Aerospace Maintenance Operations

Air force personnel engaged in technical support and maintenance operations, ensuring aircraft readiness and management in various base environments.

U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to the 19th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Utah Army National Guard, and Soldiers from the Royal Moroccan Army train together in a Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force operations center as part of exercise African Lion 2022. AL22 is U.S. Africa Command's largest, premier, joint, combined annual exercise hosted by Morocco, Ghana, Senegal, and Tunisia, June 6 - 30. More than 7,500 participants from 28 nations and NATO train together with a focus on enhancing readiness for U.S. and partner-nation forces. AL22 is a joint all-domain, multi-component, and multinational exercise, employing a full array of mission capabilities with the goal to strengthen interoperability among participants and set the theater for strategic access.

020115-F-3838S-018. Base: Oberweis Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU) Scene Major Command Shown: 52d FW

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Jorge Villaseñor II, right, and Staff Sgt. Tyler Rogers, both 60th Maintenance Operation Support maintenance management production specialists, verify time change items required for monthly forecast at Travis Air Force Base, California, Oct 12, 2022. These specialists work with crew chiefs and mechanics to plan, schedule and organize aerospace vehicle maintenance to make sure equipment and machinery is ready and working whenever its needed.

1s Lt. Sheldon Lee, 169th Air Defense Squadron air battle manager, operates an electronic training system Oct. 1, 2022, at Wheeler Army Air Field, Hawaii. Lee was named the overall champion of a career-field-wide training competition utilizing an artificial intelligence-based training platform. The platform, called Battle Management Training NEXT, simulates the activities of an air-to-air engagement and serves as a cost-effective means for users to develop their command-and-control competencies.

Staff Sgt. Demi Turner, right, a personnel specialist assigned to the 139th Force Support Squadron, and Airman 1st Class Rachel Sweet, an administration specialist assigned to the 139th Mission Support Group, conduct commander support staff operations at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, June 28, 2022. The 139th Airlift Wing was the lead unit for Task Force Iron Herk II providing airlift support for European Commands area of responsibility.

MSGT Donald G. Gunning (top) and SSGT Marc E. Allen (bottom) receive weather forecasts and satellite images via the Air Force Dial In System and check upper air flow charts. The weather forecasters are working out of a hangar on an Italian Air Force Base supplying weather data and forecasts to flight crews in support of operations over Bosnia-Herzegovina. Subject Operation/Series: DENY FLIGHT Base: Pisa Country: Italy (ITA)

090113-A-5406P-020Cpt. Kevin Stein, commander of Company D, 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, calls in close air support from an A-10 gunship during 2nd BCT's Virtual Joint Fire Coordination Exercise held at the Battle Command Training Center Jan. 12 - 15. Steain and the other Paratroopers participating in the exercise were able to practice calling in multiple fire support assets and observe the effects on the battlefield using a specially tailored computer system similar to a video game.

2nd Lt. Taylor Latimer, 2nd Range Operations Squadron range operations commander, walks industry partners through a simulated console exercise at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., June 24, 2022. The console exercise demonstrated how the members at 2ROPS communicate with different parties to get real-time information during space launches.

011101-F-4406B-010. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Naval Air Station, Sigonella State: Sicily Country: Italy (ITA) Scene Major Command Shown: AMC

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Derrick Leeson, left, the assistant battery fire direction chief, and Capt. Mark Almond, the fire directions officer, process fire missions, update and communicate with crews of M109A6 Paladin Self-Propelled Howitzers fires during annual training at Camp Shelby, Miss., April 19, 2007. The Soldiers are with 1st Battalion, 113th Field Artillery Regiment, 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team.

U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to the 19th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Utah Army National Guard, and Soldiers from the Royal Moroccan Army train together in a Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force operations center as part of exercise African Lion 2022. AL22 is U.S. Africa Command's largest, premier, joint, combined annual exercise hosted by Morocco, Ghana, Senegal, and Tunisia, June 6 - 30. More than 7,500 participants from 28 nations and NATO train together with a focus on enhancing readiness for U.S. and partner-nation forces. AL22 is a joint all-domain, multi-component, and multinational exercise, employing a full array of mission capabilities with the goal to strengthen interoperability among participants and set the theater for strategic access.

