Tactical Military Operations

Images of military vehicles and personnel engaged in tactical operations, showcasing equipment and collaboration in various terrains during conflicts.

May 11, 2006 - HEMTT trucks from 101st Airborne Division carry combat modified versions of M998 humvees back to FOB Remagen from a desert location during the last hours of Operation Iron Triangle. Operation Iron Triangle was conducted to find and kill most wanted terrorists.

070409-9834L-002KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - U.S. Army Special Operations Soldiers, assigned to the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force - Afghanistan, arrive in a Family of Medium Tactical Vehicle at a staging area on an undisclosed forward operating base in Helmand Province as two CH47 Chinook helicopters fly overhead April 9. Coalition and ANA forces have killed more than 100 Taliban fighters over the past week.

050908-A-2140D-004. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Combat Outpost State: Rawah Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 40647

May 11, 2006 - HEMTT trucks from 101st Airborne Division carry combat modified versions of M998 humvees back to FOB Remagen from a desert location during the last hours of Operation Iron Triangle. Operation Iron Triangle was conducted to find and kill most wanted terrorists.

Amphibious tracked vehicles attached to the Second Tank Battalion maneuver to attack an "enemy" position during Combined Arms exercises Five and Six. Base: Twentynine Palms State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

060409-F-0560B-002. Base: Al Diwanyah State: Al Qadisiyah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060108-A-4545F-016. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Butoma Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Marines roll by on their Light Armored Vehicle during qualifications at Range 500 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., April 12, 2013. The mechanics of 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance are responsible for maintenance and upkeep of all their LAVs, from the engineering aspects to the optics and weapons systems.

A U.S. Marine Corps MRAP, or Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle with a Mine Roller, on a Dirt Road in Afghanistan's Helmand Province

001219-M-6332G-024. Subject Operation/Series: STEEL KNIGHT Base: Mcagcc, Twentynine Palms State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

030331-M-7371B-004. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 030331-M-7371B-004

A Humvee conducts security during a patrol in the village of Bakr, Iraq

United States Marine Corps HMMWV or High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (Humvee) at Camp Bastion, Helmand Province, Afghanistan

M-ATV, or Mine Resistant, Ambush Protected, All Terrain Vehicle, with a mine roller fitted to it, drives through puddles on a muddy dirt road in Afghanistan's Helmand Province

041202-M-3988H-008. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Asad State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Kunduz, Afghanistan - The German Army ATF Dingo with a turret mounted Rheinmetall MG3 is a German heavily armored military infantry mobility vehicle, simialr to the American MRAP. It has a V-hull design to deflect any IED blast to mimimalize damage to the troops within.

An Aardvark Joint Unit Flail Unit (JSFU) mine clearing vehicle belonging to the French Army Engineers supporting the Peace Implementation Force (IFOR) clears an area adjacent to Sarajevo International Airport. The cleared area will allow an increaing amount of civilian airliners to land in a safer environment. (Duplicate image, see also DD-SD-00-00099 or search 960610-A-3327S-007). Base: Sarajevo Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

060411-A-6365W-327. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Gabe Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST

Arriving at their base camp, soldiers from the 148th field Artillery Regiment spent the morning loading ammunition and preparing for firing exercises on the Orchard Combat Training Center.The 1-148th Field Artillery Regiment provides field artillery support to the 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team. Headquartered in Pocatello units are located in the Eastern Idaho communities of Blackfoot, Burley, Preston, Pocatello, Rexburg and St. Anthony.

Marines with 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion, Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) load their Mercedes G IFAV (Interim Fast Attack Vehicle) in preparation to turnover their bivouac site to Army soldiers from the 101st Air Assault Division at Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM. The remains of the tail of an Mi-17 (HIP H) Soviet helicopter is visable in the upper left. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar International Airport Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: 26 MEU

U.S. Army Green Berets from 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) fire a .50 caliber machine gun during routine training on the Nevada Test and Training Range at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, April 13, 2022. The 1st SPF (A) is designed to deploy and execute nine doctrinal missions throughout the Indo-Pacific Command area of operations.

