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Military Weaponry and Operations

Displays various military weapons, equipment, and personnel in operational settings, featuring rifles, ammunition, and training in urban terrain.

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030504-M-9892R-001. Subject Operation/Series: BALIKATAN 2003 Base: Camp Ternate State: Cavite Province Country: Philippines (PHL) Scene Major Command Shown: 2nd Battalion 7th Marines

DN-SC-90-04190. Base: Fort Knox State: Kentucky (KY) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Vietnam, (Saigon), Ben Dinh, Cu Chi, near Ho Chi Minh City, American bombs and shells used during Vietnam War

World War Ii Weapons

Marines assigned to Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, prepare to disembark amphibious assault vehicles to conduct a simulated raid at landing zone Boondocker, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Sept. 16, 2014. The Marines were training in military operations in urban terrain as part of Exercise Island Viper, a staple in Hawaii Marines pre-deployment training cycle.

DA-ST-85-02188. Subject Operation/Series: URGENT FURY Country: Grenada (GRD)

030417-M-3692C-016. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

051007-A-0527A-020. Base: Kandahar City Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

A soldier from the 10th Mountain Division load M-16 ammunition inside the hangar bay in preparation for the invasion of Haiti. Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE DEMOCRACY Base: USS Dwight D Eisenhower (CVN 69)

Close up shot of an open wooden ordnance box, resting on the snow, containing mortar rounds and rockets. A TF 1-26 and 9th Engineer Company EOD team detonated this rounds at a site outside of Celici, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Close up shot of an open wooden ordnance box, resting on the snow, containing mortar rounds and rockets. A TF 1-26 and 9th Engineer Company EOD team detonated this rounds at a site outside of Celici, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

990628-M-5696S-053. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT GUARDIAN Base: Zegra State: Kosovo Country: Yugoslavia (YUG) Scene Major Command Shown: 26th Marine Expedtionary Unit

DN-ST-85-02017. Subject Operation/Series: URGENT FURY Country: Grenada (GRD)

990619-M-5696S-003. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT GUARDIAN State: Kosovo Country: Yugoslavia (YUG) Scene Major Command Shown: 26th Marine Expedtionary Unit

Cannon In Front Of The Amna Suraka (Red Security) Museum, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq

Captured Iraqi 9mm SR-1 Makarvo pistols are displayed after US Marine Corps (USMC) 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Special Operations Capable (SOC) Marines raided an El Fedayeen Headquarters location in Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040828-F-0017C-009. Base: Kwang Ju Air Base State: Gwangju Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)

Joint first aid training kits are prepared for a Tactical Combat Casualty Care course, Oct. 20, 2022, at Prince Sultan Air Base, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. During the TCCC training, Soliders practiced combat life saving techniques during a simulated casualty scenario.

DN-SN-85-02061. Subject Operation/Series: URGENT FURY Country: Grenada (GRD)

030407-M-3138H-002. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

bullet in the sand bullet in the sand concept of war in desert ,model released, Symbolfoto Copyright: xZoonar.com/AleksandrxKichiginx 9751228 ,model released, Symbolfoto ,property released

US Army soldiers from C Company, Task Force 1-26 (1ST Battalion, 26th Infantry) 2nd Brigade, 1ST Infantry Division (Mechanized), Scheinfurt, Germany, out of Camp Dobol seized these weapons (hand grenades, ammunition, AK-47s, detonation cord, magazines, and mine parts) during a search of houses in the town of Hajvazi, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Operation Joint Endeavor, 11 December 1996. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Hajevazi Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

060219-A-5745M-147. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MNT 2ND BDE

Sgt. 1st Class Jeffrey Cesaitis secures a grape drying house before members of Provincial Reconstruction Team Zabul and the U.S. Department of Agriculture enter during a visit to a village near the city of Qalat, Zabul province, Afghanistan, May 8.

US Marine Corps (USMC) Tractor Rubber-tired Articulated Steering Multi-purpose (TRAM) is use to tear down berms blocking streets and to remove fighting positions along the side of a major roadway at Al Rifa, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Rifa Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040903-M-1947M-021. Base: Najaf Country: Iraq (IRQ)

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Eric Bayless, a member of the 860th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, checks a shipping document during the Operational Readiness Exercise on Nov. 2, 2010 at Travis Air Force Base, Calif. The base-wide exercise ensures Team Travis will be prepared in the event of a short-notice deployment anywhere in the world.