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Tanner Todd, 349th Air Refueling Squadron boom operator, demonstrates the KC-46A Pegasus boom station procedures to U.S. Air Force Col. Dennis Cummings, 379th Air Expeditionary Wing deputy commander, Sept. 3, 2022, in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. Cummings flew with a McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, KC-46A during Air Mobility Commands multi-week Employment Concept Exercise 22-08 at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar.

050123-F-6019H-002. Base: Mcconnell Air Force Base State: Kansas (KS) Country: United States Of America (USA)

PACIFIC OCEAN (July 31, 2022) Royal Australian Navy Leading Seaman Marine Technician Blake Faulton uses a marine engineering console in the Central Control Station aboard Royal Australian Navy Canberra-class landing helicopter dock HMAS Canberra (L02) during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022. Twenty-six nations, 38 ships, three submarines, more than 170 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 29 to Aug. 4 in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships among participants critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world's oceans. RIMPAC 2022 is the 28th exercise in the series that began in 1971. (Photo by Royal Australian Navy Leading Seaman Matthew Lyall)

Senior Master Sgt. Jay Latham, 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron loadmaster, calibrates a dropsonde during a mission Sept. 28, 2022 into Hurricane Ian as it made landfall in Florida. The Hurricane Hunters gather weather data using the dropsonde by 'dropping' it from the WC-130J Super Hercules and it collects dew point, pressure, temperature, wind speed and direction and send that information back to the aircraft, which is then sent to the National Hurricane Center to be used for improvement in updating the forecast models of storm tracks.

Senior Airman Rafael Chavez, 8th Maintenance Group maintenance operations center controller, works at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Oct. 6, 2022. The MOC Airmen coordinate all flightline movement information and assist in orchestrating emergency actions if needed.

Staff Sgt. Luke Vanderpool, 161st Intelligence Squadron, Kansas Air National Guard, uses commercial satellite imagery to find routes that are clear for first responders to travel through. Vanderpool was activated in response to Hurricane Harvey, a Category 4 storm that flooded Houston and the surrounding area in late August.

EUCOM Control Center - Ukraine / International Donor Coordination Centre staff members from the United Kingdom and United States attend to their work on Patch Barracks, Germany, June 3, 2022. The ECCU / IDCC have coordinated and synchronized the timely delivery of more than 40 Allied and partner contributions of security force assistance.

Staff Sgt Andrew Bannon, 96th Security Forces Squadron controller, checks information on one of the many screens within the Emergency Communications Center April 7 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. The ECC receives and disseminates information on approximately 1,500 calls per year. (U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.)

Sgt. 1st Class Robert Ponder, a Soldier in the Florida National Guard, reviews the latest updates concerning Hurricane Ian's arrival and potential impact to Florida, while stationed at the Joint Operations Center, Sept. 26, 2022. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered approximately 5,000 troops to state active-duty, staging them in armories across the state in preparation to respond to Hurricane Ian after it makes landfall. (Florida National Guard photo by, Staff Sgt. Christopher Vann, released.)

NORFOLK, Va. (April 13, 2022) - Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Kirk Bishop, assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Great Lakes, participates in ship steering training at Afloat Training Group Navigation Training Center as part of the Naval Medical Forces Atlantic Sailor of the Year program, April 13, 2022. Naval Medical Forces Atlantic provides well-trained medical experts, operating as high performance teams, to project medical power in support of naval superiority.

PACIFIC OCEAN (July 13, 2022) - U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Paul Kauranen, a linguist, 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, conducts collection operations during a Defense of the Amphibious Task Force exercise aboard amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD 8), July 13. The 13th MEU is currently embarked aboard the USS Makin Island conducting routine operations in the U.S. 3rd Fleet.

