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A Partnership For Peace soldier, armed with an AKMS assault rifle with the multiple integrated laser engagement system (MILES) attached, takes a knee after spotting the enemy on a patrol at the Joint Readiness Training Center

A US Army (USA) 25th Infantry Division (Light) Soldier wears Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) gear and carries an 5.56mm M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) during exercise rehearsals at the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC), Fort Polk, Louisiana (LA)

Opposing Forces (OPFOR) soldiers armed with M16 rifles, equipped with the Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES), during an exercise at the Joint Readiness Training Center

A Partnership For Peace soldier, armed with an AK-47 rifle that is equipped with the multiple integrated laser engagement system (MILES), leads his squad on a patrol at the Joint Readiness Training Center

An aggressor, equipped with the Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES), participates in security police training. The M16 rifle being used is equipped with part of the MILES

A close-up view of a Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) transmitter, which can be fitted on a rifle, during security police training

A US Army (USA) 25th Infantry Division (Light) Soldier wears Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) gear and carries a 7.62mm M240B machine gun during exercise rehearsals at the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC), Fort Polk, Louisiana (LA)

A close-up view of a Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) transmitter, mounted on an M16 rifle, during security police training

Soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division, armed with M-16 rifles equipped with the multiple integrated laser engagement system (MILES), take cover during training at the Joint Readiness Training Center

Forward sentries keep a watchful eye at the Joint Readiness Training Center. The sentries, standing in a trench, uses a M249 Squad Automatic Weapon with a Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) attached

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Base: Fort Polk

State: Louisiana (LA)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: Raymond A. Barnard

Release Status: Released to Public

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Patrol commanders from the Mountain Eagle Joint Task Force meet at their High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) during mission rehersal exercises at the Joint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk, Louisiana

Brigadier General (BGEN) Michael Jelinsky (facing camera), USA, Deputy Commander 88th Regional Support Command, talks with Command Sergeant Major (CSM) Nick Piacentini, USA, 863RD Engineers Battalion as heavy construction equipment is used to construct a new road at the Multiple Purpose Training Range, at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin

US Air Force (USAF) AIRMAN (AMN) Stephen Blevins, Security Forces Journeyman, 86th Contingency Response Group (CRG), mans a 5.56mm M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) from a bunkered position near the perimeter at Bashur Airfield in Northern Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Air Force Technical Sergeant Eddy Frank, armed with an M16 rifle, defends the alert facility at Homestead Air Force Base, Florida. TSGT Frank, like other base sentries, belongs to the Reserve's 482nd Security Forces Squadron. The 482nd is protecting Homestead AFB and have been named the Reserves best Security Forces Unit in 1999. 6 of the 10 Reserve team members who won the Royal Air Force's Strickland Trophy military skills cup hailed from Homestead. The 482nd also won the Spirit award at the ACC Contending Warrior '98, for the highest morale, leadership and enthusiasm. This image was used in the December 1999 AIRMAN Magazine article ' Guardians at the Gate"

US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Ronnie Lock, a Security Police (SP) assigned to the 310th Space Group (SG), aims his 5.56mm M16A1 rifle with a 40mm M203 grenade launcher equipped with Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) gear from the kneeling position during the Security Forces Tactics competition conducted at Vandenberg Air Force Base (AFB) California (CA), during Exercise GUARDIAN CHALLENGE 2002. Guardian Challenge, a four-day space and missile competition, is hosted annually at Vandenberg AFB, CA to test the wartime readiness of Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) professionals

US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines assigned to Headquarters Company, 6th Marine Regiment, armed with 5.56 mm M16A2 rifles and a 5.56 mm M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) conduct Quick Reaction Force (QRF) perimeter security training at Camp Stonewall, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, while deployed in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

Members of the 1ST Battalion, 35th Infantry, 2nd Brigade, 25th Inanftry Division, fan out from the landing zone during an airmobile combat assault at the US Army's Pohakuloa Training Area, during training Exercise OPPORTUNE JOURNEY 4-83. The troops are wearing MILES (Mutiple Intergrated Laser Engagement System) gear. (SUBSTANDARD)

Members of 3rd Section, A Battery, 1ST Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment (Airborne), Fort Bragg, plug their ears as the M119 105mm howitzer fires during a joint field training. The soldiers are wearing MILES (Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System) equipment. (Duplicate image, see also DASD9803109 or search 980201A6522J506)

Sgt. Jonathan Shue, non-commissioned officer-in-charge,

An M1078 Medium Tactical Vehicle (MTV) 5-ton (6x6) standard cargo truck is used to transport US Army (USA) 25th Infantry Division (Light) and 2nd Infantry Division soldiers, conducting training at the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC), Fort Polk, Louisiana (LA)

Members of the 75th Rangers (Airborne), Fort Benning, Georgia, armed with M16 rifles with M203 grenade launcher (kneeling) and M249 SAW light machine guns (prone position), perform weapons training in the desert of Egypt during Operation BRIGHT STAR '94

Airmen armed with M16 rifles equipped with multiple integrated laser engagement system (MILES) transmitters conduct a patrol during Exercise VOLANT SCORPION

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