Winter Military Operations

Photographs of military personnel operating in snowy environments, featuring equipment and activities essential for survival and operations in winter conditions.

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Staff Sgt. Adam Heckmann (right) and Master Sgt. Michael Wilson (left) service the liquid oxygen on an F-15 Eagle on Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada Jan. 19, 2017. The liquid oxygen converts from liquid to gas to supply a the pilot with breathable air.
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Spc. Isaac Viers, a heavy equipment operator assigned to the Virginia National Guards Cedar Bluff-based 1033rd Engineer Company, 276th Engineer Battalion directs a high-mobility engineer excavator to remove snow Feb. 28, 2015, throughout communities in Lee County, Va. More than 65 Soldiers have supported response and recover efforts following significant amounts of snowfall in Southwest and Eastern Virginia.
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Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Dmitry Ryabukha drills a hole in the ice on Otter Lake as members of the Coast Guard, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, and Navy Supervisor of Salvage conduct an oil-spill-on-ice training exercise at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska Feb. 1, 2023. The exercise was structured to comply with the OPA-90 National Preparedness for Response Exercise Program (NPREP) training and drill requirements for deploying oil spill response gear in Arctic conditions within the Alaska geographical area of responsibility.
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DM-ST-87-10884. Subject Operation/Series: COLD WINTER Country: Norway (NOR)
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DN-ST-87-02293. Base: Mcmurdo Station Country: Antarctica (ATA)
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Undersecretary of the Navy Daniel Howard stands on the ice in front of the sail of the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS PARGO (SSN 650) north of the Arctic Circle. Howard is leading an official party on a day-long visit to the submarine.. Country: Unknown
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A rigging team prepares wreckage from the tail of a crashed F-15 Eagle aircraft for removal from Barometer Mountain. The aircraft crashed there in November 1988. Base: Kodiak State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Flares descend over a range after being dropped from a 343rd Tactical Fighter Wing A-10A Thunderbolt II during CALFEX '90, a joint service, combined arms live-fire exercise. Subject Operation/Series: CALFEX '90 Base: Eielson Air Force Base State: Alaska(AK) Country: United States Of America(USA)
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Members of the Iowa Air National Guards 185th Air Refueling Wing Civil Engineering Squadron remove snow from the ramp area near the units KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft in Sioux City, Iowa on January 9, 2024 following a significant snowfall. The two-day snow event dropped over 14 inches of snow in Western Iowa from Monday the 8th into Tuesday January 9, 2024. U.S. Air National Guard photo Senior Maser Sgt. Vincent De Groot
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DF-ST-85-03180. Base: Eielson Air Force Base State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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DA-ST-85-13081. Subject Operation/Series: REFORGER Base: Amsterdam Country: Holland / Netherlands (HOL)
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A New York Army National Guard Soldier assigned to the 206th Military Police Company clears snow froma roof in f Deposit, N.Y. on March 16, 2017 as part of the New York National Guard response to the nor'easter which dumped more than three feet of snow on the region on March, 14, 2017. New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo mobilized more than 1,400 National Guard Soldiers and Airmen, with up to 2000 on standby, in response to the storm.
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110124-N-6705S-205 UMM QASR, Iraq (Jan. 24, 2011) Chief Navy Diver Josh Ploman, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit (MDSU) 2, returns to the surface during a training dive with Iraqi divers at the Pier of Umm Qsar. MDSU-2 is deployed with Commander, Task Group 56.1 supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility.
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A convoy of High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV) and heavy equipment await the loading of the 105mm Howitzer cannon by the 4th Battalion, 11th Artilliery unit before moving out to the next objective. Subject Operation/Series: NORTHERN EDGE '98 Base: Fort Greely State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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A1C Myca Romes (left) and SPT Luke Closson (right) collect A-10 debris on the snow covered slope with rakes. This rubble was deemed not critical to the accident investigation and will be airlifted off the mountainside to be properly disposed of. Base: Gold Dust Peak State: Colorado (CO) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Soldiers from the 250th Engineer Company, Connecticut Army National Guard, clear snow from an intersection in New Haven, Conn., as a part of relief efforts in tyhe aftermath of the blizzard that hit Connecticut, Feb. 10. The storm, which hit on Feb. 8-9, blanketed the state with 24-40 inches of snow. Members of the 250th worked with the Department of Transportation and other state agencies throughout the state to clean up the mess left by the storm.
