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Col. Benson Hough (center, standing) and officers of

Col. Benson Hough (center, standing) and officers of

Col. Benson Hough (center, standing) and officers of the 166th Infantry aboard the USS Leviathan April 21, 1919, during their return trip to the United States following the end of World War I. Ohio National Gua... More

ALIEN MIGRANT INTERDICTION OPERATION

ALIEN MIGRANT INTERDICTION OPERATION

Windward Passage (Jun. 29)--Haitian migrants are brought aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Dauntless (WMEC 624) after being interdicted at sea. USCG photo by PA2 Robin Ressler

VOSS (VESSEL OF OPPORTUNITY SKIMMING SYSTEM

VOSS (VESSEL OF OPPORTUNITY SKIMMING SYSTEM

LAKE ERIE, Michigan (Sept. 11)--The DEMSI 250 skimmers, outriggers and oil-collection booms are deployed in Western Lake Erie from the Coast Guard Cutter Bristol Bay-all apart of Reserve Group Detroits 12-days ... More

Great White Fleet Ceremony

Great White Fleet Ceremony

Secretary of the Navy, the Honorable Donald C. Winter enters hangar bay two for the start of the Great White Fleet Ceremony aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). Hundreds of guests gathered aboard the Norfolk... More

OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM, US Coast Guard Photo

OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM, US Coast Guard Photo

NORTH ARABIAN GULF (April 22, 2003)-- Seaman Bruce L. Hogan, 20, of Borrego Springs, Ca., throws a mooring line from the U.S. Coast Guard Walnut to the pier of Umm Quasr, Iraq April 22, 2003. The Walnut is repl... More

OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM, US Coast Guard Photo

OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM, US Coast Guard Photo

NORTHERN ARABIAN GULF (May 18, 2003) -- Members of Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment 203, based in Yorktown, Va., ride aboard a rigid hull inflatable boat from the USS Chinook (PC-9) on their way to conduc... More

CGC Eagle summer cruise, US Coast Guard Photo

CGC Eagle summer cruise, US Coast Guard Photo

Officer Candidates practice using a sextant as the CGC Eagle heads North towards the coast of Maine during the finally leg of the summer cruise. The Eagle is the only operational commissioned sailing vessel in ... More

WHITE SHOAL LIGHT - U.S. Coast guard photo

WHITE SHOAL LIGHT - U.S. Coast guard photo

Northern Lake Michigan (Jan. 23, 2004) - Brash ice builds around White Shoal Light. USCG photo by PAc Jeff Hall.

COAST GUARD HIGH ENDURANCE CUTTER (WHEC) 76MM WEAPON SYSTEM

COAST GUARD HIGH ENDURANCE CUTTER (WHEC) 76MM WEAPON SYSTEM

AT SEA (May 8, 2004)--An MK15, 20mm Close-In Weapons System (CIWS) onboard a U.S. Coast Guard High Endurance Cutter, is ready to take aim against air targets, on May 8, 2004. The CIWS is capable of firing 3,500... More

COAST GUARD DRUG BUST, US Coast Guard Photo

COAST GUARD DRUG BUST, US Coast Guard Photo

AT SEA (Oct. 4, 2004)--A gunner in an MH-68 Stingray helicopter from the Helicopter Interdiction Squadron from Jacksonville, Fla., patrols a drug transit zone along side the Coast Guard cutter Gallatin from Cha... More

United States Coast Guard photo -  BEAR DEPLOYMENT

United States Coast Guard photo - BEAR DEPLOYMENT

AT SEA (May 19, 2005)--Fireman Kwame Fitzpatrick rushes up a ladder from the fantail to the flight deck of the Coast Guard Cutter Bear during a fire drill on board May 19. The Bear is bound for Africa on an in... More

Brief aboard Al Basra Oil Terminal

Brief aboard Al Basra Oil Terminal

Vice Adm. D. Brian Peterman (left), commanding officer Atlantic Area, receives a brief from Navy Lt. Cmdr. Miller (right) aboard Al Basra Oil Terminal (ABOT) here. Miller is the Commanding Officer of the sailo... More

