Live-Fire Training Exercises

Photos feature personnel engaging in live-fire exercises and emergency drills aboard military vessels, highlighting tactical training.

220919-N-EJ241-1166DIEGO GARCIA, British Indian Ocean Territory (Sept. 19, 2022) - Tools used by Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 4 sit on the floor after a section of concrete is worked on at U.S. Navy Support Facility Diego Garcia. NMCB-4 is forward deployed throughout the Indo-Pacific region and United States territories to support and maintain a free and open Indo-Pacific. As the stand-in, crisis response, naval engineering force, NMCB-4 maintains a ready posture to deliver in-theater expeditionary logistics via expeditionary shore infrastructure, forward damage repair, and mobile construction.

PHILIPPINE SEA (April 28, 2022) Aviation Ordnanceman 3rd Class Darian Tucker, from Lagrange, Ga., fires a .50 caliber machine gun during a live-fire exercise on the fantail aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Abraham Lincoln Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability through alliances and partnerships while serving as a ready-response force in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific region.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - An emergency exit, or Mode II/IV, exercise is under way at the 195-foot level of Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The exercise involves NASA fire rescue personnel, volunteers portraying astronauts with simulated injuries, helicopters and personnel from the Air Forces 920th Rescue Wing, and medical trauma teams at three Central Florida hospitals. The drill allows teams to practice an emergency response at the launch pad, including helicopter evacuation to local hospitals.

Tech. Sgt. Christopher Chadwell, 386th Expeditionary Maintenance Group, safety wires the propeller pressurized sump filler cap after a propeller hydraulic fluid level check on a CE -130, electronic attack maintenance success in Air Forces Central Command.

220919-N-EJ241-1166DIEGO GARCIA, British Indian Ocean Territory (Sept. 19, 2022) - Tools used by Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 4 sit on the floor after a section of concrete is worked on at U.S. Navy Support Facility Diego Garcia. NMCB-4 is forward deployed throughout the Indo-Pacific region and United States territories to support and maintain a free and open Indo-Pacific. As the stand-in, crisis response, naval engineering force, NMCB-4 maintains a ready posture to deliver in-theater expeditionary logistics via expeditionary shore infrastructure, forward damage repair, and mobile construction.

A U.S. Air Force Pararescueman from the 23rd Special Tactics Squadron, Air Force Special Operations Command, Hurlburt Field Fl., and a member of the Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue Team, Va., look at a building during rescue operations in Port-au-Prince, Haiti taken on Jan 17, 2010 following a magnitude 7 earthquake that hit the city on Jan. 12, 2010. Department of Defense assets have been deployed to assist in the Haiti relief effort

DA-ST-85-12287. Subject Operation/Series: REFORGER '84 Base: Fort Hood State: Texas (TX) Country: United States Of America (USA)

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- Airman 1st Class Hayden Boeglin, 730th Air Mobility Squadron, strips off a chain from supplies to be loaded onto a C-17 Globemaster III March 20. The supplies were delivered to Sendai Airport to be used for humanitarian assistance bringing relief to Japan from the earthquake and tsunami disaster.

DM-ST-85-09153. Base: Wilmington State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

220829-F-LN908-0222CAPE TOWN, South Africa (Aug. 29, 2022) Seaman Apprentice Ethan Dowden, from Memphis, Tenn., heaves a line aboard the Lewis B. Puller-class expeditionary sea base USS Hershel "Woody" Williams (ESB 4), Aug. 29, 2022. Hershel "Woody" Williams is rotationally deployed to the U.S. Naval Forces Africa area of operations, employed by U.S. Sixth Fleet, to defend U.S., allied and partner interests.

CORONADO, Calif. (Sept. 25, 2012) Seaman Marco Berez, assigned to the deck department aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), peels paint from the hull. Carl Vinson is currently pierside at Naval Air Station North Island for planned incremental availability.

