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Aviation Machinist's Mate Second Class Colby Clevenger from HM-15, monitors the towing of a Q-14 side scanning sonar device. The Q-14 is towed by a MH-53 helicopter and is used to detect mines. This is in support of Exercise KERNEL BLITZ 2001. KERNEL BLITZ is a large-scale amphibious landing exercise taking place in the vicinity of Camp Pendleton, Calif. Approximately 25 ships, 75 aircraft and 15,000 Sailors, Marines, solders, airmen and Coast Guardsmen representing four nations are participating in the exercise

US Navy (USN) Aviation Machinist's Mate Third Class (AD3) Jason Novosel (left) and Aviation Machinist's Mate Second Class (AD2) Oscar Perez, Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 126 (VAW-126), Seahawks, Naval Air Station (NAS) Norfolk, perform maintenance on a propeller of a USN E-2C Hawkeye on the flightdeck aboard Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS HARRY S. TRUMAN (CVN 75). Carrier Air Wing 3 (CVW-3) embarked aboard the TRUMAN to provide close air support (CAS) and conduct intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance over Iraq during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The TRUMAN Carrier Strike Group is on a regularly scheduled deployment in support of the Global War on Terrorism

U.S. Navy Aviation Machinist's Mate 3rd Class Lavanti Peters, assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 28, checks a MH-60S Seahawk helicopter tail rotor assembly during a daily turnaround inspection aboard the Military Sealift Command Fast Combat Support Ship USNS SUPPLY (T-AOE 6) in the Arabian Sea, Nov. 17, 2006. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication SPECIALIST 2nd Class Kitt Amaritnant) (Released)

AIRMAN 1ST Class (A1C) Todd Howard, USAF, eases the refueling boom of a KC-135R Stratotanker into an E-3 Sentry AWACS receptacle during an aerial refueling mission over the Adriatic Sea. A1C Howard, a boom operator with the 349th Air Refueling Squadron, deployed with about 20 other aircrew members and maintenance personnel from McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, to the 16th Expeditionary Operations Group, a small US detachment located on this French air base. The McConnell active duty personnel join the primarily Air National Guard flying and maintenance operations here. The group flies aerial refueling missions in support of NATO Operation JOINT FORGE, refueling US and NATO aircraft, ...

US Air Force (USAF) AIRMAN First Class (A1C) Mike Kessler breaks from cover and moves up to support fellow members of the 341st Security Forces Group (SFG), Malmstrom Air Force Base (AFB), Montana (MT), as they train to recapture a missile launch facility at Malmstrom AFB. The 341st SFG is responsible for protecting and securing the Minuteman III missile facilities of the 341st Space Wing (SW) located throughout central Montana (MT). For the exercise A1C Kessler and his team are wearing Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) and armed with KAC 5.56 mm Modular Weapon System (MWS) SOPMOD (Special Operation Peculiar Modification) M4s

SENIOR AIRMAN Michael Hafstad and SENIOR AIRMAN Adrian Faison, both structural engineers from the 820th Red Horse Squadron, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, watch as the tractor and trailer they just sling loaded is lifted by a CH-47 Chinook helicopter. The CH-47 will redeploy the equipment from Kumaka back to Camp Stephenson, Timehri Guyana. The 820th, was at Kumaka to renovate the existing regional hospital as part of this first combined humanitarian and civic assistance exercise conducted between the United States and Guyana. Military personnel from Air Force, Air Force Reserve & National Guard, Army, Army National Guard and Marine Corps participated in the exercise which included ...

Aviation Boatswain's Mate 3rd Class Bradley Shoaf checks for impurities in a fuel sample on USS BONHOMME RICHARD (LHD6) during Exercise KERNEL BLITZ 2001. KERNEL BLITZ is a large-scale amphibious landing exercise taking place in the vicinity of Camp Pendleton, Calif. Approximately 25 ships, 75 aircraft and 15,000 Sailor, Marines, solders, airman and Coast Guardsmen representing four nations are participating in the exercise

