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US Army (USA) Sergeant First Class (SFC) Puentes, assigned to Bravo Company, 1-185th Armor, 81st Armor Brigade, uses binoculars to scan the perimeter from the M2 .50 caliber machine gun position atop his M2A2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV), during a reconnaissance patrol near Balad, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

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A view of the Mark 19 automatic grenade launcher mounted atop a vehicle of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force that is parked near the Kuwaiti border at the begining of the ground phase of Operation DESERT STORM

Two M-9 armored combat earthmovers (ACEs) assigned to the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force level a berm at the Kuwaiti border at the start of the ground phase of Operation DESERT STORM

A Marine stands behind an M-60E3 machine gun placed on the roof of an M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) as the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force prepares to enter Kuwait at the start of the ground phase of Operation Desert Storm

A convoy of cargo trucks from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force rolls into Kuwait at the start of the ground phase of Operation Desert Storm

Marines of the 1ST Marine Division gather at Kuwait International Airport following the cease-fire that ended Operation Desert Storm

An M-9 Armored Combat Earthmover (ACE) assigned to the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force moves toward the Kuwaiti border at the start of the ground phase of Operation Desert Storm

The Battleship USS MISSOURI (BB-63) Fires its Mark 7 16-inch/50-Caliber Guns while Taking Part in a Night Mission off the Coast of Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm

Reporters talk with Marines of the 1ST Marine Division at a site in the desert west of Kuwait International Airport following the cease-fire that ended Operation Desert Storm

An AAVP-7A1 amphibious assault vehicle of the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) comes ashore during Exercise Eager Mace 92-1, the first major U.S./Kuwaiti combined service exercise since the end of Operation Desert Storm

A Marine from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force mans a Mark 19 automatic grenade launcher in a fighting position near the Kuwaiti border at the start of the ground phase of Operation Desert Storm

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM

Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU)

Scene Camera Operator: J.R. Roark

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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24/02/1991
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label_outline Explore Kuwaiti Border, Ground Phase, Marine Expeditionary Force

US Army (USA) SPECIALIST Fourth Class (SFC) Krystal Darcey, 554th Military Police (MP) Company (CO), attached to the 173rd Airborne Brigade (ABN BDE), provides perimeter security with an MK 19 Mod 3 40 mm grenade machine gun system, during a meeting between an American commander and a local sheik outside of Kirkuk, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

Gear is displayed on a table during an exhibition of

A US Marine Corps (USMC) Intermediate Fast Attack Vehicle (IFAV) with a mounted TOW (Tube-launched, Optically-tracked, Wire-guided) missile launcher. The IFAV is from the Mobile Assault Platoon 3 (MAP 3), 2nd Battalion (BN) 4th Marine Regiment (MAR REGT), provides cover for advancing Marines on Combat Range 1 during a training exercise aboard Marine Corps Base (MCB) Camp Fuji, Japan (JPN)

Lance Corporal B. S. Jones, with Headquarters Platoon, Bravo Company, 2d Combat Engineer Battalion, manuevers his M9 Armored Combat Earth mover (Ace) while constructing a berm for the hazardous waste site during COMBINED ARMS Exercise (CAX) 5-97. 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, 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 desert warfare exercise, to fill key billets in the Ground Combat Element...

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

LT. Dan Taylor negotiates the broken rungs of a Jacob's ladder as he climbs down from the guided missile frigate USS NICHOLAS (FFG-47) into a motor whaleboat. Taylor, a Navy Liaison Officer (NLO), will be transferred to a reflagged Kuwaiti tanker to act as a naval representative aboard the ship during an Earnest Will convoy mission in which the tankers are escorted through waters of the Gulf by U.S. naval ships

AIRMAN 1ST Class Darryl Hawkins of the 857th Security Police Squadron scans the perimeter of a B-52 Stratofortress aircraft alert area through the sight of an M16 rifle equipped with an M203 grenade launcher

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 US Army soldier aims an M16A1 rifle equipped with an M203 grenade launcher

Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force ride in an M-939 5-ton cargo truck past an abandoned Iraqi MT-LB multipurpose tracked vehicle on the road to Kuwait City during the ground phase of Operation Desert Storm

Liberty Tactical Assembly Area, Kuwait. American soldiers from 5th Special Forces Group, 45 British commandos and Kuwaiti commandos participate in an airborne jump insertion exercise at a designated drop zone west of the tactical assembly area, Liberty Kuwait. The joint airborne soldiers jumped simultaneously out of four C-130s

A television cameraman films a Kuwaiti soldier departing for Saudi Arabia following completion of combat training at Fort Dix. Kuwaiti troops have been training in preparation for conflict with the Iraqi forces presently occupying their country

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