Naval Operations and Training

Images related to naval operations, construction, and maintenance activities, featuring soldiers in practical training and facility improvements.

(220526-N-OI810-0963) KEY WEST, Florida (May 26, 2022) Logistics Specialist 1st Class Donovan Amos, from Knoxville, Tennessee, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 14, marks drywall during an office space installation in the Central Processing Facility of Joint Interagency Task Force (JIATF) South, at Naval Air Station Key West (NASKW), May 26, 2016. Seabees assigned to NMCB-14 travelled to NASKW to perform on-site training and assist with facility and compound maintenance. NMCB-14 provides advance base construction, battle damage repair, contingency engineering, humanitarian assistance and disaster recovery support to our fleet and unified commanders.

(220526-N-OI810-0963) KEY WEST, Florida (May 26, 2022) Logistics Specialist 1st Class Donovan Amos, from Knoxville, Tennessee, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 14, marks drywall during an office space installation in the Central Processing Facility of Joint Interagency Task Force (JIATF) South, at Naval Air Station Key West (NASKW), May 26, 2016. Seabees assigned to NMCB-14 travelled to NASKW to perform on-site training and assist with facility and compound maintenance. NMCB-14 provides advance base construction, battle damage repair, contingency engineering, humanitarian assistance and disaster recovery support to our fleet and unified commanders.

Search and Rescue Operations - Helicopter - 26-HK-261-41. Hurricane Katrina

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides to Boston, Massachusetts, for tour of harbor and the historic U.S. Naval vessel, U.S.S. Constitution

The Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft is seen shortly after it landed with Expedition 57 crew members Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA, Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency), and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018. Auñón-Chancellor, Gerst, and Prokopyev are returning after 197 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 56 and 57 crews onboard the International Space Station.

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Salvage Engineering Response Team - Empire and Pogeys - 26-HK-355-5. Hurricane Katrina

030407-M-3138H-014. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Excellence-In-Competition participants look at their target paper during an EIC pistol contest at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, May 16, 2022. The top 10 percent of competitors received a bronze EIC pistol badge.

030410-M-5753Q-018. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Qa Dawi, Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: 7th Marines

Coast Guard Damage - 26-HK-328-134. Hurricane Katrina

Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 772 - 26-HK-334-146. Hurricane Katrina

DN-SC-85-01047. Base: Washington State: District Of Columbia (DC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Soviet military supplies seized during the multi-service, multinational Operation URGENT FURY. Subject Operation/Series: URGENT FURY Country: Grenada (GRD)

Maintenance and Logistics Commands Atlantic - Property Inventory Team - Station Sabine - 26-HK-194-29. Hurricane Katrina

Hinges on back hatch of armored personal carrier on display in public park

The heavy dump truck arrives in Michigan with a backup camera and cabin monitor. The 1434th Engineer Company, Michigan National Guard, fielded the dump trucks April 14, 2022, in Lansing, Mich., becoming one of the first Army units to receive the technologically advanced vehicle.

Dog tags sit inside a firefighter helmet during the 9/11 tower run at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Sept. 9, 2022. The tower run competition is a timed relay style event with four member teams or individuals. Each team member climbs nine flights of stairs while wearing a self-contained breathing apparatus air pack. The members go one at a time, rotating off and on until each member has climbed and descended the stairs three times. By the end, each team collectively climbed 110 floors, equivalent to the stairs climbed by first-responders at the World Trade Center during 9/11.

A robotic platform navigates an improvised explosive device obstacle course at the Air Force EOD Team of the Year Grand Finale competition held at Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, Indiana, July 25-27, 2022. Hosted by the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center, the competition seeks to drive innovation, restore readiness, and develop and retain leaders within the EOD career field.

Toy Solider Behind Matchstick Barricade

U.S. Marine Cpl. Ty Smith, a rifleman with Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, posts security during Steel Knight 23 at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Dec. 7, 2022. Steel Knight is an annual combined arms live-fire exercise which ensures 1st MARDIV is optimized for naval expeditionary warfare in contested spaces, and is purpose-built to facilitate future operations afloat and ashore. Smith is a native of Queen Creek, Arizona.

