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SENIOR AIRMAN Christopher Drapper, 100th Security Police Squadron, sights in on a target with an M60 machine gun equipped with Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) gear and mounted atop an M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV). Drapper is patrolling the airfield perimeter during Creek Defender, an air base ground-defense training course including both classroom and field training

US Air Force (USAF) AIRMAN First Class (A1C) Stuart Burns (foreground) and USAF A1C Robert Robinson, both assigned to the 100th Security Forces Squadron (SFS) and both armed with 5.56mm M16A2 rifles with M203 40mm grenade launcher and equipped with Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) gear practice Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) tactics during the tactics-training portion of Exercise BURNING CREEK 2002

Camp Joseph T. Robinson. AIRMAN First Class Aubrey Curlee, a security policeman acting as a member of the aggressor forces, mans an M60 machine gun equipped with the multiple integrated laser engagement system (MILES) during Exercise SAFE DEFENDER ONE. SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Vince Hooper covers their flank with an M16A1 rifle which is also equipped with the MILES. The men are wearing components of the MILES

SENIOR AIRMAN Eric Walker from the 62nd Security Police Squadron, Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, talks on a field phone from a fox hole during Creek Defender training, an air base ground-defense training course that includes classroom instruction and field exercises. AIRMAN Walker has an M-16 rifle and is fitted with multiple integrated laser engagement system (MILES) gear

US Air Force SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Kyle Duncan, a security forces specialist from the 137th Security Forces Squadron, Will Rogers Air National Guard Base, Oklahoma, cleans and oils his M60 machine gun. The M60 is the most vital weapon of a roving fire team, and cleaning it ensures it operates without malfunction. Team personnel are currently deployed to the Combat Support Operations Course school at Fort Dix, New Jersey

US Air Force (USAF) AIRMAN First Class (A1C) Tray Mitchell, 376th Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW) Security Forces Squadron (SFS), provides security armed with a 5.56mm M16A1 rifle with a 40mm M203 grenade launcher attached, inside tent city at Peter J. Ganci Jr. Air Base (AB), Kyrgyzstan, in support Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA), Jeff Sheppard, USAF, mans a M2 .50 Caliber machine gun during the Initial Response Readiness Exercise/Combat Employment Readiness Exercise (IRRE/CERE), at Osan AB, Korea. The gun is equipped with a blank firing device and Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) gear

AIRMAN Jason Imboden from the 100th Security Police Squadron aims an M-16 rifle, equipped with Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) gear, over a concrete wall as he guards the runway during Creek Defender, an air base ground-defense training course including both classroom and field training

US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Peter Gardea (foreground), Mission Support Technician, 60th Supply Squadron, armed with a 5.56mm M16A2 rifle equipped with Multiple Integrated Laser Engagements System (MILES) gear, directs the perimeter defense during an attack on the Tanker Airlift Control Element (TALCE) at Lakehurst, Naval Air Engineering Station (NAES), New Jersey (NJ), during Exercise PHOENIX READINESS 2002

AIRMAN 1ST Class Christopher Staples, right, hands M-60 machine gun rounds to SENIOR AIRMAN Scott Russell as the two maintain a ground-level defensive position. The airmen, both from the 100th Security Squadron, are participating in Creek Defender, an air base ground-defense training course including both classroom and field training. The gun is equipped with Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) gear

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Base: Sembach Air Base

Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)

Scene Camera Operator: TSGT. Kevin Hoeth

Release Status: Released to Public

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Brigadier General (BGEN) Michael Jelinsky (facing camera), USA, Deputy Commander 88th Regional Support Command, talks with Command Sergeant Major (CSM) Nick Piacentini, USA, 863RD Engineers Battalion as heavy construction equipment is used to construct a new road at the Multiple Purpose Training Range, at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin

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Members of 3rd Section, A Battery, 1ST Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment (Airborne), Fort Bragg, plug their ears as the M119 105mm howitzer fires during a joint field training. The soldiers are wearing MILES (Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System) equipment. (Duplicate image, see also DASD9803109 or search 980201A6522J506)

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