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A UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter with Company C, 3rd Battalion,

A UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter with Company C, 3rd Battalion,

A UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter with Company C, 3rd Battalion, 501st Aviation Regiment performs flight maneuvers near the town of Voila, Romania, July, 29 during the Saber Guardian exercise that took place at the ... More

Romanian Land Forces Soldiers look to the skies as

Romanian Land Forces Soldiers look to the skies as

Romanian Land Forces Soldiers look to the skies as a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter with Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion, 501st Aviation Regiment from Ft. Bliss, Texas, hovers over their position on July 29 during e... More

Healing War, US Army Photo, Национална библиотека на България

Healing War, US Army Photo, Национална библиотека на България

Staff Sgt. Brad Foster, a combat medic with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team out of Pendleton, Oregon, watches the night sky on top of an M113 Medical Evac... More

Staff Sgt. Brad Foster, a combat medic with Headquarters

Staff Sgt. Brad Foster, a combat medic with Headquarters

Staff Sgt. Brad Foster, a combat medic with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team out of Pendleton, Oregon, poses for a photo in front of an M113 Medical Evacua... More

Spc. Aaron Johnson, a mortarman with Headquarters and

Spc. Aaron Johnson, a mortarman with Headquarters and

Spc. Aaron Johnson, a mortarman with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division from Ft. Stewart, Ga., writes on the first ... More

Sgt. 1st Class Miguel Camacho, a crew chief with Company

Sgt. 1st Class Miguel Camacho, a crew chief with Company

Sgt. 1st Class Miguel Camacho, a crew chief with Company C, 3rd Battalion, 501st Aviation Regiment from Ft. Bliss, Texas discusses the air assault load plan with Canadian soldiers from Company C, 1st Battalion,... More

Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard contractors look over at

Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard contractors look over at

Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard contractors look over at the Battleship Missouri Memorial as they completed performing their duties preserving and maintaining the ship. As early as 5 a.m. more than 900 civilians an... More

RTC. Warship photograph collection

RTC. Warship photograph collection

Senior Chief Cryptologic Technician (Collection) (SW/SS/AW) David Twiford, USS Constitution command senior chief, presents a helm used aboard “Old Ironsides” to ship six during a ceremony at Recruit Training Co... More

Sky soldier artillerymen use innovation to reduce collateral damage

Sky soldier artillerymen use innovation to reduce collateral damage

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Michael Kain and U.S. Army Pvt. William Fiel of Battalion A, 4th Squadron, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, display the round used for civilian c... More

Dave Hallaran (left), Curtis Debord (middle), both

Dave Hallaran (left), Curtis Debord (middle), both

Dave Hallaran (left), Curtis Debord (middle), both with U.S. Ordnance, McCarran, Nev., and Josh Chansley, from U.S. Machine Gun Armory, Park City, Utah, prep .50 caliber rounds prior to weapons demonstrations a... More

A convoy of three 155mm Howitzers are being prepared

A convoy of three 155mm Howitzers are being prepared

A convoy of three 155mm Howitzers are being prepared for a journey to their next location after being processed and cleared at the Redistribution Property Assistance Team Yard, Joint Base Balad, Iraq June 16. T... More

Marines From Okinawa Conduct Artillery Training in Yausubetsu

Marines From Okinawa Conduct Artillery Training in Yausubetsu

Marines From Okinawa Conduct Artillery Training in Yausubetsu

Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular

Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular

Soldiers of the 101st Field Artillery Regiment, Massachusetts Army National Guard, fire M102 Howitzer cannons during Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, during the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular in Boston, July 4, 2010.

Pfc. David Spearman from Longview, Texas, 4th section’s

Pfc. David Spearman from Longview, Texas, 4th section’s

Pfc. David Spearman from Longview, Texas, 4th section’s No. 1 man, demonstrates how to load a round into the tube of a M109A6 "Paladin" howitzer during B Battery, 2nd Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery, 1st Cavalr... More

RIMPAC, US Navy Photogrpah

RIMPAC, US Navy Photogrpah

Marine Corps Pfc. Brian Jones, a cannon crewman assigned to Battery A, 1st Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard, awaits the departure of a landing cr... More

