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U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to the 30th Armored Brigade

US Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC). A Pedestal Mounted Stinger Missile System rides high on its High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV). Following closely is a 5-ton truck and another HMMWV of the Combat Service Support Detachment 27 (CSSD-27), during Combined Arms Exercise (CAX) 5-97

Raqqa Internal Security Force students learn how to

U.S. Army Spc. Gerard Umali, a native of the Philippines,

US Air Force (USAF) Security Police (SP) assigned to the 379th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron (ESFS), use a M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), equipped with a 7.62mm M60 general purpose machine gun to patrol the flight line during a sand storm, at a forward deployed base during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

Navy seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction

U.S. Marines with 2D Low Altitude Air Defense, 26th

First Lieutenant Eziezynski from the 177th Armoured Brigade waits in a High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), visually modified to represent an amphibious scout car (BRDM), at the National Training Center, during a battle exercise

An Armored Security Vehicle is staged during sunset

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US Marine Corps (USMC) Sergeant (SGT) William Regan, an Expeditionary Airfield Marine for Marine Wing Support Squadron 272 (MWSS-272), secures the runway at Expeditionary Airfield Station (EAS) Joe Foss, Kuwait, in support of IRAQI FREEDOM

Expeditionary Airfield Station (EAS) Joe Foss, Kuwait, occupied by US Marine Corps (USMC) personnel from Marine Wing Support Squadron 272 (MWSS-272), during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

A US Marine Corps (USMC) CH53E Super Stallion hovers over USMC personnel from Marine Wing Support Squadron 272 (MWSS-272) and their High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV), at Expeditionary Airfield Station (EAS) Joe Foss, Kuwait

US Marine Corps (USMC) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Jeffery Cook, a bulk refueler for Marine Wing Support Squadron 272 (MWSS-272), dispatches refueling trucks to various aircraft at Al Jaber Air Base (AB), Kuwait, in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

US Marine Corps (USMC) personnel from Marine Wing Support Squadron 272 (MWSS-272), drive a convoy of Aircraft Refueling Commercial trucks (ARC) to the Tactical Patrolling Terminal, at Camp Udairia, Kuwait

A US Marine Corps (USMC) P-19 Crash Fire Rescue Truck from Marine Wing Support Squadron 272 (MWSS-272), rushes towards the flight line at an undisclosed location in Kuwait, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

The US Marine Corps (USMC) Expeditionary Airfield tower and airstrip at Expeditionary Airfield Station (EAS) Joe Foss, Kuwait, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

A US Marine Corps (USMC) CH-46E Sea Knight Search And Rescue (SAR) helicopter is refueled by US Marine Corps (USMC) personnel from Marine Wing Support Squadron-272 (MWSS 272), in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, at Ali Asleem Air Base (AB), Kuwait

US Marine Corps (USMC) Lance Corporal (LCPL) Pascual Evo (foreground) assigned to the Expeditionary Air Field division of Marine Wing Support Squadron 272 (MWSS-272), shows off his bicep while breaking down matting used on an aircraft runway in Kuwait, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

A US Marine Corps (USMC) Aircraft Rescue & Fire Fighting truck from Marine Wing Support Squadron 272 (MWSS-272), responds to aircraft claiming an in-flight emergency at Expeditionary Airfield Station (EAS) Joe Foss, Kuwait

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Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM

Base: Camp Coyote

Country: Kuwait (KWT)

