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A side view of a M-56 heliborne mine-dispensing system attached to a UH-1 Iroquois helicopter. A total of 160 mines can be carried in two reloadabel SUU-13A dispensers, one on each side of the helicopter. The mines are ejected two at a time and a single sortie can lay down a mine field 100 meters long and 40 meters wide

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Fort Rucker State: Alabama (AL) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combin More

M-1 Abrams Tanks from the 1ST Brigade, 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized) breach a mine field during the exercise

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: LIBERTY FOCUS Base: Fort Stewart State: Georgia (GA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Don Teft More

M-1 Abrams Tanks from the 1ST Brigade, 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized) breach a mine field during the exercise

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: LIBERTY FOCUS Base: Fort Stewart State: Georgia (GA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Don Teft More

Smoke rise as the 1ST Brigade, 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized), breach a mine field during the exercise

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: LIBERTY FOCUS Base: Fort Stewart State: Georgia (GA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Don Teft More

A close-up view of two anti-personnel mines found along the roadside leading up to a chapel located at Grid # BQ663549 in the vicinity of Brkozici during Operation Joint Endeavor. That was the site of a mine strike that killed two HVO soldiers and injured nine locals. The area was investigated by soldiers of Task Force Eagle and was noted as a marked mine field (# 2947). The locals who were injured were filling in trenches and preparing for a mass commemorating the 100th anniversary of the church

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Brkozici Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH) Scene Camera Operator: SPC Teresa H. Hawkins Release S More

A close-up view of three anti-personnel mines found along the roadside that leads up to a mine strike that occurred at a chapel located at Grid # BQ663549 in the vicinity of Brkozici during Operation Joint Endeavor. Two HVO soldiers were killed and nine civilians were injured while filling in trenches in preparation for a mass commemorating the 100th anniversary of the church. The church is in a known marked mine field (# 2947)

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Brkozici Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH) Scene Camera Operator: SPC Teresa H. Hawkins Release S More

A soldier in full camouflage dress sets a mine field at the Joint Readiness Training Center. The mine is a M17, anti-personnel practice mine that will emit smoke when initiated

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Fort Polk State: Louisiana (LA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Raymond A. Barnard Release Status: Released to Pu More

Medical team personnel administer emergency care to a simulated casualty within the mine field in order to stabilize the patient during a realistic training exercise near Mostar. Once the patient is stabilized he will be moved to a safer location. As part of Operation Joint Endeavor, the U.S. Army's 10th Special Forces Group in cooperation with the State Department, RONCO and the former warring factions embarked on a mission of humanitarian de-mining. The training, including leadership, planning, different techniques in mine detection, mine disposal through detonation and medical triage, was accomplished at four different sites for Bosnia-Herzegovina nationals

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH) Scene Camera Operator: SRA Justin D. Pyle Release Status: Released to More

A French Army 17th Engineering Regiment Aardvark Joint Services Flail Unit (JSFU) is used to clear a possible mine field in Butmir, Bosnia-Herzegovina during Operation Joint Endeavor. Operation Joint Endeavor is a peacekeeping effort by a multinational Implementation Force (IFOR), comprised of NATO and non-NATO military forces, deployed to Bosnia in support of the Dayton Peace Accords

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Butmir Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH) Scene Camera Operator: PHAN Charles L. Withrow Release S More

US Army, SPECIALIST (SPC) Kevin Marsh and Private First Class (PFC) Shawn Burgos, A Company, 299th Engineer Battalion, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas, stand in open hatches in an M113 Armored Personnel Carrier (APC), mock-up Grizzly breaching system (mine field), during the Advanced Warfighting Experiment (AWE) at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, California. More than 6,000 soldiers took part in the six-week exercise that capped nearly two years of training. The AWE tested 72 initiatives ranging from new computer equipment like the Applique to reorganization of unit structure, 24 March 1997

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Fort Irwin State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: SPC Jacqueline Griggs, USA Release Status: Rele More

Lance Corporal Gresham of Echo Company, 2d Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, lays down a line for other Marines to follow through the initial breech of a simulated mine field at range 400 during COMBINED ARMS Exercise (CAX) 6-97. CAX 5/6-97 is a MAGTF (Marine Air Ground Task Force) exercise being conducted at MCAGCC (Marine Corps Air Ground at Center), 29 Palms, California. The command element for this exercise is MAGTF-6, which is built around the 6th Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Many commands from the II MEF (Marine Expeditionary Force) have sent units to this desert warfare exercise, to fill key billets in the Ground at Element (GCE), Air...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: Lance Corporal Gresham of Echo Company, 2d Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, lays down a line for other Marines to follow through More

