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FORT IRWIN, Calif. –A High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled

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The 137th Transportation Company with the Kansas National

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A Marine sits behind the TOW-2 tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided anti-tank weapon mounted on the roof on an M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) during Operation Desert Shield.

Marines aboard an M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) equipped with a TOW tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided anti-tank weapon ride past a desert landing zone following the withdrawal of Iraqi forces during Operation Desert Storm

A Marine in an M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle armed with a tube-launched, optically-tracked, wire-guided (TOW) anti-tank missile system, assumes a defensive position after coming ashore during the amphibious assault phase of Exercise RIMP

A Marine mans a tube-launched, optically-tracked, wire-guided (TOW) anti-tank weapons system mounted on top of an M998 series multipurpose wheeled vehicle during Operation COLD WINTER'87, a NATO-sponsored military exercise

CPL. S.C. Person, left, of 1ST Battalion, 6th Marines, stands with a group of Saudi soldiers gathered around a TOW-2 tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided anti-tank weapon mounted on the roof of an M-998 high-mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle (HHMWV) during Operation Desert Shield.

A Marine mans a tube-launched, optically-tracked, wire-guided (TOW) anti-tank weapons system mounted on top of an M998 series multipurpose wheeled vehicle during Operation COLD WINTER'87, a NATO-sponsored military exercise

Lance CPL. K. L. Kniskeran of TOW Company, 3rd Tank Battalion, runs a self-test on a TOW-2 tube-launched, optically-tracked, wire-guided anti-tank weapon mounted atop an M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMVW) during Operation Desert Shield.

An M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) and an LAV-25 light armored vehicle from the 2nd Light Armoured Infantry (LAI) Battalion pass a checkpoint on the edge of the city following Operation Desert Storm.

An M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) carrying a radar and tracking system shelter sits parked at an airfield during Operation Desert Shield. The shelter is used by the Marines of the 3rd Remotely Piloted Vehicle (RPV) Platoon to track their Pioneer RPVs during flight.

A Marine stands behind the TOW-2 tube launched, optically tracked, wire-guided anti-tank weapon mounted on the roof of an M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) as the vehicle is driven down a road during Operation Desert Shield.

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Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD

Country: Saudi Arabia(SAU)

Scene Camera Operator: CPL. D. Haynes

Release Status: Released to Public

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Patrol commanders from the Mountain Eagle Joint Task Force meet at their High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) during mission rehersal exercises at the Joint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk, Louisiana

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

US Marine Corps (USMC) and US Navy (USN) members of Landing Force Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT), drive an assortment of vehicles in a convoy, led by a High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV)

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

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)

U.S. Marine Corps Marines from the 1ST Battalion, 6th Marine Division, park their High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV) to await the arrival of the Secretary of the Navy, the Honorable Gordon R. England, at Camp Ramadi, Iraq, on Nov.25, 2004. The 1ST MAR DIV, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom II, is engaged in security and stabilization operations in the Al Anbar Province of Iraq. (USMC photo by LCpl Andrew D. Young) (Released)

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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

Nighttime photography showing a convoy of High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) enroute from Charlie Range at Mubarak Military City in Egypt during Exercise BRIGHT STAR 01/02. BRIGHT STAR 01/02 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 side-by-side with our allies and regional partners

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

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