U.S. Navy Sailors participating in exercise VIRTUAL FLAG: Battle Management in a synthetic, joint combat environment, ensuring joint operational and tactical warfighter readiness in the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command area of responsibility at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, and eight distributed locations, Aug. 15-19, 2022. The 705th CTS, also known as the Distributed Mission Operations Center, used its live, virtual, and constructive, or LVC, environment capabilities to connect simulators and live aircraft in a dynamic battlespace to challenge air, land, and maritime combatants in the USINDOPACOM AOR and incorporating multiple U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and U.S. Army platforms.

Spc. Fredrick Jackson and Pfc. Dominick Bricco, assigned to the 3-43 Air Defense Artillery, conduct walkthroughs of the patriot system in order to ensure its properly functioning at March Air Base on Oct. 5, 2022. Project Convergence 2022 is a campaign of events in order to build trust in new technologies with joint and multi-national partners.

040312-F-9624D-003. Base: Hickam Air Force Base State: Hawaii (HI) Country: United States Of America (USA)

The 1st Range Operations Squadron range operations commanders manage operations inside the Morrell Operations Center in support of the Orbital Flight Test 2 launch, May 19, 2022, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla. The MOC supports every space launch from CCSFS and Kennedy Space Center.

050716-N-1804W-004. Base: USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7)

Senior Airman Patricia Zema, moitors the cameras and radars that track boats along the McDill Air Force Base shoreline in Florida enforcing a ban on vessels within a 1,000 meters from the base.

Joint service members of the Support Battle STAFF at U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) provide information on a global scale to the staff of USSTRATCOM during Exercise GLOBAL GUARDIAN '98. Subject Operation/Series: GLOBAL GUARDIAN '98 Base: Offutt Air Force Base State: Nebraska (NE) Country: United States Of America (USA)

An Airman from the 118th Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Group, Tennessee Air National Guard, examines images of tornado damage across Tennessee March 4, 2020 at Berry Field Air National Guard Base, Nashville, Tennessee. Several Airmen from the 118th ISRG analyzed imagery from commercial satellites and open source websites to determine extent and location of damage caused by the Middle Tennessee tornados.

Members of the Inter-American Air Forces Academy, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, participate in the 333rd Training Squadron escape room during the innovation expo during the Second Air Force Technical Training-101 Seminar inside the Bay Breeze Event Center at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, Oct. 25, 2022. TT-101 brought leadership from the different wings to discuss Second Air Force's mission and technical training. An innovation expo also took place, which showcased specific innovations and training projects from the different wings.

220605-N-IL330-1007 PACIFIC OCEAN (June 05, 2022) - U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. James Zube, from Belmartown, New Jersey, checks inventory lists in a Marine ready room aboard amphibious assault carrier USS Tripoli (LHA 7), June 5, 2022. Tripoli is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and maintain stability in the Indo-Pacific region.

U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to the 19th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Utah Army National Guard, and Soldiers from the Royal Moroccan Army train together in a Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force operations center as part of exercise African Lion 2022. AL22 is U.S. Africa Command's largest, premier, joint, combined annual exercise hosted by Morocco, Ghana, Senegal, and Tunisia, June 6 - 30. More than 7,500 participants from 28 nations and NATO train together with a focus on enhancing readiness for U.S. and partner-nation forces. AL22 is a joint all-domain, multi-component, and multinational exercise, employing a full array of mission capabilities with the goal to strengthen interoperability among participants and set the theater for strategic access.

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Soldiers from the 720th Explosive Ordnance Disposal, in Baumholder, Germany, train on the controls of an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Hohenfels, Germany, Oct. 11, 2022, as a part of training for the KFOR 31 rotation. KFOR 31 is a multinational training event conducted to prepare units for their deployment to the Kosovo Regional Command East. (U.S. Army photos by Staff Sgt. Anna Pongo)

041208-F-7169B-004. Base: Elmendorf Air Force Base State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

030306-N-4309A-006. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

The 1st Range Operations Squadron range operations commanders manage operations inside the Morrell Operations Center in support of the Orbital Flight Test 2 launch, May 19, 2022, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla. The MOC supports every space launch from CCSFS and Kennedy Space Center.