A row of M777 Lightweight Towed Howitzer cannons are

A row of M777 Lightweight Towed Howitzer cannons are

A row of M777 Lightweight Towed Howitzer cannons are staged to be lifted by air out of Camp Bastion, Helmand province, Afghanistan, July 13, 2010. The M777 is a new lightweight towed artillery piece that is dep... More

During a market walk, Sgt. Todd Warfel from Buffalo,

During a market walk, Sgt. Todd Warfel from Buffalo,

During a market walk, Sgt. Todd Warfel from Buffalo, Mo., an artilleryman with Alpha Battery, 3rd Battalion, 6th Field Artillery of the 10th Mountain Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team, gives candy to local chi... More

Pfc. Austin Lipari of East Isilp, N.Y. removes a tire

Pfc. Austin Lipari of East Isilp, N.Y. removes a tire

Pfc. Austin Lipari of East Isilp, N.Y. removes a tire from a truck, July 15, Fort Bragg N.C.

Hernandez shows Bartolo the proper way to hold a signal

Hernandez shows Bartolo the proper way to hold a signal

Hernandez shows Bartolo the proper way to hold a signal receiver near Raleigh, N.C., July 17. Knowing the proper way to hold the receiver is essential to accurately pin pointing the location of a signal emitter.

A multiple launch rocket system team from the 1st Battalion,

A multiple launch rocket system team from the 1st Battalion,

A multiple launch rocket system team from the 1st Battalion, 21st Field Artillery Regiment, fire rockets from a MLRS during a field exercise located at Fort Hood, Texas, July 19. The unit went out for a few day... More

National Scout Jamboree Arena Show

National Scout Jamboree Arena Show

Soldiers from B Battery, 1-111th Field Artillery, Norfolk, Va., Virginia Army National Guard stand at attention before the start of the National Anthem at the Arena Show for the National Scout Jamboree here , J... More

Sgt. Michael York, of Battery A, gunner from Asheboro,

Sgt. Michael York, of Battery A, gunner from Asheboro,

Sgt. Michael York, of Battery A, gunner from Asheboro, N.C., views the sights of an M109, a 105mm howitzer, as other soldiers on his team wait to adjust the left and right limits. This was part of their trainin... More

1st Lt. Benjamin Brown, a platoon leader with Alpha

1st Lt. Benjamin Brown, a platoon leader with Alpha

1st Lt. Benjamin Brown, a platoon leader with Alpha Battery, listens to directions from the fire directions control center while training with Spc. Matt Kasperski, a gunner with bravo battery, 3rd Battalion, 82... More

US COAST GUARD Mohawk GUNNEX - ATLANTIC

US COAST GUARD Mohawk GUNNEX - ATLANTIC

ATLANTIC OCEAN- The Coast Guard Cutter Mohawk's Mark 75, 76mm 62 caliber gun weapons system fires during a gunnery exercise, Thursday, Sept 9, 2010. The exercise was done to train gun mount personnel in loading... More

Soldiers with the 2-150 Field Artillery load a 155mm

Soldiers with the 2-150 Field Artillery load a 155mm

Soldiers with the 2-150 Field Artillery load a 155mm round in a M198 howitzer at Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center, Ind., Sept. 18, during a retirement ceremony for the M198 howitzer. The M198 howit... More

The 2nd Battalion, 150th Field Artillery M-198 155mm

The 2nd Battalion, 150th Field Artillery M-198 155mm

The 2nd Battalion, 150th Field Artillery M-198 155mm Towed Howitzer crew fires the final round, Sept. 18, 2010, during a historic retirement ceremony at Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center, Ind. The l... More

U.S. Army Spc. Justin A. Brown of Oklahoma City, a

U.S. Army Spc. Justin A. Brown of Oklahoma City, a

U.S. Army Spc. Justin A. Brown of Oklahoma City, a cannoneer, and U.S. Army Spc. Dylan T. Smith of Columbus, Ohio, ammo team chief, both with 1st Section, 1st Platoon, Battery A, 2nd Battalion, 320th Field Arti... More

Members of the 761st Ordnance Company and B Battery,

Members of the 761st Ordnance Company and B Battery,

Members of the 761st Ordnance Company and B Battery, 1st Battalion, 14th Field Artillery Regiment watch as their range catches fire following emergency munitions detonation training, here at Fort Sill, Sept. 30.

