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Military Vehicles in Action

Photos showcasing military vehicles and equipment in operational contexts, including soldiers in tactical positions during exercises or deployments.

U.S. Army Sgt. Rudyjon Babauta, a patriot launching operator-maintainer assigned to Alpha Battery, 1st Battalion, 1st Air Defense Artillery Regiment, directs the transport of a MIM-104 Patriot during Ryukyu Vice 23.1 on Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa, Japan, Dec. 12, 2022. Ryukyu Vice is a joint, fixed-wing aviation command and control exercise that provides critical training to 1st Marine Aircraft Wing tactical air control personnel through offensive, defensive and counter-air live-flight scenarios. 1st Battalion, 1st Air Defense Artillery Regiment supported Ryukyu Vice by providing Surface to Air Missile and Sensor Coverage, enabling freedom of maneuver for the exercise scenario and track correlation on the joint network.

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Steven Montes, a Pleasantville, New York, native, and motor transport operator with 6th Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division, poses for a photo on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Nov. 3, 2022. Everyday I learn something new about myself and from the Marines around me, said Montes. I humble myself to everybody because everyone doesnt know everything, so everyday is a day to learn something new. Montes was identified as a Follow Me" Marine in efforts to share the stories of 2d MARDIV Marines who have recently re-enlisted.

Washington National Guard service members take part in the annual Washington State Summer Con at the state fairgrounds in Puyallup, Wash., June 17-18, 2022. Guests got to meet Guardsmen, learn about military equipment, and the mission of the Washington National Guard.

An M-1026 Armor Troop Carrier 1 1/4 ton High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), located on the Ilidza Compound, was involved in an accident during Operation Joint Endeavor on the 27th of April 1996. The accident involved SPECIALIST Jerry Leque, a 55th Signal Company Combat Camera photographer, on a road in Foca in the southern part of Bosnia, while he was on his way back from a mission to document bridges in Foca. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Ilidza, Sarajevo Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

DF-ST-89-04081. Base: Eglin Air Force Base State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

U.S. Air Force Tech Sgt. Stephen Hunt, 380th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron operations non-commissioned officer in charge, is deployed from the 23rd SFS at Moody AFB, Georgia. Hunt works with his team to provide guidance for each post, ensuring that protection level resources on base have the proper security measures in place, adapt the random Anti-terrorism measures to local threats, review the Random Anti-terrorism measures to local threats and review AF polices and provide specific operating instructions for the ever-evolving mission.

990615-A-0512A-003. Base: Fort Gillem State: Georgia (GA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DA-SC-87-05439. Subject Operation/Series: TEAM SPIRIT '86 Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)

U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Brian Smith, a Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear Defense Specialist with Combat Logistics Battalion 6 (CLB-6), Combat Logistics Regiment 2 (CLR-2), 2nd Marine Logistics Group (2nd MLG), operates a Finnish all-terrain vehicle (ATV) during an ATV Familiarization course in Dragsvik, Finland, Oct. 3, 2022. Task Force Red Cloud, headquartered by elements of CLB-6, CLR-2, 2nd MLG, 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. (U.S. Marine Corps photos by Cpl. Jackson Kirkiewicz)

051008-A-9419D-002. Subject Operation/Series: KATRINA RELIEF Base: Taylor State: Michigan (MI) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: 1776th Military Police Co

Army Reserve Sgt. Dakota Wilson, 323rd Firefighter Engineer Detachment, operates the nozzle of a firefighting vehicle as part of driver/operator training at Fort McCoy, Wis., May 24, 2022. The training will help prepare these Army Reserve Soldiers to operate in any situation they may find themselves when attacking a fire or other emergency situation.

Soldiers from the 169th Military Police Company position their vehicle to block traffic on I-95 to assist the Rhode Island State Police and Rhode Island Department of Transportation on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, as road crews remove snow from the interstate during Winter Storm Juno.

DA-SC-85-13301. Subject Operation/Series: PROLOG Base: Fort Eustis State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Zachary Belpedio, an anti-tank missile gunner with 1st Battalion, 3d Marines, 3d Marine Division, fires a Mark 19 40 mm automatic grenade machine gun during a live-fire range on Okinawa, Japan, April 14, 2022. Marines rehearsed combined arms tactics to maintain readiness for expeditionary operations in contested environments. 1/3 is forward-deployed in the Indo-Pacific under 4th Marines as a part of the Unit Deployment Program. Belpedio is a native of Mohave, Arizona.