Members of Navy Reserve West Detachment scrutinize activity found on the network during Cyber Shield 2022. Cyber Shield 2022 is at the Army National Guards Professional Educational Center on Camp Robinson, Arkansas from June 5-17. Cyber Shield 2022 is the DODs largest unclassified inter-agency and joint national level training cyber defense exercise which includes representation from 20 states plus Guam.

221012-N-RQ186-1019NORFOLK, Va. (October 12, 2022) Lt. Gen. Michael S. Cederholm, left of center, the deputy commandant for aviation for the U.S. Marine Corps discusses the Maintenance Operation Center (MOC) Aircraft on Ground (AOG) with MOC leadership during a MOC visit, Oct. 12. The MOC AOG works to assess, improve, and properly organize the efforts that keep mission-capable aircraft fully ready to fly wherever the Navy needs them.

Staff Sgt. Forest Andersen, a client systems technician with the 908th Communications Section, helps a member troubleshoot a software issue over the phone, at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, May 18, 2022. CSTs also implement security measures, validate organizational accounts and provide new equipment to users.

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jazmin Sandoval, left, 373rd Training Squadron Integrated Flight Control System instructor, shows Chief Master Sgt. Keith Scott, center, 60th Air Mobility Wing command chief, and Chief Master Sgt. Stefan Blazier, Air University command chief, the C-5M Super Galaxy flight deck trainer at Travis Air Force Base, California, Oct. 21, 2022. Blazier visited Travis AFB to engage with Airmen about education, leadership and readiness and was a guest speaker at the senior noncommissioned officer induction ceremony.

E-8C Joint STARS aircrew members from the 116th Airborne Command and Control Squadron (ACCS), 461st Air Control Wing, prepare for a training mission at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, Sept. 8, 2022. The 16th ACCS flew its final local sortie today after 27 years of operational history. The 16th ACCS will be officially inactivated in February 2023.

U.S. Soldiers competing in the Army Best Squad Competition at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, take a written exam on 30 Sep. 2022. The Army Best Squad Competition challenges Soldier's technical and tactical proficiency individually and collectively through various battle-readiness events and scenarios designed to test their capabilities while under stress and fatigue.

040106-F-2820P-003. Base: Ramstein Air Base State: Rheinland-Pfalz Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU) Scene Major Command Shown: USAFE

Mr. William O'Dell, an instructor from Fort Leonard Wood Robotics University assists SPC Daren Chestnut, 444 ENG CO CEC/I, with understanding the features of the control module for the CRS-I robot. (Images provided by the USASA Fort Dix Training Division /Steven Roussel)

Senior Airman Tyler Glisson, 15th Maintenance Squadron aircraft structural maintenance journeyman measures a bracket to repair a ramp of a C-17 Globemaster III during a depot level repair at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Dec. 2, 2022. Ensuring this repair is completed is essential to the safety and efficiency of loading cargo, conducting airdrops, and aeromedical evacuation missions.

Army Cpl. Scott Engells, a truck driver with the Wisconsin Army National Guards 229th Engineer Company, keeps an eye on live video feeds and from surveillance cameras along the Arizona border with Mexico while working at the U.S. Border Patrol Station in Nogales, Ariz., Saturday, Aug. 25, 2018. National Guard members throughout the Southwestern states have been working with Border Patrol and U.S. Customs and Border Protection as part of Operation Guardian Support, assisting in support roles such as aviation, manning viewing observation cameras and vehicle screening and inspection.

080916-A-5406P-018 (LAFLER)Spc. Zach Lafler, a forward observer with Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, practices calling for fire support using the Joint Call for Fire Trainer Sep. 16 as part of the Fire Support Team Certification process.

U.S. Marines with 2nd Air-Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, II Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) Information Group, control a convoy simulator as part of Warfighter Week aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Oct. 19, 2022. Warfighter Week provides II MEF Marines the opportunity to train to specific objectives that enhance lethality and set conditions for more complex training evolutions in the future.

