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U.S. Marines with Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 2d

U.S. Army STAFF SGT. Jorge Davila from Yokota Air Base Japan handles his K-9 unit Kabo during a search operation in an open field in Tikrit, Iraq on Feb. 23, 2006. Davila is attached to 3rd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery, 101st Division. The operation was conducted by the Iraqi Army and U.S. soldiers from the 101st Division in search for weapon caches.(U.S. Army photo by SPC. Teddy Wade) (Released)

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A joint service security force made up of US Army (USA) Military Police (MP) and US Air Force (USAF) Security Police (SP) armed with 5.56mm M16A2 rifles and a M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) with a M2HB .50 caliber machine gun mounted on top, provide security at a forward deployed air base in Southwest Asia, in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

Armed and ready with a 5.56 mm M16A2 rifle, SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Trevor Fisher, 2nd Security Forces Squadron (SFS), guards the Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, flightline entry control point (ECP) during the base activation in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM on 21 September 2001. The extra measure was initiated in response to the terrorist attacks on World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001

US Air Force (USAF) Security Police (SP) assigned to the 379th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron (ESFS), use a M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), equipped with a 7.62mm M60 general purpose machine gun to patrol the flight line during a sand storm, at a forward deployed base during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Derek Walters (left) and USAF SRA Carlos Hernandez, 384th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron (ESFS), stand next to their M1025 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) as they guard the flightline at a forward deployed location during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. Both Security Policemen are armed with 5.56 mm M16A2 assault rifles

US Air Force (USAF) personnel from the 447th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron (ESFS) form up for "Guard Mount" where they carefully check their Colt 5.56mm M16A2 Assault Rifles at the Baghdad International Airport (BIA). Security Forces personnel are deployed at the BIA in support Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Air Force (USAF) Security Police (SP) armed with 5.56mm M16A2 rifles guard USAF E-3C Sentry Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft, on the flight line at Incirlik Air Base (AB), Turkey, while deployed in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH. Pictured left-to-right, USAF STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) John Duly, 175th Fighter Wing (FW); USAF SSGT Paul Evans, 172nd FW; and USAF AIRMAN First Class (A1C) Shelly Byers, 325th FW

US Air Force (USAF) Security Police (SP) assigned to the 341st Space Wing (SW), armed with a 5.56mm M16A2 rifles, search and detain an intruder captured during the Launch Facility (LF) Recapture portion of the Nuclear Surety Inspection (NSI) Exercise, at Malmstrom Air Force Base (AFB), Montana (MT)

A US Air Force (USAF) Security Police (SP) assigned to the 341st Space Wing (SW) grounds his 5.56mm M16A2 rifle as he attempts to spot enemy locations during the Launch Facility (LF) Recapture portion of the Nuclear Surety Inspection (NSI) Exercise, at Malmstrom Air Force Base (AFB), Montana (MT)

Walking the line a Security Policeman, 117th Security Forces Squadron (SFS), keeps his 5.56 mm M16A2 rifle at the ready should anyone try to cross the red line: the flightline restricted area boundary. The 117th SFSs primary mission to protect the 117th Air Refueling Wing (ARW), Birmingham, Alabama Air National Guard, KC-135 Stratotankers in the background

A US Air Force Security Police (SP) armed with a 5.56mm M16A2 rifle provides airfield security for a International Red Cross (IRC) Beechcraft 1900 Executive-Liner aircraft, as supplies are offloaded at Baghdad International Airport (BIAP), during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The IRC aircraft is the first civilian aircraft that landed on the commercial runway sense the start of the Operation

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Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM

Base: Baghdad International Airport

Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Cherie A. Thurlby, USAF

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Iraq War aka Operation IRAQI FREEDOM was the 2003 invasion of Iraq, led by U.S. Army General Tommy Franks, under the code-name "Operation Iraqi Freedom". 248,000 soldiers from the United States, 45,000 British soldiers, 2,000 Australian soldiers and 194 Polish soldiers from Special Forces unit GROM sent to Kuwait for the invasion. The invasion force was also supported by Iraqi Kurdish militia troops, estimated to number upwards of 70,000.