A Marine with Echo Company, 2d Battalion, 6th Marines, fires his M240G Medium Machine Gun to provide cover fire for his Marines at range 400 during COMBINED ARMS Exercise (CAX) 6-97. Range 400 is a reinforced company level training range, consisting of an initial breech (simulated mine field), overhead live firing from "Machine-Gun Hill", and a platoon traversing through a canyon to reach the objective. CAX 5/6-97 is a MAGTF (Marine Air Ground Task Force) exercise being conducted at MCAGCC (Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center), 29 Palms, California. The command element for this exercise is MAGTF-6, which is built around the 6th Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, North...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: A Marine with Echo Company, 2d Battalion, 6th Marines, fires his M240G Medium Machine Gun to provide cover fire for his Marines More

A Marine with Echo Company, 2d Battalion, 6th Marines, fires rounds at the objective from a M240G Medium Machine Gun while carrying an "Anti-Tank 4" (AT4) 84mm rocket launcher at range 400, during COMBINED ARMS Exercise (CAX) 6-97. Range 400 is a reinforced company level training range, consisting of an initial breech (simulated mine field), overhead live firing from "machine-gun" hill, and a platoon traversing through a canyon to reach the objective. CAX 5/6-97 is a MAGTF (Marine Air Ground Task Force) exercise being conducted at MCAGCC (Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center), 29 Palms, California. The command element for this exercise is MAGTF-6, which is built around the 6th Marine...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: A Marine with Echo Company, 2d Battalion, 6th Marines, fires rounds at the objective from a M240G Medium Machine Gun while carry More

A rine from Fox Company, 2d Battalion, 6th rines, observes the impact of his 83mm rocket, after firing the SMAW (Shoulder launched Multi-purpose Assault Weapon), at range 400 during COMBINED ARMS Exercise (CAX) 6-97. Range 400 is a reinforced company level training range, consisting of an initial breech (simulated mine field), overhead live firing from "chine-Gun Hill", and a platoon traversing through a canyon to reach the objective. CAX 5/6-97 is a MAGTF (rine Air Ground Task Force) exercise being conducted at MCAGCC (rine Corps Air Ground Combat Center), 29 Palms, California. The command element for this exercise is MAGTF-6, which is built around the 6th rine Regiment, 2d...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: A Marine from Fox Company, 2d Battalion, 6th Marines, observes the impact of his 83mm rocket, after firing the SMAW (Shoulder la More

Marines from Fox Company, 2d Battalion, 6th Marines, tactically patrol through their objective at range 400, during COMBINED ARMS Exercise (CAX) 6-97. Range 400 is a reinforced company level training range, consisting of an initial breech (simulated mine field), overhead live firing from "Machine-Gun Hill", and a platoon traversing through a canyon to reach the objective. CAX 5/6-97 is a MAGTF (Marine Air Ground Task Force) exercise being conducted at MCAGCC (Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center), 29 Palms, California. The command element for this exercise is MAGTF-6, which is built around the 6th Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Many commands from the...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: Marines from Fox Company, 2d Battalion, 6th Marines, tactically patrol through their objective at range 400, during COMBINED ARM More

Marines from Echo Company, 2d Battalion, 6th Marines, tactically move through the canyon towards their objective at range 400, during COMBINED ARMS Exercise (CAX) 6-97. Range 400 is a reinforced mpany level training range, nsisting of an initial breech (simulated mine field), overhead live firing from "Machine-Gun Hill", and a platoon traversing through a canyon to reach the objective. CAX 5/6-97 is a MAGTF (Marine Air Ground Task Force) exercise being nducted at MCAGCC (Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center), 29 Palms, California. The mmand element for this exercise is MAGTF-6, which is built around the 6th Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Many...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: Marines from Echo Company, 2d Battalion, 6th Marines, tactically move through the canyon towards their objective at range 400, d More

Marines with Echo Company, 2D Battalion, 6th Marines, prepare to assault the objective at range 400 during COMBINED ARMS Exercise (CAX) 6-97. Range 400 is a reinforced company level training range, consisting of an initial breech (simulated mine field), overhead live firing from "Machine-Gun Hill", and a platoon traversing through a canyon to reach the objective. CAX 5/6-97 is a MAGTF ine Air Ground Task Force) exercise being conducted at MCAGCC ine Corps Air Ground Combat Center), 29 Palms, California. The command element for this exercise is MAGTF-6, which is built around the 6th Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Many commands from the II MEF...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: Marines with Echo Company, 2D Battalion, 6th Marines, prepare to assault the objective at range 400 during COMBINED ARMS Exercis More

