Security Barriers and Fencing

Images of various barbed wire and fencing structures used in military and security contexts, emphasizing protection and confinement.

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Protesters display a flag outside the Waldorf gate. The protesters were part of a group of approximately 300 who were demonstrating peacefully against NATO's decision to deploy Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe. Base: Rhein-Main Air Base Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)

Heat lightning striking down on Camp Arifjan April 15, 2022.

In nine days Air Force and Army civil engineers built this 136-tent village equipped with hot showers, dining hall, recreational facilities, chapel and hospital surrounded by razor-sharp barbed wire and guarded by Army Patriot missiles.Published in AIRMAN Magazine July 1996. Exact Date Shot Unknown. Subject Operation/Series: CAPEX '96 Base: Suwon Air Base Country: Korea

The Israeli West Bank barrier (or wall 1) is a barrier built by Israel in the West Bank or along the 1949 Armistice Line ('Green Line'). Upon completion; its total length will be approx. 700 kilometres (430mi). Barrier supporters argue that it protects civilians from Palestinian terrorism such as suicide bombing attacks.

Ukraine Donbass war military tent in the autumn forest

The Israeli West Bank barrier (or wall 1) is a barrier built by Israel in the West Bank or along the 1949 Armistice Line ('Green Line'). Upon completion; its total length will be approx. 700 kilometres (430mi). Barrier supporters argue that it protects civilians from Palestinian terrorism such as suicide bombing attacks.

030222-F-9528H-020. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Country: Unknown

The Wall decorated with roses at the central commemorative event at the Berlin Wall Memorial to mark the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Wall in Berlin, 9 November 2024

U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Whitfield Jack, U.S. Air Force Honor Guard Drill Team flight chief, performs during Air Force Week 2012 in New York City, Aug. 19, 2012. The drill team conducted several performances throughout the city during Air Force Week.

DA-SC-85-09252. Country: Panama (PAN)

Border patrol truck passing by U.S. Mexico wall

020111-N-6967M-524. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Guantanamo Bay Country: Cuba (CUB)

DF-ST-87-13293. Subject Operation/Series: TEAM SPIRIT '85 Base: Kimhae Air Base Country: Korea

Stasi bunker Luebschuetzer Teiche

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides to San Francisco and vicinity, California, for touring, meetings with Interior personnel, classroom activities, and trip to Alcatraz Island

021230-F-7203T-001. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Country: Qatar (QAT)

Sailors, Marines, and equipment supporting training for the U.S. Navys 4th Medical Battalion are shown at the Combined Arms Collective Training Facility on Aug. 17, 2022, at Fort McCoy, Wis. Everything supporting the 4th Medical Battalion was for training supporting a Combat Support Training Exercise as well as a Global Medic exercise going on at Fort McCoy. The battalion conducted a wide variety of medical training scenarios from the training area.

A Republic of Korea Soldier demonstrates recovered items from the Korean War at Arrow Head Ridge 281, South Korea, June 22, 2022. Command senior enlisted leaders with the ROK-US Alliance participated in the 2nd Annual Keystone Seminar, a three-day event meant to bring the senior NCOs together to build sprit de corps and learn about Korean military history.

IDF women soldiers, Israel.

Armored Corps memorial Latrun Israel

DF-ST-86-11210. Base: Jever Air Base Country: West Germany (FRG)

Man dressed as soldier with coloured weapon in front of United Colors of Benetton poster in 1980s in Italy

Barcelona, 03/25/2020. Image of the Army in Montjuic in the field hospital for homeless people. Photo: Pep Dalmau. ARCHDC.

U.S. Marine Corps Col. Timothy S. Brady Jr, commanding officer, 3d Marine Littoral Regiment, 3d Marine Division, gives remarks during a realignment ceremony at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, June 24, 2022. CLB-3 realigned under 3d MLR as part of Force Design 2030. While the 3d MLR is not envisioned to be fully operational for several years, the realignment is a significant step towards that end.

Senior Airman Korey Sarantopoulos, 90th Logistics Readiness Squadron vehicle maintenance journeyman, records the status of different maintenance systems as part of a Joint Light Tactical Vehicle limited technical inspection at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming, Oct 25, 2022. The 90 LRS is tasked with preparing the next generation of security forces vehicles sent to protect the 90th Missile Wing's ICBM system as part of Air Force Global Strike Commands priority to modernize.

A close up view of the "Garden of Peace", at Camp McGovern, Bosnia-Herzegovina a memorial site to members of 1ST Brigade, 1ST Armored Division. A close up view of the "Garden of Peace", at Camp McGovern, Bosnia-Herzegovina a memorial site to members of 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division.