DA-ST-88-04816. Base: Fort Irwin State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A821052 SAFEGUARD AREA 11 EXERCISE SOOHOO (PROJECT ENGINEER) JUL 6 82 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 7/6/1982 AREA 11; AREA 11 EXERCISE; ARMORED; ARMORED PERSONNEL CARRIERS; ARMORED VEHICLES; ARMORED VEHICLES (MILITARY); DESERTS; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; SAFEGUARDS; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; VEHICLES, SPECIAL USE; SAFEGUARD-AREA 11 EXERCISE historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Kabul, Afghanistan, December 25, 2009 - Santa chose a slightly different mode of transportation in Afghanistan to toss candy canes as he tested out an Air Force MaxxPro Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle. The flags flying represent all the nations that are contributing forces as a part of the NATO mission.

020505-M-9902V-023. Base: USS Anchorage (LSD 36) Scene Major Command Shown: 3 MEF

These companies have a new eye, are new to the Army, new to artillery, but they also know engineering and how can we take this process and optimize it and look at it from a different lens, said Long Range Precision Fire portfolio manager Walker Williams. Walker serves as the liaison between industry and Army for the Army Application Lab.

U.S. Air Force personnel store pallets from a Los Angeles Search and Rescue team, Task Force 2 at Misowa Air Force Base, Japan during an emergency response on March 13, 2011. Aircrew from the 4th Airlift Squadron, McChord AFB, Wash. are transporting members and equipment for Los Angeles Search and Rescue team to Japan to aid in recovery and care of victims of the recent earthquake.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- With Launch Pad 39B in the background, STS-124 Pilot Ken Ham drives the M113 armored personnel carrier as part of emergency training. Behind him at right is Mission Specialist Karen Nyberg. At center is Battalion Chief George Hoggard providing supervision. Ham and other crew members are at NASA's Kennedy Space Center for a dress launch rehearsal called the terminal countdown demonstration test. TCDT provides astronauts and ground crews with an opportunity to participate in various simulated countdown activities, including equipment familiarization and emergency training. On the STS-124 mission, the crew will deliver and install the Japanese Experiment Module - Pressurized Module and Japanese Remote Manipulator System. Discovery's launch is targeted for May 31.

Staff Sgt. Ryan Tatum with the 181st Multi-Functional Training Brigade talks to fellow Soldiers and guests after completing a reenlistment in the Army on May 12, 2022, with Col. R.J. Hughes, 181st MFTB commander, at Equipment Park in the historic Commemorative Area at Fort McCoy, Wis. Tatum worked in the 181st's Public Affairs Office. The Equipment Park is an outdoor display of historic and present-day equipment representative of the types used on the installation. The design of the park allows for display of 70 pieces of equipment, ranging from helicopters and howitzers to trucks and trailers. The Commemorative Area also consists of five World War II-era buildings set aside to help tell Fort McCoys unique story. These facilities are representative of the types found in the cantonment area when it was constructed in 1942.

Tractor trailers, being loaded on the USNS DENEBOLA, prior to deployment to Somalia. Base: Fort Stewart State: Georgia (GA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

040419-F-1424R-056. Base: Barksdale Air Force Base State: Louisiana (LA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

U.S. Airmen from the 28th Bomb Wing, Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, and U.S. Sailors from the Navy Munitions Command, Pacific Unit, Guam, prepare to load MK-62 Quickstrike Naval mines onto a B-1B Lancer in support of a Bomber Task Force mission at Andersen AFB, Guam, Oct. 21, 2022. Bomber Task Force missions support the National Defense Strategy (NDS) objectives of strategic predictability and operational unpredictability through the speed, flexibility, and readiness of strategic bombers.

DA-SC-89-07271. Country: Unknown

An M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), right, and an M998 HMMWV drive onto a road after coming down the stern ramp of an Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) craft. The 4th Marine Expeditionary Brigade's (4th MEB's) ground units are coming ashore at Onslow Beach after disembarking from the amphibious ships on which they were deployed in the Persian Gulf region for Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

U.S. World War II vehicles on static display during the Chièvres Air Fest, Chièvres, Belgium, June 25, 2022.

