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U.S. Soldiers of the 3rd Battalion, 319th Airborne

U.S. Marines with Landing Support Platoon, Transportation

U.S. Marines from Echo Battery, 2nd Battalion, 11th

U.S. Marines with Landing Support Platoon, Transportation

Marines prepare to fire rounds from an M777A2 155 mm

U.S. Marines with Echo Battery, 2nd Battalion, 10th

Troopers assigned to Archer Battery, Field Artillery

U.S. Marines assigned to Alpha Battery, Battalion Landing

A Howitzer cannon is being prepared to fire by Soldiers

Armored vehicles from the 24th Armor Division are lined up on the desert ready for exercise Bright Star '82

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Subject Operation/Series: BRIGHT STAR '82

Country: Egypt (EGY)

Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Bill Thompson

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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01/11/1982
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label_outline Explore Armor Division, Ssgt Bill Thompson, Exercise Bright Star 82

US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines from the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), march onto a US Navy (USN) Landing Craft Utility 1633 (LCU 1633) on an Egyptian beach near Mubarak Military City (MMC), Egypt (EGY), at the close of Exercise BRIGHT STAR 05

A Spanish Army Leopard 2E tank holds a defensive position

Vehicles offload equipment for use in CABANAS 88, a Joint Chiefs of STAFF exercise designed to promote and increase effective interaction between participating Air Force and Army units

US Army (USA) Soldiers assigned to D/Company 1ST Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion drive their Light Armored Vehicle (LAV-25) across a pontoon bridge into northern Iraq, in support Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The 1ST Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion is assigned with the 1ST Marine Division

A column of US Marine Corps (USMC) Amphibious Assault Vehicles (AAV7A1), from Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Special Operations Capable (SOC), prepare for a mission in the Central Command's Area of Responsibility during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

Nighttime photography showing a convoy of High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) enroute from Charlie Range at Mubarak Military City in Egypt during Exercise BRIGHT STAR 01/02. BRIGHT STAR 01/02 is a multinational exercise involving more than 74,000 troops from 44 countries that enhances regional stability and military-to-military cooperation among our key allies, and our regional partners. It prepares US Central Command to rapidly deploy and employ the forces needed to deter aggressors and, if necessary, fight and win side-by-side with our allies and regional partners

Soldiers from D Company, 166th Cavalry Brigade Combat

Paratroopers jump from C-130 Hercules aircraft during the multinational, joint service Exercise BRIGHT STAR'87

An M-113 armored personnel carrier moves along the desert during Exercise Bright Star '89

A US Marine Corps (USMC) Marine assigned to the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW) Security Battalion, fires his 7.62 mm M240G machine gun form atop a High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV), at the "Crew Fire" weapons range before conducting a perimeter patrol around Al Asad, Iraq, in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

Captain (CPT) Willie Nunn, 552nd Airborne Warning and Control System liaison officer, sends a classified message through the Quick Reaction Package Van during Exercise SHADOW HAWK'87, a phase of BRIGHT STAR'87. The US Central Command exercise represents

Two female airmen participate in the monthly formal non-commissioned officer (NCO) recognition ceremonies held at the base

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