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A view of a helicopter landing zone at the station, with four UH-1N Iroquois helicopters of the Navy's Antarctic Development Squadron 6 (VXE-6). Country: Antarctica (ATA)
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DM-ST-87-10920. Subject Operation/Series: COLD WINTER Country: Norway (NOR)
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021206-F-0806S-049. Base: Warfield Air National Guard Base State: Maryland (MD) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: MDANG
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SRA Lorene Cash of the 3612th Combat Crew Training Squadron watches the impact area at a live-fire range during the joint readiness exercise Arctic Warrior '91. Subject Operation/Series: ARCTIC WARRIOR '91 Base: Fort Greely State: Alaska(AK) Country: United States Of America(USA)
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A Mountain Guiding And Logistics Company Operates A Small Base Of Operations Adjacent To Constable Point Airfield On Hurry Inlet
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Soldiers from the 250th Engineer Company, Connecticut Army National Guard, clear snow from an intersection in New Haven, Conn., as a part of relief efforts in tyhe aftermath of the blizzard that hit Connecticut, Feb. 10. The storm, which hit on Feb. 8-9, blanketed the state with 24-40 inches of snow. Members of the 250th worked with the Department of Transportation and other state agencies throughout the state to clean up the mess left by the storm.
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Ground support personnel are seen at the landing site after the Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft landed with Expedition 41 Commander Max Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman and Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (ESA) near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on Monday, Nov. 10, 2014. Suraev, Wiseman and Gerst returned to Earth after more than five months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 40 and 41 crews.
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DF-ST-86-10059. Base: Sapporo Country: Japan (JPN)
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Muslim residents of the town of Celic, Bosnia-Herzegovina, are hard at work rebuilding their homes during the resettlement process. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT GUARD Base: Celic Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)
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The construction area for a future transient training brigade headquarters in the 1600 block on the cantonment area is shown Dec. 9, 2022, in snowy conditions at Fort McCoy, Wis. A contract, totaling $11,964,432.87, was awarded June 9, 2022, to L.S. Black Constructors to build the fiscal year 2022 Transient Training Brigade Headquarters project at Fort McCoy. Construction operations began in August 2022. Location of construction is just across the street from where the same contractor has been building two new transient training troop barracks buildings in the same block. According to the Army Corps of Engineers, which is managing the project, the brigade headquarters project is based on the denser, more consolidated footprints of Fort McCoys Troop Housing Area Development Plan which states fewer, multiple story buildings allow facilities/functions to be sited closer together, allowing for a more walkable training environment, as well as saving money on utilities. The smaller footprint
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Air Force fire protection specialists assigned to the 673d Civil Engineer Squadron respond to a simulated downed aircraft while participating in Mission Assurance Exercise 22-6 at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, May 25, 2022. MAE 22-6 tested JBERs emergency response capabilities following a mock-down aircraft accident.
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An M792 1 1/4-ton truck crosses a stream during Exercise TEAM SPIRIT 84. Subject Operation/Series: TEAM SPIRIT 84 Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)
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An Air Defense Command radar site sit amid the snow covered landscape in Nova Scotia. Exact Date Shot Unknown. Country: Unknown
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Volunteers with the Alaska National Guard, Salvation Army and local community partners, unload gifts bound for Scammon Bay from a 176th Wing C-17 Globemaster III aircraft during Operation Santa Claus at Bethel, Alaska, Nov. 16, 2022. Operation Santa Claus is the AKANGs yearly community relations and support program that provides gifts to children in remote communities across the state. In partnership with the Salvation Army and more than a dozen volunteers, the program delivered 1,780 pounds of gifts, backpacks, hygiene supplies, and books to 325 children in Scammon Bay.
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US Army Soldiers from C Company Task Force 1-26, Camp Dobol, Bosnia-Herzegovina physically search Serbian refugees during house to house searches in the town of Hajvazi, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Hajevazi Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)
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DN-ST-86-03662. Base: Groton State: Connecticut (CT) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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050107-F-6426S-005. Base: Fairchild Air Force Base State: Washington (WA) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Assistant CHIEF of Naval Operations (Undersea Warfare) Roger F. Bacon, second from right , stands with a group of sailors on the ice in front of the sail of the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS PARGO (SSN 650) north of the Arctic Circle. Bacon is a member of an official party visiting the submarine.. Country: Unknown
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MISAWA, Japan (Dec. 16, 2020) Utilitiesman 2nd Class Jason Noel, assigned to Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Far East, Misawa Detachment, knocks down dangerous ice dams from a rooftop at Naval Air Facility Misawa. Ice dams can form to be hundreds of pounds and can be lethal if left unchecked.
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STAFF Sergeant Bertram Lennard, a Videographer with the 1ST Combat Camera Squadron, Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina, interviews Mrs. Jessie Dulcos, a housewife from Lewiston, Maine about living without power for over a week. Base: Lewiston State: Maine (ME) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Volunteers with the El Paso County Search and Rescue board the cog of The Broadmoor Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway following a search and rescue mission March 30. Chief Warrant Officer 2 Erik Mohr with 52nd Brigade Engineer Battalion, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division assisted in the search of Michael Ransom as a volunteer with EPCSR.