Search and Rescue Operations - Helicopter - 26-HK-261-130. Hurricane Katrina

Anefo photo collection. Dodewaard nuclear power plant secured barbed wire i.v.m. Announced blockade. October 17, 1980. Dodewaard

011013-F-0193C-020. Complete Scene Caption: Navy SEAMAN Chris Martin gives the thumbs-up to close the hatch after all the Egyptian Marines in their RHIB (Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat) boats clear the Navy LCU (Landing Craft Utility). Marines and Navy personnel from numerous nations are active participants in both the sea and the beaches of Egypt during this year's BRIGHT STAR 01-02 exercise. BRIGHT STAR is a multinational exercise involving more than 74,000 troops from 44 countries that is designed to enhance regional stability and military-to-military cooperation among the US, our key allies, and our regional partners. It prepares US Central Command to rapidly deploy and employ the armed forces to deter aggressors and, if necessary, fight and win side-by-side with our allies and regional partners. Subject Operation/Series: BRIGHT STAR 01-02 Base: Mubarak Military City Country: Egypt (EGY)

A member of a rebel faction currently controlling the area watches as pallets of supplies are unloaded from a Military Airlift Command C-5A Galaxy aircraft. The boxes contain meals-ready-to-eat (MREs) which are being delivery to the Red Cross for distribution to refugees suffering due to the country's civil unrest. The MREs are excess military supplies and are made available by authority of the McCallum Program and the DOD Excess Property Program. Base: Addis Ababa Country: Ethiopia(ETH)

A 357th Fighter Generation Squadron weapons load crew team inspects an air-to-ground missile on the flightline at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, Sept. 13, 2022. LOLA operations consist of loading live ordnance on A-10 Thunderbolt IIs in an authorized area on the flightline, away from people and buildings.

DF-ST-87-07457. Subject Operation/Series: GALLANT EAGLE '86 Base: Cannon Air Force Base State: New Mexico (NM) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A vertical launching system cell is open on the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Shoup (DDG 86) to be loaded in San Diego, Sept. 16, 2022. Shoup is preparing to get underway to participate in a Live Fire With A Purpose exercise.

Base Camps - 26-HK-66-49. LA Plaquemines Camp--military personnel outside canteen-type structure--by Andrea Booher, FEMA. Hurricane Katrina

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Ernest Crisson Betancourt, 6th Security Forces Squadron combat arms instructor, tallies points on a target during the Excellence in Competition tournament at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, May 18, 2022. Participants were graded on accuracy during the competition held in honor of Police Week.

041116-M-3658J-004. Base: Camp Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: CSSB-1

Material from Vice Admiral Allen - Aftermath - 26-HK-372-61. Hurricane Katrina

Marine Safety Unit - 26-HK-133-106. Hurricane Katrina

A Marine casualty lies in a transfer case at the processing center where X-rays and autopsies are being performed. The casualties are the result of a terrorist bomb attack at the Marine barracks and headquarters building in Beirut, Lebanon. Base: Rhein-Main Air Base Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)

SOUTH CHINA SEA (Feb. 8, 2013) Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (31st MEU) unwrap pallets of supplies during a vertical replenishment on the flight deck aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6). The Bonhomme Richard Amphibious Ready Group, currently on deployment in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility, will take part in amphibious integration training, certification exercise and participate in the annual multinational combined joint training exercise Cobra Gold.

DF-ST-89-01018. Subject Operation/Series: SHADOW HAWK Base: King Faisal Air Base, Al Jafr Country: Jordan (JOR)

A dummy that will be used for casualty extraction training lies at the bottom of a manhole during a Homeland Response Force validation exercise at Fort Indiantown Gap, PA on September 10, 2022. Soldiers assigned to the HRF will be tasked with rappelling into the hole and retrieving the dummy. (New York National Guard photo by SSG Matthew Gunther)

SGT Del Christenson works with a Korean Citizen to sling load a M1A1 Abrams Tank to a flat bed rail car at the Camp Carroll Rail Head in Korea, on Oct. 26, 1998. Christenson, of Alpha Company 1ST Battalion, 33rd Armored Regiment, is a participant in a railhead exercise that will move the 33rd Armored Regiment's equipment to Camp Casey in support of Foal Eagle '98. Foal Eagle is a field training exercise that takes place once a year in Korea. Subject Operation/Series: FOAL EAGLE '98KOREA CD Base: Camp Carroll, Taegue State: Waegwan Country: Republic Of Korea (KOR)

