, to experience first-hand their job and to share recognition of how each one of them is essential to the mission of the Wing.

Amphibious Assault Unit (ACU) 4 demonstrates the operational capabilities of Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC) 102, a new Ship-to-Shore Connector (SSC) at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story. ACU 4 provides fast, over-the-horizon movement from ship-to-shore of service members and equipment. The LCAC 102 enhances the units operational tasking with its strengthened rudders, propulsion and watercraft controls.

220523-A-FV109-0186CARLISLE, Pa.Employees from Letterkenny Army Depot and staff members from U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center work to unload a Bradley Fighting Vehicle May 23. The Bradley Fighting Vehicle and an M109 Howitzer were repainted and restored at Letterkenny Army Depot in Chambersburg for public display at the Heritage Trail in Carlisle.

041028-F-1178W-007. Base: Osan Air Base Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)

Korean troops use a truck crane to unload an open flatrack container carrying 34,800-pounds of 30mm munitions. The container, shipped to South Korea from the Seneca Army Depot, California, is being tested by the Air Force as an alternative to the military owned demountable container (MILVAN). Base: Cheong Ju Air Base Country: Korea

020220-N-3236B-044. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM 2002 Base: Kandahar Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

030323-A-XXXXX-224. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Udayri Range Country: Kuwait (KWT)

An Egyptian SA-2 surface-to-air missile control radar set in operation during the multinational joint service exercise Bright Star '85. Subject Operation/Series: BRIGHT STAR '85 Country: Egypt (EGY)

Service members from Norway conduct crew-served weapons qualification at Camp Ripley, March 30, 2022. (Minnesota National Guard Photo by Sgt. Mahsima Alkamooneh)

Aerial view of Camp Fenway, operated by US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines assigned to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Special Operations Capable (SOC), in Southern Iraq during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Fenway State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050708-A-9154J-288. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM State: Naray Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

SSGT Henry Domme checks an "unexploded" (inert) bomb during Prime Beef, a simulated runway attack exercise. Subject Operation/Series: PRIME BEEF Base: North Field State: South Carolina (SC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

U.S. Marine Corps Medium Crawler Tractors with 3rd Landing Support Battalion, Combat Logistics Regiment 3, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, dig a defensive position at Military Operations in Urban Terrain Town, Eastern Training Area, Okinawa, Japan, July 20, 2022. 3rd MLG, based out of Okinawa, Japan, is a forward-deployed combat unit that serves as III MEFs comprehensive logistics and combat service support backbone for operations throughout the Indo-Pacific area of responsibility.

Cockpit of wrecked military aircraft. Blisters are broken

Using a crane bucket to obtain a higher vantage point a Marine from Charlie Company, 1ST Battalion, 6th Marines, scans the area for enemy forces at the MOUT (Military Operations in Urban Terrain) facility during LOE 1 (Limited Objective Experiment 1), which is part of the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory's URBAN WARRIOR series. Subject Operation/Series: URBAN WARRIOR Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DF-ST-85-11576. Base: Spangdahlem Air Base State: Rheinland-Pfalz Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)

A USMC Landing Vehicle, Tracked, Personnel-5 (LVTP-5) on display near the entrance of Kaneohe Marine Corp Air Station on Oahu

Personnel assigned to Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni crane a military vehicle during logistics operations in support of Exercise Orient Shield 22 at MCAS Iwakuni, Japan, August 24, 2022. Orient Shield is the largest annual bilateral field training exercise in Japan between the U.S. Army and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force. With both its air and sea facilities, MCAS Iwakuni is uniquely positioned to support the dynamic employment of forces across the Indo-Pacific area of operations.

Orion arrives at Mole Pier at Naval Base San Diego on Dec. 9, 2014, where the team will prepare it for shipment back to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.

A landing craft, air cushion delivers a Navy Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System (NMESIS) launcher during Project Convergence 2022 (PC22) on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Oct. 18, 2022. The beach landing is an experimentation phase of the exercise that showcased the NMESIS capabilities and explore scenarios related to the employment of All-Service offensive fires and effects. PC22 experiments with All-Service logistics in a contested environment with a focus on support of the NMESIS.

