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A machine gun team from Co. C, 2nd Bn., 297th Infantry Group (Scout), Alaska National Guard, waits for the approach of aggressor forces during exercise Kernal Potlatch '89. The soldier's M-60 machine gun is equipped with multiple integrated laser engagement system (MILES) units

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A member of Company B, 21st Infantry, 24th Infantry Division, aims his Multiple Intergrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) equipped M-60 machine gun at "enemy" positions during a training exercise. His unit is providing combined arms capability for a Georgia National Guard armor unit undergoing training at the base

Four members of Co. C, 2nd Bn., 297th Infantry Group (Scout), Alaska National Guard, set out on an early morning patrol during exercise Kernal Potlatch '89. Their weapons are equipped with multiple integrated laser engagement system (MILES) units

Members of a machine gun team from Co. C, 2nd Bn., 2nd Inf., man multiple integrated laser engagement system (MILES) equipped M-60 machine gun during a 3rd Brigade Army Training and Evaluation Program (ARTEP) at the Yakima Firing Center. They are wearing MILES gear

Marines fire M16A2 rifles equipped with the multiple integrated laser engagement system (MILES) during training. Unmanned, center, is an M60 lightweight machine gun

US Army soldiers assigned to1st Platoon, C/Company, 224th Engineer Battalion wearing Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) gear takes up defensive positions near an M113 Armored Personnel Carrier (APC). One soldier carries a 7.62mm M60 general purpose machine gun as they conduct obstacle training, on the Multiple Purpose Training Range, at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin

US Air Force security policeman aims his M60 machine gun out of a bunker while participating in Exercise TEAM SPIRIT '84. The machine gun is equipped with a Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) transmitter

A machine gunner from Co. C, 2nd Bn., 297th Infantry Group (Scout), Alaska National Guard, holds his fire as Marine aggressors approach his position during exercise Kernal Potlatch '89. The soldier's M-60 machine gun is equipped with multiple integrated laser engagement system (MILES) unit

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Subject Operation/Series: KERNAL POTLATCH '89

Base: Amchitka Island

State: Alaska (AK)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: SGT Greg Suhay

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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28/09/1989
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label_outline Explore Infantry Group, Exercise Kernal Potlatch, Kernal Potlatch

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Left to right: General Sheta, Egyptian training authority and lead Egyptian planner for BRIGHT STAR 01/02; Navy Captain Martin Drake, CHIEF of STAFF for Bright Star; Army Major General James Comstock, Commander; and Army First Lieutenant Zahi Bourjelli, executive officer; discuss various issues affecting the troops participating in the exercise. BRIGHT STAR is a multinational exercise involving more than 74,000 troops from 44 countries that enhances regional stability and military-to-military cooperation among our key allies, and our regional partners. It prepares US Central Command to rapidly deploy and employ the forces needed to deter aggressors and, if necessary, fight and win...

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)

Egyptian Marines carry their RHIB (Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat) amphibious assault boat onto the Navy assault craft. Marines and naval personnel from numerous nations are active participants in both the sea and the beaches of Egypt during this year's BRIGHT STAR 01-02 exercise. BRIGHT STAR is a multinational exercise involving more than 74,000 troops from 44 countries that is designed to enhance regional stability and military-to-military cooperation among the US, our key allies, and our regional partners. It prepares US Central Command to rapidly deploy and employ the armed forces to deter aggressors and, if necessary, fight and win side-by-side with our allies and regional partners

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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

The members of Co. C, 2nd Bn., 297th Infantry Group (Scout), Alaska National Guard, gathers for a group photograph following exercise Kernal Potlatch '89

Marines from Echo Company, Battalion Landing Team (BLT), 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) (MEU SOC) armed with 5.56 mm M16A2 rifles and a Saco 7.72 mm M60 gereral purpose machine gun, ride in a Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVE) enroute to secure the Ba'th Party Headquarters building in Qalat Sukar, Iraq

A CH-47 Chinook gunner, B Company "Hercules," 159th Aviation Regiment, Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia, mans his Saco 7.62 mm M60 general purpose machine gun as he provides cover while another Chinook lands to extract the last members of a recovery team at a site northeast of Kandahar. The Apache helicopter crash landed while on mission in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

Australian soldiers acting as aggressors monitor their radios at a command post during the joint Australian/U.S. exercise Kangaroo '89

A soldier sights in with a .50-caliber machine gun during an exercise at the National Training Center. The gun is equipped with a blank firing device and Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) gear

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