041211-M-2583M-085. Base: Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Soldiers quarters with camp beds, inside Fort George; 18th-century fortress, north-east of Inverness in Scotland, built in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745, replacing a Fort George in Inverness constructed after the 1715 Jacobite rising to control the area.

A reflection of a member of the 509th Security Forces can be seen in the under-vehicle mirror used to check the underside of vehicles entering and leaving the priority A area in which B-2 bombers are parked during the joint military exercise GLOBAL GUARDIAN '98. Subject Operation/Series: GLOBAL GUARDIAN '98 Base: Whiteman Air Force Base State: Missouri (MO) Country: United States Of America (USA)

U.S. Army Utah National Guard Detachment 2, Company C, 1st General Support Aviation Battalion, 171st Aviation Regiment from West Jordan, Utah, practices wildland firefighting by dropping water over West Jordon, Utah, April 17, 2012. Firefighting aircraft means support of the firefighters on the ground fromaircraft in the air. Aircraft can access steep, rocky or unsafe areas beforeground forces are able to gain entry.

Illustrated Tale of the Heiji Civil War (The Imperial Visit to Rokuhara) 1 scroll by Anonymous / Tokyo National Museum/ 13th century/ Japan/ Watercolour and ink on paper/ The Oriental Arts/ 42,2x952,9/ History

Crates of ammunition are stacked inside an insulated section of a pre-positioning cave used to store U.S. Marine Corps equipment. Country: Norway (NOR)

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to Pima County, Arizona's border area with Mexico, where he joined U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel for meetings, tours, flights, inspections

Bullet casings lie on the ground as U.S. Air Force Airmen look at their targets at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, July 13, 2022. Airmen must demonstrate quality safety standards while handling and shooting their weapons proficiently to be eligible to deploy.

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An interior shot of an AN/TSC-93B (Tactical Satellite Communication System). This system is operated by the 6th Communications Battalion, New York City, NY and is providing satellite communications for the base camp. Baltic Challenge '97 is a multinational exercise conducted in the spirit of NATO's Partnership for Peace (PfP) initiative. More than 2600 military personnel from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, and the USA will participate in the second PfP land exercise conducted in the Baltic region. While this exercise will conduct training along peacekeeping/humanitarian assistance mission standards, significant US Navy and Marine Corps capabilities never .... Complete Scene Caption: An interior shot of an AN/TSC-93B (Tactical Satellite Communication System). This system is operated by the 6th Communications Battalion, New York City, NY and is providing satellite communications for the base camp. Baltic Challenge '97 is a multinational exercise conducted

030413-M-3138H-006. Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Baghdad Country: Iraq (IRQ)

220915-N-VC924-1123 PORTSMOUTH, Va. (Sept. 15, 2022) Sailors prepare for JP-5 fueling aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). Ike is currently pierside at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in the maintenance phase of the optimized fleet response plan (OFRP).

Line of Abandoned Artillery Pieces

Plexiglass dome covering the slewing sight on battleship gun fire-control system on display public park

040105-F-9629J-004. Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: AMC

U.S. Air Force Airmen, assigned to the Ohio National Guards 180th Fighter Wing, transports a pallet of cargo during a large-scale readiness inspection, Aug. 8, 2022, at the base in Swanton, Ohio. The Airmen are part of the Arrival and Departure Airfield Control Group, whose primary function is to properly weigh, preform center of balance calculations, and ensure hazardous cargo is safe for flight. The exercise was a full-scale assessment of the rapid generation and movement of personnel and equipment, utilizing a 24-hour operation concept. The wing was evaluated on its ability to pack, prepare and deploy mission-ready personnel, aircraft and support equipment, while operating in a contested and degraded environment.

Airmen assigned to the 437th Airlift Wing, stationed at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, and 509th Bomb Wing, stationed at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, conduct a specialized fuel operation from a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III to a U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit at Edwards Air Force Base, California, Dec. 1, 2022. The SFO marks the first time a C-17 refueled a B-2, increasing flexibility for the bomber to conduct agile combat employment operations.

