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US Marine Corps (USMC) personnel from the Marine Security Element (MSE), India Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines stationed at Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii (HI), carry a "downed pilot" to a waiting helicopter from Bravo Company 4-123 stationed at Fort Wainwright Army Post, Alaska (AK), during Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and personnel (TRAP) training for Exercise Northern Edge 04, at Eielson Air Force Base (AFB), Alaska (AK)

US Marine Corps (USMC) personnel from the Marine Security Element (MSE), India Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines home based at Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii (HI), run from a US Army (USA) CH-47D Chinook helicopter helicopter from Bravo Company 4-123 Aviation Regiment, stationed at Fort Wainwright Army Post, Alaska (AK), as they prepare for Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and personnel (TRAP) training during Exercise Northern Edge 04, at Eielson Air Force Base (AFB), Alaska (AK)

US Marine Corps (USMC) personnel from the Marine Security Element (MSE), India Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines home based at Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii (HI), board a US Army (USA) CH-47D Chinook helicopter helicopter from Bravo Company 4-123 Aviation Regiment, stationed at Fort Wainwright Army Post, Alaska (AK), as they prepare for Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and personnel (TRAP) training during Exercise Northern Edge 04, at Eielson Air Force Base (AFB), Alaska (AK)

US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines from Marine Security Element (MSE), India Company (I CO), 3rd Battalion (BN), 3rd Marines, Marine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH) Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii (HI), debark a US Army (USA) CH-47D Chinook, Bravo Company (B CO), 4th Battalion, 123rd Theater Aviation (4-123rd Aviation Regiment), Fort Wainwright Army Post, Alaska (AK), during Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) training as part of Exercise NORTHERN EDGE 04. The training is taking place at the combat town training area on Fort Wainwright Army Post, AK. NORTHERN EDGE is Alaska's annual joint training exercise designed to enhance interoperability among the services by sharpening and honing joint service...

US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines from Marine Security Element (MSE), India Company (I CO), 3rd Battalion (BN), 3rd Marines, Marine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH) Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii (HI), prepare to evacuate the area as a helicopter approaches during Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) training as part of Exercise NORTHERN EDGE 04. The Marines are armed with 5.56 mm M16A2 rifles and a FNMI 7.62 mm M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW). The training is taking place at the combat town training area on Fort Wainwright Army Post, Alaska (AK). NORTHERN EDGE is Alaska's annual joint training exercise designed to enhance interoperability among the services by sharpening and honing joint service...

US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines from Marine Security Element (MSE), India Company (I CO), 3rd Battalion (BN), 3rd Marines, Marine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH) Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii (HI), load onto a US Army (USA) CH-47D Chinook, Bravo Company (B CO), 4th Battalion, 123rd Theater Aviation (4-123rd Aviation Regiment), Fort Wainwright Army Post, Alaska (AK), for extraction from the area during Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) training as part of for Exercise NORTHERN EDGE 04. The training is taking place at the combat town training area on Fort Wainwright Army Post, AK. NORTHERN EDGE is Alaska's annual joint training exercise designed to enhance interoperability among the services by...

US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines from Marine Security Element (MSE), India Company (I CO), 3rd Battalion (BN), 3rd Marines, Marine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH) Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii (HI), run to board an awaiting helicopter for extraction from the area during Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) training as part of Exercise NORTHERN EDGE 04. The training is taking place at the combat town training area on Fort Wainwright Army Post, Alaska (AK). NORTHERN EDGE is Alaska's annual joint training exercise designed to enhance interoperability among the services by sharpening and honing joint service techniques and procedures. It helps provide a ready force, capable of protecting America's...

US Marine Corps (USMC) Lance Corporal (LCPL) Joshua Anderson, Helicopter Mechanic, Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron Two Six Two (HMM-262), Marine Aircraft Group Three Six (MAG-36), 1ST Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW), performs routine maintenance on a USMC CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter at Clark Air Base (AB), Luzon Island, Philippines (PHL), while participating in Exercise BALIKATAN 2004, a regularly scheduled joint interoperability exercise designed to improve military readiness and professionalism between US and Philippine armed forces

US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines from Marine Security Element (MSE), India Company (I CO), 3rd Battalion (BN), 3rd Marines, Marine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH) Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii (HI), debark from a US Army (USA) UH-60 Blackhawk (Black Hawk), Alpha Company (A CO), 4th Battalion, 123rd Theater Aviation (4-123rd Aviation Regiment), Fort Wainwright Army Post, Alaska (AK), during Exercise NORTHERN EDGE 04. The Marines are conducting Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) training, in the combat town training area, at Fort Wainwright. NORTHERN EDGE is Alaska's annual joint training exercise designed to enhance interoperability among the services by sharpening and honing joint service...