071013-A-2013C-006 The "Market Garden" Combat Logistics Patrol from the 782nd Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division travels through an extremely difficult route after completeing a mission at the Bandar Commande Observation Post in Paktika Province, Afghanistan, October 13, 2007.

030317-M-4419R-016. Base: Camp Bear Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Major Command Shown: 5TH MARINES

A modernized M2A4 Bradley Fighting Vehicle crew assigned to the "Spartan Brigade," 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, maneuvers the desert the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, California, March 7, 2023. The Spartan Brigade, the Armys most modernized brigade, completed its rotation NTC 23-05, making it not only the best equipped but most lethal unit in Americas arsenal as the Army moves toward building the Army of 2030.

A transport vehicle on maneuvers during Exercise Reforger '82. Subject Operation/Series: REFORGER '82 Base: Fort Riley State: Kansas (KS) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A convoy passing the camera position, along the road from Mogadishu to Biadoa, from right to left. Leading the convoy is a desert camouflaged M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV) from the US Marine's 2nd Platoon, "C" Company, 3rd Light Assault Infantry Battalion, from Twentynine Palms, California. A Marine mans a M60 machine gun out the top turret of the Humvee. Following behind are large white United Nations trucks loaded with food supplies for feeding centers throughout Somalia. This mission is in direct support of Operation Restore Hope. Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE Base: Just Outside Mogadishu Country: Somalia (SOM)

030116-A-1797M-023. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Haji Lalay Kalacha Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

050331-F-9085B-035. Base: Mosul Country: Iraq (IRQ)

A U.S. Marine Corps HMMWV, or Humvee, parked next to concertina wire, Camp Bastion, Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

1st Tank Battalion, Regimental Combat Team 6, M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks pass a Combat Logistics Battalion 4, 1st Marine Logistics Group (Forward), AMK31 Refueler on a combat logistics patrol in Helmand March 13. The combat logistics patrol supported counter-insurgency operations in the area.

A U.S. Marine Corps Light Armored Vehicle assigned to the Battalion Landing Team 1/6, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), is offloaded and staged during a raid part of MEUEX II on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Feb. 2, 2023. The raid was the culminating event for MEUEX II, following Amphibious Squadron/Marine Expeditionary Unit Integration Training (PMINT). MEUEX II focused on the transition of the 26th MEU from the sea into a three-day land-based training exercise centered on a fire support control exercise and a motorized infantry company live-fire raid.

041112-A-1067B-010. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 2-7 CAV

041221-M-2353F-003. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM II Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

U.S. Army Pvt. Nicholas Miller, right, and Spc. Hannah DeAndre, both assigned to 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment, remove antennas from a Carrier Ammo Tracked vehicle after a live fire training day during Exercise Dynamic Front 24 at Polatlı Training Area, Türkiye, Feb. 18, 2024. Exercise Dynamic Front 24 is a U.S. Army Europe and Africa-directed, 56th Artillery Command-led fires-centric exercise in Germany and Türkiye. Artillery Soldiers train in a joint-combined environment, focusing on fire interoperability, command, and control between multinational units and using Artillery Systems Cooperation Activities protocol systems. Army Reserve

Members of the 1ST Plt., Co. D, Amphibious Assault Bn., 2nd Marines, remove camouflage netting from an AAV-7A1 amphibious assault vehicle during an Operation Imminent Thunder training exercise, a part of Operation Desert Shield. Subject Operation/Series: IMMINENT THUNDERDESERT SHIELD Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU)

On the Fort Dix Range Complex the 104th Engineering Company is on TAC 12 Site training on the heavy vehicles for Dozers/Digging and Dirt Movers (Images provided by the U.S. ASA Fort Dix (TSC) Training Support Center / Dan Amburg)

A convoy of trucks from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force passes a destroyed Iraqi T-55 main battle tank during the ground phase of Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Kuwait (KWT)

060416-A-6365W-029. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Remagen State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST

030412-M-0175R-022. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

020905-A-4385T-016. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

060329-A-1211S-052. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Warhorse Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: A

030410-M-5150A-002. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 1ST Tank BN

A member of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5 stands watch while other Seabees uses a bulldozers to prepare an area for camp during Operation Desert Storm. Exact Date Shot Unknown. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU)

220503-N-PG340-1078 PORT HUENEME, Calif. (May 3, 2022) U.S. Navy Seabees with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 5 practice tactical convoy skills and techniques during Self Mobility Security Training onboard Naval Base Ventura County Point Mugu, California. NMCB-5 is homeported out of Port Hueneme. They train on high-quality construction, expeditionary logistics, and combat operations to execute construction and engineering projects for major combat operations, disaster response, and humanitarian assistance.