DF-ST-86-12650. Country: United States Of America (USA)

An Iraqi T-55 main battle tank and BMP-1 armored personnel carrier damaged in southern Iraq during Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Iraq(IRQ)

Specialist Fourth Class John L. Edelen, 301st Transportation Company, guides a shipping container onto a flatbed truck as preparations are made to ship equipment overseas for the joint US/South Korean Exercise TEAM SPIRIT '87. Subject Operation/Series: TEAM SPIRIT '87 Base: Fort Ord State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Assistants to the Tanks in Mons festivities held at Estinnes, Belgium, take a joy ride on a World War 2 vehicle, Aug. 27, 2022. Tanks in Mons, an annual event in its 21st year, brings people together to commemorate the Liberation of Belgium and the historic Battle of the Mons Pocket.

Marines assemble an Expeditionary Airfield 2000 Landing Facility at the Lonesome Dove Expeditionary Airfield during Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU)

A U.S. Army Soldier assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade unpackages a HMMWV and M119 105 mm howitzer following a heavy airdrop into the Joint Multinational Readiness Center during Saber Junction 22 in Hohenfels, Germany, Sep. 8, 2022. Saber Junction 22 is a multinational rotational exercise designed to assess the readiness of the 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.

A U.S. Army Soldier assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade unpackages a HMMWV and M119 105 mm howitzer following a heavy airdrop into the Joint Multinational Readiness Center during Saber Junction 22 in Hohenfels, Germany, Sep. 8, 2022. Saber Junction 22 is a multinational rotational exercise designed to assess the readiness of the 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.

030221-M-8539K-016. Base: Camp Matilda Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Major Command Shown: 1ST Marine Division

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-119 Mission Specialist John Phillips drives the M-113 armored personnel carrier used for emergency escape, if needed, from the launch pad. Next to Phillips is astronaut rescue team leader Capt. George Hoggard. Behind Hoggard is Mission Specialist Steve Swanson. The crew members are at Kennedy for prelaunch preparation known as terminal countdown demonstration test, or TCDT. The training provides astronauts and ground crews with an opportunity to participate in various simulated countdown activities, including equipment familiarization and a simulated launch countdown. The crew of space shuttle Discovery is targeted to launch on the STS-119 mission Feb. 12. During Discovery's 14-day mission, the crew will install the S6 truss segment and solar arrays to the starboard side of the International Space Station, completing the station's truss, or backbone.

U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion 6 (CLB-6), Combat Logistics Regiment 2, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, prepare and conduct a sling load during a helicopter support team resupply in preparation for exercise Freezing Winds 22 in Syndalen, Finland, Oct. 18, 2022. Task Force Red Cloud, headquartered by elements of CLB-6, is deployed to Finland in support of Exercises SYD 2022 and Freezing Winds 2022 to enhance U.S. and Finnish select interdependence in the maritime domain; solidify bilateral maritime maneuver within the Finnish littoral environment; and foster strong relationships between U.S. Marine Corps and Finnish Defense Force sustainment units.

DF-ST-87-11117. Subject Operation/Series: SALTY DEMO Base: Spangdahlem Air Base Country: West Germany (FRG)

The Range Marshall sits in a tower and keeps an eye on the Danish Bombing range while targets are bombed by American and Danish F-16 Fighting Falcons. The three week exercise began 26 Aug 1995 and is designed to test the effectiveness of both Danish and American air defenses. Exact Date Shot Unknown. Subject Operation/Series: TACTICAL WEAPONRY '95 Base: Flyvestation State: Karup Country: Denmark (DNK)

A Royal Thai Navy Military Policeman watches as a US Navy Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) craft departs Songkhla Naval Air Station, Thailand during the deployment phase of Exercise Cobra Gold '96. Subject Operation/Series: COBRA GOLD 96 Base: Songkhla Country: Thailand (THA)

DN-ST-88-00622. Base: USS Dwight D Eisenhower (CVN 69) Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)

Members of the 820th Red Horse Squadron, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, prepare the ground with bulldozers and backhoes for construction of new Marine barracks during Operation NEW HORIZONS in Castries, Saint Lucia. Approximately 100 Marine, Army and Air Force personnel have deployed to Saint Lucia as part of New Horizons. The operation has a two fold mission of readiness and humanitarian assistance in the Caribbean and Latin America. Subject Operation/Series: NEW HORIZONS Base: Castries Country: Saint Lucia (LCA)

051013-A-1327A-002. Base: Chaklala Air Base State: Islamabad Country: Pakistan (PAK) Scene Major Command Shown: NORTHEAST

The Armor group working on clearing Lafon of Land mines

The Camp Grayling Fire Department practices responding to a fire emergency on the Grayling Army Airfield at Northern Strike 22-2 in Grayling, Mich. on Aug. 6, 2022. Northern Strike is designed to challenge the training audience with multiple forms of convergence that advances interoperability across multicomponent, multinational and interagency partners.

