Soldiers in Action

Photos of soldiers aiming various firearms in outdoor settings, capturing intensity and focus during military training and operations.

Soldier Soldier in camouflage aiming with his rifle outdoor with lens flare effect ,model released, Symbolfoto Copyright: xZoonar.com/tudorxantonelxadrianx 2097844 ,model released, Symbolfoto ,property released

Weapons Testing

A U.S. Air Force Airmen prints his name across the helmet a part of the gear he wears during the CBRN exercise at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, September 15, 2022. There are five stages of MOPP gear beginning at MOPP 0 and increasing to MOPP 4 depending on the CBRN threat.

Bemowo Piskie Training Area, Orzysz, Poland - Spc. Abraham Montenegro from Downey, California, a part of the Headquarters, Headquarters Company, Charlie Company, 185th Infantry Regiment, California Army National Guard, prepares an Infantry Carrier Vehicle for use before a mass casualty exercise, April 30. Medical Platoons from the 185th Infantry Regiment practiced medical training to maintain readiness for real-world operations.

U.S. Marine Corps recruits with Mike Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion execute Marine Corps Martial Arts Program rifle techniques during a test at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California, Feb. 29, 2024. MCMAP aims to strengthen the mental and moral resiliency of individual recruits and Marines through realistic combative training, warrior ethos studies, and physical hardening. Marine Corps

Israel. Jerusalem. Military service. Soldier at the Western Wall. Detail firearm.

050126-F-0658L-004. Base: Patrick Air Force Base State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

U.S. Army soldiers assigned to the East Africa Response Force (EARF), Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa, (CJTF-HOA), run through several courses of fire at the Djiboutian Range Complex, Djibouti, May 25 2022. The EARF provides support for any contingency, including crisis response, humanitarian assistance, non-combatant evacuation operations, disaster relief operations, support to U.S. embassies, recovery capabilities of aircraft and personnel, and other missions as directed. (U.S. Air Force photos by Staff Sgt. Joel Pfiester)

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During a final phase of training, the Idaho Army National Guard Sniper Team was required to move to a location without detection, set up a firing position in a covered facility, identify a target and possible hostage and neutralize the target. After firing the team was then tasked with leaving the secured facility without detection.While commonly known as snipers, the official term used by U.S.Army is designated marksman. The U.S. Army Sniper Course is a seven-week training course at Fort Benning. With most formal training courses, skill training is an ongoing process throughout the year. The snipers of the 2-116th CAB trained for a full week separate from the main body of units in the field during annual training 2022. Their training encompassed individual qualifications, timed shooting exercises and movement to a covered location without being detected, identifying adversaries, engagement and withdrawal without being sighted. U.S.Army, Idaho Army National Guard, Sniper, I

U.S. Marine 1st. Lt. Leland Schulz, the Marine Wing Support Squadron 274 combat engineer platoon commander, gets ready to activate an initiating system that is linked to 180 half-pound sticks of dynamite here July 18. The squadron used the dynamite to blow through a six-foot thick bed of rock blocking their progress on a flight line project here. The squadron is building a flight line capable of handling KC-130 cargo aircraft traffic.

USAF Technical Sergeant Vernon L. Rhodes aims his FIM-92 Stinger portable anti-aircraft missile launcher as TSGT Paul E. Zidak acts as his spotter during simulated ground base defense exercises at Osan Air Base, South Korea. From AIRMAN Magazine's January 1995 issue article "Keeping an Eye on the Bad Guy". Base: Osan Air Base Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)

A Security Forces trainee at the 343rd Training Squadron listens to instructions before marching to the Individual Tactics and Techniques basic course at Joint Base San Antonio - Camp Bullis on Sept. 20, 2022. The course is designed to teach the trainees how to shoot, move, and communicate through tactical environments. The 37th Training Wing and 343rd Training Squadron provide the initial training for all Air Force security forces.

US Marine Corps (USMC) Hospital Corpsman (HM) Dan Ocampo, C/Company, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion (LAR), 1ST Marine Division, uses his binoculars to scouts ahead during a field exercise, part of Exercise KERNEL BLITZ 2001. Subject Operation/Series: KERNEL BLITZ 2001 Base: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

U.S. Marines with India Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, clear a sector while dry-fire training in an urban environment during exercise Intrepid Maven 22.4 in the United Arab Emirates, Sept. 21, 2022. Intrepid Maven 22.4 is a U.S. Marine Corps Forces Central Command engagement series designed for bilateral and multilateral training engagements with partner nations and Marine Corps forces.