U.S. Army soldiers with 1st Section, 1st platoon, Battery

U.S. Army soldiers with 1st Section, 1st platoon, Battery

U.S. Army soldiers with 1st Section, 1st platoon, Battery A, 2nd Battalion, 230th Field Artillery Regiment, Task Force Balls, hurl a 155 mm round from Combat Outpost Garcia in eastern Afghanistan’s Nangarhar pr... More

An Afghan National Army soldier and Mongolian instructor

An Afghan National Army soldier and Mongolian instructor

An Afghan National Army soldier and Mongolian instructor teach newly enlisted Afghan soldiers about the 122 mm D-30 howitzer Oct. 4, 2010, at the ANA Kabul Military Training Center, outside of Kabul. These fres... More

Two Afghan National Army soldiers launch a 122mm D-30

Two Afghan National Army soldiers launch a 122mm D-30

Two Afghan National Army soldiers launch a 122mm D-30 Howitzer during a live-fire demonstration Oct. 4, at Kabul Military Training Center outside of Kabul. Several Afghan soldiers, U.S. and coalition forces att... More

Afghan National Army instructors stand at attention

Afghan National Army instructors stand at attention

Afghan National Army instructors stand at attention before demonstrating their abilities with the 122 mm howitzer D-30, Oct. 4. This day marked the end of the train the trainer course and the opening ceremony f... More

U.S. Army Spc. Adam C. Haas, a cannon crewmember with

U.S. Army Spc. Adam C. Haas, a cannon crewmember with

U.S. Army Spc. Adam C. Haas, a cannon crewmember with Battery A, 4th Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division and native of Ionia, Mich., sites in the M119 how... More

'King of Battle' goes digital. Marine Corps air ground combat center

'King of Battle' goes digital. Marine Corps air ground combat center

Artillery crewmen from Battery K, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, wait for instruction after they fire the M777 Lightweight 155mm Howitzer, Oct. 6. The digitally upgraded Howitzer allows better communicati... More

Marines with Sierra Battery, 5th Battalion, 11th Marine

Marines with Sierra Battery, 5th Battalion, 11th Marine

Marines with Sierra Battery, 5th Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division (Forward), raise the launcher for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System during a fire mission rehearsal aboard Camp Leat... More

The Army is phasing out the cannon-delivered cluster

The Army is phasing out the cannon-delivered cluster

The Army is phasing out the cannon-delivered cluster munitions it has used until recently because they are not effective against armored targets, and the “dud rate” is higher than DOD guidance now allows. The d... More

Members of the 82nd Airborne Division, Delta 1-321

Members of the 82nd Airborne Division, Delta 1-321

Members of the 82nd Airborne Division, Delta 1-321 Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, prepare to fire a 155 mm howitzer during a training mission at Forward Operating Base Andar, Afghanistan, Oct. 10, 2010.

U.S. Army Pfc. Kira Hansen, mechanic, from Stayton,

U.S. Army Pfc. Kira Hansen, mechanic, from Stayton,

U.S. Army Pfc. Kira Hansen, mechanic, from Stayton, Ore., with 2-11 Field Artillery Combat Repair Team, 2-25th Advise and Assist Brigade, 25th Infantry Division repairs a M777A2 155 mm in Joint Base Balad, Iraq... More

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus boards the Royal Danish

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus boards the Royal Danish

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus boards the Royal Danish Navy arctic patrol vessel HDMS Ejnar Mikkelsen. Mabus concluded a day-two day trip to Greenland, meeting with leaders and scientists to discuss the import... More

Artillery rounds fired by the 14th Iraqi Army Division

Artillery rounds fired by the 14th Iraqi Army Division

Artillery rounds fired by the 14th Iraqi Army Division destroy an enemy stronghold at Tea Leaf Island in Basra, Iraq, during Operation Torrential Flood, a combined arms live fire exercise, Oct. 25. More than 40... More

2nd Lt. Brian Lee (left), a fire direction officer,

2nd Lt. Brian Lee (left), a fire direction officer,

2nd Lt. Brian Lee (left), a fire direction officer, and Sgt. 1st Class Shawn "Smoke" Moriarity, a platoon sergeant, both with 2nd Battalion., 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry ... More

U.S. Army Soldiers, with Bravo Battery, 5th Battalion,

U.S. Army Soldiers, with Bravo Battery, 5th Battalion,

U.S. Army Soldiers, with Bravo Battery, 5th Battalion, 25th Field Artillery Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, out of Fort Polk, La., fire 105mm rounds using A M119 howitzer, Combat Outp... More

