Military Training Environments

Images depict military personnel navigating diverse environments, including a wooded area, training bases, and camouflage scenes, emphasizing tactical skills and operations.

Recruits with Hotel Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, complete the Crucible aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., April 7, 2022.The Crucible serves as the 54-hour culminating event of recruit training and offers recruits the ultimate challenge to persevere through a variety of obstacles and events.

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BELLOWS AIR FORCE STATION, Hawaii (July 26, 2022) An Australian Army Sniper from 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, patrols through bush land 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 Air Force Cpl. John Solomon)

A medium close up right side view of a wooden bunker alone the perimeter of Camp Kime, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Camp Kime Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

A Soldier from the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 110th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, move through the woods during a scout mission at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa., on August 3, 2022. The scouts rucked to an area where they moved to scout out the details and inform their higher headquarters in a scenario

Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France seen on the hohneck, the gresson, the gebweiler ball and defensive installations , 1917 - Alsace - Paul Castelnau (photographic section of the armies) - (June) (French - Haut-Rhin , Alsace , France Vue sur le Hohneck , le Gresson , le ballon de Gebweiler et installations défensives). Border, front, barbed wire, First World War, France, Alsace balloon, S, Le Hohneck, Le Gresson, Le Ballon de Gebweiler

Recruits with Hotel Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, complete the Crucible aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., April 7, 2022.The Crucible serves as the 54-hour culminating event of recruit training and offers recruits the ultimate challenge to persevere through a variety of obstacles and events.

An HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter, from the 920th Rescue Wing, Air Force Reserve, lands at Townsend Bombing Range, Georgia, to pick up U.S. Airmen from the 165th Air Support Operations Squadron, during exercise Sunshine Rescue on Jan. 24, 2023. During this exercise, Tactical Air Control Party (TACP) and Pararescue (Guardian Angel) Airmen will utilize advanced communication and command and control technologies interlinked with A-10C Thunderbolt II aircraft and HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters to simulate warfighting in highly contested environments.

Partially Buried Unexploded 82mm Mortar Round in Afghanistan's Helmand Province

U.S. Air Force Tactical Air Control Party specialists assigned to the 2d Air Support Operations Squadron out of Vilseck, Germany, set up camp near a ground base target during exercise Cobra Warrior 22 in England, Sept. 21, 2022. Exercise Cobra Warrior 22 develops tactical interoperability skills of participating Airmen, Allies and Partners through integrated cross-domain effects against a peer adversary.

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Reed Flory, staff weather officer from the 1st Combat Weather Squadron, Detachment 3, Fort Wainwright, Alaska, helps Senior Airman Crystian Gaudreault, staff weather officer from the 1st Combat Weather Squadron, Detachment 3, Fort Wainwright, Alaska, vault over the wall during the 2nd Annual International Combat Weather Airmen Competition: Thunder Challenge obstacle course event at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, Aug. 1, 2022. Flory and Gaudreault are both a part of the first place winning team.

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U.S. Marines with 2d Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division, use High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems as part of a HIMARS rapid infiltration drill during exercise Rolling Thunder on North Auxiliary Airfield, South Carolina Oct. 20, 2022. Rolling Thunder is a two-week training exercise that is conducted with the integration of French Artillerymen from 3d RAMa to increase 2d MarDivs combat readiness against a peer competitor through employing fires via simulated EABs.

The outer perimeter of the second camp at the memorial and museum at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oświęcim, Poland, Sept. 16, 2022. Soldiers with Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion of the 1st Infantry Division on rotation in Europe visited the site as part of an effort to develop a better understanding of significant historical events.

A U.S. Air Force Tactical Air Control Party specialist assigned to the 2d Air Support Operations Squadron out of Vilseck, Germany, hides in the shadows of thick brush while conducting reconnaissance during exercise Cobra Warrior 22 in England, Sept. 21, 2022. Cobra Warrior 22 provides valuable opportunities for all participating Force Elements to practice and develop tactics, techniques, and procedures in complex scenarios against a peer adversary.

A U.S. Air Force Tactical Air Control Party specialist assigned to the 2d Air Support Operations Squadron out of Vilseck, Germany, hides in the shadows of thick brush while conducting reconnaissance during exercise Cobra Warrior 22 in England, Sept. 21, 2022. Cobra Warrior 22 provides valuable opportunities for all participating Force Elements to practice and develop tactics, techniques, and procedures in complex scenarios against a peer adversary.

An Air Force Security Forces member takes cover from the rain in the medical tent of a training compound.