Scene Camera Operator: LCPL Jonathan T. Spencer, USMC

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

The United States Marine Corps traces its roots to the Continental Marines of the American Revolutionary War, formed by a resolution of the Second Continental Congress on 10 November 1775. That date is celebrated as the Marine Corps's birthday. Throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries, Marine detachments served aboard Navy cruisers, battleships, and aircraft carriers. About 600,000 Americans served in the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II, performed a central role in the Pacific War. The Pacific theatre battles saw fierce fighting between Marines and the Imperial Japanese Army. The Battle of Iwo Jima was arguably the most famous Marine engagement of the war with high losses of 26,000 American casualties and 22,000 Japanese. By the end of WWII, the Corps expanded totaling about 485,000 Marines. Nearly 87,000 Marines were casualties during World War II (including nearly 20,000 killed), and 82 were awarded the Medal of Honor. The Korean War saw the Corps expand from 75,000 regulars to a force of 261,000 Marines, mostly reservists. 30,544 Marines were killed or wounded during the war. During Vietnam War Marines evacuated Saigon. Vietnam was the longest war for Marines. By its end, 13,091 had been killed in action, 51,392 had been wounded. Marines participated in the failed 1980 Iran hostage rescue attempt, the invasion of Grenada, the invasion of Panama. On 23 October 1983, the Marine headquarters building in Beirut, Lebanon, was bombed, causing the highest peacetime losses to the Corps in its history. 220 Marines and 21 other service members were killed. Marines liberated Kuwait during the Persian Gulf War, participated in combat operations in Somalia (1992–1995), and took part in the evacuation of American citizens from the US Embassy in Tirana, Albania. Following the attacks on 11 September 2001, Marine Corps, alongside the other military services, has engaged in global operations around the world in support of War on Terror. Marines were among first sent to Afghanistan in November 2001. Since then, Marine battalions and squadrons have been engaging Taliban and Al-Qaeda forces. U.S. Marines also served in the Iraq War.

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Forest Fire Equipment: Fire Trucks - California

U.S. Army Spc. Joshua Wildman, a firefighter with the

US Marine Corps (USMC) Lance Corporal (LCPL) Adam Orozco coils up an air hose, connected to a compressor attached to a USMC MK-23 Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR) 7-ton cargo truck (right), after using it to fill a tire of a second MK-23 MTVR truck (left) with air in Nginyang, Rift Valley Province, Kenya (KEN), in preparation to participate in Exercise NATURAL FIRE 2006. This exercise is the largest conducted by US and East African Community Nation military forces in the East African region and it consists of military training, as well as medical, veterinary, and engineering civil affairs programs carried out in the rural areas

US Air Force (USAF) Firefighter assigned to the 28th Civil Engineering Squadron (CES), 28th Bomb Wing (BW), use a P-23 Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting Vehicle to extinguish a mock fire during a Major Accident Response Exercise (MARE), during Phase I of the base wide pre-deployment preparation for the Air Combat Commands (ACC) upcoming Operational Readiness Inspection (ORI), at Ellsworth Air Force Base (AFB), South Dakota (DK)

US Army (USA) Major (MAJ) Joe Gardamal (left), and USA Sergeant First Class (SFC) Frank Borgahese, 305th Psychological Operations Company (PSYOP CO), Upper Marlboro, Maryland (MD), stand by their vehicle ready for the upcoming events in Northern Kuwait in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

The Euphrates River, Iraq, near a steel bridge on Highway One, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

A new P-23 Crash Fire Truck is on display at the new fire training school

A fire truck stands by at the arrival of a 60th Military Airlift Wing C-5A Galaxy aircraft transporting members of the United Nations Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG). UNTAG will perform peacekeeping duties and monitor the November 1989 elections and independence of Namibia

US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines from Marine Wing Support Squadron (MWSS) 273 load spare tires on to the back of a Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR) 7-ton vehicle onboard Al Asad Air Base (AB), Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Marine Corps (USMC) Sergeant (SGT) Jules Thompson, Explosive Ordnance Technician, Marine Wing Support Squadron (MWSS) 273, sets plastic explosives on a stack of unused and abandoned ordnance preparing it for detonation during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

A US Marine Corps (USMC) Assault Amphibian Vehicle (AAV7A1) from the 3rd Assault Amphibian Battalion, 1ST Marine Division, Delta Company, Twentynine Palms, California (CA), has its UWS (Upgunned Weapons Station) temporarily removed as it is serviced at Camp Coyote, Kuwait, during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

Marine Corps Aviation Association, Joe Foss Squadron,

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