Coast Guard Cutter Resolute - ATLANTIC

Coast Guard Cutter Resolute - ATLANTIC

GULF OF MEXICO - Petty Officer 2nd Class (IT2) Michael Martinez (front) and Petty Officer 2nd Class (BM2) Jason R. Norris, crewmembers aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Resolute, a 210-foot ship homeported in St. P... More

Indian naval and air force personnel listen to a brief

Indian naval and air force personnel listen to a brief

Indian naval and air force personnel listen to a brief in the ready room aboard nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68). Seven of the eight squadrons embarked aboard Nimitz participated in the brie... More

Boutwell transfers vessel suspected of high seas drift net fishing

Boutwell transfers vessel suspected of high seas drift net fishing

(Sept. 13, 2007) ONBOARD THE USCGC BOUTWELL - The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Boutwell, stationed in Alameda, Calif., transfers over custody of the Lu Rong Yu 6007 fishing vessel to the Chinese Fisheries Law Enforc... More

Boutwell apprehends three new fishing vessels

Boutwell apprehends three new fishing vessels

(Oct. 5, 2007) ONBOARD THE USCGC BOUTWELL - Boarding teams, from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Boutwell, boarded the Fishing Vessel Lu Rong Yu 2660. The boarding team quickly determined that the Lu Rong Yu 2660 w... More

Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 124 Prepares to Launch

Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 124 Prepares to Launch

An E-2C Hawkeye attached to the "Bear Aces" of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 124 prepares to launch from the flight deck aboard the Nimitz-class nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roo... More

U.S. Navy Aviation Warfare Systems Operator 2nd class

U.S. Navy Aviation Warfare Systems Operator 2nd class

U.S. Navy Aviation Warfare Systems Operator 2nd class Deric Parsoneault communicates with the pilot during regular search and rescue operations aboard the amphious assualt ship USS Tarawa (LHA 1) while under wa... More

Sprinkler system test on USS Kitty Hawk

Sprinkler system test on USS Kitty Hawk

Damage controlman fireman Beau Davis collects samples of aqueous film forming foam during an emergency sprinkler system test on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk. (U.S. Navy photo/Petty Off... More

Weapons training aboard the USS Ronald Reagan

Weapons training aboard the USS Ronald Reagan

Line coach Petty Officer 3rd Class Daniel Eve observes Rear Adm. James P. Wisecup load a 12 gauge shotgun during a small-arms training exercise aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan. Ronald... More

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Boutwell

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Boutwell

(April 10, 2008) ONBOARD THE USCGC BOUTWELL -- The CGC Boutwell transits home to Alameda, Calif., after a two-month long Eastern-Pacific patrol. The 378-foot long, high endurance cutter's missions include law e... More

Command Master Chief Petty Officer Christopher Engles

Command Master Chief Petty Officer Christopher Engles

Command Master Chief Petty Officer Christopher Engles takes some time to watch Sailor's work on the flight deck aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt. Theodore Roosevelt and her embarked airwing are conducting a Compos... More

Grenade test on USS Ronald Reagan

Grenade test on USS Ronald Reagan

Ship's Serviceman 3rd Class James Fletcher throws an MK 3A2 (G-911) grenade off the fantail of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). The Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group is on a schedu... More

US COAST GUARD Fire Warrior - ATLANTIC

US COAST GUARD Fire Warrior - ATLANTIC

GULF OF MEXICO - Petty Officer 2nd Class Shawn Milton, a damage controlman, is an attack team leader and waiting for permission to access the affected space in a fire fighting drill, May 22, 2008. Milton is we... More

Eagle Summer Cruise 2008 - FOR RELEASE

Eagle Summer Cruise 2008 - FOR RELEASE

CGC EAGLE - Crew and cadets scale the rigging during sail stations aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Barque Eagle June 17. The Eagle sailed into rough weather on its way to Victoria, B.C., to participate in a para... More

From the Side Door - U.S. Coast guard photo

From the Side Door - U.S. Coast guard photo

GULF OF MEXICO - Petty Officer 3rd Class Suren Chandrasena, a boatswain's mate, watches from the side port door as Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf's Over-The-Horizon small boat departs to receive personnel from Coa... More

National Cherry Festival airshow

National Cherry Festival airshow

LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY IN LAKE MICHIGAN -- The U.S. Navy's Blue Angels roar by CGC Biscayne Bay during the National Cherry Festival airshow July 5.

The amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima, background,

The amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima, background,

The amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima, background, and the guided missile cruiser USS Vella Gulf transit the Atlantic Ocean together as part of the Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group supporting maritime sec... More

Capt. John Aquilino, outgoing commander of Carrier

Capt. John Aquilino, outgoing commander of Carrier

Capt. John Aquilino, outgoing commander of Carrier Air Wing 2 banks an F/A-18E Super Hornet strike fighter over the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln as he leaves incoming commander Capt. Alton Ross, to lead... More

Lighting the way aboard the USS John C. Stennis

Lighting the way aboard the USS John C. Stennis

Petty Officer 3rd Class Scott Gray, from Salt Lake City, Utah, signals an aircraft to hold position on the flight deck before launching from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Sten... More

monitoring air radar contacts aboard USS John C. Stennis

monitoring air radar contacts aboard USS John C. Stennis

Operations specialist Petty Officer 3rd Class Keegan Wigger, from Olympia, Wash., monitors air radar contacts in the Combat Direction Center aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis. Stennis... More

Aviation boatswain's mate (fuel) Airman Graciela Sandum,

Aviation boatswain's mate (fuel) Airman Graciela Sandum,

Aviation boatswain's mate (fuel) Airman Graciela Sandum, 25, from San Diego, closes a hose valve during a hydraulics check on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan. Nov. 7, 2008... More

Friends and family (Tigers) of the Nimitz-class aircraft

Friends and family (Tigers) of the Nimitz-class aircraft

Friends and family (Tigers) of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan's sailors watch intently as Ronald Reagan participates in a fueling at sea with the fast combat support ship USNS Bridge. For i... More

Newly frocked third-class petty officers wait to be

Newly frocked third-class petty officers wait to be

Newly frocked third-class petty officers wait to be warded during a frocking ceremony aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt. Two hundred fifty-four Sailors were promoted to the next pa... More

Thanksgiving aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt

Thanksgiving aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt

U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, commander, United States Central Command, speaks with aviation structural mechanic Petty Officer 1st Class Michelle Korab from the "Golden Warriors" of Strike Fighter Squadron 87 ... More

United States Coast Guard photo -  Buoy work

United States Coast Guard photo - Buoy work

PORTE DES MORTS PASSAGE, Wis. -- Seaman Bruce Cobb of Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw disables a light-emitting diode (LED) on an aid to navigation after it is secured on Mackinaw's buoy deck, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008... More

United States Coast Guard photo -  Buoy work

United States Coast Guard photo - Buoy work

PORTE DES MORTS PASSAGE, Wis. -- Members of deck force onboard Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw secure an aid to navigation on the buoy deck, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008. Mackinaw is replacing seasonal aids to navigation ... More

Operations of USS San Antonio

Operations of USS San Antonio

The amphibious transport dock ship USS San Antonio transits the Persian Gulf as SA-330 Puma helicopters from the Military Sealift Command dry cargo/ammunition ship USNS Lewis and Clark, not pictured, conduct a... More

An EA-6B Prowler assigned to the Patriots of Electronic

An EA-6B Prowler assigned to the Patriots of Electronic

An EA-6B Prowler assigned to the Patriots of Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 140 traps an arresting cable on the flight deck aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) during a ... More

Personnel from the Applied Physics Lab Ice Station

Personnel from the Applied Physics Lab Ice Station

Personnel from the Applied Physics Lab Ice Station recover a torpedo from under the ice while participating in Ice Exercise (ICEX) 2009. With the support from the Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washi... More

United States Coast Guard photo -  Ceremony preps

United States Coast Guard photo - Ceremony preps

ABOARD CGC EAGLE - Seaman Ashleigh Garrity applies a coat of paint to Eagle's cargo boom in preparation for the change of command ceremony. (Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Thomas McKenzie)

Coast Guard helicopter - A helicopter is flying over a ship in the ocean

Coast Guard helicopter - A helicopter is flying over a ship in the oce...

EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN - Lt. j.g. Melissa Smith, a landing signal officer (LSO), clears the Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf's embedded MH-65 HITRON helicopter for departure July 12, 2009. The LSO is in charge of the... More

Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON

Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON

EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN - Crewmembers prepare to depart from the over-the-horizon (OTH) small boat aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf, July 22. The OTH was launched to conduct maintenance to the Bertholf... More

United States Coast Guard photo -  VBSS training

United States Coast Guard photo - VBSS training

GULF OF ADEN - U.S. Coast Guard Machinery Technician 1st Class William Porter, from maritime safety and security team 91104 climbs a caving ladder during visit, board, search, and seizure training aboard guided... More

Wreath Laying Ceremony over Pacific Ocean for CG1705 Air Station Sacramento

Wreath Laying Ceremony over Pacific Ocean for CG1705 Air Station Sacra...

OFF THE COAST OF CALIFORNIA - Crewmembers from Air Station Barbers Point cast nine wreaths into the Pacific Ocean, Nov. 5, 2009, in memory of the crew of CG-1705 from Air Station Sacramento. Coast Guard photo b... More

Information Systems Technician 2nd Class Kevin Abney,

Information Systems Technician 2nd Class Kevin Abney,

Information Systems Technician 2nd Class Kevin Abney, a search and rescue swimmer aboard USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19), rescues a dummy during a man overboard drill off the Western coast of Japan. The man overboard ... More

Rear Adm. Kevin Quinn, Commander, Naval Surface Force

Rear Adm. Kevin Quinn, Commander, Naval Surface Force

Rear Adm. Kevin Quinn, Commander, Naval Surface Force Atlantic, talks with Engineman 2nd Class Chad Jeffrey, assigned to the littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1), in the ship's mission module bay. Freedom w... More

U.S. Coast Guard cutter VOSS - ATLANTIC

U.S. Coast Guard cutter VOSS - ATLANTIC

GULF OF MEXICO - Crewmembers from U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Harry Claiborne observe a Vessel of Opportunity Skimming System as it removes oil from the Gulf, May 8, 2010. The U.S. Coast Guard is working in partne... More

US COAST GUARD Top hat - ATLANTIC

US COAST GUARD Top hat - ATLANTIC

GULF OF MEXICO - A pollution containment chamber, known as the "top hat", is lowered into the Gulf of Mexico by the motor vessel Viking Poseidon, May 11, 2010. The chamber will be used in an attempt to contain... More

Controlled burn of oil from the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill

Controlled burn of oil from the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill

A controlled burn of oil from the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill sends towers of fire hundreds of feet into the air over the Gulf of Mexico June 9. Coast Guard Photo by Petty Officer First Class John Masson.

Vessel decontamination - ATLANTIC

Vessel decontamination - ATLANTIC

John Meaut, able-bodied seaman aboard the tug Resolute, uses a high-pressure fire hose to wash oil from the hull of barge as part of a gross-vessel decontamination process about 15 miles south of Dauphin Island... More

Deepwater Horizon response - ATLANTIC

Deepwater Horizon response - ATLANTIC

GULF OF MEXICO - Skimming operations continue to help mitigate the effects of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill Friday, June 25, 2010. The U.S. Coast Guard and other agencies conduct daily overflights of the ... More

Deepwater Horizon spill site - ATLANTIC

Deepwater Horizon spill site - ATLANTIC

NBC News reporter Thanh Truong prepares a report on the bridge wing of the Coast Guard Cutter Resolute, a 210-foot medium endurance cutter on station near the Deepwater Horizon spill site. The Resolute is part ... More

Coast Guard action - US Coast Guard photo

Coast Guard action - US Coast Guard photo

Coast Guard action conducted May 7, 2010.

