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Officer Eric McGhee from the Valdez Police Department looks on as a terrorist role-player is being treated for wounds and injuries, before taking him away during a civilian and military mass causality exercise at the Alyeska Pipeline in Valdez, Alaska hosted by the Alaskan Command, during exercise NORTHERN EDGE 2002

Officer Eric McGhee from the Valdez Police Department looks on as a te...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Valdez State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: SRA Matthew Hannen, USAF Release Status: Released to Pu... More

Military manpower personnel direct role-player victims onboard a US Air Force (USAF) C-130 Hercules aircraft after a simulated mass casualty chemical bomb attack during exercise Life Saver, in Gulfport, Mississippi (MS). Life Saver 2004 is a Homeland Security exercise headquarted in Keesler Air Force Base (AFB), Biloxi, Mississippi (MS)

Military manpower personnel direct role-player victims onboard a US Ai...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Gulfport State: Mississippi (MS) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: AETC Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Wayne Clark... More

Michigan Army National Guard (MIARNG) Soldiers from the Manistee, Michigan (MI), Bravo Company, 1ST Battalion, 126th Armor, interrogate an insurgent role-player after making contact with the enemy during a Presence Patrol training lane exercise at Camp Grayling, Michigan. Armed participants are wearing the Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES)

Michigan Army National Guard (MIARNG) Soldiers from the Manistee, Mich...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Camp Grayling State: Michigan (MI) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: SSG Jim Downen Jr., Miarng Release Status: Rel... More

Anniston, Ala., November 21, 2013 -- Emergency response students guide a role player to a triage area during an exercise. Since 2006, the Center for Domestic Preparedness has employed Role Player/Actors who simulate survivors in a variation of disaster scenarios depicting chaotic scenes of emergency response and tragic consequences. Photo by Benjamin Crossley/FEMA

Anniston, Ala., November 21, 2013 -- Emergency response students guide...

The original finding aid described this as: Date Taken: 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC Photographer Name: Benjamin Crossley Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

What seems like a bath for Cirque, a service dog for

What seems like a bath for Cirque, a service dog for

What seems like a bath for Cirque, a service dog for the Ohio Task Force 1, is actually a complete decontamination done at the hands of his handler, Craig Veldheer, after spending an hour searching for survivor... More

Civilian role players participate in an urban field

Civilian role players participate in an urban field

Civilian role players participate in an urban field exercise during Integrated Training Exercise 2-16 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., Feb. 11, 2016. MCAGCC conducts relevant... More

An enemy role player engages Marines during Integrated

An enemy role player engages Marines during Integrated

An enemy role player engages Marines during Integrated Training Exercise 2-15 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms (MCAGCC), Calif., Feb. 17, 2015. MCAGCC conducts relevant live-fire combin... More

A Marine with 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment,

A Marine with 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment,

A Marine with 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, communicates over radio at Range 400 aboard Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., Aug. 10, 2016, during Integrated Training Exercise ... More

Anniston, Ala., November 21, 2013 -- Role players layout makeup and moulage elements in preparation for an exercise. Since 2006, the Center for Domestic Preparedness has employed Role Player/Actors who simulate survivors in a variation of disaster scenarios depicting chaotic scenes of emergency response and tragic consequences. (Photo by Benjamin Crossley/FEMA)

Anniston, Ala., November 21, 2013 -- Role players layout makeup and mo...

The original finding aid described this as: Date Taken: 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC Photographer Name: Benjamin Crossley Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

GULF OF ADEN (July 2, 2015) U.S. Marines with the 15th

GULF OF ADEN (July 2, 2015) U.S. Marines with the 15th

GULF OF ADEN (July 2, 2015) U.S. Marines with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit’s Maritime Raid Force assist the visit, board, search, and seizure team aboard the amphibious transport dock USS Anchorage (LPD 2... More

ARABIAN SEA (June 24, 2015) U.S. Marines spar during

ARABIAN SEA (June 24, 2015) U.S. Marines spar during

ARABIAN SEA (June 24, 2015) U.S. Marines spar during a Martial Arts Instructor Course aboard the USS Anchorage (LPD 23). The students are going through the rigorous course in order to become MCMAP instructors f... More

