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US Soldiers from Company D, 3rd Platoon, 4th Battalion, 64th Armor, load 120 mm ammunition into M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks during Exercise SHADOW HAWK'87, a phase of Exercise BRIGHT STAR'87. The exercise will evaluate procedures used to deploy US tactical and logistical forces

Two M1A1 Abrams tanks assigned Delta Company, 1st Tank

U.S. Marines with India Battery, 1st Battalion, 11th

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Afghan National Army soldiers cover their ears after

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Heavy smoke rises above the line of explosions created by the Mine Clearing Line Charge, or MICLIC, on a firing range. The MICLIC is a rocket propelled line charge capable of breaching obstacles, walls, or minefields. The MICLIC has a 350 foot line charge secured by a 205 foot arresting cable and contains 1840 pounds of C-4 explosives. A Fort Stewart unit deployed to the operation conducted the exercise

A trail of smoke and the white line charge mark the flight path of the Mine Clearing Line Charge, or MICLIC. The MICLIC is a rocket propelled line charge capable of breaching obstacles, walls, or minefields. The MICLIC has a 350 foot line charge secured by a 205 foot arresting cable. The line charge contains 1840 pounds of C-4 explosives. The firing took place during a training exercise

A Mine Clearing Line Charge, or MICLIC, is fired on a range during a training session. The MICLIC is a rocket propelled line charged capable of breaching obstacles, walls, or minefields. The MICLIC has a 350 foot line charge secured by a 205 foot arresting cable. The line charge contains 1840 pounds of C-4 explosives

Armored vehicles line the range as units deployed to the operation use this rang for training purposes. This unit will conduct a live fire deominstration of the Mine Clearing Line Charge, or MICLIC

West Virginia Air National Guard (WVANG) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Charles Hodge (left) from the 451st Air Expeditionary Group (AEG) and US Army (USA) SFC Victor Fontan from the789th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company (EODC), Fort Benning, Georgia (GA), connect the cable wires used to detonate two 105 mm Mortars. This is a simulation of what a land mine does to half-inch thick metal armor, during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

U.S. Navy Lt. Mike Slagh, attached to Explosive Ordnance

US Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC). Marines from 2nd Platoon, Bravo Company, 2nd Combat Engineering Battalion load a live Line Charge rocket onto its launch rail mounted on top of a 5-ton truck. When fired, the rocket will layout 1,700 pounds of C-4 and on detonating, its concussion will in-turn detonate hidden mines

A soldier from 1ST Platoon, B Company, 9th Engineers, fires his M4 at targets during a night live fire training exercise to see how the soldiers would react to being fired upon in low visibility. This training was a part of the Vaulted Rampart exercise held at Grafenwoehr International Training Area, Germany on February 19, 2006. (US Army photo by CPL Bertha A. Whipkey) (Released)

U.S. Air Force SENIOR AIRMAN James Fitzgerald (foreground) laces C-4 plastic explosives to a rocket motor inside at disposal pit while MASTER SGT. Kevin Johnson (back) marshals STAFF SGT. Brandon Koebbe while he operates a forklift during disposal of munitions outside Kirkuk Air Base, Iraq, on April 2, 2005. The Airmen are all explosives ordnance disposal technicians from the 506th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron. (U.S. Air Force PHOTO by STAFF SGT. Matthew Lohr) (Released)

Fire and smoke blossom, signifying the detonation of a Mine Clearing Line Charge, or MICLIC, on a firing range. The MICLIC is a rocket propelled line charge capable of breaching obstacles, walls, or minefields. The MICLIC has a 350 foot line charge secured by a 205 foot arresting cable and contains 1840 pounds of C-4 explosives. A Fort Stewart unit deployed to the operation conducted the exercise

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Subject Operation/Series: UNOSOM II

Base: Mogadishu

Country: Somalia (SOM)

Scene Camera Operator: Pv2 Andrew Mcgalliard

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label_outline Explore Mine Clearing Line Charge Miclic, Minefields, Pv 2 Andrew Mcgalliard

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A Mine Clearing Line Charge, or MICLIC, is fired on a range during a training session. The MICLIC is a rocket propelled line charged capable of breaching obstacles, walls, or minefields. The MICLIC has a 350 foot line charge secured by a 205 foot arresting cable. The line charge contains 1840 pounds of C-4 explosives

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