US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Joseph Inman, 49th Materiel Maintenance Group (MMG) Basic Expeditionary Airfield Resources (BEAR) Base Team, Holloman Air Force Base (AFB), New Mexico (NM), inserts a cotter pin through a corner brace of an arch beam during construction of a Large Area Maintenance Shelter (LAMS). The 49th MMG teamed up with the 321st Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron (ECES) to erect the shelters to store and protect aircraft equipment from the elements during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Navy (USN) Aviation Machinist's Mate Third Class (AD3) Joel Pena (foreground) motions thumbs up during the launch of a USN F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft assigned to the "Jolly Rogers" of Strike Fighter Squadron 103 (VFA-103) on the flight deck aboard the Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier, USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69). The EISENHOWER and embarked Carrier Air Wing 7 (CVW-7) are currently underway conducting their Composite Training Unit Exercise, in the Atlantic Ocean

Aviation Machinist's Mate 3rd Class Jason Pulk from HM-15, searches his screen for possible mine contacts during a flight conducting mine counter measures. Information is being fed to the Unit 4 monitor by the Q-14, a side scanning sonar device that is being towed by a MH-53 helicopter. This is in support of Exercise KERNEL BLITZ 2001. KERNEL BLITZ is a large-scale amphibious landing exercise taking place in the vicinity of Camp Pendleton, Calif. Approximately 25 ships, 75 aircraft and 15,000 Sailors, Marines, solders, airmen and Coast Guardsmen representing four nations are participating in the exercise

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Subject Operation/Series: KERNEL BLITZ 2001

Base: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton

State: California (CA)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: PH1(Aw/Nao) Scott D. Sagisi, USN

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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US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Sayward Pierce, Passenger Service Agent, 723 Air Mobility Squadron (AMS), Ramstein Air Base (AB), Germany, works the customer service counter at the Air Mobility Command (AMC) passenger terminal. (Duplicate image, see also DFSD0412472 or search 021211F1851U004)

Aviation Machinist's Mate AIRMAN John Siaorski cleans the window of an S-3 Viking from Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron Twenty-Two (VS-22), "Checkmates", prior to evening flight operations on the flihgt deck of USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). TRUMAN is on station in the Arabian Gulf in support of SOUTHERN WATCH (OSW). OSW is the mission that enforces the coalition imposed southern "no-fly zone" over Iraq

A view from inside an RH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter as members of Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 14 (HM-14) lower an AN/AQS-14 airborne minehunter sonar during Operation INTENSE LOOK

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 sailor attached to the USS Stout searches for her

Shot of the USS TARAWA (LHA 1) during Exercise KERNEL BLITZ 2001 with 14 Marine Attack Squadron 311 (VMA-311) Harrier aircrafts onboard

Staff Sgt. Mario Vasquez, a cadre member of the Fort

An Electronics Warfare Technician (EWT) verifies the locations of all air, surface, and subsurface contacts on the Electronic Warfare Module (EWM) as part of the USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) defense system

Depth 10,000 feet, 400 miles southwest of the Azores; view of the bow section of the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS SCORPION (SSN-589) where it rests on the ocean floor. Note the forward messenger buoy cavity and escape trunk access hatches. The SCORPION sank with the loss of its 99 man crew on 22 May 1968 by what is believed to have been the accidental explosion of one of its own torpedoes. The wreckage was located 31 October 1968 by a towed sled with magnetometers, sonar and still cameras

US Navy (USN) Aviation Machinist's Mate Third Class (AD3) Class Arturo Mendezlopez, uses a forklift to transport supplies onboard the Aircraft Carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63)

US Marine Corps (USMC) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Williams, 4th Force Reconnaissance Company, prepares for operations, aboard the USS BONHOMME RICHARD (LHD 6), during Exercise KERNEL BLITZ 2001

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aviation machinist aviation machinist mate jason pulk rd class jason pulk hm searches screen mine contacts mine contacts flight counter measures mine counter measures information unit side sonar device sonar device mh helicopter exercise exercise kernel blitz kernel blitz place vicinity camp pendleton ships aircraft sailors solders airmen coast guardsmen coast guardsmen nations four nations california marine corps base camp pendleton 3rd class third class us marine corps high resolution class jason pulk mh 53 helicopter marine corps base excercise kernel blitz us national archives