The gunline of the Indiana Army National Guard's 2nd-150th

The gunline of the Indiana Army National Guard's 2nd-150th

The gunline of the Indiana Army National Guard's 2nd-150th Field Artillery Battalion conducted live-fire exercises at Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center, Ind., Nov 5. The exercise culminated a 10-day... More

Spc. Daniel Martinez, an Allen, Texas native with 3rd

Spc. Daniel Martinez, an Allen, Texas native with 3rd

Spc. Daniel Martinez, an Allen, Texas native with 3rd Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, pulls security in simulated Iraqi village on Fort Hood, Texas, duri... More

Launcher crews of B Battery, 1st Battalion, 14th Field

Launcher crews of B Battery, 1st Battalion, 14th Field

Launcher crews of B Battery, 1st Battalion, 14th Field Artillery Regiment take a break between fire missions during Daring Warrior, a combined live-fire exercise with the Singapore armed forces.

Artillery battery sets scene for training

Artillery battery sets scene for training

Lance Cpl. Jonathan Arxer, left, artillery mechanic, and Lance Cpl. Vernell Whitehenderson, cannoneer, stage their M777A2 Howitzer firing position at Camp Sendai, Japan, Nov. 22, in the Ojojihara Maneuver Area ... More

Lance Cpl. Johnathen Arxer, artillery mechanic, pulls

Lance Cpl. Johnathen Arxer, artillery mechanic, pulls

Lance Cpl. Johnathen Arxer, artillery mechanic, pulls the lanyard of a M777A2 Howitzer at Camp Sendai, Japan, Nov. 23 in the Ojojihara Maneuver Area as part of the Artillery Relocation Training Program. Arxer i... More

Members of B Battery, 2nd Battalion, 5th Field Artillery

Members of B Battery, 2nd Battalion, 5th Field Artillery

Members of B Battery, 2nd Battalion, 5th Field Artillery returned to friends and family during an evening redeployment ceremony at Goldner Gymnasium, Nov. 29.

A cannon crew with 3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery

A cannon crew with 3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery

A cannon crew with 3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, swivels the barrel of a an M119A2 105mm howitzer to the front during a training exercise Dec. 3... More

Cannon crewmember, U.S. Army Pfc. Raymond Cecil, Battery

Cannon crewmember, U.S. Army Pfc. Raymond Cecil, Battery

Cannon crewmember, U.S. Army Pfc. Raymond Cecil, Battery A, 2nd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, raises the elevation on the howitzer Dec. 12 at Forward Operating Base Kalagush. Cecil, a Nashville, Te... More

The Afghan National Army conducts artillery exercises

The Afghan National Army conducts artillery exercises

The Afghan National Army conducts artillery exercises with 122 mm Soviet howitzer D-30 guns. The artillery school consists 9 courses, training just under 2,500 students between 2010 and 2011. Students learn art... More

Mechanics Provide Vital Services for 3-6

Mechanics Provide Vital Services for 3-6

Pfc. Levi Jezek, 20, of Golf Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Field Artillery of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, conducted maintenance on a M936, 5-Ton Wrecker at FOB Griffin, Afghanistan, Jan. 15.

Afghan National Army soldiers from the 4th Brigade

Afghan National Army soldiers from the 4th Brigade

Afghan National Army soldiers from the 4th Brigade stationed here, fires off Russian artillery during a training demonstration. This training is used to better prepare the ANA soldiers for field operations. (Ph... More

Artillery Marines extend reach in Helmand province

Artillery Marines extend reach in Helmand province

Marines with 5th Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment launch a high mobility artillery rocket system from Forward Operating Base Delaram II, Jan. 26. These systems have been used to support Marine infantry units ope... More

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Michael J. Young, an

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Michael J. Young, an

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Michael J. Young, an infantryman, and U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Todd J. Padilla, a team leader, both with 3rd Platoon, Company L, Battalion Landing Team 3/8, 26th Marine Expediti... More

Two IED blasts can't stop BLT 3/8 Marine

Two IED blasts can't stop BLT 3/8 Marine

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. William Schultz, a combat engineer attached to Company L, Battalion Landing Team 3/8, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Regimental Combat Team 2, relays information from the intelligence b... More