Soldier fighters standing together with guns. Group portrait of US army elite members, private military company servicemen, anti terrorist squad Soldier fighters standing together with guns. Group portrait of US army elite members, private military company servicemen, anti terrorist squad. ,model released, Symbolfoto Copyright: xZoonar.com/BENISxARAPOVICx 21431890 ,model released, Symbolfoto ,property released

Two soldiers assigned to C Troop of the 4th Squadron 7th Cavalry Regiment relax atop their M1A1 Abrams tank after a long day of maneuvers and gunnery training at the Korea Training Center, Republic of Korea on Oct. 25, 1998. The center is manned throughout the year and various armored units rotate through training scenarios to meet yearly live gunnery training requirements. Subject Operation/Series: KOREA CD Base: Korea Training Center Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)

DN-SN-90-00485. Base: Naples Country: Italy (ITA)

AIRMAN First Class Rickey Pendaruis, USAF, 52nd Security Forces, 52nd Support Group, 52nd Fighter Wing, Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, watches over the flight line on 18 September 01. The base is now operating on heightened alert in response to terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centers Twin Towers in New York and at the Pentagon, when hijackers deliberately flew civilian airliners into the buildings, on the morning of 11 September 2001. Base: Spangdahlem Air Base State: Rheinland-Pfalz Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU) Scene Major Command Shown: USAFE

US Air Force AIRMAN Rachel Federsel, a Radio Communication SPECIALIST with the 721st Air Mobility Squadron, McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, guards the Command and Control Center at a simulated air base on Range 13 on Fort Dix, New Jersey. AMN Federsel holds a M16 rifle with M.I.L.E.S. (Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System) gear attached to the barrel of the weapon. She also wears M.I.L.E.S. gear in her uniform and Helmet. The training exercise on Ft. Dix is designed to train deployed Air Mobility Operations Group personnel to defend a new airbase from Threat II attacks for up to 24 hours or until Security Forces or Army reinforcements arrive. The exercise took place on May 9th,.... Complete Scene Caption: US Air Force Airman Rachel Federsel, a Radio Communication Specialist with the 721st Air Mobility Squadron, McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, guards the Command and Control Center at a simulated air base on Range 13 on Fort Dix, New Jersey. AMN Federsel holds a M16 rifl

Soldier Aiming

Marine CPL J. F. Pomfret, a scout sniper for Fox 2/2, provides reconnaissance and security for a parade route in Cap Haitien during Operation Uphold Democracy. Subject Operation/Series: UPHOLD DEMOCRACY Base: Cap Haitien Country: Haiti (HTI)

FORT BUCHANAN, Puerto Rico - Staff Sgt. Edward Singh Chollet, assigned to the 475th Engineer Company, U.S. Army Reserve-Puerto Rico, becomes the first and only reservist from the island to be awarded the Expert Soldier Badge May 15.

DF-ST-85-13160. Subject Operation/Series: GRANADERO I Base: Cucuyagua Country: Honduras (HND)

Portrait of marine soldier with a gun during the war conflict

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Stephen Rotton, a special missions aviator with 40th Helicopter Squadron from Malmstrom Air Force Base Great Falls, Montana, fires down range at Gowen Field Air National Guard Base, Idaho, May 4, 2022. Garnet Rattler is a joint training exercise between elements of the 3d Littoral Anti-Air Battalion, 3d Marine Littoral Regiment, U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force to conduct simulated sea control operations and joint time on target strikes.

A U.S. Marine Corps recruit with Hotel Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion recieves his Eagle, Globe, and Anchor during the Crucible at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, July 27, 2022. The crucible was a 54- hour long culminating event at recruit training which finalized the transformation from recruit to Marine.

U.S. Army Spc. Rolando Soto and Sgt. Curtis Rowan, both assigned to the 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Brigade Combat team, 11th Airborne Division, maintain watch at a remote fighting position during Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center-Alaska 23-02 at Yukon Training Area, Alaska, April 3, 2023. JPMRC-AK 23-02, executed in Alaska with its world-class training facilities and its harsh Arctic environment, builds Soldiers and leaders into a cohesive team of skilled, tough, alert, and adaptive warriors capable of fighting and winning anywhere.