U.S. Army Lt. Col. Michael Duval, Commander, 39th Strategic Signal Battalion, is about to enter the Training Support Center Benelux Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear room, as he performs mask confidence training, on Chièvres Air Base, March 16, 2023. In order to stay proficient on their CBRN equipment and procedures the unit conducted training to ensure readiness and fulfill their annual requirements.

Badge, helicopter pilot with the German Federal Police, emblem, Berlin, wings, 60 years Federal Police event in Berlin, Germany, Europe

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Public roll call of the Army Officers' School on Theatre Square: Bundeswehr honours and bids farewell to young soldiers, Dresden, Saxony, Germany, Europe

050902-F-5276B-029. Base: New Orleans State: Louisiana (LA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

UNHCR refugee camp in Hong Kong used to house Vietnamese boat people (refugees). Vietnamese boat people, were refugees who fled Vietnam by boat and ship following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975 (mainly were Hoa people). This migration was at its highest in 1978 and 1979, but continued through the early 1990s.

Teenage boy and assault rifle behind police tape

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.

000504-N-1012K-586. Base: Camp Garcia State: Vieques Island Country: Puerto Rico (PRI)

The barbed wire fence at Auschwitz concentration camp, Oswiecim, Poland.

Military first aid kit on floor with empty bullet casings and stains of human blood.

A Border Patrol vehicle at the border fence that separates the United States from Mexico, Hidalgo, Texas, United States, North America

Underground object of fortification destruction, military-historical object, Balaklava, Russia

Scenes from the campus of Virginia Tech, sight of a shooting masacre that left 33 people dead

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to Pima County, Arizona's border area with Mexico, where he joined U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel for meetings, tours, flights, inspections

Photograph taken during an anti-Iraq War rally in 2003

Iraq, Ninawa province, Mosul on 2022-10-17. 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. Here, in the old city of Mosul destroyed by Daesh, writings, posters or flags warn of the presence of explosive remains. Photograph by Martin Bertrand. Irak, province de Ninive, Mossoul le 2022-10-17. 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 antipersonnel prohibant lacquisition, la production, le

Two British police officers confront an anti-nuclear demonstrator attempting to gain entry onto the air base duirng the arrival of Ground Launch Cruise Missile equipment. Base: Raf Greenham Common Country: England / Great Britain (ENG)

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- Staff Sgt. Thomas Fleming, 15th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron flying crew chief, fills in final paperwork after landing with a C-17 Globemaster III full of water pumps and hoses here March 29. The C-17 carried more than 20,000 pounds of water pumps and hoses to Yokota to help stabilize the nuclear power plant in Japan in support of Operation Tomodachi.

Lansing, Michigan, Hundreds of protesters showed up at the Michigan state capitol to oppose a rally by the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group. State police erected chain-link fences and deployed hundreds of police officers to prevent clashes between Nazis and protesters.

Military No Entry sign for tanks and trucks, military training area, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, UK

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

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to Pima County, Arizona's border area with Mexico, where he joined U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel for meetings, tours, flights, inspections

Convicts from Prison Camp at Funeral of their Warden who was killed in Automobile Accident, Greene County, Georgia, USA, Jack Delano, U.S. Farm Security Administration, May 1941

Sign to Colenso battlefield from the Boer War, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, Africa

Lady spy detective holding pistol gun.

Soldiers participate in airborne training at Fort Benning in Columbus, GA. April 2010

Mossad operative analyzing surveillance data during global warfare, standing isolated over Israel flag background. Intelligence agent completes mission during World War 3 geopolitical operation

Soldiers Walk into a training town, Taken During an Exercise of the Bundeswehr with Armed Forces From Norway and the Czech Republic During the Exercise Wettiner Schwert as part of the quadriga 2024 in the training Town Schnoeggersburg, 08 04 2024 Schnoeggersburg Germany Germany

030321-M-6270B-096. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Umm Qasr Country: Iraq (IRQ)

USA, Florida, Everglades National Park, former Nike missile base built after the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

San Ysidro, California, U.S. Border Patrol agent Joe Velasquez watches the area above the international border crossing between the United States and Mexico.

Sachsenhausen concentration camp. 1936-1945. Cell in which was prisoner Lambert Horn (1899-1939), member of the German Communist Party. Oranienburg. Germany.

Area 51 Nevada warning restricted area street

A sign marks the entrance to the 1956th Information Systems Group Headquarters. Base: Yokota Air Base Country: Japan (JPN)

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Alexander Jones, 23rd Security Forces Squadron military working dog handler, enters an enclosed obstacle course with MWD Mio at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, Aug. 18, 2022. Jones and Mio showed off basic obedience and bite training to members of Leadership Lowndes during a tour. Leadership Lowndes is an organization that aims to build a better community by exposing existing and emerging leaders to local challenges and opportunities, build networks and prepare members for an active role in community leadership.