Sgt.  Schultz, a combat engineer attached to Company

Sgt. Schultz, a combat engineer attached to Company

Sgt. Schultz, a combat engineer attached to Company L, Battalion Landing Team 3/8, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Regimental Combat Team 2, relays information from the intelligence brief to his Marines in the... More

An M1A1 Abrams tank belonging to 1st Tank Platoon,

An M1A1 Abrams tank belonging to 1st Tank Platoon,

An M1A1 Abrams tank belonging to 1st Tank Platoon, Delta Company, 1st Tank Battalion, attached to Company L, Battalion Landing Team 3/8, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Regimental Combat Team 2, provides securi... More

An expeditionary fire support system belonging to F

An expeditionary fire support system belonging to F

An expeditionary fire support system belonging to F Battery 2/12, Battalion Landing Team 3/8, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Regimental Combat Team 2, is being towed by a mine resistant armor protected vehicle... More

An Expeditionary Fire Support System belonging to Battery

An Expeditionary Fire Support System belonging to Battery

An Expeditionary Fire Support System belonging to Battery F, Battalion Landing Team 3/8, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Regimental Combat Team 2, is being towed by a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle abo... More

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Joseph M. DePue, an infantryman

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Joseph M. DePue, an infantryman

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Joseph M. DePue, an infantryman with 1st Platoon, Company L, Battalion Landing Team 3/8, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Regimental Combat Team 2, uses a side of a Meal Ready To Eat... More

A U.S. Marine Corps M1A1 Abrams Tank with 2nd Tank

A U.S. Marine Corps M1A1 Abrams Tank with 2nd Tank

A U.S. Marine Corps M1A1 Abrams Tank with 2nd Tank Platoon, Delta Company, 1st Tank Battalion, attached to Battalion Landing Team 3/8, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Regimental Combat Team 2, provides over wat... More

Seaman Robert Burky, an engineering aid with Naval

Seaman Robert Burky, an engineering aid with Naval

Seaman Robert Burky, an engineering aid with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 3, measures out a piece of wood while constructing tables to be used in the Battalion Landing Team 3/8 Combat Operations Center a... More

The local imam speaks to Afghan interpreter Kabir Arab

The local imam speaks to Afghan interpreter Kabir Arab

The local imam speaks to Afghan interpreter Kabir Arab and other International Security Assistance Force members about the disposition of Taliban fighters near Turah Shah Ghundey, Helmand province, Afghanistan,... More

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Antonio Wilcoxson, a rifleman

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Antonio Wilcoxson, a rifleman

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Antonio Wilcoxson, a rifleman with 1st Platoon, Company I, Battalion Landing Team 3/8, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Regimental Combat Team 2, stands post as the sun rises at a pa... More

Surveyors with 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment,

Surveyors with 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment,

Surveyors with 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, make their way through a mountainous range while surveying the area for annual artillery training here Fe... More

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Christopher Skaggs, a squad

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Christopher Skaggs, a squad

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Christopher Skaggs, a squad leader with 1st Platoon, Company I, Battalion Landing Team 3/8, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Regimental Combat Team 2, examines the roof of a compound near ... More

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Duane Hopp, a Squad Automatic

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Duane Hopp, a Squad Automatic

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Duane Hopp, a Squad Automatic Weapon gunner with 1st Platoon, Company I, Battalion Landing Team 3/8, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Regimental Combat Team 2, stands post while the ... More

Spc. Josh Estrello and Staff Sgt. Robert Novak stand

Spc. Josh Estrello and Staff Sgt. Robert Novak stand

Spc. Josh Estrello and Staff Sgt. Robert Novak stand ready to sling-load an M119A2 105 mm howitzer to an approaching UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter during an air assault training mission conducted by the 82nd Air... More

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Alfonso J. Vargas, an

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Alfonso J. Vargas, an

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Alfonso J. Vargas, an infantryman with 1st Platoon, Company L, Battalion Landing Team 3/8, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Regimental Combat Team 2, patrols through a field near Com... More

Best of the Best. U.S. Marine expeditionary force

Best of the Best. U.S. Marine expeditionary force

Sgt. Dustin Zimmerman, section chief, Gun Team 2, 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, prepares to explain the mechanics, characteristics, maintenance, firin... More

Sgt. Dustin Zimmerman, section chief, Gun Team 2, 3rd

Sgt. Dustin Zimmerman, section chief, Gun Team 2, 3rd

Sgt. Dustin Zimmerman, section chief, Gun Team 2, 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, prepares to explain the mechanics, characteristics, maintenance, firin... More

A Marine with Gun Team 2, 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine

A Marine with Gun Team 2, 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine

A Marine with Gun Team 2, 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, demonstrates communication procedures on the radio of the M777 howitzer during an informal dem... More

U.S. Marine Corps 1st Sgt. Troy A. Nicks, 1st Sgt.