Technical Sergeant Henry Guarado of 4th Combat Camera, March ARB, documents Operation GOLDEN MEDIC 2001 at Parks Reserve Forces Training Area Dublin, CA, July 18, 2001. GOLDEN MEDIC is a medical exercise in which the Army transports simulated casualties from the frontline through various staging areas to a main tent hospital. The obstacle course helps to build confidence. GOLDEN MEDIC run from July 16-25. Subject Operation/Series: GOLDEN MEDIC 2001 Base: Camp Parks, Dublin State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: 172nd Medical Squadron

France, Normandy, Pointe du Hoc. Strategic point for German fortifications along the Normandy coast. Shot on 66th Anniversary of D-Day. Man in vintage US uniform.

Soldier, World War II, Historical reenactment

A Romanian Soldier, not wearing his uniform shirt, cleans and disassembles his 7.62mm AKM assault rifle at the end of a long training day during Operation COOPERATIVE OSPREY 96 held at Camp Lejeune NC. A Romanian Soldier, not wearing his uniform shirt, cleans and disassembles his 7.62mm AKM assault rifle at the end of a long training day during Operation COOPERATIVE OSPREY Õ96 held at Camp Lejeune NC.

Military personnel looking through the scope of a weapon

Combat engineers with the 116th Brigade Engineer Battalion participated in their annual training of demolition and explosive breaching through doors and wall structures on May 6, 2022. Combat engineers provide support of mobility, counter mobility and survivability for Soldiers within the 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team during combat missions. Our job is to make sure that we proficiently enable our combat personnel to move from point A to point B, said Sgt. 1st Class Robert Smith, platoon sergeant with the 116th BEB. Counter mobility is to keep the enemy from moving forward, so that we can move forward with our mission. We go in and get the good guys if they are trapped or we go in where there are bad guys behind a door, and it is imperative we do this safely with maximum survivability.

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Colin Haley, a scout sniper with 3d Battalion, 2d Marines, engages targets with a M110 Semi-Automatic Sniper System from a UH-1Y Venom assigned to Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron (HMLA) 469 during aerial sniper drills on Camp Schwab, Okinawa, Japan, July 20, 2022. This training increased the Marines proficiency and lethality while engaging targets from an aircraft in flight. 3/2 is forward deployed in the Indo-Pacific under 4th Marines, 3d Marine Division as part of the Unit Deployment Program. Haley is a native of Wheaton, Illinois.

Man in camouflage laying on the ground and firing a gun training near San Diego, California.

Recruits with Mike Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion practice dry fire drills and sighting in during grass week at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, S.C. on March 21, 2023. All recruits practice fluency of proper shooting techniques, and sighting in prior to live firing qualifications.

A Polish Photographer, CPL Mariusz Bieniek, photographs a group of U.S. Army and European Paratroopers as they walk off the Drop Zone with their assigned parachute, combat equipment, and weapon during Exercise Falcon Leap at Hechtselse Heide Drop Zone, Hechtel-Eksel, Belgium., Sep. 15, 2022. More than 1000 Paratroopers from all over the world, 13 different nationalities, multiple airdrops per day, and training with each other equipment for two weeks. this is NATO's largest technical airborne exercise.

DF-ST-87-11097. Subject Operation/Series: SALTY DEMO Base: Spangdahlem Air Base Country: West Germany (FRG)

Sgt. 1st Class Kyle Moyer, a UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter crew chief and an instructor at the Eastern Army National Guard Aviation Training Site (EAATS), tells the pilot where to guide the water bucket during training April 5 at Fort Indiantown Gap. This joint training between EAATS and Conservation Wildland fire crews enhances their ability to use water buckets as a resource for wildfires or prescribed burns.