American servicemen examine an Iraqi T-72 main battle tank that was captured during Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Kuwait (KWT)

03023-M-9106S-005. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 5th Marines

U.S. Army Soldiers scan a surrounding woodline for enemy activity in Tagab District, Kapisa Province, Afghanistan, April 1, 2008.

U.S. Soldiers with 541st Division Sustainment Support Battalion, 1st Sustainment Brigade, 1st Infantry Division get ambushed during Decisive Action Rotation 22-09 at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, Calif., Aug. 7th, 2022.

Soldiers from the 2-116th Combined Arms Battalion Mortar Platoon prepare the Fire Direction Center vehicle for the days exercise.The Idaho Army National Guards Mortar Platoon, HHC, 2-116th Combined Arms Battalion sharpen their skills preparing for deployment in support of Operation Spartan Shield.

040329-M-8530M-001. Base: Camp Al Qaim State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030319-M-4779G-036. Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Major Command Shown: RCT-1

The Fire Direction Center vehicle makes its way to the firing range. The Idaho Army National Guards Mortar Platoon, HHC, 2-116th Combined Arms Battalion sharpen their skills preparing for deployment in support of Operation Spartan Shield.

030330-M-6910K-069. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Viper Country: Iraq (IRQ)

A Army Freightliner SEE (Small Emplacement Excavator) Tractor drives along the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM. The SEE Tractor comes equipt with a Front End Loader and a Backhoe. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar International Airport Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

Soldiers from Alpha Battery, 2nd Battalion, 130th Field Artillery Regiment out of the Kansas National Guard trained with their High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems on Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, Sept. 20, 2022.

060507-A-6365W-119. Base: Forward Operating Base Remagen State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050918-A-7347D-080. Base: Moraqkhja Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: Europe

U.S. Army Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, "Gimlets" 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25 Infantry Division return off the firing range after completing an alternating movement while engaging targets at 200 to 1000 meters during a live fire training exercise Sept. 19, 2012, at Pohakuloa Training Area, on Hawaii. Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, "Gimlets" 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25 Infantry Division are conducting a month-long exercise at the Pohakuloa Training Area, on Hawaii which is focused on platoon level collective training with enabler integration. The training will culminate in a combined arms live fire exercise later this month.

041222-M-2353F-002. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM II Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050630-A-9930K-010. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Samarra Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 3RD CO. 3 BN 1 BDE 5 DIV

Armored vehicles from the 24th Armor Division are lined up on the desert ready for exercise Bright Star '82. Subject Operation/Series: BRIGHT STAR '82 Country: Egypt (EGY)

Kunduz, Afghanistan - The German Army ATF Dingo is a German heavily armored military infantry mobility vehicle, simialr to an American MRAP. It has a V-hull design to deflect any IED blast to mimimalize damage to the troops within.

A U.S. Army Soldier from Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 26th Field Artillery Regiment pulls security while his commander talks with an Afghan local in the Khowst Province, Afghanistan, March 25, 2007.

040817-A-8033W-002. Base: Sadr City Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030326-M-5505M-073. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030206-M-5753Q-023. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Camp Coyote Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Major Command Shown: 7th Marines

060424-A-6365W-085. Base: Fob Remagen State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ)

With an Afghan interpreter onboard their Light Armored Vehicle (LAV-25), Marines with Alpha Company, Second Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) conduct a mounted patrol through an Afghan village near the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar International Airport Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: 26 MEU

060411-A-6365W-070. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Gabe Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST

030401-M-4419R-049. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 5th Marines

071013-A-2013C-002 From the rear vehicle's driver seat, the "Market Garden" Combat Logistics Patrol from the 782nd Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, can be seen snaking its way across the desolate landscape of Afghanistan's Paktika Province, October 11, 2007.

