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Humvees are still used in Operation New Dawn, but the

A tactical vehicle moves into position to pull security

A light strike vehicle carrying Marines with Weapons

Sgt. Chad Willcutt and Sgt. Justin Boswell, petroleum

A truck carrying hospital supplies sits outside Ramadi

Spc. De’Angelica Blocker, of Brunswick, Ga., and fellow

U.S. Soldiers, with Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion,

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An M1097 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) with the Tactical Imagery Production System (TIPS) of 1ST Marine Division (MD), Division Main's (DM) Combat Camera and Printing Section assumes a defensive tactical position while halted during a convoy through Basra Province, Southern Iraq during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Operation IRAQI FREEDOM is the multinational coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of Saddam Hussein

An M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), right, and an M998 HMMWV drive onto a road after coming down the stern ramp of an Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) craft. The 4th Marine Expeditionary Brigade's (4th MEB's) ground units are coming ashore at Onslow Beach after disembarking from the amphibious ships on which they were deployed in the Persian Gulf region for Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm

A M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) coming down the ramp to the front entrance of an USAF C-5B Galaxy cargo plane. The US Army personnel connected to the Humvee are from Bravo Company 187th and Headquarters 222nd of the 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, New York. They arrived at Mogadishu Airport to reinforce the small contingent of US personnel deployed to Somalia supporting Operation Restore Hope. A Soldier sits atop the HMMWV manning a 40mm MK 19 Grenade launcher

An M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) stops at a position manned by Marines from Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Bn., 8th Marines (BLT 2/8), in a former Iraqi army compound. Troops from the U.S. and other coalition nations are in Dahuk as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in southern Turkey and northern Iraq

Iraqi army soldiers from the 4th Iraqi Army Division sit in an Iraqi modified M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV)High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV)High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV)in the Salah Ad Din province of Iraq March 16, 2006, during Operation Swarmer. Operation Swarmer is a combined air assault operation to clear the area northeast of Samarra of suspected insurgents. (U.S. Army photo by STAFF SGT. Alfred Johnson) (Released)

Two M1114 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV)High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV)High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV)s are prepared to be unloaded from a heavy equipment transport belonging to the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division in the Salah Ad Din province of Iraq during Operation Swarmer March 16, 2006. Various heavy equipment haulers brought in High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV)High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV)High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV)s for the Soldiers of 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment after the initial air sault of Operation Swarmer. Operation Swarmer is a combined air...

M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) is craned over the side of the Maritime Prepositioning Ship (MPS), MV Bobo (T-AK 3008) onto a piece of lighterage in Iskenderum, Turkey, during Exercise DYNAMIC MIX '98. DYNAMIC MIX is a combined exercise comprising air, land, maritime, and amphibious operations throughout the southern region to improve command and control in peace, crisis, and war

With a M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) leading, tactical vehicles of the Headquarters Battery, 35th Air Defense Artillery (ADA), Fort Lewis, Washington, begin to arrive at their desert location on the Fort Bliss, Texas, range. The 35th ADA deployed to the Fort Bliss Range and will provide Patriot Missile defense against enemy fighter strikes and simulated SCUD missile launches during ROVING SANDS 1997. ROVING SANDS is a multinational effort and is the largest military exercise on United States soil that allows training in a joint environment to hone command and control procedures and integrate new systems in Theater and Air Missile Defense

Two M998s High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), M1044 variant armed with MK 19-3 40 mm grena machine gun, from Heavy Machinegun Platoon, 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines, provi suppressive fire during the Mechanized Assault Course at the Delta corridor training area during COMBINED ARMS Exercise 6-97. CAX 5/6-97 is a MAGTF (Marine Air Ground Task Force) exercise being conducted at MCAGCC (Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center), 29 Palms, California. The command element for this exercise is MAGTF-6, which is built around the 6th Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Many commands from the II MEF (Marine Expeditionary Force) have sent units to this...

M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV) of a military police unit, one equipped with a Mark 19 grenade launcher, provide security for the command ship USS LA SALLE (AGF-3), command center for all mine countermeasures units, prior to a ceremony marking the re-opening of Ash Shuaybah's port facility during Operation Desert Storm. The port is being reopened after a multinational effort to clear the mines laid by Iraqi forces during their occupation of Kuwait

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Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM

Base: Ash Shuaybah

Country: Kuwait (KWT)

Scene Camera Operator: JO2 Hatzakos

Release Status: Released to Public

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label_outline Explore Mine Countermeasures Units, Shuaybah, M 998 High Mobility Multipurpose

During an exercise at the National Training Center, members of an XVIII Airborne Corps anti-tank unit gather around an M966 tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided (TOW) anti-tank weapon carrier, a variant of the M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) . The TOW launcher atop the vehicle is equipped with an AN/TAS-4A night sight

A water tank and a line of M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV) stand on an airfield. Equipment is being delivered to an airfield as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled from the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

S49-28-023 - STS-049 - Unidentified Earth observation scenes.

A member of Beachmaster Unit One directs the offloading of an M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) from an air-cushioned landing craft (LCAC) during Cobra Gold '90, a combined Thai/U.S. exercise

Co-host Charlie Gibson interviews a sailor from the miscellaneous flagship USS LA SALLE (AGF-3) during filming of the news/entertainment television program Good Morning America aboard the amphibious command ship USS BLUE RIDGE (LCC-19). The BLUE RIDGE is among the U.S. Navy ships deployed to the region in support of Operation Desert Shield

Rear Adm. Raynor A.K. Taylor, commander, Middle East Force, conducts a news conference prior to a ceremony marking the re-opening of Ash Shuaybah's port facility during Operation Desert Storm. The port is being reopened after a multinational effort to clear the mines laid by Iraqi forces during their occupation of Kuwait

Coast Guard, Navy searching for 3 fishermen near Haleiwa, Oahu

Members of the color guard maintain their positions during the conclusion of the change of command ceremony aboard the command ship USS CORONADO (AGF 11). The CORONADO is functioning as the flagship of the commander, US Middle East Force, while the command ship USS LA SALLE (AGF 3) is undergoing routine repair work

M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV), an M-577 command post and other armored equipment of the 3rd Bn., 1ST Field Arty., 1ST Armored Div., move into position for an attack on Iraqi forces during Operation Desert Storm

Firefighters at Pier 4 of the Naval Station work to extinguish a fire that started in a Naval Supply Center building, and eventually spread to the converted Raleigh class command ship USS LA SALLE (AGF 3)

A starboard beam view of the frigate USS BREWTON (FF-1086) underway north of Diego Garcia en route to the Persian Gulf after the invasion of Kuwait by Iraqi forces

A demolished Iraqi T-55 main battle tank lies abandoned in the desert after Iraqi forces deserted the region during Operation Desert Storm

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high mobility vehicles hmmwv police unit police unit mark grenade launcher grenade launcher security command ship uss salle command ship uss la salle agf center command center mine countermeasures mine countermeasures units ceremony ash shuaybah ash shuaybah port facility port facility operation desert storm effort iraqi forces iraqi forces occupation kuwait military police us navy ships united states ships command ship high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle hmmwv humvee us navy high resolution desert storm m 998 high mobility multipurpose mines jo 2 hatzakos car military vehicles us national archives