A891073 U12P DISKO ELM BUTTON UP SHOTS BEDEAUX (Project Engineer) SEP 7 89 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 9/7/1989 BUTTON UP; BUTTON UP SHOTS; DISKO ELM; DISKO ELM TEST; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; INSTRUMENTS AND EQUIPMENT; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; P-TUNNEL; TEST SITES; TUNNELS; UGT; UNDERGROUND; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WEAPONS EFFECTS; WIRE & CABLES historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

A view of the enlisted berthing area aboard the heavy cruiser USS BOSTON (CA-69) as Fire Control Technician Third Class (FTM3) "Mac" McDaniel takes a break, during the ships transit to Vietnam. Country: Unknown

Coast Guard Station - Venice, Louisiana - 26-HK-347-15. Hurricane Katrina

A view of fin assemblies prior to being fitted onto 500 pound bombs during Exercise SALTY ROOSTER. Subject Operation/Series: SALTY ROOSTER Base: Hahn Air Base Country: Federal Republic Of Germany (FRG)

WA, Arlington, Arlington Fly-in, World War II military show.

041116-M-2583M-009. Base: Camp Fallujah State: Al Anbar Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: I MARDIV

Great Lakes Search and Rescue Detachment - 26-HK-143-38. Hurricane Katrina

A close up photograph of a Kodak DCS620 w/ NIKON F5 camera body operated by Combat Photographers and Public Affairs Marines of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) at Khandahar International Airport, Khandahar, Afghanistan during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM. Note that the hinged cover that protects the battery and PCMICA card area has been broken and replaced with a piece of duct tape. 550 Cord is used to secure the battery and PCMCIA cards in their slots. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar International Airport Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: 26th MEU (SOC)

A C-17 Globemaster III aircraft assigned to the 437th Airlift Wing receives fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft assigned to the 6th Air Refueling Wing during the 6th ARW Agile Combat Employment capstone exercise, 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.

Coast Guard Stations - 26-HK-333-72. ATC Mobile Damage. Hurricane Katrina

U.S. Airmen assigned to the 48th Equipment Maintenance Squadron repair and reclamation section work together to secure an aircraft using a turfer at Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, Jan. 2, 2024. The Crash, Damaged or Disabled Aircraft Recovery program ensures members are ready and postured to provide the Liberty Wing with emergency crash response and recovery capabilities.

DA-SC-85-01204. Base: Arlington State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION FUTENMA, OKINAWA, Japan - Marines with the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, III Marine Expeditionary Force, load palettes of food, water and medical supplies into a KC-130J Super Hercules aircraft on the Marine Corps Air Station Futenma flight line March 12 to provide assistance in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan, March 11. The aircraft carries more than 8,600 pounds of supplies to assist the victims of the disaster. Marines will work through the night loading planes with more supplies and personnel to be delivered to affected areas. The proximity of Marine aviation assets at MCAS Futenma has allowed Marines from III MEF to rapidly deploy critically-needed supplies and aid to areas that need it most.

DM-ST-88-09860. Base: Quantico State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Maintenance and Logistics Commands Atlantic - Property Inventory Team - Stennis - 26-HK-195-3. Hurricane Katrina

A United States Army paratrooper of the 1/508th Infantry Airborne Combat Team (ABCT), 173rd Airborne Regiment, from Vicenza, Italy, stands in the door of a C-130 from the 37th Airlift Squadron, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, for a drop into Bunker Drop Zone at Grafenwohr, Germany for Lion Drop 12, 9 August 2000. (Duplicate image, see also DF-SD-01-02137 or search 000809-F-4406B-511). Subject Operation/Series: LION DROP 12 Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)

The UXO Lao Visitor Centre in Luang Prabang. Luang Prabang, Laos, November 2016.The UXO Lao Visitor Centre

Manacles in an underground holding pen for 50 slaves in the old Slave Market, Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania.