U.S. Marine Corps 1st Sgt. Troy A. Nicks, 1st Sgt.

U.S. Marine Corps 1st Sgt. Troy A. Nicks, 1st Sgt. for Company L, Battalion Landing Team 3/8, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Regimental Combat Team 2, reads the promotion warrant of U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt... More

Chief Petty Officer Paris Dunomes, a hospital corpsman

Chief Petty Officer Paris Dunomes, a hospital corpsman

Chief Petty Officer Paris Dunomes, a hospital corpsman attached to Company L, Battalion Landing Team 3/8, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Regimental Combat Team 2, carries a bundle of "Disposable John" bags dur... More

Cpl. Daniel Rivera, an artillery mechanic with 3rd

Cpl. Daniel Rivera, an artillery mechanic with 3rd

Cpl. Daniel Rivera, an artillery mechanic with 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, has worked in the artillery field performing malfunction maintenance on M... More

Face of Defense: 'Gun Doctor' Keeps Howitzers Firing

Face of Defense: 'Gun Doctor' Keeps Howitzers Firing

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Daniel Rivera, left, explains troubleshooting procedures to members of Gun Team 2 in support of the Artillery Relocation Training Program at the Hijudai Training Area, Japan, Feb. 8. (U.S... More

Afghan National Army soldiers prepare a 122mm D30 field

Afghan National Army soldiers prepare a 122mm D30 field

Afghan National Army soldiers prepare a 122mm D30 field artillery canon for a test fire during a training exercise on Forward Operating Base Sharana, Paktika province, Afghanistan, Feb. 9. The training exercise... More

USS Boxer live-fire exercise

USS Boxer live-fire exercise

An MK-38 25mm chain-gun aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4) fires at a distant floating target during a live-fire targeting exercise. Boxer is underway off the coast of Southern California perf... More

A paratrooper kneels by live artillery rounds covered

A paratrooper kneels by live artillery rounds covered

A paratrooper kneels by live artillery rounds covered in plastic while gunners prepare a M119A2 105mm howitzer to fire during a mass training exercise, Feb. 13, at Fort Bragg, N.C. These airborne artillerymen a... More

Explosive ordnance disposal Marines attached to Company

Explosive ordnance disposal Marines attached to Company

Explosive ordnance disposal Marines attached to Company I, Battalion Landing Team 3/8, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Regimental Combat Team 8, conduct a controlled detonation to clear an improvised explosive ... More

Pablo, a military working dog, sits to signal he found

Pablo, a military working dog, sits to signal he found

Pablo, a military working dog, sits to signal he found an improvised explosive device under supervision of his handler, U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. David Pond, attached to Company I, Battalion Landing Team 3/8... More

Explosive Ordnance Disposal Marines attached to Company

Explosive Ordnance Disposal Marines attached to Company

Explosive Ordnance Disposal Marines attached to Company I, Battalion Landing Team 3rd Battalion 8th Marines, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Regimental Combat Team 8, conduct a controlled detonation to clear an... More

Sailors with Assault Craft Unit 5 secure a M777 Howitzer

Sailors with Assault Craft Unit 5 secure a M777 Howitzer

Sailors with Assault Craft Unit 5 secure a M777 Howitzer to the deck of a landing craft aboard Camp Pendleton, Calif., Feb 22, in preparation for part of Exercise Iron Fist, a bilateral training exercise betwee... More

Afghan National Army soldiers simulate 
firing a D-30

Afghan National Army soldiers simulate firing a D-30

Afghan National Army soldiers simulate firing a D-30 Howitzer at the Kabul Military Training Center, Feb. 24, in Kabul, Afghanistan. At the center which is the largest training base in Afghanistan, NATO Traini... More

Col. John Peeler, right, commander of the 2nd Brigade

Col. John Peeler, right, commander of the 2nd Brigade

Col. John Peeler, right, commander of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, welcomes guests of the St. Barbara’s Day Ball in Belton, Texas, Feb. 25.

