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US Army (USA) Specialists (SPC) Chantha Bun (foreground) armed with a Accuracy Engineering tactical sniper rifle, equipped with an AN/PVS-10 Day+Night Vision Sniper Scope, and USA Sergeant Anthony Davis (background), armed with a 7.62mm M21 sniper rifle, scan for enemy activity at 4 West, an Iraqi Police station located in Mosul, Iraq, following an attack by insurgents. Both Soldiers are assigned to Bravo Company snipers, 1ST Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 1ST Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT), and are deployed to Iraq in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
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A US Army (USA) Soldier from Bravo (B) Company (CO), 2nd Battalion (BN), 130th Infantry Regiment (INF REGT), Illinois Army National Guard (INARNG), Urbana, Illinois (IL), attached to the 3rd Brigade Combat Team (BCT), Fort Carson, Colorado (CO), provides security with a 5.56 mm M16A2 rifle backed with an MK 19 Mod 3 40 mm grenade machine gun system, while other members search for weapons and possible insurgents near Baqubah, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
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US Army (USA) First Lieutenant (1LT) Leland Case, Military Transition Team (MITT), 3rd Brigade Combat Team (BCT), stands in the open roof turret of a M1114 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) as he readies the M2.50 caliber machine gun in preparation to serve as a turret gunner in order to protect a convoy traveling from Contingency Operating Base (COB) Speicher, Salah Ad Din Province, Iraq (IRQ), during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
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US Marine Corps (USMC) Sergeant (SGT) Christopher Anderson assigned to the Forward Jump Team, 1ST Battalion, 3rd Marines, 1ST Marine Division, conducts preventative maintenance on a 40mm MK 19 Mod 3 grenade machine gun, mounted atop a High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV), at Camp Owen, located in Fallujah, Iraq, during Operation Al Fajr. Operation Al Fajr is an offensive operation to eradicate enemy forces within the city of Fallujah in support of continuing security and stabilization operations in the Al Anbar province, by units of the 1ST Marine Division, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
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A member of the US Army's 101st Military Police (MP) Company, 3rd Platoon (PLT), Fort Campbell, Kentucky, armed with a 5.56 mm M16A2 rifle with an M203 40 mm grenade launcher, prepares to mount up at Haji Mohammadshah Kelay, outside Kandahar Airport, during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. The Military Police provide escorts as well as added protection to the Tactical Psychological Operations Team (TPT) 913, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, during their visits to local villages and towns promoting Afghanistan and American coalition cooperation and gather intelligence
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Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM
Base: Kandahar Air Base
Country: Afghanistan (AFG)
Scene Major Command Shown: AMC
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Jeremy T. Lock, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
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15/04/2002
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