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U.S. Marines and Sailors with Echo company, 2nd Battalion

U.S. Army Sgt. Nick Johnson with the 200th Engineer

On August 30 2006 the Soldiers from 2nd Brigade 1st

Headquarters, Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion,

Kuwait- Soldiers drift in a raft, no land in sight,

US Air Force (USAF) Combat Camera Photographers assigned to the 30th Space Communications Squadron (SPSC), and US Navy (USN) Photographers from Combat Camera Group Pacific, armed with 5.56 mm Mk 18 Mod. 0 Close Quarters Battle Receiver (QCRB) rifles, equipped with blank firing devices, conduct an authentication techniques training exercise, at Marine Corps Base (MCB) Camp Pendleton, California (CA). The bi-annual Quick Shot field Exercise enhances the combat photographers' war fighting capabilities, including combat documentation, and a variety of tactical skills. Conducting Joint Operations with Air Force Combat Camera is the primary focus of this exercise

Courtesy photo - A Marine, government civilians and

Seabees work together to install a 40 foot section of wall

U.S. Marines with Headquarters and Service Company,

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Members of the 1ST Plt., Co. K, 3rd Bn., 3rd Marine Regt., stop and check a car passing their roadblock during Operation Desert Storm

Members of the 3rd Tank Battalion, 1ST Marine Division, assigned to Task Force Ripper, attend a sand table briefing during Operation Desert Storm

Members of the 1ST Plt., Co. K, 3rd Bn., 3rd Marine Regt., man an M-60E3 lightweight machine gun position during Operation Desert Storm

Members of Co. K, 3rd Bn., 3rd Marine Regt., check a map while manning a roadblock during Operation Desert Storm

Members of the Communications Plt., Headquarters and Service Co., 3rd Marine Regt., build a bunker during Operation Desert Storm

A view of defensive fighting positions at the 3rd Marine Regiment, 1ST Marine Division, combat operations center (COC) during Operation Desert Shield

SGT. Grow shows his drawings to members of Co. K, 3rd Bn., 3rd Marine Regt., as they man a roadblock during Operation Desert Storm

Members of the 1ST Marine Expeditionary Force (1ST MEF) ride in an Iraqi MT-LB armored personnel carrier captured during Operation Desert Storm

Members of the 3rd Marine Regiment, 1ST Marine Division listen to a briefing during Operation Desert Shield

Members of the 1ST Plt., Co. K, 3rd Bn., 3rd Marine Regt., dig foxholes at their roadblock site during Operation Desert Storm

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM

Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU)

Scene Camera Operator: CPL. Haynes

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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16/01/1991
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label_outline Explore St Plt, Foxholes, Roadblock

The 378th Air Expeditionary Wing leadership visited

Members of C Btry., 1ST Bn., 319th Air Field Arty. Regt., secure M-102 105mm towed howitzers to the slings of 2nd Battalion, 82nd Aviation Brigade UH-60 Black Hawk (Blackhawk) helicopters for a two-gun raid training mission during Operation Desert Shield

American servicemen prepare to use an M-88A1 armored recovery vehicle to tow away an Iraqi T-72 main battle tank that was captured during Operation Desert Storm

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)

Soldiers of the 1ST Bn., 504th Parachute Infantry Regt., 82nd Airborne Div., deploy into the field after jumping into Drop Zone Ferruzi during exercise Solid Shield '89. The exercise is being conducted on the East Coast of the United States by approximately 30,000 military personnel from all services

PETTY Officer 3rd Class K. M. Pahl Jr., a Seabee with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5 (NMCB-5), walks through a trench near the command bunker during a camp defense drill. NMCB-5 is in northern Saudi Arabia to provide engineering support for coalition forces during Operation Desert Storm

Members of Co. B, 4th Bn., 27th Inf., 25th Inf. Div. (Light) defend their position with M-16A2 rifles as they train for deployment to the Middle East to take part in Operation Desert Storm

Kurdish men wait to begin a tour of a refugee camp near Zakhu, Iraq. U.S. and allied troops established the camp as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid the thousands of Kurds who fled their homes after fighting broke out between Kurdish groups and Iraqi government forces following Operation Desert Storm

Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force ride in an M-939 5-ton cargo truck past an abandoned Iraqi MT-LB multipurpose tracked vehicle on the road to Kuwait City during the ground phase of Operation Desert Storm

Members of Sea-Air-Land (SEAL) Team 8 run across the flight deck of the fleet oiler USNS JOSHUA HUMPHREYS (T-AO-188) after descending a rope from a Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 6 (HC-6) CH-46D Sea Knight helicopter during a boarding exercise. SEAL Team 8 provided boarding teams to assist ships of the Maritime Interdiction Force in their enforcement of U.N. sanctions against Iraq during Operation Desert Storm

Flight deck personnel work to remove an A-7E Corsair II aircraft of Attack Squadron 72 (VA-72) from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67) after an emergency barricade landing. The pilot had detected a problem with the nose gear while returning from a mission over Iraq during Operation Desert Storm

U.S. forces build up and secure Prince Sultan Air Base

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