Iraqi Freedom Operations

Images of military personnel engaged in various operations during the Iraqi Freedom mission. Depicting soldiers in combat readiness, training settings, and tactical movement in a desert environment.

060322-A-5043I-065. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 3RD BRIGADE

060322-A-5043I-065. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 3RD BRIGADE

040626-F-4884R-010. Base: Lsa Anaconda State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060315-A-7969G-004. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Summerall State: Salah Ah Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST AB DIVISION

060430-A-6365W-138. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Remagen State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST

041219-F-0524H-018. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Ad Duluiyah State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ)

041008-F-8946M-011. Subject Operation/Series: OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Caldwell State: Diyala Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040921-M-5901F-017. Base: Jabella State: Babil Country: Iraq (IRQ)

070414-A-6669H-001SANGIN, Afghanistan - A U.S. Special Forces sergeant assigned to the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force - Afghanistan issues guidance to a squad of soldiers assigned to the 1st Kandak, 209th Afghan National Army Corps, preparing to battle with Taliban fighters in the Sangin District area of Helmand Province April 14.

DELARAM, Nimruz province, Afghanistan - Major Michael Mullins, logistics officer for Task Force Nimruz, Regimental Combat Team 2, and an Afghan police officer scan for an improvised explosive device on the highway running through Delaram, Jan. 3. Shop owners reported the roadside bomb to Afghan police. Marines helped clear the area until explosive ordnance disposal Marines safely removed and destroyed the IED.

041115-M-2353F-008. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

041211-M-0036Y-023. Base: Ar Ramadi State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060228-A-1211S-033. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Normandy State: Diyala Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: A

070324-M-2166H-044. Complete Scene Caption: An Iraqi Army Soldier in the School of Infantry (SOI) cleans his rifle after training at Camp Yasser on Al Asad Air Base, Iraq on March 24, 2007. SOI is a ten day training school that teaches advanced fighting techniques and tactics to new Iraqi Army Soldiers before they report to their battalions. 2nd Battalion 7th Iraqi Army Division Military Transition Team is deployed as a part of MNF-W in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Anbar province of Iraq to develop the Iraqi Security Forces, facilitate the development of official rule of law through democratic government reforms and continue the development of a market based economy centered on Iraqi reconstruction. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance CPL. Michael L. Haas) (Released) Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Asad State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: MITT 2-7

050628-A-1566H-064. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM State: Babil Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050628-A-1566H-064. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Samarra Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 3RD CO. 3 BN 1 BDE 5 DIV

Two members of the 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, stand by their John Deere Gator, next to the Concertina Wire which adds a level of security around the living compound at Kandahar Airport, Afghanistan. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar International Airport Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

DM-SD-04-03915. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Qalat Sukar State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050126-F-8584G-033. Base: Logistics Support Area Anaconda Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030406-M-7371B-002. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030508-M-9124R-029. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Kut State: Wasit Country: Iraq (IRQ)

020715-F-0201H-012. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kabul Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

060215-A-5745M-004. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fob Falcon State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST ABN DIV

060220-A-7969G-012. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fob Summerall State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: B1-187

Members of the Afghan National Army work alongside U.S. Marines assigned to 3D Low Altitude Air Defense providing security for the Female Engagement Team (FET) (not shown), as they patrol through local Afghan settlements in Boldak, Afghanistan, April 5, 2010. The FET engaged in conversation with women of the area in an effort to better gain cultural awareness and ascertain family needs in support of efforts of the International Security Assistance Force assigned to the region.

050621-A-1566H-002. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar Airfield Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

060118-A-7969G-050. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Cooke (TAJI) State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040607-M-4419R-015. Base: India Base (NASIR WAAL SALAAM) State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

051206-A-2718K-099. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Mosul Country: Iraq (IRQ)

020527-F-9085B-010. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kubal Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Walter Gary, a 25-year-old mortarman with Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, and native of St. Louis, searches an Afghan man's truck halt at a vehicle checkpoint here, Dec. 1. During their seven-month deployment in Helmand province's Garmsir district, the VCPs are a regular part of the mortarmen's duty rotation, which also includes security patrols and standing post. Though they spend hours stopping vehicles and searching passersby, their presence isn't a mere formality. The Marines are constantly on alert for anything out of the ordinary, especially information that can be used to locate and disrupt insurgent activity.

030402-M-8539K-006. Base: Ash Shumali Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 1ST Mar Div DM

050713-A-8255A-019. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Wofdine State: Diyala Country: Iraq (IRQ)

U.S. Soldiers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division and 432nd Civil Affairs Battalion deliver soccer balls and candy to an orphanage in the Muhalla 509 neighborhood of the Sadr City district of Baghdad on Aug. 18, 2008.