In a confiscated suit case, US troops found pictures of Saddam Hussein shaking hands with Iraqis, ammunition magazines, gas masks, AK47 Assault Rifles, pistols and a variety of weapons, which were being sold on the Iraqi black market in Al Kut, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Kut State: Wasit Country: Iraq (IRQ)

M16A4 service rifles laid out on a rack for recruits with Golf Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, for a M16A4 service rifle issue at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, Sept 12, 2022. Recruits get issued rifles and briefed on their responsibilities regarding rifle security, safety and handling.

111214-N-BA263-478 CAMP BUEHRING, Kuwait (Dec. 14, 2011) Chief Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician Matt Clausen, assigned to Commander, Task Group (CTG) 56.1, places the final initiation charge on top of a 1,500-pound munitions shot during demolition operations supervisor training. CTG 56.1 provides mine countermeasure, explosive ordnance disposal, salvage diving, counter-terrorism and force protection for the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility.

A civilian Walther PPK pistol and a Yugoslav Army Model M70 pistol, both damaged and rendered inoperable, lie on the ground next to two 7.62mm AK-47 AKM Assault Rifles (with folding buttstock). US Army soldiers, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, made these pistols inoperable at the Team's Headquarters located at Camp Lisa, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Country: Unknown

041228-M-0036Y-107. Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

The cab of an Iraqi tanker truck lies in ruin in southern Iraq after an invasion by Coalition forces during Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Iraq(IRQ)

A U.S. Marine Corps recruit with Echo Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, drags his rifle through a trench on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Oct. 4, 2022. This event was a segment of the crucible - the culminating event of recruit training. After completing the crucibles physically and mentally demanding challenges over the course of 54-hours with limited food and sleep, the recruits will finally have the privilege to call themselves United States Marines.

A U.S. Marine Corps recruit with Echo Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, drags his rifle through a trench on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Oct. 4, 2022. This event was a segment of the crucible - the culminating event of recruit training. After completing the crucibles physically and mentally demanding challenges over the course of 54-hours with limited food and sleep, the recruits will finally have the privilege to call themselves United States Marines.

Criminal research ballistics department, stock of reference weapons.

Belts of Bullets

060521-A-7969G-002. Base: Al Fatah State: Salah Ah Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: NORTHEAST

030218-M-4419R-001. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Camp Coyote Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Major Command Shown: 5th Marines

Malik-E-Maidan monarch of plain cannon of 55 tons largest mediaeval cannons, Bijapur, Karnataka, India Copyright: xJagannathxRaul/DinodiaxPhotox

Iraq, Kirkuk province, Bashir village on 2022-10-19. Report on explosive remnants of war in Iraq, one of the most contaminated countries in the world after forty years of conflict, instability and especially the recent occupation of the country by the Islamic State group, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Ottawa Treaty, the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention prohibiting the acquisition, production, stockpiling and use of mines. This is Handicap International's (Humanity and Inclusion) mine clearance training camp in the village of Bashir where mine clearers practice in real conditions. Photograph by Martin Bertrand. Irak, province de Kirkouk, Bashir village le 2022-10-19. Reportage sur les restes explosifs de guerre en Irak, lun des pays les plus contamines au monde suite a quarante ans de conflits, dinstabilité et surtout par loccupation recente du pays par le groupe Etat islamique, a l'occasion des 25 ans du Traite d'Ottawa, la Convention sur linterdiction des mines

DA-SC-91-02000. Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)

Rifles and machine guns used by the Latvian national partisans. Context of the Second World War. Occupation Museum. Riga. Latvia.

U.S. Army and International Paratroopers prepare to put on their MC-6 parachutes during Leapfest 2022 at the Quonset Army Aviation Support Facility in Washington County, Rhode Island, August 6, 2022. Leapfest is the largest, longest standing, international static line parachute training event and competition hosted by the 56th Troop Command, Rhode Island Army National Guard to promote high level technical training and esprit de corps within the International Airborne community.

Old mask for bacteriological warfare used during the cold war era.

A close up view of a Former Yugoslavia stake mounted PMR-2A anti-personnel mine partially buried so the trip wire is close to the ground. Buried next to the stake on the mine is a M75 hand grenade. A close up view of a Former Yugoslavia stake mounted PMR-2A anti-personnel mine partially buried so the trip wire is close to the ground. Buried next to the stake on the mine is a M75 hand grenade.

