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Marines assigned to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit

A California Army National Guard M1A1 Main Battle Tank crew from Bravo Company, 1ST Battalion, 185th Armor, 81st Armor Brigade, talk with children while on break from an area reconnaissance mission on Sept. 6, 2004, around Balad, Iraq, during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The area recon is to deny anti-Iraqi forces the freedom to operate and move throughout the countryside. (U.S. Air Force photo by STAFF Sergeant Shane A. Cuomo) (Released)

Iraqi soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 34th Brigade,

Spc. Courtney Holman, a tank mechanic assigned to Juliet

A US Marine Corps (USMC) Marine, 1ST Battalion (BN), 8th Marine Regiment (1/8), M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank (MBT) provides heavy fire support for other 1/8 Marines who are engaging insurgents during a Security and Stabilization Operation (SASO) conducted as part of Operation AL FAJR, which is an offensive operation to eradicate enemy insurgents in Fallujah, Al Anbar Province, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. (SUBSTANDARD)

Staff Sgt. Roberto C. Lopez, left, section leader,

Tank hulks: From abandoned wrecks to perfect targets

A Bradley Fighting Vehicle from 1ST Platoon, Apache Troop, 2-5 Cav, 2nd BCT, 1ST Cav Div provides cover for the soldiers on the ground and keeps an extra sights out for insurgents during combat operation in Fallujah on Nov. 9, 2004 during Operation Iraqi Freedom. (U.S. Army photo by SGT. 1ST Class Johancharles Van Boers) (Released)

An M-60 main Battle tank participates in a live fire demonstration during the multinational joint service Exercise BRIGHT STAR '85

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Iraqi hardened aircraft shelters damaged by Allied air strikes stand in a section of desert during Operation Desert Storm.

Artillery shells are abandoned in an Iraqi beachfront defense post in the aftermath of Operation Desert Storm.

Scorched Iraqi SA-6 surface-to-air missiles stand atop a Soviet ZIL-131 6x6 truck after Allied forces claimed the area during Operation Desert Storm

A left side view of an Iraqi S-60 57mm automatic anti-aircraft gun that was captured during Operation Desert Storm

An A-6E Intruder aircraft flies over the desert as it prepares for refueling during Operation Desert Storm.

An Iraqi tank destroyed during Operation Desert Storm

A close-up right rear view of the crew stations on an Iraqi S-60 57mm automatic anti-aircraft gun that was captured during Operation Desert Storm

Iraqi hardened aircraft shelters damaged by Allied air strikes stand in a section of desert during Operation Desert Storm.

A demolished Iraqi helicopter litters Tallil Airfield following an Allied attack during Operation Desert Storm

An Iraqi SA-6 Gainful surface-to-air missile launcher vehicle abandoned by the Republican Guard during Operation Desert Storm.

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Subject Operation/Series: DESERT ST0RM

Country: Iraq(IRQ)

Scene Camera Operator: STAFF SGT. Guadalupe Hernandez

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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03/03/1991
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An Afghan Mujahideen demonstrates positioning of a hand-held surface-to-air missile

Army Sergeant Gerry D. Latham, a member of the "Opposing Forces," briefs pilots on a Soviet SA-7 surface-to-air missile launcher during Exercise AIR WARRIOR. The Soviet machine guns displayed on the table are, left to right, an RPD 7.62 mm light machine gun, an RPK 7.62 mm light machine gun, an RP-46 7.62 mm company machine gun and a PK 7.62 mm general purpose machine gun

Gear is displayed on a table during an exhibition of

A US Marine Corps (USMC) Intermediate Fast Attack Vehicle (IFAV) with a mounted TOW (Tube-launched, Optically-tracked, Wire-guided) missile launcher. The IFAV is from the Mobile Assault Platoon 3 (MAP 3), 2nd Battalion (BN) 4th Marine Regiment (MAR REGT), provides cover for advancing Marines on Combat Range 1 during a training exercise aboard Marine Corps Base (MCB) Camp Fuji, Japan (JPN)

COL Clifton Bray, American Task Force commander for Joint Task Force Shining Hope, greets Congressman Bill Young, Republican from Florida's 10th District, Apr. 17, 1999, during their tour of the American campsite (not shown) at Rinas Airport, located near Tirana, Albania. This mission is in direct support of Operation Sustain Hope

AIRMAN 1ST Class Darryl Hawkins of the 857th Security Police Squadron scans the perimeter of a B-52 Stratofortress aircraft alert area through the sight of an M16 rifle equipped with an M203 grenade launcher

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 US Marine Corps (USMC) Marine of Bravo Company, 1ST Battalion (BN), 5th Marines (MAR), 1ST Marine Division (MAR DIV), hands an identification (ID) card to an Iraqi Civil Defense Corps (ICDC) Soldier during registration and processing at the ICDC compound. The 1ST MAR DIV is engaged in Security and Stabilization Operations (SASO) in the area during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The Marine is armed with a 5.56 mm M16A2 rifle with an M203 40 mm grenade launcher

U.S. Air Force STAFF SGT. Russell Gee, a member of the 31st Logistics Readiness Squadron, uses the control levers to operate the wheel lift on the back of his wrecker equipment before towing a vehicle at Aviano Air Base, Italy, on Feb. 11, 2005. (U.S. Air Force PHOTO by AIRMAN 1ST Class Desiree Hayden) (Released)

50th Space Wing Commander, US Air Force Colonel Richard Webber (Left), speaks with US Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, a Colorado Republican, and USAF General Richard B. Myers, Commander in CHIEF, North American Aerospace Defense Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado. This event took place at Schriever AFB, CO, on August 30th, 1999

U.S. Marines with Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 1st

Australian Army soldiers and U.S. Marines question

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