240129-N-LR905-3132LITTLE FALLS, Minn. (Jan. 29, 2024) - U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Technicians assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group (EODGRU) 2 conduct Helicopter Rope Suspension Techniques (HRST) training in a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter with Minnesota National Guards 2nd Battalion, 147th Aviation Regiment as part of Snow Crab Exercise 24-1. SNOWCRABEX is an annual exercise designed to test and evaluate U.S. Navy EOD and Navy Divers capabilities and equipment in a simulated arctic environment and improve combat effectiveness. Navy EOD and Navy Divers are part of the Navy Expeditionary Combat Force (NECF), enabling the U.S. Navy Fleet by clearing and protecting the battlespace.

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Claudia Hernandez, an aircraft maintenance support equipment mechanic with Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron (MALS) 36, Marine Aircraft Group 36, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, inspects a flood light in preparation for Korean Marine Exchange Program 24.1 at Chinhae Naval Base, South Korea, Feb. 15, 2024. KMEP is a bilateral training exercise that increases interoperability and strengthens the combined capabilities of Republic of Korea Marines and U.S. Marines. Hernandez is native of Orem, Utah. Marine Corps

A U.S. Army paratrooper assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade Brigade provides route security with a vehicle mounted M2 Browning .50 caliber machine gun at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany as part of Exercise Saber Junction 22, Sept. 8, 2022.Saber Junction 22 is a multinational rotational exercise designed to assess the readiness of the U.S. Army's 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. Army's Grafenwoehr and Hohenfels training areas from August 29 to September 20, 2022. The 173rd Airborne Brigade is the U.S. Army's Contingency Response Force in Europe, providing rapidly deployable forces to the United States European, African, and Central Command areas of responsibility. Forward deployed across Italy and Germany, the brigade routinely trains alongside NATO allies and partners to bui

U.S. Marines with 2d Reconnaissance Battalion, 2d Marine Division, conducts an eight-mile movement on skis during cold weather training on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Dec. 3, 2022. This training was conducted to enhance the units combat effectiveness in extreme cold weather as they prepare for an upcoming deployment to Marine Corps Forces Europe-Africa theater of operations.

U.S. Marine Corps explosive ordnance disposal specialists with 9th Engineer Support Battalion, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, granulate Composition H6 during a demolition range at the Central Training Area, Okinawa, Japan, Nov. 16, 2022. Marines conducted an advanced demolitions range to evaluate different shape charge explosive effects and perform post blast analysis.

On board the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73) underway in the Arabian Sea. Fireman Russell Legett, USN, inspects and inventories chemical protective garments before being issued to the crew members of the GEORGE WASHINGTON. All crew members will receive equipment issue and training for chemical and biological warfare prior to entering the Persian Gulf. Following a Presidential order to head for the Persian Gulf region, elements of the GEORGE WASHINGTON battle group led by the carrier left their regularly scheduled station in the Mediterranean and began a 7 day passage to the Gulf. GEORGE WSHINGTON will join the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS NIMITZ .... Complete Scene Caption: On board the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73) underway in the Arabian Sea. Fireman Russell Legett, USN, inspects and inventories chemical protective garments before being issued to the crew members of the GEORGE WASHINGTON. All crew members wil

(Left) Airmen 1st Class Devin Hewitt and Stephen Barker inspect and pack a few back automatic-22 parachutes at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., August 10, 2009. The parachutes are inspected and repacked every 180 days. Both Airmen are assigned to the 28th Operations Support Squadron as aircrew flight equipment apprentices.

A degraded light fixture picture at Smoke Bomb Hill is shown to members of the media during the XVIII Airborne Corps media day on Sept. 8 2022, at Fort Bragg, N.C. The XVIII Airborne Corps hosted eight media outlets allowing them to tour the affected Smoke Bomb Hill barracks, as well as the more suitable barracks our Soldiers are being relocated. Fort Bragg is committed to increasing funding, hiring and training of maintenance personnel at Fort Bragg and across installations to address a trend in degraded preventive maintenance within barracks.

221001-N-MU675-2109 PACIFIC OCEAN (Oct. 1, 2022) Gunners Mate 1st Class Cliff Johnson, right, from Cottonwood, Calif., operates an M240 service machine gun on the fantail of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Abraham Lincoln is underway conducting routine operations in U.S. 3rd Fleet.

