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A soldier with "B" Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, armed with a 5.56mm M4 Carbine rifle and a flashlight peers down a well during a search for Taliban and weapon caches in the Baghran Valley, in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

A soldier with "B" Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, climbs into a small hole in order to search for Taliban weapon caches in the Baghran Valley, in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

Soldiers with "B" Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, armed with 5.56mm M4 Carbine rifles, stop for a moment during a search for suspected Taliban and weapon caches in the Baghran Valley, in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

A soldier with "B" Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, armed with a 5.56mm M4 Carbine rifle watches for enemy forces while conducting a search for suspected Taliban and weapon caches in the Baghran Valley, in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

Two soldiers with "B" Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, armed with 5.56mm M4 Carbine rifles guard the outside of a mud hut while other soldiers conduct a search for suspected Taliban and weapon caches in the Baghran Valley, in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

Soldiers with "B" Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, armed with 5.56mm M4 Carbine rifles conduct a search for suspected Taliban and weapon caches in the Baghran Valley, in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

Soldiers with "B" Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, armed with 5.56mm M4 Carbine rifles conduct a search for suspected Taliban and weapon caches in the Baghran Valley, in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

A soldier with "B" Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, searches a civilian vehicle for Taliban weapon caches in the Baghran Valley, in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

Armed with 5.56mm M4 Carbine rifles and FNMI 5.56 mm M249 Squad Automatic Weapons (SAW), soldiers with "B" Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, conduct searches for suspected Taliban and weapon caches during assault Operation Viper in the Baghran Valley, in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

A soldier with "B" Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and FNMI 5.56 mm M249 Squad Automatic Weapons (SAW), peers through a small hole while searching for Taliban weapon caches in the Baghran Valley, in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

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Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM

Base: Unknown

Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

Scene Camera Operator: SPC Preston E. Cheeks, USA

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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label_outline Explore Mm M 249 Squad Automatic Weapons, Baghran, Baghran Valley

US Air Force (USAF) AIRMAN (AMN) Stephen Blevins, Security Forces Journeyman, 86th Contingency Response Group (CRG), mans a 5.56mm M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) from a bunkered position near the perimeter at Bashur Airfield in Northern Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines assigned to Headquarters Company, 6th Marine Regiment, armed with 5.56 mm M16A2 rifles and a 5.56 mm M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) conduct Quick Reaction Force (QRF) perimeter security training at Camp Stonewall, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, while deployed in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Marcela Trice, 31st Civil Engineering Squadron (CES) peers to her down range target through her Geodimeter Total Station Surveying instrument, while surveying an area for a road traffic circle project at Aviano Air Base (AB), Italy

British personnel arrive in a Land Rover Truck Utility Light (TUL), with a Weapons Mounted Installation Kit (WMIK) carries a FNMI 7.62mm M240G general purpose machine gun, at Living Support Area 5 (LSA-5). They arrived at camp for a combined British forces and US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines briefing as they prepare to carry out a battle plan for a possible war with Iraq during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. (Substandard image)

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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

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A US Army (USA) Soldier assigned to C Company, 1ST Engineers, 1ST Infantry Division Brigade Combat Team 1 (BCT-1), armed with a 5.56 mm M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW), participates in a dismounted patrol during a raid on a suspected weapons cache, in Ar Ramadi, Iraq. USA Soldiers assigned to the 1ST Infantry Division are attached with the US Marine Corps (USMC) 1ST Marine Division, and are engaged in Security and Stabilization Operations (SASO) in the Al Anbar Province of Iraq, in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

Armed with an FNMI 7.62mm M240 Machine Gun, a US Marine Corps (USMC) with the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines stands perimeter watch around an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team in Al Hay, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Marine Corps (USMC) Lance Corporal (LCPL) Adam Peers, Reservist, Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron-234 (VMGR-234), Fort Worth, Texas (TX), drives a stake into the ground before attaching concertina wire to it at Ahmed Al Jaber Air Base (AB), Kuwait. US Marines are currently deployed to Southwest Asia in support of Operations ENDURING FREEDOM and IRAQI FREEDOM

The amphibious assault ship USS TRIPOLI (LPH-10) lies in dry dock for repairs to a hole in its starboard bow caused by an Iraqi mine. The TRIPOLI struck the mine on February 18 while serving as a mine-clearing platform in the northern Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm. The ship was able to continue operations after damage control crews stopped the flooding caused by the explosion

US Army (USA) Soldier assigned to Bravo Company 1-21 Infantry Regiment, armed with a 5.56mm M4 carbine with a 40mm M203 grenade launcher attached, peers around a corner of a building, during a mission to find concealed mortar rounds, in the city of Kirkuk, Iraq during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

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