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Pfc. Nick Beazer, an Indirect Fire Infantryman assigned

Army Rangers place their parachutes into a pile as they set up a control perimeter after an airdrop. They are participating in Exercise QUICK FORCE 84-3

(Operatie Kraai) Vertrek vliegveld Semarang, aankomst vliegveld Djokja

Actie Medan (III), Sumatra Indonesia

A field radio operator with Communications Company,

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Josue Martinez, a mortarman

French Re-enactors encamped in field tents re-enact

U.S. Army Sgt. Brandon Ward, attached to Headquarters

Rct. Andrew H. Williams, Platoon 2028, Hotel Company,

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Low angle shot looking up at the back end of a M54 Series 5-ton Cargo Truck as CPL Mike Hutta, from Alpha Company, 2nd of the 14th Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, New York, unloads LAWS (Light Anti-tank Weapon) and AT-4s (Anti-tank Variation Four); handing tem to two Soldiers on the ground. Straight on shot of an abandoned and dilapidated building with overturned Soviet trucks inside. The building is located at an abandoned Soviet Base north of Sword Base and is being prepared for destruction. This mission is in direct support of Operation Restore Hope

A straight on, close-up shot of US Army SPECIALIST George Howell, 1ST of the 64th Mechanized, Bravo Company, Fort Stewart, Georgia, kneeling down on top of his M1A1 Abrams tank. He holds a refueling hose and nozzle in the opening of the tank's refueling port. Two other Soldiers are seen standing on the tank behind Howell. The tank was part of a convoy of vehicles (not shown) that traveled from Victory Base to the old airfield in Mogadishu as part of Operation More Care. Operation More Care is in direct support of Operation Restore Hope

US Army (USA) SPECIALIST Fourth Class (SPC) Frank Wiginton (left) assists USA Sergeant (SGT) Richard Morris, manipulate the Ground Mounted 120mm Mortar System for a fire mission as USA SGT Nick Smith (rear left), receives the call for fire from the Fire Direction Center (FDC). USA Private First Class (PFC) Brandon Hillman, stands by to prepare the ammunition round for the mortar. All are with the 1ST Battalion (BN)/198th Armor, Mississippi Army National Guard (MSARNG), Amory, Mississippi (MS), part of the 155th Brigade Combat Team (BCT), MSARNG headquartered out of Tupelo, MS and forward deployed to Forward Operating Base (FOB) Hotel in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Army (USA) SPECIALIST Fourth Class (SPC) David Johnson (left), GUNNER, and Sergeant (SGT) Justin Javar (right), Assistant GUNNER, Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC), 1ST Battalion (BN), 17th Infantry Regiment (1/17th), 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT), fire illumination flares from inside their Stryker Mortar Carrier Vehicle (MCV) 120 mm mortar cannon, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, in order to light-up the night sky over Mosul, Ninawa Province, Iraq (IRQ), in order to deny Iraqi insurgents the opportunity to place improvised explosive devices (IEDs) under the cover of darkness. (SUBSTANDARD)

US Army (USA) SPECIALIST Fourth Class (SPC) James Evans, assigned to Team Alpha, Task Force 1-26 (TF 1-26) Infantry, 2nd Brigade Combat Team (BCT), 1ST Infantry Division, provides security on a stairwell while his team clears the rooms behind him during Exercise NOBLE SHEPHARD, a mission rehearsal exercise conducted at the USA 7th Army Training Commands Hohenfels Combat Maneuver Training Center (CMTC), located on the Hohenfels Training Area (HTA), in Hohenfels, Germany (DEU)

A U.S Army Soldier from Delta Company, Task Force 2-11, man his M240B machine gun from the turret of his High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) while his unit look for insurgents who launched mortar rounds at Forward Operating Base Iskandariyah, Al Iskandariyah, Iraq, on Feb. 24, 2005. (U.S. Air Force PHOTO by AIRMAN 1ST Class Kurt Gibbons III) (Released)

U.S. Army SGT. Micheal Wirick, assigned to 3rd Platoon, Bravo Company, 449th Aviation Support Battalion, Texas Army National Guard (TXARNG) drives an aircraft tug while positioning helicopters on the flight line at Logistic Support Area, Anaconda, Balad Air Base, Iraq, on Oct. 25, 2006, in support of Task Force Mustang, during Operation IraqiFreedom. (A3606) (U.S. Army PHOTO by SGT. 1ST Class Orbe) (Released)