An Oshkosh M-978 fuel servicing truck stands on the pier with ordnance of the 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized) destined for deployment to Saudi Arabia in support of Operation Desert Shield. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Base: Savannah State: Georgia (GA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Soldiers from the 311th Brigade Support Battalion staged vehicles carrying potable water at the High Ridge Elementary School in High Ridge, Mo., Dec. 31, 2015. The water will be used to supply local residents with potable water that is currently unavailable due to flooding in the area. (Missouri National Guard photo)

960717-A-8303M-004. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Sarajevo Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

High Park Fire. Colorado High Park Wildfire. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Soldiers assigned to 16th Combat Aviation Brigade recover equipment from the Port of Tacoma, Wash., and perform preventative maintenance checks and services prior to movement back to Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., on October 5, 2022.

Soldiers assigned to 16th Combat Aviation Brigade recover equipment from the Port of Tacoma, Wash., and perform preventative maintenance checks and services prior to movement back to Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., on October 5, 2022.

CPL. D. D. Smith flies the American flag from atop an M-48 Oshkosh articulated vehicle. The flag was presented to Smith's family following the death of his father and Smith now displays it while he takes part in Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU)

Army Signal Corps troops have an area of Fort McCoy, Wis., set up Aug. 4, 2022, to support communications for the 86th Training Division Combat Support Training Exercise 86-22-02 and for exercise Grecian Firebolt 2022. Grecian Firebolt is an annual training exercise that allows signal units to keep pace with communication transformations, and link communication support to identified U. S. Army Reserve Command-sponsored exercises.

A Ground Surveillance Unit (GSU) is used for F-4 Phantom II aircraft flight operations during Exercise SALTY ROOSTER. Subject Operation/Series: SALTY ROOSTER Base: Hahn Air Base Country: Federal Republic Of Germany (FRG)

U.S. Army ambulance vehicles assigned to the 64th Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, prepare to head out for an ambulance exchange point training as a part of joint multinational medic training during Defender 22 at Drawsko Pomorskie, Poland, May 26, 2022. Defender Europe 22 is a series of U.S. Army Europe and Africa multinational training exercises in Eastern Europe; it demonstrates the ability to conduct large-scale ground combat operations across multiple theaters in support of NATO.

Wheeled vehicles belonging to the 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized) are staged at the Port of Savannah, ready to be loaded onto a ship. Subject Operation/Series: BRIGHT STAR '97 Base: Savannah State: Georgia (GA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A British convoy enters the north port to load onto the Vladimir Vaslyaev, a Russian commercial ship, for return to Marchwood, England. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Split Country: Croatia (HRV)

A U.S. Marine Corps P-19R Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting (ARFF) vehicle sprays water at a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter on Marine Corps Station Futenma, July 27, 2022. Dousing an aircraft following a final flight is an ongoing tradition within Marine Corps aviation.

A high angle view of the front gate of the forward operating base located at Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM. The bivouac site located to the distant left (see 2-man dome tents) belonged to the Marine Service Support Group-26, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable). The mass of military vans in the center of the photo belonged to the 101st Air Assault Division, US Army. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar International Airport Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: 26th MEU (SOC)

020412-A-8359B-027. Base: Bird International Airport Country: Antigua And Barbuda (ATG) Scene Major Command Shown: USSOUTHCOM

U.S. Marines with 3rd Transportation Battalion, Combat Logistics Regiment 3, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, and the Japan Ground Self Defense Force, conduct bilateral vehicle recovery training during exercise Resolute Dragon 22 at Kamifurano Maneuver Area, Hokkaido, Japan, Oct. 5, 2022. Resolute Dragon 22 is an annual exercise designed to strengthen the defensive capabilities of the U.S.-Japan Alliance by exercising integrated command and control, targeting, combined arms, and maneuver across multiple domains.