New construction crew quarters Marine Barracks Willemsoord.

U.S. Marine Corps dog handlers with Marine Corps Air Station Miramar and Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton conduct a detection training exercise at MCAS Miramar, San Diego, California, June 28, 2022. Military working dog handlers and their canines go through extensive training to provide protection from the threat of enemy forces.

Boy with a bazooka, a symbol of child soldiers, graffiti on a wall in Berlin, Germany, Europe

The "39er Memorial", from July 1939, to the 39th Fusilier Regiment at Reeser Platz, Duesseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Supporting elements of the 82nd Airborne Division (82nd Abn. Div.) and Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) conduct medical operations on Geronimo Drop Zone on Fort Polk, L.A., Nov. 2, 2022. The Joint Readiness Training Center rotation serves to enhance brigade and supporting unit's deployment readiness.

Nogales, Arizona, US Border Patrol agent Michael Scioli in the Border Patrol's processing center for undocumented migrant workers who are about to be deported. The migrants in the cage at rear will be fingerprinted before they are returned to Mexico.

Bin Jawad: heavy artillery shelling and machine gun shooting in Bin Jawad. 28 wounded and an unknown number of deaths.

Sign to the Colenso battlefield of the Boer War, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, Africa

Auschwitz Concentration Camp near Krakow in Poland, where up to three million people were murdered by the Nazis (2.5 million were gassed, and 500,000 died from disease and starvation).

Auschwitz Concentration Camp near Krakow in Poland, where up to three million people were murdered by the Nazis (2.5 million were gassed, and 500,000 died from disease and starvation).

Israel Defense Forces expert analyzing aerial reconnaissance data to come up with global conflict winning strategy. IDF operative in command room controlling drones attacking strategic targets

Scenes from the campus of Virginia Tech, sight of a shooting masacre that left 33 people dead

Armband used by the British Home Guard in World War Two.

Israel Defense Forces dispatcher looking at surveillance transmission on laptop, relaying data to troops using headphones microphone, isolated over israeli flag background, camera B

3d illustration of army folder with secret documents

Military Zone Road Photograph of a military zone with barbed wire, gate and warning signs. Copyright: xZoonar.com/OliverxFoerstnerx 16406128

An Entry Control Point manned by US Air Force members of the 363rd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron, Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, on October 31st, 2000. The 363rd SFS is part of the coalition force here to support Operation SOUTHERN WATCH, a military effort to enforce the no-fly and no-drive zone in Southern Iraq. Subject Operation/Series: SOUTHERN WATCH Base: Prince Sultan Air Base Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU)

020131-F-7910D-019. Subject Operation/Series: CORONET WHITE Base: Shaw Air Force Base State: South Carolina (SC) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: Air Combat Command

Marseille, France March 15, 2025 A sign in French says Military Pier, No access.

Miscellaneous - Coast Guard Operations - 26-HK-435-10. Hurricane Katrina

A sign warns of danger from unexploded ammunition on the former Jefferson Proving Ground, now the Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge, where the U.S. Army conducted tests of ammunition and other ordinance from 1941 until 1995, Belleview, Indiana, USA, North America

These containerized housing units form the nucleus of the new U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden life support area and gives garrison, not only more space but also, better housing solutions for Soldiers.

Sign a military on the island of Levant Var

041211-M-2583M-021. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Conceptual photo of using bullet instead of chess piece. Concept of military power

USA, TEXAS, El Paso: US Border Patrol Museum

Iranian conscript in control room uses military tech to identify threats from enemies. Iran IDF army operator uses software on laptop to communicate information to generals on war front line, camera A

Bunker from the Second World War on the Beach, Skagen, Skagerrak, North Jutland, Denmark

DF-ST-89-00889. Subject Operation/Series: SHADOW HAWK Base: Azarq Air Base Country: Jordan (JOR)

Mossad agent operating anti ballistic system designed to counter intercontinental missiles threatening country. Israeli counterintelligence operative defending national territory against rockets

Armed Forces Inaugural Committee behind the scenes. A view of the portable toilet facilities put in a place in the national mall for the celebration "American Reunion on the Mall". Base: Washington State: District Of Columbia (DC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Joint Readiness Training Center at Ft. Polk

Hurricane Katrina, Biloxi, Miss., March 7, 2006 -- Major Rob Vincent inspects the living quarters set up for volunteers in Biloxi. Yankie Stadium in East Biloxi is a base of operations for the Salvation Army. Mark Wolfe/FEMA

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