220713-N-ZW825-0199 GREAT LAKES, Ill. (July 13, 2022) Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) New Student Indoctrination (NSI) midshipman candidates reassemble their weapons prior to a small arms live fire training event at Recruit Training Command (RTC), July 13. Upon completion of NSI, the candidates will start their freshman year of the NROTC program at colleges and universities nationwide this fall. NSI is an indoctrination program hosted at RTC, and provides midshipmen with a common military training orientation. NSI provides basic training in five warfighting fundamentals - firefighting, damage control, seamanship, watchstanding and small arms handling and marksmanship - to begin creating basically trained and smartly disciplined future Navy and Marine Corps officers. NROTC is overseen by Commander, Naval Service Training Command (NSTC), Rear Adm. Jennifer S. Couture, which supports naval accessions training for 98 percent of the Navys new officers and enlisted Sailors.

U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Ajay Baptiste, 54th Operations Support Squadron air traffic controller specialist, stores the information of aircraft, Sept. 6, 2022, at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. Air traffic controllers help with the safe landing and take offs of aircraft by providing weather conditions, runway closures and directing the aircraft.

020104-F-8006R-016. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: 405th Air Expeditionary Wing

U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Drew Noble, an air defense control officer with Marine Air Control Squadron 24 (MACS-24), Marine Air Control Group 48, 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Forces Reserve, monitors Gunnery Sgt. Derek Sanford, an air defense controller with MACS-24, as he coordinates fire missions from the Multifunction Air Operations Center (MAOC) in support of Exercise Arctic Edge 2024 at Fort Greely, Alaska, Feb. 19, 2024. The MAOC employs the AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar for air surveillance, delivering expeditionary aviation command and control to the Marine Air-Ground Task Force. Arctic Edge 2024 (AE24) is a U.S. Northern Command-led homeland defense exercise demonstrating the U.S. militarys capabilities in extreme cold weather, joint force readiness, and U.S. military commitment to mutual strategic security interests in the arctic region. Noble is a native of Hingham, Massachusetts. Sanford is a native of Zephyrhills, Florida. Marine Corps photo illustration by La

U.S. Army Reserve Lt. Col. Scott Carrington, battalion commander of the 159th Military Police Battalion in Terre Haute, IN., reviews a training schedule, May 16, 2022, during Exercise Guardian Shield held on Grissom Air Reserve Base, IN. Carrington, officer in charge at the exercise, led the training objectives implemented for military police and criminal investigation special agents in attendance.

010517-F-4155R-023. Base: Ellsworth Air Force Base State: South Dakota (SD) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: ACC

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Miles Young, left, and U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Austin Nino, right, cyberspace warfare operators assigned to Defensive Cyberspace Operations-Internal Defensive Measures Company Alpha, work on computers at Camp Nett, Niantic, Connecticut, June 16, 2022. Young and Nino were assigned to the Red Team during Cyber Yankee and acted as cyber intruders during the exercise.

221118-N-VF045-1014 NAVAL STATION ROTA, Spain (Nov. 18, 2022) Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 11, process simulated evacuees during an evacuation control center exercise. NMCB 11, assigned to Commander, Task Force (CTF) 68, is forward deployed across the U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa area of operations, employed by U.S. Sixth Fleet to defend U.S., Allied, and partner interests.

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Cheyenne McCutcheon, a load crew member with the 60th Aircraft Maintenance Unit, 33rd Maintenance Group, inspects tools during a quarterly weapons load competition at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, July 7, 2022. The competition showcased the knowledge and skills of the weapons load crews in the 33rd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron.

010808-F-9186F-070. Subject Operation/Series: FOCUS RELIEF Base: Accra Country: Ghana (GHA) Scene Major Command Shown: USAFE

Airman 1st Class Luke Gibbs (right), 97th Training Squadron boom operator student, goes through a preflight checklist in the simulator, while Mike Morris, KC-46 Pegasus boom operator instructor, observes at Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma, Nov. 29, 2022. The three phases of KC-46 pilot and boom operator training are focused on developing students who know nothing about the KC-46 to eventually operate it.