Ambulances from the 583rd Medical Company are parked at the 32nd Combat Support Hospital for use during exercise Reforger '83. Subject Operation/Series: REFORGER '83 Base: Fulda Country: Federal Republic Of Germany (FRG)

Soldiers assigned to the New York Army National Guards 2nd Squadron, 101st Cavalry Regiment,inspect a humvee at Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station in Niagara Falls, New York on Nov. 18, 2022 as a major lake effect snow storm hits western New York. The Soldiers are among 60 New York National Guard Soldiers and Airmen placed on standby at the direction of Governor Kathy Hochul in response to a massive storm which is expected to drop four feet of snow in the Buffalo, New York region.( U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Major Frederic Trunzo.)

Soldiers from the 231st Inland Cargo Transfer Company secure the area for their convoy while the convoy navigates a situational training exercise (STX) lane focused around improvised explosive device and small arms fire on Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, July 21, 2022. One of the Army Reserves focuses is to continually improve Army Readiness and strengthen Army Warrior Tasks. This years STX focus was on communication, formations, and the principle of patrolling within a tactical environment.

U.S. Marine drives an M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV) carrying supply crates are parked in a holding area prior to being driven to pre-positioning cave for storage. Country: Norway (NOR)

Truck of the Military Police Feldjaeger, Taken During the Military Exercise Wettiner sword with German and Czech Soldiers Near Tangermuende, 26 03 2024 Wettiner Schwert is part of the quadriga Exercise of Nato Tangermuende Germany Copyright

An old Humvee is ready to be picked up from the 1st Theater Sustainment Command motor pool at Fort Knox, Kentucky by the Defense Logistics Agency.

Al Asad, Iraq -LIFE 1 and LIFE 2 field ambulances sit ready if the call comes to deliver injured persons to departing aircraft.

A U.S. Army Stryker and Joint Light Tactical Vehicle assigned to Brawler Troop, Regimental Engineer Squadron, are parked in a remote location of the training area of the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, California, while the galactic center of the Milky Way galaxy was visible overhead on May 24, 2022. Overall the RES created 24 kilometers of obstacles for a defensive posture during the last phase of the training.

France, Normandy, Arromanches. 66th Anniversary of D-Day. Vintage American jeeps.

The remnants of Hurricane Ike that smashed the Texas coastline on September 12, 2008, dumped over 10 inches of rain on several Northwestern Indiana counties causing lake, rivers, tributaries and levies to spill over their banks and cause massive flooding. On September 16th, Members of the Indiana Army National Guard 113th Engineer Battalion tossed thousands of sand bags on to failing levies in Gary, Indiana, to help shore them up and stop further flooding.

A U.S. Marine Corps Rough Terrain Cargo Handler is offloaded from U.S. Naval Vessel Dahl in preparation for Balikatan 23 at Subic Bay Port, Philippines, March 26, 2023. Balikatan is an annual exercise between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and U.S. Military designed to strengthen bilateral interoperability, capabilities, trust, and cooperation built over decades of shared experiences.

A dock crew member uses a fork lift truck to unload pallets of medical supplies from the dock landing ship USS WHIDBEY ISLAND (LSD-41), during a port visit. The WHIDBEY ISLAND is the first U.S. ship ever to have visited Burgas, and the medical supplies are a gift of the U.S. government. Base: Burgas Country: Bulgaria(BGR)

Indiana Army National Guard Soldiers talk to media personnel and Indiana Motor Speedway staff during setup for the Armed Forces weekend event at Indianapolis Motor Speedway before the Indy 500 qualification in Indianapolis, Indiana May 20, 2022.

A Russian Search and Rescue team All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) brings Expedition 20 Flight Engineer Michael Barratt to his helicopter shortly after he and Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka, and spaceflight participant Guy Laliberté landed their Soyuz TMA-14 capsule near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009. Padalka and Barratt are returning from six months onboard the International Space Station, along with Laliberté who arrived at the station on Oct. 2 with Expedition 21 Flight Engineers Jeff Williams and Maxim Suraev aboard the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft.

050915-A-7274K-007. Base: New Orleans State: Louisiana (LA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: Northeast

030417-M-5654R-003. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Tikrit State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Rome, italy 4 may 2025: restored willys jeep bearing u.S. Navy markings, parked on a cobblestone street, evoking a sense of military history and vintage charm

Rome, italy 4 may 2025: restored world war ii ambulance vehicle stands in a paved square, evoking history and medical service during wartime

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