Flight deck crewmen scrub the wing of an aircraft aboard the aircraft carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV-63). Country: Unknown

ESU New Orleans - IMATHcao - 26-HK-429-100. Hurricane Katrina

U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Abraham Moreno oversees crater repair operations during Exercise Grand Shield 22-4 on Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, May 15, 2022. The exercise tested the skills of airmen in every career field.

Coast Guard Personnel - Supplies - 26-HK-84-206. Hurricane Katrina

030225-F-9032T-005. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Country: Unknown Scene Major Command Shown: CENTCOM

APRA HARBOR, Guam (Aug. 6, 2015) Sailors from deck department and Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (31st MEU) onload water, food and supplies onto the amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48) in preparation for disaster relief efforts in Saipan after Typhoon Soudelor made landfall. Ashland is assigned to the Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group and is on patrol in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations.

The cockpit of a dismantled B-52D Stratofortress bomber aircraft, one of three to be scrapped in accordance with the SALT II Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union. Base: Andersen Air Base Country: Guam (GUM)

Seabees of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 74 install electrical wiring in a tent frame in a Marine camp which is being built during Operation Desert Storm. Exact Date Shot Unknown. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU)

030916-F-1663P-004. Base: Dover Air Force Base State: Delaware (DE) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: AMC

DF-ST-86-09834. Country: Colombia (COL)

U.S. Air Force Airman Tramel Robinson, a heavy equipment operator assigned to the 557th Expeditionary RED HORSE Squadron, operates a skid-steer to fill in a duct bank at Prince Sultan Air Base, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Sept. 29, 2022. As a directive from AFCENT, PSABs new containerized housing units need to support sufficient Wi-Fi access before service members can move in. The final day of duct banking marked a historic moment in the 1st Expeditionary Civil Engineer Groups history as it was the groups final project at PSAB since they forward deployed to the KSA in 2018 starting a tent city on an empty plot of land.

A motion picture crew from the Naval Audiovisual Center sets up their equipment in hangar bay two aboard the aircraft carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV 67). Base: USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67) Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)

US Marine bulldozer clearing debris, south coast of Sri Lanka

030411-M-5753Q-078. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Qa Dawi, Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 7th Marines

040611-F-4539R-030. Base: Tallil Air Base State: Dhi Qar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

A recruit is instructed in firefighting procedures during basic training at the Naval Training Center. Base: San Diego State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DF-ST-88-06811. Base: Marine Corps Air Station,Iwakuni Country: Japan (JPN)

010501-F-0697K-050. Subject Operation/Series: UNION FLASH 01 Base: Ramstein Air Base State: Rheinland-Pfalz Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU) Scene Major Command Shown: USAFE

DN-ST-85-05591. Base: USS Retriever (DR 1) Country: Chesapeake Bay

030513-F-1443F-019. Base: Aviano Air Base State: Pordenone Country: Italy (ITA)

MIAMI (Dec. 12, 2022) -- A shipment of 300,000 packets of Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS), donated by U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), is loaded onto an Amerijet cargo plane for transit to Haiti. The United States, through SOUTHCOM's Humanitarian Assistance Program, is donating the ORS packets for Haitian and Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) officials to distribute in support of the international response to the Cholera outbreak in Haiti. (Photo by Steven McLoud, U.S. Southern Command Public Affairs)

Airmen and civilians help salvage personal belongings from the wreckage of a house destroyed by a tornado. Base: Wichita Falls State: Texas (TX) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Removal of graffiti on a concrete wall of an underground passage with the help of a angle grinder. Removal of graffiti on a concrete wall of an underground passage with the help of a angle grinder Copyright: xZoonar.com/OvchinnikovaxOlgax 10893363

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Lance Cpl. Riley Jackson, 19, an Assault Breacher Vehicle maintainer from Queen City, Mo., repairs the track of an ABV, March 16. Marines with the ABV platoon, 1st Combat Engineer Battalion have had to do a lot of adapting and overcoming in terms of vehicle maintenance during their seven-month deployment.