A Belgian gate guard sets a second makeshift tourniquet

A Belgian gate guard sets a second makeshift tourniquet

A Belgian gate guard sets a second makeshift tourniquet on a colleague who role-plays as they train on emergency casualty care, the civilian equivalent of Army's Tactical Combat Casualty Care, on Chièvres Air B... More

Senior Airman Olivia Amirault, a flight nurse assigned

Senior Airman Olivia Amirault, a flight nurse assigned

Senior Airman Olivia Amirault, a flight nurse assigned to 439th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, speaks with the aircraft captain before takeoff from Amedee Army Airfield, California, during the United States F... More

Sergeant (SGT) Jason Fournier, 2nd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment scans a role player for concealed contraband prior to escorting him to the Entry Control Point (ECP) during a simulated Noncombatant Evacuation Operation (NEO), in support of Exercise TANDEM THRUST 2003

Sergeant (SGT) Jason Fournier, 2nd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment sca...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: TANDEM THRUST 2003 State: Guam Country: Northern Mariana Islands (MNP) Scene Camera Operator: SSG Michael R. Picklo, Usmc Re... More

Pvt. 1st Class Kelsey D. Barnes, Ozark, Missouri native,

Pvt. 1st Class Kelsey D. Barnes, Ozark, Missouri native,

Pvt. 1st Class Kelsey D. Barnes, Ozark, Missouri native, combat medic for the 206th Area Support Medical Company, Missouri National Guard, brushes dirt onto Pfc. Benjamin Williams, military police, 3175th Milit... More

GULF OF ADEN (July 2, 2015) A CH-53E Super Stallion

GULF OF ADEN (July 2, 2015) A CH-53E Super Stallion

GULF OF ADEN (July 2, 2015) A CH-53E Super Stallion from the “Greyhawks” of Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 161 (Reinforced), 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit flies over the USS amphibious transport dock ship An... More

Enemy role-players, assigned to the Kalmarian Forces,

Enemy role-players, assigned to the Kalmarian Forces,

Enemy role-players, assigned to the Kalmarian Forces, relax as they wait for supplies during Operation Hamel 15, Pacific Pathways 2015 at Raspberry Creek, Queensland, on July 7, 2015. Operation Hamel 15, Pacif... More

Moulage techs John Gifford (left) and Carlos Asor (right)

Moulage techs John Gifford (left) and Carlos Asor (right)

Moulage techs John Gifford (left) and Carlos Asor (right) apply moulage to a mannequin in the Effects & Enablers facility at Sierra Army Depot, California, during the United States Forces Command Medical Emerge... More

An Alabama National Guardsman, 440th Chemical Company,

An Alabama National Guardsman, 440th Chemical Company,

An Alabama National Guardsman, 440th Chemical Company, Task Force 46, is pulled from a cement structure while acting as a simulated survivor as part of Vibrant Response 14, Aug. 3, Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver... More

Sgt. Blake G. Sanches, embark clerk, Special Purpose

Sgt. Blake G. Sanches, embark clerk, Special Purpose

Sgt. Blake G. Sanches, embark clerk, Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force, Crisis Response, Central Command, guides role-players to a notional evacuation site during a non-combatant evacuation operation... More

Marines with Company C, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion,

Marines with Company C, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion,

Marines with Company C, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, provide security for their team during a simulated casualty evacuation aboard Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash, April 10, 2015. Marines with the company opera... More

A Lithuanian soldier directs a role player to move their M1008 1 1/4 ton cargo truck into the check point to be searched for contraband during the field training phase of BALTIC CHALLENGE '98

A Lithuanian soldier directs a role player to move their M1008 1 1/4 t...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: BALTIC CHALLENGE '98 Country: Lithuania (LTU) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Johancharles Van Boers, USA Release Status: Release... More

US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Mike Schuh, assigned to the 142nd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron (AES), Delaware Air National Guard (DEANG), gives a safety briefing to role-player victims before taking off aboard a C-130 Hercules aircraft in support of exercise Life Saver in Gulfport, Mississippi (MS)

US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Mike Schuh, assigned to the 14...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Gulfport State: Mississippi (MS) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: AETC Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Wayne Clark... More

A Michigan Army National Guard (MIARNG) Soldier from the Manistee, Michigan (MI), Bravo Company, 1ST Battalion, 126th Armor, guards an Iraqi insurgent role-player who attacked a Presence Patrol during annual training at Camp Grayling, Michigan. Armed participants are wearing the Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES)