Airman Christopher Spicerward, aviation ordnanceman,

Airman Christopher Spicerward, aviation ordnanceman,

Airman Christopher Spicerward, aviation ordnanceman, from Horseshoe Bend, Ark., assigned to the Gunslingers of Strike Fighter Squadron 105, cleans the gun blast diffuser of an F/A-18E Super Hornet in the hangar... More

Sailors train to combat an aircraft fire in hangar

Sailors train to combat an aircraft fire in hangar

Sailors train to combat an aircraft fire in hangar bay three during a general quarters drill aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln is underway preparing for composite training unit ex... More

US COAST GUARD Operation Nanook

US COAST GUARD Operation Nanook

GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE -- Petty Officer 3rd Class Trent Lamun, a Damage Controlman onboard the Coast Guard Cutter Alder, homeported in Duluth, Minn., uses Petty Officer 2nd Class Chris Barreca, Health Services T... More

Sailors aboard the Military Sealift Command fast combat

Sailors aboard the Military Sealift Command fast combat

Sailors aboard the Military Sealift Command fast combat support ship USNS Bridge transfer a pallet of supplies during a replenishment at sea with the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan is underwa... More

The Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme

The Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme

The Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard and other ships assigned to the Rim of the Pacific 2010 combined task force transit the Pacific Ocean in a 32-vessel formation as part of a photo exer... More

USS Harry S. Truman, US Navy Photogrpah

USS Harry S. Truman, US Navy Photogrpah

Petty Officer 1st Class Henry Beross, top, from Chesapeake, Va., and Petty Officer 3rd Class Benjamin Anderson, from Detroit, perform maintenance on an F/A-18C Hornet assigned to the Ragin Bulls of Strike Fight... More

USS Harry S. Truman action

USS Harry S. Truman action

Petty Officer 3rd Class Barry Styles, aviation electronics technician, assigned to the "Ragin' Bulls" of Strike Fighter Squadron 37, replaces panels on a F/A-18C Hornet in the hangar bay of USS Harry S. Truma... More

USS Enterprise, US Navy Photogrpah

USS Enterprise, US Navy Photogrpah

Petty Officer 3rd Class Robert Gonday, an aviation structural mechanic, prepares to paint the propeller tips of an E-2C Hawkeye assigned to the Screwtops of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 123 aboard th... More

USS George Washington - A man in a green shirt sitting inside of a military vehicle

USS George Washington - A man in a green shirt sitting inside of a mil...

Petty Officer 3rd Class James Brisendine, an aviation structural mechanic from Girard, Kan., drills out corroded anchor nuts to repair an access cover on the engine nacelle of an E-2C Hawkeye from the Liberty B... More

Petty Officer 3rd Class William Milewsk, an aviation

Petty Officer 3rd Class William Milewsk, an aviation

Petty Officer 3rd Class William Milewsk, an aviation electronic technician, assigned to the Gunslingers of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 105, removes an antenna on an F/A-18E Super Hornet aboard the aircraft ca... More

USS Ponce operations, US Navy Photogrpah

USS Ponce operations, US Navy Photogrpah

Newly frocked Navy Bosun’s Mate 3rd Class (back right) watches as the First Class petty officers on board USS Ponce (LPD 15) tack on his “crows” (rank insignia) for him on board the amphibious transport dock US... More

A ship-launched, intercept-aerial guided missile is

A ship-launched, intercept-aerial guided missile is

A ship-launched, intercept-aerial guided missile is launched from a NATO Sea Sparrow launcher during a live-fire exercise aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise. Enterprise is conducting work-ups and flight... More

USS George H.W. Bush, US Navy Photogrpah

USS George H.W. Bush, US Navy Photogrpah

Airmen Andres Garcia, an aviation boatswain's mate (handling), left, and Anthony Gallegos, both assigned to the air department of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), train with firefighting equi... More

Rear Adm. Dan Cloyd, commander of Task Force 70, speaks

Rear Adm. Dan Cloyd, commander of Task Force 70, speaks

Rear Adm. Dan Cloyd, commander of Task Force 70, speaks during an admiral's call in the hangar bay of the aircraft carrier USS George Washington. George Washington, the Navy's only permanently forward-deployed ... More

An AS332 Super Puma helicopter delivers a pallet of

An AS332 Super Puma helicopter delivers a pallet of

An AS332 Super Puma helicopter delivers a pallet of supplies onto the flight deck of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex during a replenishment. Essex is part of the forward-deployed Essex Am... More

Lance Cpl. Sarah Skiados, a Female Engagement Team

Lance Cpl. Sarah Skiados, a Female Engagement Team

Lance Cpl. Sarah Skiados, a Female Engagement Team member with Combat Logistics Battalion 26, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, is searched during a class on the flight deck of USS Ponce, Oct. 22. The FET is comp... More