A Marine from Echo Company, 2d Battalion, 6th Marines, coordinates with an attachment on the execution of completing their mission at range 400 during COMBINED ARMS Exercise (CAX) 6-97. Range 400 is a reinforced company level training range, consisting of an initial breech (simulated mine field), overhead live firing from "Machine-Gun Hill", and a platoon traversing through a canyon to reach the objective. CAX 5/6-97 is a MAGTF (Marine Air Ground Task Force) exercise being conducted at MCAGCC (Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center), 29 Palms, California. The command element for this exercise is MAGTF-6, which is built around the 6th Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division, Camp Lejeune,...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: A Marine from Echo Company, 2d Battalion, 6th Marines, coordinates with an attachment on the execution of completing their missi More

An Amphibious Assault Vehicle AAV-P7A1 Mark 1 Mod 0 mine clearance system from 1ST Command Engineering Battalion, Alpha Company waits to breach a mine field during the first wave of simulated attacks in support of KERNEL BLITZ '97. On top of the AAV is the Mk 154 Launcher Mine Clearance (LMC). KERNEL BLITZ is designed to enhance the training of Sailors and Marines in the complexities of brigade-size amphibious assault operations

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: KERNEL BLITZ '97 Base: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene More

An Assault Craft Unit 5, air cushion landing craft delivers another M1A1 Abrams tank to shore. The tank, from 1ST Tank Battalion, 1ST Marine Division, is defending the beach until the task force is ready to breach the mine field

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: KERNEL BLITZ '97 Base: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene More

A Marine scout team from the 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance (LAR) Battalion, unload guiding stakes from their Light Armored Vehicle (LAV) as they prepare to guide the remainder of the company through a simulated mine field

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: DEEP STRIKE '97 Base: Nav Weapons Center, China Lake State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Ca More

Straight on, medium shot of US Army Soldiers from Alpha Company, 1ST of the 9th Cavalry, 1ST Cavalry Division, as they navigate a mine field utilizing a grappling hook prior to cutting concertina wire while conducting "Headhunters" Infantry Tactics Procedures training (HITP) at Fort Hood, Texas' Owl Creek assault course on May 19th, 1999

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Fort Hood State: Texas (TX) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: John Byerly Release Status: Released to Public Combin More

A rocket with a line of C-4 attached known as a line charge explodes within a mock mine field during a Hawaiian Combined Arms Operation in the Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawaii

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Pohakuloa Training Area State: Hawaii (HI) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: LCPL Ty Hardin, Usmc Release Status: R More

A US Army (USA) 759th Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) MV4 Mini Mine Clearing System (MMCS) vehicle (a remote controlled, track propelled, mechanical mine clearing mini-flail machine) under goes field testing as it moves across the desert floor clearing a mine field during an improvised explosive device (IED) training exercise at the National Training Center (NTC), Fort Irwin, California

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Ntc, Fort Irwin State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Ken Drylie, CIV, USA Release Status: Relea More

A US Army (USA) 759th Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team Buffalo MRV (Mine Resistant Vehicle) moves across the desert floor clearing a mine field during an improvised explosive device (IED) training exercise at the National Training Center (NTC), Fort Irwin, California

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Ntc, Fort Irwin State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Ken Drylie, CIV, USA Release Status: Relea More

Soldiers from the 364th Engineer Platoon (Area Clearance),

Soldiers from the 364th Engineer Platoon (Area Clearance), headquartered in Pine Bluff, Ark., train on the newly-fielded M1271 Mine Clearing Vehicle, also known as the Medium Flail, Oct. 29, during a weeklong c More

FORT HOOD, Texas - The Soldiers of the 451st Combat

FORT HOOD, Texas - The Soldiers of the 451st Combat Engineer Platoon fire up the M1271 Mine Clearing Vehicle in a designated training area as part an area clearing exercise during MIBT.

Approximately 70 chains and hammers are attached to

Approximately 70 chains and hammers are attached to the rotating arm of the M1271 Mine Clearing Vehicle, also known as the Medium Flail, a new explosive defensive vehicle being fielded to the 364th Engineer Pla More

FORT HOOD, Texas - Spc. Ryan E. Deyo checks the rear

FORT HOOD, Texas - Spc. Ryan E. Deyo checks the rear engine on the M1271 Mine Clearing Vehicle as part of his Preventative Maintenance Checks and Services before their MIBT area clearing mission Monday morning.