030420-M-5607A-027. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Al Nu'Maniyah Country: Iraq (IRQ)

A U.S. Navy sailor assigned to USS New Orleans (LPD 18) climbs a ladder on to USS Miguel Keith (ESB 5) during a Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure exercise, Philippine Sea, Aug. 7, 2022.This group of Sailors are designated at the prize crew, who commandeer the ship after the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit's Maritime Raid Force has cleared it.The 31st MEU is operating aboard the ships of the Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group in the 7th fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific Region.

Coast Guard Cutters - Dauntless (WMEC 624) - 26-HK-73-138. CGC Dauntless -- USCG RHI boat crew boarding commercial vessel -- 050928. Hurricane Katrina

000505-N-6492H-570. Base: Camp Garcia State: Vieques Island Country: Puerto Rico (PRI) Scene Major Command Shown: NMCB 5

Search and Rescue Operations - Helicopter - 26-HK-261-124. Hurricane Katrina

U.S. Soldiers assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Infantry Division Artillery, begin setting up a tactical action center at Forward Operating Site Adazi, Latvia, July 13, 2022. The 1st Infantry Division Artillery is among other units assigned to the 1st Infantry Division, proudly working alongside NATO allies and regional security partners to provide combat-credible forces to V Corps, America's forward deployed corps in Europe.

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Michael Tapia, a heavy equipment operator with Marine Wing Support Squadron (MWSS) 171, Marine Aircraft Group 12, and native of Florida, operates a ground compacting machine at the Ban Prakaet school in Chanthaburi, Thailand, Feb. 14, 2024. Marines of MWSS-171 lent their engineering expertise to multilateral humanitarian efforts during Cobra Gold 24. Joint Exercise Cobra Gold is the largest joint exercise in mainland Asia and a concrete example of the strong alliance and strategic relationship between Thailand and the United States. This year will be the 43rd iteration of the multilateral exercise and will be held from Feb. 27 to March 8, 2024. Marine Corps

Salvage Engineering Response Team - Empire and Venice - 26-HK-352-8. Empire. Hurricane Katrina

031210-M-4711R-101. A US Marine Corps (USMC) Marine with 5th Battalion (BN), 10th Marines, Tango Battery, temporarily attached to 3rd BN, 12th Marines, for a Unit Deployment Program (UDP), paints a stairwell as part of a volunteer project at the Yakanama Seibi Home for Orphans, Yakanama, Japan.

Ballistic Aerial Target System (BATS) missiles are prepared for launching during Marine Corps target operations. Base: Twentynine Palms State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Expedition 54 Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos is seen as he is escorted to the base of the Soyuz rocket prior to boarding for launch, Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Shkaplerov, flight engineer Scott Tingle of NASA, and flight engineer Norishige Kanai of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will spend the next five months living and working aboard the International Space Station.

DN-ST-86-00542. Base: USS Lexington (AVT 16)

ESU Incident Command Post New Orleans - CGC Harry Claiborne - Operation Gator Hunt - 26-HK-312-46. Hurricane Katrina

980620-F-2907C-113. Base: Mcchord Air Force Base State: Washington (WA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Members of the 4449th Mobility Support Squadron erect a large, prefabricated building, to be used during exercise Bright Star '82. Subject Operation/Series: BRIGHT STAR '82 Base: Cairo Country: Egypt (EGY)

Mexico, Nuevo Leon, Saltillo. Mexican Army checkpoint searching for illegal activity.

PVT Jose Gutierrez of Headquarters, Headquarters Company, 40th Engineering Battalion, renders ZGU1 14.5mm AAA weapon, confiscated in the Zone of separation, inoperable by using an acetylene torch.(Duplicate image, see also DD-SD-00-00266 or search 960816-A-0206D-005). Base: Camp Lisa Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

U.S. Marines with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 242 prepare to load a GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided bomb into an F-35B Lightning II aircraft at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, June 28, 2022. Marines with VMFA-242 conducted close air support with inert GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided bombs at Combined Arms Training Center, Fuji in support of 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment. This training marked the first-ever live close air support missions in Japan with an F-35B Lightning II aircraft.