Lance Cpl. Logan Black, of Fort Worth, Texas, re-installs

Lance Cpl. Logan Black, of Fort Worth, Texas, re-installs

Lance Cpl. Logan Black, of Fort Worth, Texas, re-installs a panel on an F/A-18C Hornet assigned to the Death Rattlers of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 323 in the hangar bay aboard the aircraft carrier USS Rona... More

Petty Officer 2nd Class Dean T. McRae launches an AH-1W

Petty Officer 2nd Class Dean T. McRae launches an AH-1W

Petty Officer 2nd Class Dean T. McRae launches an AH-1W Cobra helicopter assigned to the Flying Tigers of Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 262 from the amphibious transport dock ship USS Denver. Denver is part... More

The Military Sealift Command's Fleet Replenishment

The Military Sealift Command's Fleet Replenishment

The Military Sealift Command's Fleet Replenishment Oiler USNS Tippecanoe pulls alongside USS George Washington during a replenishment at sea. The ability to replenish its ships at sea contributes to the Navy's ... More

USS Essex action, US Navy Photogrpah

USS Essex action, US Navy Photogrpah

A landing craft air cushion from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force enters the well deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Essex. Essex is part of the forward-deployed Essex Amphibious Ready Group and is pa... More

Airman Angelica Medved watches stores being delivered

Airman Angelica Medved watches stores being delivered

Airman Angelica Medved watches stores being delivered from the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Guadalupe into the hangar bay of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson during a replenishmen... More

USS Gunston Hall action

USS Gunston Hall action

Petty Officer 2nd Class Maxy Baskin, boatswain's mate, directs an Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during take off from the amphibious dock landing ship USS Gunston Hall. Army aviators assigned to the 1228 Avia... More

Airman Brandon Everson, aviation boatswain's mate

Airman Brandon Everson, aviation boatswain's mate

Airman Brandon Everson, aviation boatswain's mate (equipment), gives a thumbs up while preparing the bow catapults to launch aircraft aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson. The Carl Vinson Ca... More

The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Shiloh

The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Shiloh

The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Shiloh transits off the northeastern coast of Japan supporting the humanitarian aid and disaster relief operations of Operation Tomodachi.

Petty Officer 3rd Class Lawrence Carbonell, right,

Petty Officer 3rd Class Lawrence Carbonell, right,

Petty Officer 3rd Class Lawrence Carbonell, right, signals to an SH-60B Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the Scorpions of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light 49 aboard the aircraft carrier USS George Washin... More

An HH-60H Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the Black

An HH-60H Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the Black

An HH-60H Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the Black Knights of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron 4 lands aboard the guided missile destroyer USS Preble. Preble is operating in the western Pacific Ocean. (U.S. ... More

Fireman Keshia Ouellette, a machinist mate from Fort

Fireman Keshia Ouellette, a machinist mate from Fort

Fireman Keshia Ouellette, a machinist mate from Fort Kent, Maine, loads boxes of coffee on a conveyor in the hangar bay of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) during a replenishment at sea with the ... More

A Marine with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit fires

A Marine with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit fires

A Marine with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit fires on a target during a combat marksmanship training exercise aboard USS Bataan, April 22. Marines and sailors with the 22nd MEU’s Force Reconnaissance, Radio... More

USS Wasp action, US Navy Photogrpah

USS Wasp action, US Navy Photogrpah

Petty Officer 1st Class Corey Thicklen, logistical specialist, helps Seaman Fred Gilmore, culinary specialist, lift weights in the weight room of the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp. Wasp is underway conductin... More

An F/A-18E Super Hornet assigned to the Argonauts of

An F/A-18E Super Hornet assigned to the Argonauts of

An F/A-18E Super Hornet assigned to the Argonauts of Strike Fighter Squadron 147 prepares for an arrested landing aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan and Carrier Air Wing 14 are deploye... More

USS Bataan enters the well deck

USS Bataan enters the well deck

A landing craft air cushion (LCAC) from Assault Craft Unit (ACU) 4, embarked onboard the amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5), prepares to enter the well deck of the amphibious dock landing ship USS Whidb... More