041011-A-9531S-075. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Bagram Airfield State: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

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DF-ST-89-07683. Base: Dover Air Force Base State: Delaware (DE) Country: United States Of America (USA)

030825-F-3217C-004. Base: Tyndall Air Force Base State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

French 75 mm field gun, Canon de 75 modele 1897 in the First World War One Fort de Vaux at Vaux-Devant-Damloup, Lorraine, Battle of Verdun, France, Europe

DN-SC-87-10697. Base: Marinette State: Wisconsin (WI) Country: United States Of America (USA)

U.S. Marines with 3d Battalion, 2d Marines fire a Mark 19 40 mm grenade machine gun during Exercise Shinka 22.1 at Combined Arms Training Center, Camp Fuji, Japan, June 23, 2022. Shinka exemplifies a shared commitment to realistic training that produces lethal, ready, and adaptable forces capable of decentralized operations across a wide range of missions. 3/2 is forward deployed in the Indo-Pacific under 4th Marines, 3d Marine Division as part of the Unit Deployment Program.

A closeup view of control mechanisms on the Model 1101 missile crew member chair, developed by AMI Industries. The chair is situated at a control inside a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile silo. Base: Malstrom Air Force Base State: Montana(MT) Country: United States Of America(USA)

ATLANTIC OCEAN (Sept. 25, 2012) Engineman 3rd Class Nahun Rodriguez reaches up to close a scuttle during a general quarters drill aboard the guided missile cruiser USS Gettysburg (CG 64). Gettysburg is on its way to take part in Exercise Joint Warrior off the coast of Scotland.

Master stretch on unidentified Ardillon and unidentified punch. A row of stones.

Two Marines from the 2nd Landing Support Battalion pull in the parachute from cargo that was dropped on Landing Zone Albatross from a CH-53E Sea Stallion helicopter for a cargo drop excercise during the MCCREE field excercise. The 6th Marine Regiment conducted a MCCREE ( Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation) for the 1ST Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment. A MCCREE encompasses an evaluation of the overall readiness skills of an infantry battalion. Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A steel plate is dented by a shape charge during an Explosive Ordnance Disposal range in preparation for exercise Freezing Winds 22 in Syndalen, Finland, Oct. 4, 2022. Task Force Red Cloud, headquartered by elements of Combat Logistics Battalion 6, Combat Logistics Regiment 2, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, is deployed to Finland in support of Exercises SYD 2022 and Freezing Winds 2022 to enhance U.S. and Finnish select interdependence in the maritime domain; solidify bilateral maritime maneuver within the Finnish littoral environment; and foster strong relationships between U.S. Marine Corps and Finnish Defense Force sustainment units.

Termites crawl through the wooden beams that held up the roof of Miss Bunnam Inproms home at Chanthaburi, Kingdom of Thailand, March 2, 2023. U.S. Marines and partner nations teamed up to build a new roof for Inproms home, which was destroyed by termites. Marine Wing Support Squadron (MWSS) 171 and MWSS-172 participated in the 42nd iteration of the Cobra Gold series of exercises, where they lended their engineering expertise to multilateral humanitarian efforts.

The 45th Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal team conducts a counter improvised explosive device training for local law enforcement agencies at U.S. Space Force Malabar Annex, Fla., June 23, 2022. The training enhanced interoperability with local bomb squads and allowed the teams to share knowledge and tactics with each other.

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Brett Abrahamson, an aerial gunner with the 73rd Special Operations Squadron, loads 105mm ammo on an AC-130-J Ghostrider gunship before a live-fire mission during Emerald Warrior 22.1, at Hurlburt Field, Florida, May 2, 2022. Emerald Warrior is the largest joint special operations exercise involving U.S. Special Operations Command forces training to respond to various threats across the spectrum of conflict.

A view of a damaged MOLLE (MOdular Lightweight Load-Carrying Equipment) pack used by a Marine with Kilo Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) (MEU(SOC)) at the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Kandahar International Airport Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: 26 MEU

DN-SD-03-12727. Country: Pacific Ocean (POC) Scene Major Command Shown: CINCPACFLT

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