Sergio Matias Chontal-Harter participates in a simulated Army Combat Fitness Test with Fort McCoy Garrison Commander Col. Stephen Messenger on Feb. 12, 2024, at Fort McCoy, Wis. Matias, 6, interviewed Messenger as part of a school social studies project. Matias is the son of a Fort McCoy employee, and he also experienced what it's like to participate in the Army Combat Fitness Test and how to participate in retreat at the end of the duty day. Army

U.S. Soldiers with 1st Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division maneuver during platoon situational exercises at Bucierz Range, Drawsko Pomorskie, Poland, May 4, 2022, as the unit prepares for their participation in Defender 22. The 3/4th ABCT is among other units assigned to V Corps, Americas forward deployed corps in Europe that works alongside NATO allies and regional security partners to provide combat-credible forces.

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U.S Marines with 2d Combat Engineer Battalion, 2d Marine Division, plant explosives during a Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Aug. 29, 2022. The purpose of a MCCRE is to formally evaluate the units combat readiness in preparation for deployment.

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A Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk flies over Division Main during Command Post Exercise (CPX) 1, training area 24, Fort Carson Colorado, August 2, 2022. A CPX is the most common exercise used to train the battalion staff, subordinates, and supporting leaders to successfully plan, coordinate, synchronize, and exercise command and control (C2) over operations during mission execution.

Aircrafts - Sand Baggers - 26-HK-57-13. Digger truck operating on waterfront --050929. Hurricane Katrina

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U.S. Air Force Tactical Air Control Party specialists from the 18th Air Support Operations Group compete in Dragon Challenge 2022 at Pope Army Airfield, North Carolina. The annual competition is designed to identify the best Joint Terminal Attack Controller teams within the group by testing the competitors steadfast physical, technical, tactical, and field-knowledge skills under mocked combat conditions.

030110-F-1740G-001. Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Fuji State: Honshu Country: Japan (JPN) Scene Major Command Shown: AFNEWS

Dachau, Germany, April 2007 Detail of the Concentration Camp in Dachau, Germany Copyright: xZoonar.com/GiovannixGagliardix 1543785

Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Kenneth Leonard, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marines (2/24), conducts a contact patrol with other Corpsmen and Marines on July 22, 2022, during training on North Post at Fort McCoy, Wis. The 2/24 is an infantry battalion based out of Chicago consisting of approximately 1,000 Marines and Sailors. The battalion falls under the 23rd Marine Regiment and the 4th Marine Division. The 2/24 is holding annual training at Fort McCoy. (Photos by Scott Sturkol, Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office)

A Fort McCoy archaeology team member with the Colorado State Universitys (CSU) Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands who works in partnership with the Fort McCoy Directorate of Public Works Environmental Division Natural Resources Branch (NRB) looks for artifacts during an archaeological survey July 14, 2022, on South Post at Fort McCoy, Wis. For several weeks in July, Fort McCoy archaeological team members with NRB and CSU held a special archaeological survey and dig on South Post. The team did their survey in the South Post Housing Area, which also happens to be the oldest areas of the installations origins where Camp Robinson and Camp Emery-Upton once were located. In the actual location of the survey, however, the team was looking at areas around old concrete tent pads that were once part of Camp Robinson.

Marines with the 2nd Battalion, 24th Marines (2/24) complete M4 rifle qualification requirements July 26, 2022, on Range 18 on North Post at Fort McCoy, Wis. The 2/24 is an infantry battalion based out of Chicago consisting of approximately 1,000 Marines and Sailors. The battalion falls under the 24th Marine Regiment and the 4th Marine Division. The 2/24 was holding annual training at Fort McCoy.

Tourist Landmark of the Resistance, also known as Museum for Resistance Tourism, a war museum operated by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

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Reconstructed Boer wagon laager at site of Zulu-Boer Battle of Blood River, 16th December 1838

US Army Engineers, 2 Plt, B Co., 9th Engineers, destroyed this bunker located outside of Plesheim, Repulbic of Srpska. The US forces are in Bosnia in support of Operation Joint Guard. Operation Joint Guard is a peacekeeping effort by a multinational Implementation Force (IFOR), comprised of NATO and non-NATO military forces, deployed to Bosnia in support of the Dayton Peace Accords. from Camp Dobol, during Operation Joint Guard. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT GUARD Base: Plesheim Country: Republic Of Srpska

U.S. Air Force Tactical Air Control Party specialists from the 18th Air Support Operations Group compete in Dragon Challenge 2022 at Pope Army Airfield, North Carolina. The annual competition is designed to identify the best Joint Terminal Attack Controller teams within the group by testing the competitors steadfast physical, technical, tactical, and field-knowledge skills under mocked combat conditions.