Soldiers with the 510th Regional Support Group have been coordinating closely with contracted partners, who began building-up tent structures that will ultimately house 300 FA soldiers participating in DEFENDER-Europe 22 near Adazi, Latvia. By providing unit commanders exceptional customer service, the 510ths Base Operations Support - Integrator team ensures life support operations that allows commanders to remain focused on the exercise.

Russian all terrain vehicles (ATVs) are seen at the Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft landing site shortly after the capsule landed with Expedition 42 commander Barry Wilmore of NASA, Alexander Samokutyaev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Elena Serova of Roscosmos near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Thursday, March 12, 2015. NASA Astronaut Wilmore, Russian Cosmonauts Samokutyaev and Serova are returning after almost six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 41 and 42 crews.

A training site for the Unit Movement Officer Deployment Planning Course taught by the Wisconsin Military Academy/426th Regional Training Institute is shown Dec. 9, 2022, covered in fresh snow at Fort McCoy, Wis. The course is 10 days and 80 hours of training. The training particularly helps units prepare for rail movements and rail deployments of equipment and vehicles, of which Fort McCoy is a hub for that kind of that activity traditionally. The Wisconsin Military Academy, part of the Wisconsin National Guard, is a longtime tenant organization at the installation.

U.S. Air Force Airmen off load a fuel bladder from a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III Jan. 16, 2010 at Port-Au-Prince airport Haiti.

Soldiers from the U.S. Army 1174th Transportation Terminal Battalion from Fort Totten, Flushing, New York are on Range 28B during their Zero and Grounding training. The unit was here at the Fort Dix Range Complex. (Photos taken by the Fort Dix TSC Training Support Center)

Securing evidence after a terrorist attack, symbol photo, Telemax remote control manipulator, BWTEX anti-terror exercise, police, Bundeswehr and rescue forces rehearse the fight against terrorists together, Stetten am kalten Markt, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

050623-A-6108G-122. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Sulaymaniyah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

DA-SC-87-07936. Subject Operation/Series: GALLANT EAGLE '86 Base: Twentynine Palms State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DF-ST-86-11675. Base: Mercury State: Nevada (NV) Country: United States Of America (USA)

041223-M-2353F-029. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM II Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050918-N-0466M-161. Base: Naval Air Station, Oceana State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

France, Brittany, Morbihan, Saint-Pierre-Quiberon on 2022-03-29. Students from the Ecole Militaire Interarmes (EMIA), the military academy responsible for training army officers recruited internally, i.e. from the ranks of non-commissioned officers and other ranks, take part in a training course at Fort de Penthievre, a fortified structure on the Quiberon peninsula that has become a training base. Photograph by Martin Bertrand.France, Bretagne, Morbihan, Saint-Pierre-Quiberon le 2022-03-29. Les eleves de l' ecole militaire interarmes ( EMIA ), l' ecole militaire chargee de la formation des officiers de l' armee de Terre issus du recrutement interne, c'est-a-dire issus des rangs des sous-officiers et des militaires du rang, participe a un stage d'aguerrissment au Fort de Penthievre, un ouvrage fortifie sur la presqu'ile de Quiberon devenu une base d'entrainement. Photographie de Martin Bertrand.

Military vehicles and equipment line the port area during exercise REFORGER '90. Subject Operation/Series: REFORGER '90 Base: Antwerp Country: Belgium (BEL)

DA-ST-85-04898. Subject Operation/Series: GALLANT EAGLE '84 Base: Fort Irwin State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DF-ST-85-11906. Base: Yokota Air Base Country: Japan (JPN)

030517-A-4487O-004. Base: Fort Buchanan, San Juan State: Puerto Rico (PR) Country: United States Of America (USA)

ESU Incident Command Post New Orleans - Commandant Thomas H. Collins and President George W. Bush Visit - 26-HK-304-14. Hurricane Katrina

Overloon war and resistance Museum. Second World War. Nijmegen. Netherlands.

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