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US Army (USA) Soldiers assigned to 3-505th Infantry display a cache of Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPG) confiscated in the town of Gangikhel, located in Malikasay, Afghanistan, during a mission to seek out enemy forces and locate weapon cache's, during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Adam Hinojosa, left, Staff

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A close-up view of the left side winglet of an Iraqi MIL Mi-24 Hind-D assault helicopter abandoned during Operation Desert Storm. The ordnance is two UV-32-57 rocket pods, each containing 32 S-5 57mm rockets, and an AT-2 Swatter anti-tank missile. A belt of 12.7mm machine gun ammunition is draped over the missile launch rail.

A US Marine Corps (USMC) Marine from Weapons Company (CO), 1ST Battalion (BN), 5th Marines (MAR) (1/5), 1ST Marine Division (MAR DIV), with a slight wrist wound, mans an FNMI 7.62 mm M240G machine gun in response to an attack on the Iraqi Police station in Al Kharma, Iraq. The 1ST MAR DIV is engaged in Security and Stabilization Operations (SASO) in the area during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Marines Corps (USMC) Marines from the 1ST Battalion, 7th Marines (1/7), Charlie Company, Twentynine Palms, California (CA), in Mission-Oriented Protective Posture response level 2 (MOPP-2) suits, inspect a crate with RPG-7 Rocket Launchers and a pair of swords. The crate was removed from an Iraqi Armory in Al Kut as part of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

Two US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines assigned to Bravo/Company, 1ST Battalion, 3rd Marines, one armed with a 5.56mm M16A2 rifle, equipped with a 40mm M203 grenade launcher (left), the other with a 5.56mm M4 carbine equipped with the Knights Armament Company (KAC) Modular Weapon System (MWS), post security while on patrol in search for insurgents in the streets of Fallujah, Iraq, during Operation Phantom Fury

An Iraqi Civil Defense Corps (ICDC) Soldier, along with US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines of Charlie Company (C CO), 1ST Battalion, 5th Marines (1/5), Regimental Combat Team 1 (RCT 1), 1ST Marine Division (MAR DIV), talk to locals after an assault on a house enemy rifle fire originated. The joint team came under fire during a joint foot patrol. These Marines are armed with M16A2 rifles, one (right) with an M203 40 mm grenade launcher attached. The 1ST MAR DIV, in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, is engaged in Security and Stabilization Operations (SASO) in Iraqs Al Anbar province

US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines of Weapons Company (CO), 2nd Battalion (BN), 5th Marines (MAR) (2/5), Sniper Platoon (PLT) Marine Corps Base (MCB) Camp Pendleton, California (CA), pose for a photo before crossing the Iraqi border during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. In the background is an armored up M1045 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV) with TOW (Tube-launched Optically-controlled Wireless-guided) Missile Carrier. (Substandard image)

A US Marine Corps (USMC) Marine, 1ST Battalion (BN), 8th Marine Regiment (1/8), holds his 5.56 mm M16A2 rifle, equipped with a 40 mm M203 grenade launcher, at the ready while searching for insurgents and weapon caches during a Security and Stabilization Operation (SASO) conducted as part of Operation AL FAJR, which is an offensive operation to eradicate enemy insurgents in Fallujah, Al Anbar Province, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

Four combat ready Marines from Weapons Company, 1ST Battalion, 8th Marines, are in the prone position with their M-16A1 rifles and an M-203 40mm grenade launcher attacked to the first rifle. The Marines are assaulting their objective during Operation CAX-1-2-82

A charred AKM assault rifle and a flare pistol lie on the hull of a destroyed Iraqi BMP-1 mechanized infantry combat vehicle during the ground phase of Operation Desert Storm

A Marine non-commissioned officer from the 1ST Marine Division kneels beside an M-19 60mm mortar that is part of a display of captured Iraqi weapons and equipment being shown to reporters following the cease-fire that ended Operation Desert Storm. An AKM rifle and an RPG-7 rocket launcher are at lower left

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Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM

Country: Kuwait (KWT)

Scene Camera Operator: Cw02 Ed Bailey

Release Status: Released to Public

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03/03/1991
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A hospital corpsman stands by as a working party aboard the battleship USS WISCONSIN (BB-64) prepares to move supplies below decks during an underway replenishment with the combat stores ship USNS SPICA (T-AFS-9). The ships are part of the U.S. Navy force in the gulf supporting Operation Desert Shield

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

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

Gear is displayed on a table during an exhibition of

PETTY Officer 3rd Class K. M. Pahl Jr., a Seabee with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5 (NMCB-5), walks through a trench near the command bunker during a camp defense drill. NMCB-5 is in northern Saudi Arabia to provide engineering support for coalition forces during Operation Desert Storm

Chief of the National Guard Bureau Air Force Gen. Joseph

U.S. Army SGT. Kelly Black from 3-187th Infantry Regiment shoot an AK-47 and demonstrates the firing procedures to Iraqi Police men during a firing training at Forward Operating Base Remagen, Tikrit on April 27, 2006. Alpha company, 3-187th Infantry Regiment is in charge of training the local Iraqi police in Forward Operating Base Remagen. The 101st Airborne Division is currently deployed in the Tikrit area and Northern Iraq on support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.(U.S.. Army photo by SPC. Teddy Wade) (Released)

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

AK-47 magazines and a bayonet (not for AK-47) acquired by US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines from insurgents that attacked the police station in Al Kharma, Iraq, during Security and Stabilization Operations (SASO) in the Al Anbar Province in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

Armed with a rocket-propelled grenade, a member of

Members of the 75th Rangers (Airborne), Fort Benning, Georgia, armed with M16 rifles with M203 grenade launcher (kneeling) and M249 SAW light machine guns (prone position), perform weapons training in the desert of Egypt during Operation BRIGHT STAR '94

A member of the 2nd Battalion, 25th Infantry Division, left, rides with members of the South Korean army's 31st Tank Battalion aboard a camouflaged M47 tank during the joint South Korean/US training Exercise TEAM SPIRIT '84

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