A U.S. Marine with 3d Battalion, 3d Marines, 3d Marine Division holds security during Resolute Dragon 22 at Shikaribetsu Maneuver Area, Hokkaido, Japan, Oct. 5, 2022. Resolute Dragon 22 is a bilateral exercise to strengthen the defensive capabilities of the U.S.-Japan Alliance by exercising integrated command and control, targeting, combined arms, and maneuver across multiple domains.

Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge - New Orleans Flood Operations - 26-HK-401-17. Hurricane Katrina

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A U.S. Army Soldier assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade untangles a parachute from trees following a heavy airdrop of a HMMWV and M119 105 mm howitzer into the Joint Multinational Readiness Center during Saber Junction 22 in Hohenfels, Germany, Sep. 8, 2022. Saber Junction 22 is a multinational rotational exercise designed to assess the readiness of the 173rd Airborne Brigade to execute unified land operations in a joint, combined environment and to promote interoperability with more than 4,500 participants from the U.S. and allied and partner nations at the U.S. Armys Grafenwoehr and Hohenfels training areas.

Explosive handlers at Crane Army Ammunition Activity load a railcar for an outgoing shipment. As Crane Armys directorate that is responsible for the reception, storage and shipment of all munitions, Depot Operations play a major role in the organization's readiness mission.

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050703-A-1906W-018. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Tallil Area Office Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: USACE

U.S. Marines with 3d Battalion, 3d Marines construct concealment for snipers during Fuji Viper 22.5 at Combined Arms Training Center, Camp Fuji, Japan, Sept. 7, 2022. Exercise Fuji Viper exemplifies a commitment to realistic training that produces lethal, ready, and adaptable forces capable of decentralized operations across a wide range of missions. 3/3 is forward deployed in the Indo-Pacific under 4th Marines, 3d Marine Division as part of the Unit Deployment Program.

The 108th SFS (Security Forces Squadron) are on the Fort Dix Range Complex on Range 32 completing their Field I and Fire II training. This unit home station is located on JB MDL. (photographs were taken by the TSC / Daniel Amburg)

010725-A-8689B-003. Base: Fort Lewis State: Washington (WA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: FORSCOM

Members of FEMA's National Incident Management Assistance Team West spent a sunny February morning participating in a Land Navigation/Orienteering Course. Ten of the team's 30 members spent two hours running through the southern California-based course that prompted them to use maps, compasses and lessons learned from a recent map reading class.. MARTINEZ, CALIF: Members of FEMA's National Incident Management Assistance Team West spent a sunny February morning participating in a Land Navigation/Orienteering Course. Ten of the team's 30 members spent two hours running throughthe southern California-basedcourse that prompted them to use maps, compasses and lessons learned from a recent map reading class.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

A member of the 71st Civil Support Team (Weapons of Mass Destruction) performs an initial site survey at a train derailment during exercise Vigilant Guard, a training exercise in Des Moines, Iowa, THursday, June 18, 2009. Vigilant Guard is a large scale training exercise that brings together National Guard units and local civilian agencies and allows for a realistic disaster-type training scenario.

Damage done to a pheassant pen by poachers

Competitors participate in a 12-mile Ruck March during the 2022 National Guard Bureau Region 2 Best Warrior Competition, held May 17-20, 2022, at Camp Dawson, Kingwood, West Virginia. The Best Warrior Competition is a physically and mentally challenging three-day competition that tests competitors on a wide range of technical and tactical skills relevant to todays combat operating environment. Region 2 consists of competitors from Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. Regional winners from across the nation will advance to compete at the national-level competition this summer.

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Military housing for soldiers lead by George Washington during the American Revolution at Valley Forge, PA

Barbed wire fence and watchtowers at Natzweiler-Struthof, the only concentration camp established by the Nazis on French territory, Alsace, France, Europe

Freedom Bridge crossing the Imjin River between North and South Korea at Demilitarized Zone, Imjingak, South Korea

Marines with the 2nd Battalion, 24th Marines (2/24) complete M4 rifle qualification requirements July 26, 2022, on Range 18 on North Post at Fort McCoy, Wis. The 2/24 is an infantry battalion based out of Chicago consisting of approximately 1,000 Marines and Sailors. The battalion falls under the 24th Marine Regiment and the 4th Marine Division. The 2/24 was holding annual training at Fort McCoy.