US Marine Corps (USMC) Corporal (CPL) Jeffrey Pearson, a rifleman from Marine Security Element (MSE), India Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines, stationed at Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii (HI), carry a "downed pilot" to a waiting helicopter from Bravo Company 4-123 stationed at Fort Wainwright Army Post, Alaska (AK), during Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and personnel (TRAP) training for Exercise Northern Edge 04, at Eielson Air Force Base (AFB), Alaska (AK)

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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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STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Vincent Scott and AIRMAN First Class (A1C) Vamal Taylor, weapons loaders from the 522nd Fighter Squadron (FS), Cannon Air Force Base (AFB), New Mexico, load a Mark 82, 500-pound bomb onto an F-16 Falcon fighter at Eielson AFB, Alaska, in support of exercise Northern Edge 2002

Members of Echo Company, Fourth Marine Reconnaissance Battalion, Anchorage, Alaska, return from simulating an attack the USS OGDEN (LPD 5) (not shown), a 570-foot Navy amphibious transport dock ship from San Diego, California, during Exercise NORTHERN EDGE 2001

US Air Force (USAF) Captain (CPT) Eric Armentrout, Pilot, 71st Fighter Squadron (FS), 1ST Operation Group (OG), 1ST Fighter Wing (FW), signal to his crew chief during the engine start sequence of his F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft prior to flying a sortie from Langley Air Force Base (AFB), Virginia (VA), as part of Operation NOBLE EAGLE, which is direct US military operations in support of homeland defense efforts

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Anthony Capra, a point man with

Sergeant (SGT) Sean Sheridan, USMC, (right), waiting with MASTER Sergeant (MSGT) Richard Benner, USAF, 162nd Fighter Wing (FW), in an assault boat to take pilots to the helicopter extraction point during Water Survival Training. The training conducted for 162nd FW pilots during the July "Unit Training Assembly" at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado in San Diego, California

As an exercise, US Air Force (USAF) Firefighters of the 506th Expeditionary Civil Engineering Squadron (ECES) lift the pilot out of a US Army (USA) H-60 Black Hawk helicopter at Kirkuk Air Base (AB), Iraq (IRQ). The firefighters are participating in an exercise to familiarize themselves with emergency procedures for the Black Hawk helicopter during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Navy (USN) Machinist's Mate (MM), PETTY Officer First Class (PO1) Francisco Hernandez, a diving and salvage warfare specialist, performs a sensory examination on Canadian diver, PETTY Officer 2nd Class (PO2) Dan Larche, Port Inspection Dive Team (PIDT), Esquimalt, British Columbia, inside the Fly Away RE-Compression Chamber (FARCC) at Port Valdez, Alaska, during Exercise NORTHERN EDGE 2002

A US Navy (USN) Strike Fighter Squadron 41 (VFA-41, Black Aces) aircrew member (left) signals to the USN VFA-41 F/A-18F Super Hornet multi-mission fighter/attack aircraft pilot prior to his taking off from Eielson Air Force Base (AFB), Alaska (AK), for a training mission during Exercise COOPERATIVE COPE THUNDER, the largest multinational air combat training exercise in the Pacific. This 15-day exercise simulates wartime combat conditions so that military personnel from 12-nations can sharpen their air fighting skills, exchange air operational tactics, and build closer relations with each other

US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR MASTER Sergeant (SMSGT) Harold Taylor, First Sergeant (1SGT), 354th Maintenance Group (MXG), 354th Fighter Wing (FW), Eielson Air Force Base (AFB), Alaska (AK), holds the guidon at the position of parade rest during the MXG's change of command ceremony

Pearson, P G - State: Florida - Year: 1865

An Iranian bus is being downloaded from an Iranian cargo plane by crews from the U.S. Air force at Chaklala Air Base, Pakistan, Oct. 13, 2005. The Department of Defense is participating in the multinational effort to provide humanitarian assistance and support to Pakistan and parts of India and Afghanistan following a devastating earthquake. (U.S. Army photo by SPC. Christopher Admire) (Released)

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