SENIOR AIRMAN Scott McIntyre programs phone numbers into a communications van computer at 5th Allied Tactical Air Force headquarters during Operation Deny Flight, the enforcement of United Nations-sanctioned no-fly zone over Bosnia and Herzegovina. Subject Operation/Series: DENY FLIGHT Base: Vicenza Air Base Country: Italy (ITA)

011121-F-4406B-001. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Naval Air Station, Sigonella State: Sicily Country: Italy (ITA) Scene Major Command Shown: AMC

The 805th Combat Training Squadrons Shadow Operations Center - Nellis, or ShOC-N, is the U.S. Air Forces premier battle lab supporting the development, advancement, and maturation of key technologies and capabilities designed to compress the kill-chain for joint and coalition warfighters, Apr. 25-27, 2022. In addition to hosting government sponsors and industry partners daily, the ShOC-N is helping to steer and evolve Joint Staff doctrine and guidance for all-domain and cross-domain solutions and capabilities by focusing on defining and developing instrumentation for data, networks, software, and air component-specific command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence, or C4I, warfighting processes.

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Adonis Briguera, left, an operator controller with Marine Aircraft Control Group 48 (MACG-48), 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Forces Reserve, from Virginia Beach, receives instruction from Staff Sgt. Trevor Roberts, a tactical air traffic controller with MACG-48, 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Forces Reserve, from Welchs, Virginia, during a joint live flight exercise at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, June 15, 2022. Exercise Gunslinger 22 is a joint exercise with the Kansas Air National Guard and U.S. Marine Corps designed to increase aircraft control and training for potential real world contingencies.

Intelligence analyst technician coordinating air support to provide assistance for ground troops, ensures correct functioning for future warfare operations. Works in reconnaissance control room.

US Army Specialists (SPC) Mario Guzman (standing) and SPC Allen Cheung, US Army Visual Information Center, work on video programs, using the HAL Video Compositor System. Base: Pentagon State: District Of Columbia (DC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

VARNA, Bulgaria (July 18, 2022) Information Systems Technician 1st Class Jarred Parmenter, assigned to Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe, Detachment Maritime Ashore Support Team (CNE DET MAST), assesses communication systems during exercise Breeze 2022, July 18, 2022. Breeze 2022 enhances interoperability among Bulgaria and participating nations, with an emphasis on anti-submarine warfare, search and rescue, force protection/anti-terrorism operations, maritime interdiction operations, and anti-piracy mission areas.

PACIFIC OCEAN (July 25, 2022) Mexican Navy Lt. Christian Reyes, left, Chilean Navy Lt. Cmdr. Alberto Pizarro, center and Mexican Navy Lt. Rigel Martinez collaborate aboard U.S. Navy Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022, July 25. Twenty-six nations, 38 ships, three submarines, more than 170 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 29 to Aug. 4 in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships among participants critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world's oceans. RIMPAC 2022 is the 28th exercise in the series that began in 1971.

220921-N-OX321-1002 NAVAL AIR STATION SIGONELLA, Italy (Sept. 21, 2022) U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Alan Pulido, from Kissimmee, Fla., assists a fellow 7th Reconnaissance Squadron Airmen over the phone as the 7RSs unit training manager on Naval Air Station Sigonella, Sept. 21, 2022. NAS Sigonellas strategic location enables U.S., allied, and partner nation forces to deploy and respond as required, ensuring security and stability in Europe, Africa and Central Command.

A member of the 169th Cyber Protection prepares his tool kit at the Pvt. Henry Costin Readiness Center in Laurel, Maryland, on June 29, 2022. Beginning in August 2018, the 169th CPT has supported the military-to-military knowledge transfer and team-building efforts to the Armed Forces Bosnia and Herzegovina under the State Partnership Program. The end state of this event is to assist with creating a secure defendable network that is scalable, agile, non-centralized, proactive, innovative, and smart cyber security architecture not highly dependent on public critical infrastructure.

Aaron Corrales, 5th Combat Training Squadron principle specialty engineer, defines symbols on a screen to U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Hunter Gardski, 4th Air Support Operations Group tactical air control party Airman, at Einsiedlerhof Air Station Sept. 28, 2022. Gardocki engaged in a training scenario utilizing the U.S. Air Forces in Europe - Air Forces Africa Warfare Centers joint terminal attack controller domed simulator during exercise Spartan Warrior 22-9.