Lance Cpl. William L. Ward, a mortarman with 81 mm Mortar Platoon, Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, keeps a watchful eye on an Afghan National Army soldier during a patrol through Marjah, Afghanistan, March 27, 2010. Marines with 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, have partnered with and mentored ANA soldiers through training, joint patrolling and counterinsurgency operations. Ward, 20, is from Lake City, Fla.

070315-M-7404B-001. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Asad State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: MITT 2-7

041207-M-2583M-017. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060115-A-4545F-089. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Bayji State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ)

U.S. Army Sgt. Miguel Rodriguez, from Alpha Battery, 2nd Battalion, 32nd Field Artillery Regiment, attached to 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, helps an Iraqi army soldiers jump a wall in Hateen, Iraq, Feb. 24, 2008.

050704-A-9039F-022. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram Airfield State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: CJTF-76

A black plume of smoke looms over the US Marine Corps (USMC) 3rd Battalion, 1ST Marine Regiments position, just east of Baghdad, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. (Substandard image). Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Jeremy Glossen (left) and Staff Sgt. Gary Pearson (center) of Ironhawk Troop, 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment from Fort Hood, Texas, stop to visit with a local Iraqi man during a patrol in the Al Qirwan neighborhood of Mosul, Iraq, Dec. 24, 2008.

030609-M-0367H-008. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Karbala Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 3rd BN 7th MAR

060322-A-5043I-020. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 3RD BRIGADE

060213-A-6311S-022. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Mahmudiyah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060302-A-5745M-035. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fob Constitution State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MTN DIV

030407-M-0175R-139. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Qalat Sukar State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060411-A-6365W-191. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Forward Operating Base Gabe Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST

A soldier from the Afghan National Army runs to a compound that he is about to search during a patrol in Marjah, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Feb. 25, 2010. The ANA soldiers and Marines from 3rd Platoon, India Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, patrolled through a residential area of the city to conduct counterinsurgency operations as part of Operation Moshtarak, a push to rid Marjah of Taliban presence and intimidation.

050420-M-0616L-014. Base: Camp Junction City State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: ISF

Iraqi army soldiers with 2nd Battalion, 4th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division take a break during a joint service mission with U.S. Army Soldiers in Mahmudiyah, Iraq, May 2, 2007. The U.S. Army Soldiers are with Alpha Battery, 2nd Battalion, 15th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry).

060301-A-2718K-046. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Mosul Country: Iraq (IRQ)

041116-M-2583M-021. Base: Camp Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 1ST MARDIV/4THCAG

041213-M-3988H-007. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

In an improved fighting hole along the camp perimeter, Lance Corporal William Schwettmann, USMC, (left) and Lance Corporal Matthew Soberl, USMC, (right), sits by his M249 SAW (Squad Automatic Weapon) both members of Kilo Battery, Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) (MEU(SOC)) perform security at a forward area refueling point at an undisclosed location in the ENDURING FREEDOM area of operations during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. An M16A2 Assault Rifle and M136 Light Anti-Armor Weapon (LAW) are at the ready for the Marines use. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Country: Unknown Scene Major Command Shown: 26 MEU

060422-A-5745M-014. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MTN

Staff Sgt. Daniel Ramirez, of San Diego, watches his Soldiers during a combined patrol with the Al Salam Iraqi police, Jan. 27, in the Hussaniyah Nahia. The combined patrol was focused at ensuring polling sites for the upcoming provincial elections are free of anything that could disrupt Iraqs democratic process. Ramirez is an infantry squad leader with Company A, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment “Wolfhounds,” 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team “Warrior,” 25th Infantry Division, currently attached to 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division - Baghdad.

070319-M-7404B-014. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Asad State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: MITT 2-7

040401-M-9362G-009. Base: Mcagcc, Twentynine Palms State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

060220-A-7969G-034. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fob Summerall State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: B1-187

041115-A-1067B-009. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Karmah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050524-A-8255A-109. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Riyadh Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU)

Spc. Justin Davis (foreground), an infantryman from Walkertown, N.C., and Staff Sgt. Robert Warmack (background), an infantry squad leader from Cove City, N.C., both assigned to Company A, 252nd Combined Arms Battalion, 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team, search overgrown vegetation during a joint cache and explosives sweep in Doura, here, June 10. "We're checking these abandoned houses because bad guys are putting weapons caches and explosives in these," said Warmack. "It's a big deterrent for the bad guys if we're out here more."