120604-N-ZZ999-003 PACIFIC OCEAN (June 4, 2012) A Sailor aboard the guided-missile frigate USS Nicholas (FFG 47) guides a cargo net loaded with bales of cocaine recently recovered from a drug interdiction off the Pacific coast of Colombia. Navy and Coast Guard personnel recovered approximately 4,910 pounds of the contraband after it was dumped from a vessel during drug interdiction operations in support of Operation Martillo off the Pacific Coast of Colombia. The estimated street value of the 112 bales is more than $367 million. Operation Martillo is a U.S., European, and western Hemisphere partner nation effort targeting illicit trafficking routes in coastal waters along the Central American isthmus.

Texture of armor at the back of turret of British CromwellMK III tank. Texture of armor at the back of turret of British Cromwell MK III tank

AMN Amus Forsyth, Air Operations, Keflavik NAS, marshals a C-5 into a parking spot on the flight line during darkness at Keflavik NAS. The highly reflective tape is glowing on the back of AMN Forsyth's helmet as he works in the dark. The C-5 will be loaded with a UH-60 Black hawk helicopter that was used to support NORTHERN VIKING '95. Subject Operation/Series: NORTHERN VIKING '95 Base: Naval Air Station, Keflavik Country: Iceland (ISL)

While participating in Operation Joint Endeavor, SENIOR AIRMAN James Turner, 823rd Civil Engineering Squadron, Hurlburt Field, Florida, lays plastic liner over a tent structure that will house troops deployed to Tuzla AB. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Tuzla Air Base Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

Merchant Seafarers' War Memorial in Cardiff Bay

021230-F-7203T-023. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Country: Qatar (QAT)

040715-F-0571C-090. Base: Timehri Country: Guyana (GUY) Scene Major Command Shown: ACC

A U.S. Marine with Marine Wing Support Squadron (MWSS) 172 prepares to take down a sniper tower during a squadron field exercise (FEX) at Camp Schwab training grounds, Okinawa, Japan, October 6, 2022. MWSS-172 conducted the squadron FEX to emphasize tactics, techniques and procedures in an Expeditionary Advanced Base Operation (EABO) environment in preparation for the Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation (MCCRE).

ESU Incident Command Post New Orleans - CGC Harry Claiborne - Gulfport, Mississippi - 26-HK-310-48. Coast Guard Cutter Harry Claiborne in Gulfport, Mississippi September 2 through 8, 2005. Hurricane Katrina

060227-A-7969G-006. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fob Summerall State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ)

A member of the 919th Civil Engineering Squadron washes cooking utensils in outdoor heaters during a field training exercise.. Base: Eglin Air Force Base State: Florida(FL) Country: United States Of America(USA)

DF-ST-87-02251. Base: New York State: New York (NY) Country: United States Of America (USA)

021107-F-2164A-008. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Country: Unknown

Salvage Engineering Response Team - New Orleans - Early October - 26-HK-351-132. Hurricane Katrina

Sgt. 1st Class Jacob Kerkow of the U.S. Army Parachute Team makes a B.A.S.E. parachute jump at Bridge Day 2022 in Fayetteville, West Virginia on 15 October, 2022. The U.S. Army Parachute Team made team history with their first formal attendance at the event.

Great Lakes Search and Rescue Detachment - 26-HK-143-83. Hurricane Katrina

Onlookers await the next performance at the Arctic Thunder Open House at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, July 30, 2022. This biennial event hosted by JBER is one of the largest in the state and one of the premier aerial demonstrations in the world. The event features multiple performers to include the JBER Joint Forces Demonstration Team, U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor Demonstration Team, Pacific Air Forces C-17 Demonstration Team and U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds demonstration team.

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