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Army Sgt. Zachary Scuncio, a military police officer with the Rhode Island Army National Guards 169th Military Police Company, navigates an obstacle on the Camp Ripley, Minn., confidence course while competing in the 2017 Army National Guard Best Warrior Competition, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. The competition is a mentally and physically challenging three-day event that tests Soldiers on a variety of tactical and technical skills to determine the Army Guards Soldier and noncommissioned of the year. The winners move on to compete in the Department of the Army Best Warrior Competition, battling it out with Soldiers from throughout the Army to be named the Armys Soldier and NCO of the year.

U.S. Soldiers assigned to 173rd Airborne Brigade pull security and maintain fighting positions during Saber Junction 22 in Hohenfels, Germany, Sept. 12, 2022. Saber Junction 22 is a multinational rotational exercise designed to assess the readiness of the U.S. Armys 173rd Airborne Brigade to execute unified land operations in a joint, combined environment and to promote interoperability with more than 4,500 participants from the U.S. and Allied and partner nations at the U.S. Armys Grafenwoehr and Hohenfels training areas.

Soldiers from 1ST Battalion, 508th Infantry (Airborne), deploy along the crest of a hill during an exercise. Base: Fort Amador Country: Panama (PAN)

Report on a rescue device specializing in difficult mountain access. Rescuers intervene with another team to rescue a man found on the side of the road. He has impaired consciousness and a weak Glasgow.

Senior Master Sgt. Frank Perry, 157th Air Refueling Wing Ground and Munitions Safety, New Hampshire Air National Guard, sets off an M18 colored hand grenade to an simulate enemy attack during a multi-day military readiness exercise at Pease Air National Guard Base, Newington, N.H., May 12-15. The exercise tested the wing's ability to deploy and operate in a contested environment.

M-42 'Duster' self-propelled anti-aircraft vehicle parked in a revetment somewhere in South Korea.

030526-M-4547R-020. Subject Operation/Series: COBRA GOLD 2003 Base: Fort Ban Can Khrem Country: Thailand (THA) Scene Major Command Shown: 9ESB

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970129-F-2829R-512. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT GUARD Base: Tuzla Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 206th Field Artillery Regiment medics provide medical care to Charlie Battery 1-206th in a simulated mass casualty evacuation exercise on June 11, 2022. Simulated training events such as these allow Soldiers to perform routine medical care in a controlled and realistic environment.

U.S. Army Pfc. Henry Krebs, an infantryman with 101st Airborne Division, throws an RQ-11 Raven drone into the air during a familiarization training at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center near Hohenfels, Germany on Dec. 12, 2022. During the training, Soldiers learned how launch, fly, and land drones in a field environment.

U.S. Soldiers assigned to Viper Company, 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), fire an M224 60 mm mortar system as part of a fire mission in support of the companys maneuver during a multinational live-fire exercise held at Rovaniemi Training Area, Finland, Aug. 11, 2022. The LFX was part of the Finnish Summer Exercise, where U.S. and Finnish troops had the opportunity to train together to amplify and strengthen the partnership and interoperability between the two nations.

Protection of the field hypothesis battalions 6/204.

Air Force Military Training School (Limos) Camouflage exercise in the field.

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Joseph Cooper, a garrison public affairs photographer, takes photos at Fort Stewart, Georgia, Feb. 15, 2024. U.S. Army civilians play a major role in the U.S. Military, and fill a variety of positions. Army

Camouflaged jet transmitter during an exercise. In the background, soldiers leave a balloon with equipment for connections or meteo. (= Weather forecast)

The Auschwitz concentration camp, Oswiecim, Poland.

Recruits with Lima Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, conduct the Confidence Course on Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., Feb. 21, 2024. After demonstrations, recruits complete various physically and mentally challenging obstacles. Marine Corps

Katrina - General - 26-HK-408-64. Hurricane Katrina

Squad 10, representing Maneuver Support Center of Excellence, low crawl during an event on day 3 of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command Best Squad Competition 2022, Sept, 14, 2022, at Fort Benning, Georgia. TRADOCs Best Squad competition highlights 10 squads from across the enterprise. This competition shows each team's ability to complete common Soldier tasks and skills as a cohesive, ready, and resilient team, while facing stiff competition from other TRADOC centers of excellence. The competition is from Sept. 12-16, 2022, at Fort Benning, Georgia.

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U.S. Marines with 2d Reconnaissance Battalion, 2d Marine Division, approach their extraction point as part of Marine Rotational Forces Europe 23.1 in Setermoen, Norway Feb. 9, 2023. MRF-E focuses on regional engagements throughout Europe by conducting various exercises, mountain-warfare training, and military-to- military engagements which enhance overall interoperability of the U.S. Marine Corps with allies and partners.

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