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U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Prinz Matthew Singson, 1st Combat Communications Squadron network operations technician, prepares equipment for exercise Heavy Rain III at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Sept. 12, 2022. During Heavy Rain III, teams were tasked to establish and maintain communication in a simulated contested environment with the Wing Operation Center by using alternate communication or switching to alternate duty locations.

U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Prinz Matthew Singson, 1st Combat Communications Squadron network operations technician, prepares equipment for exercise Heavy Rain III at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Sept. 12, 2022. During Heavy Rain III, teams were tasked to establish and maintain communication in a simulated contested environment with the Wing Operation Center by using alternate communication or switching to alternate duty locations.

Spanish Air Force Sargento Primero Felix Arrebola, a surveillance controller assigned to NATO E3A Airborne Warning and Control Systems (AWACS) out of NATO Air Base Geilenkirchen, Germany, conducts surveillance operations on a NATO AWACS during RED FLAG-Alaska 23-1, over the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex, Oct. 12, 2022. RF-A 23-1 serves as a training opportunity with a concentration on international engagement and joint interoperability, providing NATO AWACS to further their mission of ensuring high readiness forces capable of Alliance objectives.

US Air Force SENIOR AIRMAN Esperanza Berrios, 52nd Communications Squadron, assists US Air Force Technical Sergeant Douglas Beck, 52nd Supply Squadron, with a cover for an award package in the new self help area offered by the Multimedia section at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany. Base: Spangdahlem Air Base State: Rheinland-Pfalz Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)

The Interior Alaska Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps visits 168th Wing as part of summer camp and learns about the 168th Wing, pilot, boom operator, aircraft maintenance, security forces, and civil engineering missions. The Interior JROTC cadets are students at West Valley High School Marine Corps JROTC, Lathrop High School Army JROTC, Eielson Air Force Base High School Air Force JROTC, and North Pole High School Air Force JROTC.

An officer aboard a C-130 Hercules aircraft monitors airdrops during flight. The officer is from the Air National Guard, involved in exercise Sentry Cowboy I. Subject Operation/Series: SENTRY COWBOY I Base: Gulfport State: Mississippi (MS) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Mr. Russel Tipping, meteorological technician and Capt. Joshua Resenback, weather flight commander assigned to the 354th Operations Support Squadron weather operations study a MARK IV-B program at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, June 02, 2022. The MARK IV-B program is used for downloading and analyzing weather data from polar orbiting and geostationary weather satellites. The program can be utilized for detecting moisture, clouds, thunderstorms, volcanic ash, fire, dust clouds, fog and more.

Inter-American Defense College Leadership Welcomes Brazilian Ministry of Defense Curso de Política, Estratégia e Alta Administração do Exército (CPEAEx) Leadership, Students and Staff to the IADC on Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C., Oct. 4, 2022. During the visit, the students were briefed by leadership and received a class by a college faculty, and toured the IADC Campus.

011120-A-4813S-003. Base: Fort Gillem State: Georgia (GA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: TRADOC

The Global Sentinel capstone event kicked off July 25, 2022, at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif. Global Sentinel is U.S. Space Command's premier security cooperation effort, designed to strengthen and grow internal partnerships, improve operational collaboration and promote responsible behavior in the space domain. Space operators from 25 allied and partner nations are participating in the capstone event, which runs through Aug. 3. The Participating nations are United States, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Israel, Spain, Finland, France, United Kingdom, Greece, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Thailand and Ukraine.

220910-N-VO895-1011ATLANTIC OCEAN (Sept. 10, 2022) Capt. Michelle Burris, assigned to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), onboard the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5), takes down notes on network server defense in the landing force operations center, Sept. 10, 2022. Bataan is underway conducting an Afloat Training Group engineering inspection as part of the basic phase training cycle.

Intercept controller ASE of the combat reading (CRC) of the AOCS in New Milligs.

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Nathan Schmidtke, was nominated warrior of the week aboard Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), the week of May 15, 2022. Schmidtke is a topographic analyst with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, who is tasked with making mission essential maps. Schmidtke joined the Marine Corps to make a difference and feels he is able to do that through his work.