020820-A-6042E-013. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Paktia Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion 4, Combat Logistics Regiment 3, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, unload main packs from a Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement during an Alert Contingency Marine Air Ground Task Force (ACM) drill at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, Japan, Jan. 24, 2024. The purpose of the ACM drill was to ensure CLB-4 Marines remain ready to rapidly deploy and maintain regional security in the Indo-Pacific.

Confiscated Serbian infantry weapons about to be destroyed in the HHC, 1ST Brigade Combat Team motor pool, Camp Kime, Bosnia-Herzegovina. (Duplicate image, see also DA-SD-99-04692 or search 960816-A-6567T-002). Base: Camp Kime Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

Aircraft torpedo Aircraft torpedo during first world war on beach Copyright: xZoonar.com/MaximilianxBuzunx 8824565

A photojournalists equipment is displayed after returning from a foreign TDY. Exact Date Shot Unknown. Base: Mcguire Air Force Base State: New Jersey (NJ) Country: United States Of America (USA)

050804-A-2140D-009. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Rawah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 40588

030404-M-5753Q-121. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Kut State: Wasit Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 7th Marines

Vietnam, (Saigon), Ben Dinh, Cu Chi, near Ho Chi Minh City, American bombs and shells used during Vietnam War

Tank parts military

041228-M-0036Y-087. Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Washington, Olympia, military airshow. (Editorial Usage Only)

The Utah Air National Guard Explosive Ordnance Disposal Squadron was tasked to execute an Emergency detonation of several depleted uranium rounds that had been compromised on June 23, 2022 at Tooele Army Depot, UT.

WW2, World War Two German concrete stock mine, anti-personnel mine with brass trip wire mine fuze, igniter

North America, Canada, Québec, Québec City, La Citadelle

030404-M-4779G-017. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

First World War One artillery ammunition and Minenwerfer, German trench mortar in the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 at Zonnebeke, Belgium, Europe

ARABIAN SEA (March 31, 2016) A cache of weapons is assembled on the deck of the guided-missile destroyer USS Gravely (DDG 107). The weapons were seized from a stateless dhow which was intercepted by the coastal patrol ship USS Sirocco (PC 6) on March 28, 2016. The illicit cargo included 1,500 AK-47s, 200 RPG launchers, and 21 .50 caliber machine guns. Gravely supported the seizure following the discovery of the weapons by Siroccos boarding team. This seizure was the third time in recent weeks international naval forces operating in the waters of the Arabian Sea seized a shipment of illicit arms which the United States assessed originated in Iran and was likely bound for Houthi insurgents in Yemen. The weapons are now in U.S. custody awaiting final disposition.

020305-F-8210K-001. State: Minnesota (MN) Country: United States Of America (USA)

030322-M-3138H-702. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030322-M-3138H-706. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

020810-A-4385T-053. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Gangikhel State: Malikasay Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

NEW BOSTON SPACE FORCE STATION, N.H. - Pictured are remnants of a P-51 Mustang which crashed on Jan. 14, 1949, at New Boston Space Force Station, N.H. Sept. 16, 2022. Capt. Elmer V. Kramer, 95th Fighter Squadron pilot, was on a training dive-bomb mission when the left flipper door of his aircraft was ripped off, followed by the rest of the wing. Kramer was killed on impact, but his story and plane remain on the Space Force Station to this day.

U.S. Marine Corps recruits with India Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, low crawl under barbed wire during the bayonet assault course at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, Sept. 13, 2022. The course consisted of different obstacles that simulated the type of terrain Marines may come across in combat.

041228-M-0036Y-085. Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Keelan Hopkins, 355th Munitions Squadron conventional maintenance crew chief, stabilizes the BSU-33 fin allowing Airman Rashawn Quichocho-McCullough, 355th MUNS conventional maintenance technecian, to secure it to the BDU-50 bomb body at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, May 24, 2022. Once fully assembled these bombs will be used to help train DMs A-10 pilots across four flying units.

040921-M-2306K-031. Complete Scene Caption: A 9 mm Model 12 Baretta sub-machine gun (top) and an unidentified 6-shot grenade launcher (center), 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)

051007-A-0527A-015. Base: Kandahar City Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

030413-M-3138H-011. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

051002-A-4339E-005. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 48TH BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM

65mm Italian machine gun with box filling. .