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LT Eric Hansen, the medical officer of the tank landing ship USS BARNSTABLE COUNTY (LST-1197), watches as a West African officer adjusts his camera as they pull into Pointe Noire for the first port call of the 1991 West Africa Training Cruise. Several officers from West African nations traveled aboard the BARNSTABLE COUNTY as observers during its journey from Brazil to the Congo at the start of the annual cruise

US Army (USA) Sergeant (SGT) Cody Baldwin, flight medic, 1042nd Medical Company (Air Ambulance), Oregon Army National Guard (ANG), trains German Army members assigned to the Kabul Multinational Brigade Hospital, Kabul, Afghanistan, in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

Kazakhstan paratroopers are first into the drop zone as part of an international mass jump. Paratroopers from Kazakhstan, the United States and Turkey are descending into Kazakhstan to prepare for the the start of the Central Asian Peacekeeping Battalion (CENTRASBAT) 2000. The CENTRASBAT 2000 exercise is a multi-national, in the Spirit of Partnership for Peace, peacekeeping and humanitarian relief exercise sponsored by United States Central Command (US CENTCOM) and hosted by the former Soviet Republic Kazakhstan in Central Asia, 11-20 September 2000. Exercise participants include approximately 300 U. S. troops including personnel from US CENTCOM, from the US Army's 82nd Airborne Division...

US Air Force (USAF) 447th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron (ECES) disassembles the 447th Expeditionary Services Squadron (ESS) clamshell tent recreation center at Baghdad International Airport (BIA), Iraq (IRQ), in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Suzanne Jenkins, Aerial Photographer, 1ST Combat Camera Squadron (CCS), takes photographs over Iraq from a UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Air Force (USAF) Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Richard D. Baldwin, Air Force Forces (AFFOR) Director STAFF, renders a salute during the opening Ceremony of Cobra Gold 2004 at Korat, Thailand (THA). More than 13,500 US personnel will participate in the exercise alongside 6,000 members of the Royal Thai Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force

Kazakhstan paratroopers are first into the drop zone as part of an international mass jump. Paratroopers from Kazakhstan, the United States and Turkey are descending into Kazakhstan to prepare for the the start of CENTRASBAT 2000. The Central Asian Peacekeeping Battalion exercise CENTRASBAT 2000 is a multi-national peacekeeping and humanitarian relief exercise sponsored by U.S. CENTCOM and hosted by the former the Soviet Republic Kazakhstan in Central Asia. Exercise participants include approximately 300 U.S. troops including personnel from U.S. CENTCOM, from the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and 5th Special Forces Group, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and ...

Troops from Training Companies 1 and 6 (consisting of US and multi-national military personnel) conduct convoy operations at Davis Airfield during Final Training Exercise III, as part of Exercise COOPERATIVE OSPREY '96. FTX III consists of Airfield Security, Convoy Operations and Humanitarian Assistance Operations. COOPERATIVE OSPREY is a United States Atlantic Command sponsored exercise, conducted by Marine Forces Atlantic at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. COOPERATIVE OSPREY, under the Partnership for Peace (PfP) program, will provide interoperability training in peacekeeping and humanitarian operations along NATO/IFOR standards, with an emphasis on individual and collective skills....

CMSGT Danny Awalt briefs a participant prior to the start of the M-2 burner assembly event, part of the civil engineering/services competition Readiness Challenge '90

Chairman of the USO (United Service Organizations) World Board of Governors John Gottshalk (left), National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) driver Mike Wallace, World Wrestling Entertainment star Kurt Engle, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of STAFF (JCS) US Air Force (USAF) General Richard Myers, Model Leeann Tweeden and comedian Robin Williams (right) arrive at Baghdad International Airport (BIAP) to entertain US troops deployed to Iraq in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Air Force (USAF) MASTER Sergeant (MSGT) Keitt, 447th Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility (CASF), holds the stretcher as they move a patient from the CASF onto a C-141 Starlifter cargo aircraft for a flight to Germany from Camp Sather, Baghdad International Airport, Iraq for further treatment during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

LEFT NACELLE AND PROPELLER OF THE BEECHCRAFT TWIN BONANZA AIRPLANE OWNED BY THE MOHICAN AIR SERVICE

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