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U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion (CLB)

Marines of Company K, Battalion Landing Team (BLT)

U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion (CLB)

190617-N-YR245-1061 VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (June 17, 2019)

Riverine Command Boats from Riverine Squadron (RIVRON)

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. David Cuevas assigned to Battalion

Amphibious assault vehicles roll onto Red Beach at

An LVTP-7 tracked landing vehicle comes ashore during a beach assault, part of Operation Ocean Venture '82. The dock landing ship USS THOMASTON (LSD-28) is in the background

Armed forces personnel load a Heavy Expanded Mobility

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An M-60 tank at Onslow Beach during Exercise Solid Shield '85

An M-60 tank at Onslow Beach during Exercise Solid Shield '85

An M-60 tank is driven ashore from a utility landing craft at Onslow Beach during Exercise Solid Shield '85. In the foreground are two LCM 8 (Landing Craft Mechanized) Mod-1 mechanized landing craft

M-809 5-ton trucks are driven from a tank landing ship onto Onslow Beach during Exercise Solid Shield '85

Equipment is driven onto Onslow Beach from a tank landing ship during Exercise Solid Shield '85

An M-809 5-ton truck is driven from a tank landing ship onto Onslow Beach during exercise Solid Shield '85

An M-60 tank moves inland during a beach assault taking place during Operation Ocean Venture '82

An M-809 5-ton cargo truck carrying Marines is driven onto Onslow Beach during Exercise Solid Shield '85

Marines congergate near an M-809 5-ton truck after landing at Onslow Beach during Exercise Solid Shield '85

M-60 tanks are driven ashore from landing craft at Onslow Beach during exercise Solid Shield '85

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Subject Operation/Series: EXERCISE SOLID SHIELD '85

Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune

State: North Carolina (NC)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: SGT. T.K. Burch

Release Status: Released to Public

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01/06/1985
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label_outline Explore M 60 Tanks, M 60 Main Battle Tank, Onslow

Marines take up their positions during the amphibious assault phase of the multinational, joint service Exercise BRIGHT STAR'87. An AAVP 7 assault amphibian vehicle and an M60 main battle tank are in the background

An Mechanized Landing Craft (LCM 8) brings an M-60 tank from the 2nd Platoon, Company B, 1ST tank Battalion, ashore during a training exercise held in preparation for a Western Pacific deployment

A vehicle and personnel landing craft (LCVP) from the tank landing ship USS SUMTER (LST-1181) lies tied up with other craft alongside a floating causeway at Onslow Beach during the joint services exercise Solid Shield '89

A Marine M1A1 main battle tank moves down the open ramp of utility landing craft LCU 1658. The tank is equipped with a fording kit that is being evaluated by the Marine Corps, Naval Amphibious Base (NAB), Little Creek, Virginia (VA)

Retired U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Michael J. Rooney,

The Dracon Barge is used for refueling ships from the shore. This British system was demonstrated to U.S. service members at Onslow Beach

The lead Soviet Naval Infantry PT-76 amphibious tanks fires its 76 mm cannon as it heads a column of other tanks from the bow of a Ropucha class tank landing ship during a naval demonstration for the officers and crew of two visiting US Navy ships

An M561 1-1/4 ton truck towing a medical trailer is prepared to be loaded aboard a C-130E Hercules aircraft during Exercise SOLID SHIELD 85

A US Army M1 M-1 Abrams main battle tank moves towards the firing line. The tank will be test firing 105 mm ammunition developed by the Army with the assistance of Naval Ordnance Station, Louisville, Kentucky

A U.S. Marine Corps M1A1 Abrams tank with Tank Platoon,

A service member consults one of the UNCW Onslow Extension

A Royal Netherlands Marines operates a M240B machine

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tanks craft onslow beach onslow beach exercise shield north carolina m 60 main battle tank camp lejeune battle tank us marine corps high resolution exercise solid shield state marine corps base m 60 tanks tank us national archives