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An Army military policeman keeps watch from the roof of an M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) as the command ship USS LA SALLE (AGF-3) arrives at the pier behind him. The LA SALLE has come to Ash Shuaybah for a ceremony marking the re-opening of the city's port facility following Operaiton Desert Storm

Troops muster on the dock near the U.S. Army logistic support vessel LT. General William B. Bunker (LSV-4) as the city's port facility is cleared of mines and unexploded ordnance following the cease-fire that ended Operation Desert Storm. An M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) equipped with a Mark 19 automatic grenade launcher is at right

The commanding officer of the command ship USS LA SALLE (AGF-3) stands between his executive officer and a harbor pilot on a bridge wing as the ship ties up at the pier. The LA SALLE has come to Ash Shuaybah for a ceremony marking the re-opening of the city's port facility following Operation Desert Storm

A Marine posted atop the roof of the United States Embassy sits beside a Mark 19 automatic grenade launcher as he scans the surrounding area with a pair of binoculars. Marines of the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (22nd MEU), deployed aboard the amphibious assault ship USS SAIPAN (LHA 2), were sent to augment security at the embassy as part of Operation SHARP EDGE

British and American military personnel walk along the dock near an M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) after the re-opening of the city's port facility following Operation Desert Storm. In the background are the command ship USS LA SALLE (AGF-3), right, the British coastal minesweeper HMS CATTISTOCK (M-31), center, and the U.S. Army logistic support vessel LT. General William B. Bunker (LSV-4), left background

Soldiers from Fort Sherman, Ga., arrive at the pier in an M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV). They will be departing for Saudi Arabia aboard the rapid-response vehicle cargo ship USNS ALGOL (T-AKR-287) to take part in Operation Desert Shield

A US Marine standing behind and manning a Mark-19 Grenade Launcher mounted on a M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV). Only the very top of the HMMWV is seen. Somali civilians are seen in the background. He stays alert for snipers in the Bakara Market as the unit sweeps the crowded Bakara, Mogadishu market for arms and ammunition. This mission is in direct support of Operation Restore Hope

M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV) of a military police unit, one equipped with a Mark 19 grenade launcher, provide security for the command ship USS LA SALLE (AGF-3), command center for all mine countermeasures units, prior to a ceremony marking the re-opening of Ash Shuaybah's port facility during Operation Desert Storm. The port is being reopened after a multinational effort to clear the mines laid by Iraqi forces during their occupation of Kuwait

A soldier in an M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) communicates with his unit prior to taking part in loading operations in support of Operation Desert Shield. Equipment will be loaded aboard the rapid-response vehicle cargo ship USNS ALGOL (T-AKR-287), docked in the background, for transportation to Saudi Arabia

An Army military policeman mans the Mark 19 automatic grenade launcher mounted on the roof of an M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) as the command ship USS LA SALLE (AGF-3) ties up at the pier behind him. The LA SALLE has come to Ash Shuaybah for a ceremony marking the re-opening of the city's port facility following Operation Desert Storm

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Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM

Base: Ash Shuaybah

Country: Kuwait(KWT)

Scene Camera Operator: JO1 Joe Gawlowicz

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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01/03/1991
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label_outline Explore La Salle, Jo 1 Joe Gawlowicz, Shuaybah

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Representatives of the General Dynamics Corp. ride on a trailer with a BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile during the "San Diego Salutes the Troops" parade. The parade is being held to honor all veterans, with special recognition being given to units that took part in Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm

Financial management technicians with the 160th and

ENS Kirk Morford, commanding officer, Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Detachment 7, examines a mortar round removed from a weapons cache during the multinational relief effort OPERATION RESTORE HOPE

Members of a minehunting unit prepare to lower the sonar device of an AQS-14 minehunting system from a Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 14 (HM-14) MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter during operations off the coast of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The system is being used to locate inert mines planted by U.S. forces as part of a minehunting exercise during Operation Desert Shield

A CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter with Marine Heavy

US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Ronnie Lock, a Security Police (SP) assigned to the 310th Space Group (SG), aims his 5.56mm M16A1 rifle with a 40mm M203 grenade launcher equipped with Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) gear from the kneeling position during the Security Forces Tactics competition conducted at Vandenberg Air Force Base (AFB) California (CA), during Exercise GUARDIAN CHALLENGE 2002. Guardian Challenge, a four-day space and missile competition, is hosted annually at Vandenberg AFB, CA to test the wartime readiness of Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) professionals

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

A water tank and a line of M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV) stand on an airfield. Equipment is being delivered to an airfield as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled from the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

Seaman Matthew Clinton, religious programs specialist,

S49-28-023 - STS-049 - Unidentified Earth observation scenes.

A member of Beachmaster Unit One directs the offloading of an M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) from an air-cushioned landing craft (LCAC) during Cobra Gold '90, a combined Thai/U.S. exercise

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