050628-A-1566H-042. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Speicher State: Tikrit Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 3RD C, 2BN,1 BDE, 4 DIV

050226-F-8584G-079. Base: Al Iskandariyah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

070324-M-2166H-059. Complete Scene Caption: An Iraqi Army Soldier in the School of Infantry (SOI) cleans his rifle after training at Camp Yasser on Al Asad Air Base, Iraq on March 24, 2007. SOI is a ten day training school that teaches advanced fighting techniques and tactics to new Iraqi Army Soldiers before they report to their battalions. 2nd Battalion 7th Iraqi Army Division Military Transition Team is deployed as a part of MNF-W in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Anbar province of Iraq to develop the Iraqi Security Forces, facilitate the development of official rule of law through democratic government reforms and continue the development of a market based economy centered on Iraqi reconstruction. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance CPL. Michael L. Haas) (Released) Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Asad State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: MITT 2-7

030408-F-0762P-006. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: USAFE

040812-M-4358R-060. Base: An Najaf State: An Najaf Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050712-A-8255A-074. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Showka Village State: Diyala Country: Iraq (IRQ)

970419-M-3360V-002. Complete Scene Caption: GUNNERY Sergeant G. L. Briddell from 2d Platoon, Alpha Company, 2d Combat Engineer Battalion, throws an MK-67 Fragmentation Grenade at Range 104 during COMBINED ARMS Exercise (CAX) 5-97. CAX 5/6-97 is a MAGTF (Marine Air Ground Task Force) exercise being conducted at MCAGCC (Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center), 29 Palms, California. The command element for this exercise is MAGTF-6, built around the 6th Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Many commands from the II MEF (Marine Expeditionary Force) have sent units to this desert warfare exercise, to fill key billets in the Ground Combat Element (GCE), Air Combat Element (ACE) and the Combat Service Support Element (CSSE). Base: Mcagcc, Twentynine Palms State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: II MEF

040602-M-8096M-044. Base: Zabol Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: 22ND MEU (SOC)

040428-F-2902B-002. Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060403-A-5745M-002. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Liberty State: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MTN DIV

041201-M-6795S-001. State: Khowst Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

030418-M-4419R-018. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 5th Marines

DN-ST-85-07134. Subject Operation/Series: SOLID SHIELD '83 Base: Onslow Beach, Mcb, Camp Lejeune State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

050624-A-1566H-010. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Camp Delta State: Al Kut Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060420-A-4576B-027. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM State: Paktia Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: 10TH MOUNTAIN

030408-M-4419R-056. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 5th Marines

021022-F-9616R-030. Base: Altus Air Force Base State: Oklahoma (OK) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: AETC

On April 4, Soldiers and civilian investigators with the 49th Military Police Brigade secure and investigate a post-blast site where a vehicle born, suicide bomb detonated near a foreign embassy in Iraq.

041115-A-1067B-027. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Karmah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

060104-A-7359K-162. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fob Mchenry State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION

050712-A-8255A-135. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Showka Village State: Diyala Country: Iraq (IRQ)

050712-A-8255A-135. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Sadr Al Yusufiyah Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: C CO, 2-502 CAV 101ST ABN

051003-A-8255A-185. Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

A Soldier of the Jordanian Armed Forces pulls security during a cordon and search training exercise during Exercise Eager Lion in Jordan, Sept. 8, 2022. Eager Lion is a two-week multinational military exercise that builds joint nation compatibility between U.S. and partner nations, and also enhances joint readiness and interoperability.

030518-M-5266H-012. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: An Nasariyah State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 25-Feb

030324-M-4779G-015. Base: Al Shur Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 1 RCT

News media members document the Seabees loading an old abandoned truck onto a flatbed truck. Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE Base: Modadishu Country: Somalia (SOM)

Navy SEALs standing together on stern of speed boat.

070319-M-7404B-015. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Asad State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: MITT 2-7

041111-M-2789C-039. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

041115-A-1067B-026. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Karmah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

040713-M-5505M-018. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

041116-M-2583M-028. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

030710-F-6844O-004. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Kirkuk Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: CENTCOM

070324-M-2166H-001. Complete Scene Caption: Iraqi Army Soldiers in the School of Infantry (SOI) march to their training area at Camp Yasser on Al Asad Air Base, Iraq on March 24, 2007. SOI is a ten day training school that teaches advanced fighting techniques and tactics to new Iraqi Army Soldiers before they report to their battalions. 2nd Battalion 7th Iraqi Army Division Military Transition Team is deployed as a part of MNF-W in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Anbar province of Iraq to develop the Iraqi Security Forces, facilitate the development of official rule of law through democratic government reforms and continue the development of a market based economy centered on Iraqi reconstruction. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance CPL. Michael L. Haas) (Released) Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Asad State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: MITT 2-7

030204-M-4419R-043. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Camp Coyote Country: Kuwait (KWT) Scene Major Command Shown: 5th Marines

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