Marines mentor Afghan National Army observers at an

Marines mentor Afghan National Army observers at an

Marines mentor Afghan National Army observers at an observation post during the ANA’s first live-fire artillery exercise outside Gereshk, Afghanistan, Feb. 26. The exercise brought the ANA one step closer to su... More

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Liji Sui, a gunner with Battery

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Liji Sui, a gunner with Battery

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Liji Sui, a gunner with Battery F, Company I, Battalion Landing Team 3/8, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Regimental Combat Team 8, fires a 120mm Mortar at Combat Outpost Ouellette, Helma... More

Soldiers destroy explosive-filled house

Soldiers destroy explosive-filled house

U.S. Army Spc. Michael Payne, an assistant gunner with Company A, 3rd Battalion, 321st Field Artillery Regiment, 18th Fires Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division and native of Herndon, Va., fires the XM982 ‘Excalibur... More

3-321ST FAR gives crucial artillery training to ANA

3-321ST FAR gives crucial artillery training to ANA

First Lt. 1st Lt. Patrick Tuffy, a platoon leader with Alpha Battery, 3-321st Field Artillery Regiment and a native of Highland Falls, New York, explains basic map reading to Afghan National Army soldiers at Fo... More

Regiment gives crucial artillery training to ANA

Regiment gives crucial artillery training to ANA

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Patrick Tuffy, a platoon leader with Alpha Battery, 3rd Battalion, 321st Field Artillery Regiment, 18th Fires Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, and a native of Highland Falls, N.Y., explains ba... More

Lance Cpl. Ramiro Alamanza, 22-year-old cannoneer with

Lance Cpl. Ramiro Alamanza, 22-year-old cannoneer with

Lance Cpl. Ramiro Alamanza, 22-year-old cannoneer with Battery K, 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment attached to 1st Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, fires a round from the M327 120mm Expeditionary Fire Suppor... More

The Ticonderoga class guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey

The Ticonderoga class guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey

The Ticonderoga class guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey conducts a 76-mm cannon live fire test. Monterey, homeported in Norfolk, Va., is on a scheduled six-month deployment operating in the U.S. 6th Fleet are... More

US, ROK Marines charge forward in KITP

US, ROK Marines charge forward in KITP

Republic of Korea and U.S. Marines jog to the outskirts of town after completing a challenging obstacle course during a final evaluation of their knowledge of Military Operations in Urban Terrain during the Kor... More

Capt. John Klimes III and Staff Sgt. Richard Gorman,

Capt. John Klimes III and Staff Sgt. Richard Gorman,

Capt. John Klimes III and Staff Sgt. Richard Gorman, both of the New York National Guards 1427th Transportation Company from Queensbury, NY, secure this one-of-a-kind experimental lightweight howitzer to a fork... More

Marines with Romeo Battery, 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine

Marines with Romeo Battery, 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine

Marines with Romeo Battery, 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment (Reinforced), 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, and Republic of Korea Marines with the 22nd Battalion, 2nd Artillery Brigade, 2... More

ROK Marines with the 22nd Battalion, 2nd Artillery

ROK Marines with the 22nd Battalion, 2nd Artillery

ROK Marines with the 22nd Battalion, 2nd Artillery Brigade, 2nd ROK Marine Division, put on a martial arts demonstration for U.S. Marines from 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment (Reinforced), 3rd Marine Divisi... More

Cpl. Antonio Tellez, an administrative clerk with

Cpl. Antonio Tellez, an administrative clerk with

Cpl. Antonio Tellez, an administrative clerk with Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, holds his 3-month-old son before departing Marine Corps Base Hawaii on a seven-month deployment to Af... More

Afghan National Army artillery soldiers unload a D-30

Afghan National Army artillery soldiers unload a D-30

Afghan National Army artillery soldiers unload a D-30 122 mm Howitzer in preparation for a live-fire exercise April 26 in Paktika province, Afghanistan. (Photo by U.S. Army Spc. Kimberly K. Menzies)

Spc. Micaiah Schneider, a driver in the distribution

Spc. Micaiah Schneider, a driver in the distribution

Spc. Micaiah Schneider, a driver in the distribution platoon of G Forward Support Company, Task Force 2nd Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division from Portl... More

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