U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Coady Glanden, left, an expeditionary operations training group reconnaissance and surveillance instructor with Expeditionary Operations Training Group, III Marine Expeditionary Force, supervises Staff Sgt. Cody Sperle, an expeditionary operations lead sniper instructor with EOTG, III MEF, aim at a target during an Urban Sniper Course on Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, May 25, 2022. The Urban Sniper Course was led by Marines with the Expeditionary Operations Training Group, III Marine Expeditionary Force, to enhance sniper skills in urban environments through precision fire, engaging targets through glass, urban tactical movement, marksmanship during the day and the night, planning, and stalking in urban terrain.

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Hunter Rhoden, 86th Operations Support Squadron air traffic controller, peers through a lensatic compass while setting up landing zone marking panels at Chièvres Air Base, Belgium, Feb. 13, 2024. A combined team of air traffic controllers, airfield operations officers, radar airfield weather systems technicians and airfield managers earned their landing zone safety officer certification on Feb. 11 - 15, 2024. This special experience identifier allows them to perform the LZSO function in all environments. Air Force

A U.S. Marine with Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF) holds onto rope protection at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., Nov. 22, 2022. CBIRF conducted a certification exercise using an Initial Rescue Force (IRF) Focused, battalion driven exercise designed to test IRF leadership in task organization and command, and control.

A Taliban soldier stands with a machine gun, Raise hands in surrender to the allied soldiers, In the desert mountain terrain battlefield A Taliban soldier stands with a machine gun, Raise hands in surrender to the allied soldiers, In the desert mountain terrain battlefield ,model released, Symbolfoto Copyright: xZoonar.com/WosunanxPhotostoryx 21538193 ,model released, Symbolfoto ,property released

A Project Convergence 22 industry partner controls a Vision 60 Ghost Robot during Project Convergence 22 at Fort Irwin, California, on Oct. 28, 2022. Project Convergence 22 experimentation incorporates technologies and concepts from all services and from multinational partners, including in the areas of autonomy, augmented reality, tactical communications, advanced manufacturing, unmanned aerial systems and long-range fires.

US Air Force AIRMAN First Class Joe Martin, 41st Rescue Squadron at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, reconnects the tail-rotor on one of the first two American HH-60 Blackhawk helicopters that will participate in "Operation Atlas Response" on Mar. 7, 2000. The helicopters are reassembled after their delivery to Hoedspruit Air Force Base, South Africa, and will aid in the distribution of relief supplies and rescue stranded flood victims (Not Shown) in neighboring Mozambique. (Duplicate image, see also DF-SD-01-00912 or search 000307-F-5772H-504). Subject Operation/Series: ATLAS RESPONSE Base: Hoedspruit Air Force Base Country: South Africa (ZAF)

TERRENCE HOWARD in SABOTAGE (2014), directed by DAVID AYER.

010905-F-6911G-006. Base: Incirlik Air Base, Adana Country: Turkey (TUR)

DF-ST-85-12909. Subject Operation/Series: VOLANT RODEO '84 Base: Pope Air Force Base State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Female big game hunter with a scoped handgun

SANTA RITA, Guam (July 13, 2022) Electronics Technician 3rd Class Thomas Zepeda, assigned to Maritime Expeditionary Security Group (MESG) 1, Detachment Guam, tests the operation of a .50 caliber simulator machine gun prior to a unit level training practice on Naval Base Guam.

U.S. Army Soldier Pfc. Ethan Fromme with 1st Battalion 5th Infantry regiment A company adjust his night vision goggles (NVG) while conducting a Passage of Lines mission during Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Training Center at Donnelly Training Area, Alaska, Feb. 17, 2024. JPMRC leverages the unique joint training environments of its locations and offers allies and partners exceptional, multinational training opportunities in realistic environments. Air Force

France, Normandy, Pointe du Hoc. Strategic point for German fortifications along the Normandy coast. Shot on 66th Anniversary of D-Day. Man in vintage US uniform.

NFL players Drew Brees from the New Orleans Saints, Billy Miller from the New Orleans Saints, and Donnie Edwards from the Kansas City Chiefs visit Marines from 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit in Djibouti Africa as part of a USO tour. Marines had a chance to get autographs, and show the players some of the training the Marines have been doing. Players also had a chance to get some hands on training from some of the Marines. Marines and Sailors of the 24th MEU are conducting a series of sustainment and joint training exercises throughout their visit in Djibouti. The 24th MEU is currently on their seven month deployment and serves as the theatre reserve force for Central Command.