US Army (USA) SPECIALIST Fourth Class (SFC) Maynard Anken (left), 414th Civil Affairs Battalion (414th CAB), US Army Reserve, interviewed by SFC Ryan Smith, 372nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment (MPAD) at a ceremony celebrating the re-opening of the Al Manama Primary School in the Abu Ghraib district of Baghdad, Iraq. Soldiers from the 414th CAB repaired the school with funds the 1ST Armored Division (AD) set aside specifically for reconstruction projects during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

A soldier kneels in the foreground as SENIOR AIRMAN Michael Hafstad and SENIOR AIRMAN Adrian Faison, both structural engineers from the 820th Red Horse Squadron, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, prepare to sling load a tractor on a trailer to a CH-47 Chinook helicopter. The CH-47 will redeploy the equipment from Kumaka back to Camp Stephenson, Timehri Guyana. The 820th, was at Kumaka to renovate the existing regional hospital as part of this first combined humanitarian and civic assistance exercise conducted between the United States and Guyana. Military personnel from Air Force, Air Force Reserve & National Guard, Army, Army National Guard and Marine Corps participated in the exercise ...

US Army SPECIALIST Michael Boguth, Alpha Company, 2nd of the 14th Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, New York, demonstrates one of the four firing positions of a AT-4 (Anti-tank Variation Four); the sitting position. The others are standing, kneeling and another sitting position. The class was given at Range #6 just outside of Mogadishu Airport. Straight on shot of an abandoned and dilapidated building with overturned Soviet trucks inside. The building is located at an abandoned Soviet Base north of Sword Base and is being prepared for destruction. This mission is in direct support of Operation Restore Hope

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Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE

Base: Range-6, Mogadishu Airport

Country: Somalia (SOM)

Scene Camera Operator: SPC Gary Bryant

Release Status: Released to Public

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label_outline Explore Sword Base, Spc Gary Bryant, Mogadishu Airport

A member of the 31st Marine Amphibious Unit (31st MAU), places some gear in the back of an M-151 light utility vehicle equipped with a TOW anti-tank weapon during Exercise Kangaroo 4

Straight on, close-up shot of the gun turret on a Somali, Italian made, Fiat-Oto Melara Type 6616 Armored Car. The bent gun turret points down and to the right. It was seized from Somali Warlord General Aideed's weapons cantonment area. This mission is in direct support of Operation Restore Hope

US Marine Corps (USMC) Corporal (CPL) Garza, Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment (2/3), uses the M98A1 Command Launch Unit (CLU) of the JAVELIN Advanced Anti-tank Weapon System Medium to look for enemy tanks during training Exercise CROCODILE 2003 at Shoalwater Bay Training Area, Australia. The CLU can provide a 9.2X magnification of the area of interest

Straight on medium shot of US Marine GUNNERY Sergeant Elder, Platoon Sergeant, 2nd Platoon, Company A, 5th Force Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marines, lands safely with his MC5 Freefall Square Parachute after completing a 9-thousand foot combat jump from a USAF C-130 Hercules aircraft (Not shown) during Force Reconnaissance Exercises at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam

Verdie Bowen Sr., director of veterans affairs for

A US Army EOD soldier probing for a land mine in the immediate vicinity where a US Army High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) struck and detonated a Serbian TMA-1A Anti-tank Mine. The HMMWV that struck the mine was part of a convoy traveling in the Russian Brigade Area in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Two combat-ready Marines are in an M-51 jeep with a heavy anti-tank weapon system (TOW) mounted in it. One of the Marines drives the jeep and the other acts as the gunner during Operation CAX 1-2-82 at the Marine Corps Air-to-Ground Combat Center

U.S. Army medics with 1st Armored Division, 10th Mountain

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

Soldiers from 2/14th Infantry Battalion, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, NY, rest in the shade while waiting to go to the airport. The battalion recently departed Somalia after being there in support of UNOSOM II

Banner adorning Department of Interior South Building, viewed during ceremony marking adoption by Department employees of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division and the 10th Mountain Division as wartime focal points for volunteer activities on behalf of military families

Estonian Army Corporal (CPL) Roman Metsatalu, assigned to the Scouts Battalion, Estonian Defense Forces, Estonian Peacekeeping Center, holds his position armed with a Vektor R6 5.56mm compact assault rifle while awaiting orders to move out on a foot patrol in Western Baghdad, Iraq. Estonian Army Soldiers are working with US Army (USA) Soldiers from 10th Mountain Division, as part of the Multi-National Corps to secure a 15-kilometer section of road in Western Baghdad, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

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