Singaporean Harbor Pilot Yap Chee Wah, Lt.j.g. Travis

Singaporean Harbor Pilot Yap Chee Wah, Lt.j.g. Travis

Singaporean Harbor Pilot Yap Chee Wah, Lt.j.g. Travis Snover and Commanding Officer Cmdr. Adrian Ragland, plot the amphibious dock landing ship USS Tortuga (LSD 46) into a commercial Singapore port in support o... More

The Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler

The Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler

The Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Leroy Grumman conducts a refueling at sea with the guided-missile cruiser USS Anzio. Anzio is deployed as part of the George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike ... More

Coast Guard Cutter Eagle, US Coast Guard Photo

Coast Guard Cutter Eagle, US Coast Guard Photo

U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Jared Dickerson and First Class Cadet Holly Madden review the fuel oil transfer system in the engine room aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Eagle Thursday, June 23, 2011. M... More

Coast Guard operations, US Coast Guard Photo

Coast Guard operations, US Coast Guard Photo

U.S. Coast Guard operations July 30, 2011. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)

Man Overboard Drill - U.S. Coast guard photo

Man Overboard Drill - U.S. Coast guard photo

NARES STRAIGHT -- Petty Officer 2nd Class Jeffery Mahar throws a rescue line towards a dummy during a man overboard drill, Aug. 23, 2011. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Luke Clayton.

Petty Officer 3rd Class Richard P. Boughton, fire

Petty Officer 3rd Class Richard P. Boughton, fire

Petty Officer 3rd Class Richard P. Boughton, fire controlman, fires a rifle volley aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Truxtun during a commemoration ceremony on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 t... More

Sailors take the Navy-wide E4 advancement exam on the

Sailors take the Navy-wide E4 advancement exam on the

Sailors take the Navy-wide E4 advancement exam on the mess decks aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). George H.W. Bush is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility on its first... More

An EA-6B Prowler assigned to the Gauntlets of Electronic

An EA-6B Prowler assigned to the Gauntlets of Electronic

An EA-6B Prowler assigned to the Gauntlets of Electronic Attack Squadron 136 lands aboard the aircraft carrier USS George Washington. George Washington's embarked Carrier Air Wing 5 is undergoing carrier qualif... More

Chief Petty Officer Lee McGuire, a master at arms assigned

Chief Petty Officer Lee McGuire, a master at arms assigned

Chief Petty Officer Lee McGuire, a master at arms assigned to the guided-missile frigate USS Ford (FFG 54), marks a Bangladesh navy Special Warfare and Diving Salvage sailor's rifle as clear and safe during a v... More

Airman Sean Mavricakis performs maintenance on a piece

Airman Sean Mavricakis performs maintenance on a piece

Airman Sean Mavricakis performs maintenance on a piece of avionics equipment aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN72). Abraham Lincoln is underway conducting a composite training uni... More

Airman Jarvis Thomas instructs Airman Obiageli Ezieme

Airman Jarvis Thomas instructs Airman Obiageli Ezieme

Airman Jarvis Thomas instructs Airman Obiageli Ezieme as she operates a spotting dolly in the hangar bay aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Abraham Lincoln is underway conduc... More

Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile

Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile

Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 2 rappel from an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 9 during a training exercise aboard the guided-missile cruiser ... More

Seaman Recruit Megan Barr assigned to the forward deployed

Seaman Recruit Megan Barr assigned to the forward deployed

Seaman Recruit Megan Barr assigned to the forward deployed Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald, looks for surface contacts. Fitzgerald is one of seven destroyers assigned to Destroyer Sq... More

USCG and US Army joint training

USCG and US Army joint training

ABOARD COAST GUARD ATC MOBILE, ALA., HC-144A OCEAN SENTRY - A member of the U.S. Army's 7th Special Forces Group jumps out of an ATC Mobile HC-144 aircraft for a High Altitude-Low Opening training exercise near... More

USS John C. Stennis sailor sorts through laundry

USS John C. Stennis sailor sorts through laundry

Aviation Ordinanceman 3rd Class Alexis Vivas fills a laundry bag with flight deck jerseys in ship's laundry aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74). John C. Stennis is deployed to ... More

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