Paveway III GBU-24/A laser guided bombs fill the aft mess decks of the US Navy's nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS CARL VINSON (CVN 70) prior to their transfer to the flight deck where aviation ordnancemen will hang them on tactical aircraft in support of Operation DESERT STRIKE. The operation allows for tactical bombing inside the borders of Iraq in response to Iraqi attacks inside UN Safe Zones in Northern Iraq. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STRIKE Base: USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70)

US Army soldiers (not shown) out of Camp Dobol discovered ammunition for primarily AK-47 rifles after a search in the town of Hajvazi, Bosnia and Herzegovina, during Operation JOINT ENDEAVOR. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Hajevazi Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

020730-M-0367H-001. Subject Operation/Series: OJOJIHARA ARTILLERY LIVE FIRE Base: Ojojihara Training Area State: Miyagi Country: Japan (JPN) Scene Major Command Shown: 3d Battalion 12th Marine Regimen

Boxes with 9 mm bullets for sale at militaria fair

A member of an explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) unit examines a round of Soviet-made ammunition as he prepares a case of captured Iraqi munitions for shipment. U.S. and coalition EOD units are clearing mines and other ordnance from Kuwait's harbors following Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Base: Ash Shuaybah Country: Kuwait(KWT)

DF-ST-88-03919. Base: Norton Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

British Army 81mm mortar rounds in their containers stacked.

A close-up mechanism of a portable weapon of the Soviet Union of World War II, painted in a dark green color

030411-M-6910K-066. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: An Nasariyah State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030411-M-9124R-024. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Underground Hashish Seizure in Afghanistan

021001-A-3497H-019. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Khowst Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

U.S. Army Soldiers from 524th Division Sustainment Support Battalion, 25th Sustainment Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, are conducting medical evacuation training during Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center (JPMRC) training on Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, on Oct. 31, 2022. JPMRC 23-01 is a regional combat training center (CTC) rotation that builds combat readiness in America's Pacific Division and is a key way the Army forces engage in a joint environment with our regional allies and partners.

U.S. Airmen from the 20th Civil Engineer Squadron (CES) insert plugs into drainage holes to prevent flooding of electrical pits in preparation for Tropical Storm Ian at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., Sep. 29, 2022. Airmen from the 20th CES prepared barriers, cleaned storm drains, fueled back-up generators and provided materials for units to secure facilities with sandbags, ensuring the safeguard of the 20th Fighter Wings mission and installation capabilities.

SPC Matthew Bacon, 2nd Platoon, B Co. 40th Engineers, 2nd Brigade, 1ST Armored Division, Baumholder, Germany, sets up a 40 pound shape charge to blow up the Serbian bunker in the Zone of Separation.(CP 2537196027-grid square). Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

060302-M-0374B-024. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fallujah State: Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 40580

A box of grenades, including M79 anti-tank hand grenade, M60 anti-tank rifle grenade and M62 smoke rifle grenades, confiscated from a Serbian Special Police Station in Brcko, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Operation JOINT GUARD, 7 July 1997. A box of grenades, including M79 anti-tank hand grenade, M60 anti-tank rifle grenade and M62 smoke rifle grenades, confiscated from a Serbian Special Police Station in Brcko, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Operation JOINT GUARD, 7 July 1997.

Unidentified Airmen from the 9th Munitions Squadron, Beale AFB, California, loads GBU-12, 500-pound, laser-guided bomb on a rack for assembly on Tuesday, April 13, 1999. The bombs are being built for use against targets in Yugoslavia (not shown). The Airmen are deployed to Aviano Air Base, Italy, supporting NATO Operation Allied Force. Subject Operation/Series: ALLIED FORCE Base: Aviano Air Base State: Pordenone Country: Italy (ITA)

011017-F-7910D-002. Base: Shaw Air Force Base State: South Carolina (SC) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: Air Combat Command

050915-A-6004S-002. Base: Biloxi State: Mississippi (MS) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Revolver M.G. .

The soldiers 492nd AG Company are completing weapons simulation training. The EST II (Engagement Skills Trainer) simulates weapons training events that lead to live fire qualifications for individual or crew-served weapons. EST II provides weapons training in a controlled environment that reduces range/live fire fees and provides the soldier with more trigger time. Units utilize EST II to improve and excel at marksmanship skills, which improve performance during live-fire training. (Photos taken by the Fort Dix TSC Training Support Center)