040311-F-7979S-001. Base: RAF Lakenheath State: East Anglia Country: England / Great Britain (ENG)

051007-A-9247D-016. Base: New Orleans State: Louisiana (LA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

U.S. Army Cpl. Spencer Fayles (left) and Staff Sgt. Jackson Fagan (right), both representing the Utah Army National Guard, work through the written essay requirement during the Region VII Best Warrior Competition on the island of Guam, May 25, 2022. This annual competition featured the best noncommissioned officer and Soldier from eight different states and territories including Arizona, California, Colorado, Guam, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. Testing competitors skills and knowledge and pushing them to their limits, the competition graded each participant in key areas such as basic Soldier skills, marksmanship under stress, land-navigation, and physical fitness.

U.S. Air Force Col. Kevin Davidson, 47th Flying Training Wing commander, visits with the 47th Comptroller Squadron at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, on Aug 22, 2022. Davidson spend the morning talking to Airmen and staff about what part they play in helping the base run. The Comptroller Squadron is responsible for managing the base finances and other customer support.

040729-F-2902B-150. Complete Scene Caption: California Air National Guard (CAANG) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Darryl Ferguson, Fuels Craftsman, 194th Fighter Squadron, 144th Fighter Wing (FW), from Fresno Air National Guard Base (ANGB), California (CA), finishes his paperwork after fueling an F-16C Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft as it prepares to take off from Eielson Air Force Base (AFB), Alaska (AK), for a training mission during Exercise COOPERATIVE COPE THUNDER, the largest multinational air combat training exercise in the Pacific. This 15-day exercise simulates wartime combat conditions so that military personnel from 12-nations can sharpen their air fighting skills, exchange air operational tactics, and build closer relations with each other. Base: Eielson Air Force Base State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

BARRIGADA, Guam (Jan. 19, 2023) -Navy EOD Technicians from Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 5 conduct a CERTEX event in Barrigada, Guam. This joint training was supported by members of C/1-1 and Guam local law enforcement Special enforcement and Tactics (S.E.T.) officers. This exercise strengthened interoperability between teams in a dynamic training environment.

The Fort Dix Schoolhouse, bldg. 5507, hosted the 2022 Diamond Saber. This training is a finance exercise for all soldiers from various units which prepares finance for funding, payments, disbursing, accounting and auditability during the training exercise. The 368th Financial Management Support Unit are base in Wichita, Kansas and they are the primary unit completing this training event. The exercise also prepares soldiers for safe overseas transactions with Eagle Cash cards, personal transactions and bank telling when needed. (Images provided by the Fort Dix (TSC) Training Support Center / Dan Amburg / Kevin McDevitt)

020813-F-3805C-005. Base: Spangdahlem Air Base State: Rheinland-Pfalz Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)

Military control tower personnel monitoring air traffic activity in command post, examining data from case files and big screen. Soldier collects information from reconnaissance system.

Airmen assigned to the 50th Air Refueling Squadron conduct mission planning during the Agile Combat Employment capstone at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, Aug. 23, 2022. The ACE concept underpins the Air Forces ability to mitigate the risks of adversarial technological advances through maneuverability and speed to prevail in conflict. The capstone exercise included 72-hours of continuous air refueling operations and a historic 56-hour KC-135 flight in a simulated contested environment focused on a notional theater of operations.

An employee of the combat line ('bandbox') at the AIR operations and control station Nieuw-Milligen.

U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Frank Verugo, Headquarters Air Force Material Command financial management and comptroller, director, signs into the 502nd Comptroller Squadrons finance customer service kiosk at the with the help of Master Sgt. Genevieve Villela, 502nd CPTS, financial operations superintendent, during a site visit to Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Feb. 5, 2024. The leaders visited JBSA to meet with local financial management Airmen and to get a first-hand account of JBSA-Lacklands unique and challenging mission. Air Force

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Jaxon Brown, an aerial gunner with the 4th Special Operations Squadron, participates in a training sortie on an AC-130J Ghostrider, April 27, 2022 at Hurlburt Field, Florida. The 4 SOS regularly performs training sorties on the AC-130J in order to ensure readiness to perform special operations missions any time, any place.

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