Israel. Jerusalem. Military service. Soldier at the Western Wall. Detail firearm.

030224-M-0367H-003. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Camp Coyote Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Major Command Shown: 1ST Tanks

An M240G Light Machine Gun in the Foothills of the Hindu Kush in Eastern Afghanistan

Uniformed police officer aiming a pistol at a tactical and firearms training course at the Panamanian National Police force academy, Panama

981108-N-8658T-501. Base: Soto Cano Air Base Country: Honduras (HND)

030418-F-1644L-023. Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060831-N-9278S-004. Base: USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7)

Portrait of modern combatant with dirty face, wearing a beanie hat standing in a field.

Right side profle of US Army SPC Keith Emerson, Alpha Company, 2nd of the 14th Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, New York, kneeling and firing a AT-4 Anti-Tank weapon during a live fire exercise at RANGE-6. The range is approximately 25 kilometers down the coast from Mogadishu. He is deployed to Somalia as part of UNOSOM II. UNOSOM II is in direct support of Operation Restore Hope. Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPEUNOSOM II Base: Range 6 Country: Somalia (SOM)

DN-SN-85-05667. Base: Mountain Home Air Force Base State: Idaho (ID) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Chacma Baboon (Papio ursinus) being stalked by neighborhood monitor with paintball gun, Cape Town, South Africa

A recruit fires an M-16A1 rifle from the prone position. Base: Fort Jackson State: South Carolina (SC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

An airman strips an M-60 machine gun during a course that familiarizes Air Force security police infantry tactics for air base defense. Base: Fort Dix State: New Jersey (NJ) Country: United States Of America (USA)

030217-M-4419R-024. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Camp Coyote Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Major Command Shown: 5TH MARINES

Robert Marquardt, a global broadcasting service specialist, adjusts a satellite dish position during the Deploying Group Systems Integration Testing at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, May 11, 2022. DGSIT is a command and control and command post focused exercise designed to validate the Command, Control, Communications and Computers systems and procedures of the MEU and all major supporting elements prior to more intensive pre-deployment training program events and deployment.

Members with the 374th Security Forces respond to a simulated ground attack during the Samurai Readiness Inspection at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Oct 18, 2022. The training scenario was part of the Samurai Readiness Inspection, aimed at enhancing the bases preparedness and ability to respond to any real-world contingency.

040803-F-1463V-005. Base: Luke Air Force Base State: Arizona (AZ) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: AETC

The 231st Transportation Company from Athens, Georgia, conducts perimeter defense around Tactical Training Base Independence July 21, 2022, at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. The Soldiers of the 231st are providing transportation support by ensuring that rolling stock - all equipment with wheels - is properly received, stored and distributed during an annual Warrior Exercise where U.S. Army Reserve units conduct joint training under the 78th Training Division. A Soldier provides security overlooking the main entry control point.

040519-F-4338B-011. Base: Shaw Air Force Base State: South Carolina (SC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

France, Brittany, Morbihan, Saint-Pierre-Quiberon on 2022-03-30. 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 2022-03-30. 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.

U.S. Marines assigned to Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) train members of the Kenyan Army on the M224 60 mm Lightweight Company Mortar System (LWCMS) during a Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET) in Isiolo, Kenya, June 30, 2022. The teams focused on honing basic skills such as basic marksmanship, small unit tactics, and mission planning.

U.S. Marines and Republic Korea Marines participate in a weapons familiarization class during Korea Viper 24.1 at the Republic of Korea 1st Marine Infantry Division Headquarters, Republic of Korea, Feb. 5, 2024. In its first iteration, Korea Viper demonstrates the ROK-US Marine Corps ability to respond decisively in the region as a singular, unified force while strengthening relationships and trust between the two allies. The Marines are with 2d Battalion, 7th Marines. 2/7 is forward deployed in the Indo-Pacific under 4th Marine Regiment, 3d Marine Division as part of the Unit Deployment Program. Marine Corps

011112-F-5795G-009. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Country: Unknown Scene Major Command Shown: CENTAF

020510-F-6447P-030. State: West Virginia (WV) Country: United States Of America (USA)

030309-F-2706D-002. Country: Unknown Scene Major Command Shown: USAFE

U.S. Navy SEAL sniper in firing position armed with large caliber sniper rifle.

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