Iraqi soldiers with 7th Engineers, 7th Division, Iraqi

Iraqi soldiers with 7th Engineers, 7th Division, Iraqi army, fasten barbed wire to a stake near Port of Entry Waleed on Sept. 24, 2008. The soldiers are putting up a barbed wire fence with warning signs in fron More

Approximately 70 chains and hammers are attached to

Approximately 70 chains and hammers are attached to the rotating arm of the M1271 Mine Clearing Vehicle, also known as the Medium Flail, a new explosive defensive vehicle being fielded to the 364th Engineer Pla More

FORT HOOD, Texas - Spc. Ryan E. Deyo visually inspects

FORT HOOD, Texas - Spc. Ryan E. Deyo visually inspects the M1271 Mine Clearing Vehicle for transmission leaks during preventative maintenance checks and services before their MIBT mission Monday morning.

Approximately 70 chains and hammers are attached to

Approximately 70 chains and hammers are attached to the rotating arm of the M1271 Mine Clearing Vehicle, also known as the Medium Flail, a new explosive defensive vehicle being fielded to the 364th Engineer Pla More

An Iraqi soldier with 7th Engineers, 7th Division,

An Iraqi soldier with 7th Engineers, 7th Division, Iraqi army, uses a metal detector to search for mines near Port of Entry Waleed on Sept. 24, 2008. The soldiers are putting up a barbed wire fence with warning More

When operating, the window view of the M1271 Mine Clearing

When operating, the window view of the M1271 Mine Clearing Vehicle is filled with rocks and dust kicking up from the ground due to the rapidly-rotating arm with chains and hammers designed to strike and disable More

Army Reserve Soldiers with the 364th Engineer Platoon

Army Reserve Soldiers with the 364th Engineer Platoon (Area Clearance), headquartered in Pine Bluff, Ark., train on the M1271 Mine Clearing Vehicle during a weeklong team-oriented course held at Fort Leonard Wo More

Staff Sgt. Terry Walker, platoon sergeant for the 364th

Staff Sgt. Terry Walker, platoon sergeant for the 364th Engineer Platoon (Area Clearance), headquartered in Pine Bluff, Ark., gives instruction to his Soldiers before heading into a training exercise with the M More

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Daniel Gonzalez, a combat engineer

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Daniel Gonzalez, a combat engineer with 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, uses a compass to plot an azimuth during the Technology Concept Experiment 20.3 at Red Beach, C More

Army Reserve Soldiers with the 364th Engineer Platoon

Army Reserve Soldiers with the 364th Engineer Platoon (Area Clearance), headquartered in Pine Bluff, Ark., train on the M1271 Mine Clearing Vehicle during a weeklong team-oriented course held at Fort Leonard Wo More

Army Reserve Soldiers with the 364th Engineer Platoon

Army Reserve Soldiers with the 364th Engineer Platoon (Area Clearance), headquartered in Pine Bluff, Ark., train on the M1271 Mine Clearing Vehicle during a weeklong team-oriented course held at Fort Leonard Wo More

A pathway cleared by the M1271 Mine Clearing Vehicle

A pathway cleared by the M1271 Mine Clearing Vehicle during a weeklong team-oriented course held at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., Oct. 30. The M1271, also known as the Medium Flail, is designed to clear through a min More

Sgt. Maurice Dildy, of Sherwood, Ark., with the 364th

Sgt. Maurice Dildy, of Sherwood, Ark., with the 364th Engineer Platoon (Area Clearance), headquartered in Pine Bluff, Ark., operates the M1271 Mine Clearing Vehicle during a weeklong team-oriented course held a More

Army Reserve Soldiers with the 364th Engineer Platoon

Army Reserve Soldiers with the 364th Engineer Platoon (Area Clearance), headquartered in Pine Bluff, Ark., train on the M1271 Mine Clearing Vehicle during a weeklong team-oriented course held at Fort Leonard Wo More

Spc. Fred Pennington, of Chicago, with the 364th Engineer

Spc. Fred Pennington, of Chicago, with the 364th Engineer Platoon (Area Clearance), headquartered in Pine Bluff, Ark., operates the M1271 Mine Clearing Vehicle during a weeklong team-oriented course held at For More

Pvt. Ronnie Gallegos (right), of Warren, Ark., and

Pvt. Ronnie Gallegos (right), of Warren, Ark., and Pfc. Judge Parker, of Pine Bluff, Ark., with the 364th Engineer Platoon (Area Clearance), use hand-held mine detectors to sweep a path up to the M1271 Mine Cle More

An Army bulldozer tows the M1271 Mine Clearing Vehicle

An Army bulldozer tows the M1271 Mine Clearing Vehicle during the extraction and recovery portion of a weeklong team-oriented course held at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., Oct. 30, put together for the 364th Engineer More