030323-M-9124R-028. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030108-M-7514K-006. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Country: Unknown

040825-A-0259W-040. Base: Bagram Airfield State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

DF-ST-87-07469. Subject Operation/Series: GALLANT EAGLE '86 Base: Twentynine Palms State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

030331-M-0175R-015. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iran (IRN)

050630-A-9930K-004. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: CJTF-76

040422-M-9362G-003. Base: Mcagcc, Twentynine Palms State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

030523-M-8683D-039. Subject Operation/Series: COBRA GOLD 2003 Base: Pong Nam Ran Country: Thailand (THA)

030208-M-5150A-027. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Ta Coyote Country: Kuwait (KWT)

PFC. O'Neal prepares to refuel an M-548 tracked cargo carrier as SPC. Henderson stands by during Operation Desert Shield. The men are members of the 1ST Battalion, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Country: Saudi Arabia(SAU)

A member of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5 stands watch as another Seabee operates a scraper. Seabees are preparing the area for camp construction during Operation Desert Storm. Exact Date Shot Unknown. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU)

A crane is used to unload canisters containing MIM-104 Patriot anti-aircraft missiles from a trailer at a 7th Air Defense Artillery Brigade missile site during Operation Desert Shield. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU)

A U.S. Army soldier fires a Barrett M82A1 rifle on a firing range in Kunduz, Afghanistan.

Members of the Kansas National Guard download vehicles after arriving to Saudi Arabia for the Friendship One 2009 bilateral training exercise. FS One 09 is a force-on-force field training exercise to enhance logistical support and interoperability between U.S and Royal Saudi Land Forces. This is the first large scale exercise between the two countries since the 1991 Gulf War.

041216-M-2353F-008. A row of US Marine Corps (USMC) Light Armored Vehicles (LAV-25), assigned to the 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion (LARB), are position at Camp Owen, after completing operations in Fallujah, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM II.

030822-M-7837W-001. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Babylon Country: Iraq (IRQ)

U.S. Soldiers assigned to 82nd Brigade Engineer Battalion, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division reposition dozers during Decisive Action Rotation 22-09 at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, Calif., Aug. 13th, 2022.

050420-M-9470H-002. Base: Camp Delta State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 8-Mar

030214-M-3138H-016. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Major Command Shown: 5TH MARINES

June 13, 2006 - Cans of opened 40 mm grenades were stacked ready to shoot at a range near Camp Fallujah, Iraq.

Support soldiers with the 82nd Airborne Divisions 1st Brigade Combat Team signal to a truck driver which way to back up while loading a flat rack onto a Load Handling System May 25, 2012, Forward Operating Base Arian, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. The soldiers are paratroopers with Company F, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment.

Soldiers of the 40th Regiment D' Artillerie, France, on their 155mm AUF-1 Self-propelled Howitzer at Hekon Base, on the outskirts of Mostar. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Mostar Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

U.S. Marines with 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, prepare to execute a nightexercise during exercise Intrepid Maven 22.4 in the United Arab Emirates, Sept. 26, 2022. IntrepidMaven 22.4 is a U.S. Marine Corps Forces Central Command engagement series designed forbilateral and multilateral training engagements with partner nations and Marine Corps forces. (U.S.Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Jacob Yost)

An Opposing Forces (OpFor) M-551 Sherdian light tank visually modified to resemble a Soviet T-72 main battle tank moves to join up with several other OpFor vehicles on the move to attack the Blue Forces during an exercise. Base: Fort Irwin State: California(CA) Country: United States Of America(USA)

Two Marines lower the trim vane on the front of an Iraqi BMP-1 mechanized infantry combat vehicle that was captured during Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Kuwait (KWT)

050319-M-1327J-003. Base: Camp Al Asad State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 8th ESB

030407-M-0175R-097. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Qalat Sukar State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

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