A Michigan Army National Guard (MIARNG) Soldier from the Manistee, Mic...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Camp Grayling State: Michigan (MI) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: SSG Jim Downen Jr., Miarng Release Status: Rel... More

Anniston, Ala., November 21, 2013 -- An emergency response student guides a role player to a triage area during an exercise. Since 2006, the Center for Domestic Preparedness has employed Role Player/Actors who simulate survivors in a variation of disaster scenarios depicting chaotic scenes of emergency response and tragic consequences. Photo by Benjamin Crossley/FEMA

Anniston, Ala., November 21, 2013 -- An emergency response student gui...

The original finding aid described this as: Date Taken: 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC Photographer Name: Benjamin Crossley Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Reconnaissance and surveillance patrol hones Marines’ readiness

Reconnaissance and surveillance patrol hones Marines’ readiness

Sergeant Ben Deweese, assistant team leader, Company C, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, makes final gear preparations prior to a three-day reconnaissance and surveillance patrol aboard Joint Base Lewis McCord, Wa... More

A role player receives moulage in the Effects & Enablers

A role player receives moulage in the Effects & Enablers

A role player receives moulage in the Effects & Enablers facility at Sierra Army Depot, California, during the United States Forces Command Medical Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise, Oct. 31, 2019. These ... More

ARTA BEACH, Djibouti (July 22, 2015) U.S. Marines with

ARTA BEACH, Djibouti (July 22, 2015) U.S. Marines with

ARTA BEACH, Djibouti (July 22, 2015) U.S. Marines with Battalion Landing Team 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, move to their firing position during a night-fire exercise. The... More

GULF OF ADEN (July 2, 2015) U.S. Marine Lance Cpl.

GULF OF ADEN (July 2, 2015) U.S. Marine Lance Cpl.

GULF OF ADEN (July 2, 2015) U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Taylor Baur fires an M249 Squad Automatic Weapon aboard the amphibious transport dock USS Anchorage (LPD 23). Baur is a machine gunner with Battalion Landing ... More

Soldiers evacuate injured civilians stranded around

Soldiers evacuate injured civilians stranded around

Soldiers evacuate injured civilians stranded around a building containing toxic industrial chemicals during Vibrant Response, a training exercise held at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Complex, Ind., July 23, 2... More

U.S. and Canadian military police use riot shields

U.S. and Canadian military police use riot shields

U.S. and Canadian military police use riot shields to harmlessly subdue a detainee role-player during a riot control demonstration at McGregor Range Complex, N.M., as part of the Guardian Justice training exerc... More

GULF OF ADEN (Oct. 31, 2015) U.S. Marine Sgt. Garrett

GULF OF ADEN (Oct. 31, 2015) U.S. Marine Sgt. Garrett

GULF OF ADEN (Oct. 31, 2015) U.S. Marine Sgt. Garrett Kastl fires an M16A4 rifle during a deck shoot aboard the amphibious transport dock ship USS Anchorage (LPD 23). Kastl is a motor transport operator with Co... More

A Marine with Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task

A Marine with Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task

A Marine with Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force, Crisis Response, Central Command, checks a role-player during a non-combatant evacuation operation exercise at Range 220, a military operations on urb... More

A Belgian gate guard inspects the wounds of a colleague

A Belgian gate guard inspects the wounds of a colleague

A Belgian gate guard inspects the wounds of a colleague who role-plays for a practical exercise of their training on emergency casualty care, the civilian equivalent of Army's Tactical Combat Casualty Care, on ... More

An Air Force flight nurse checks the vitals of a simulated

An Air Force flight nurse checks the vitals of a simulated

An Air Force flight nurse checks the vitals of a simulated patient during an aeromedical evacuation from Sierra Army Depot, California, during the United States Forces Command Medical Emergency Deployment Readi... More

US Air Force (USAF) MASTER Sergeant (MSGT) Christy Figeroy, with the 27th Comptroller Squadron (CS), Cannon Air Force Base (AFB), New Mexico (NM), discusses financial issues with a role player from the 421st Training Squadron (TS), during the Air Force's newest flag-level contingency exercise, Eagle Flag

US Air Force (USAF) MASTER Sergeant (MSGT) Christy Figeroy, with the 2...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Naes Lakehurst State: New Jersey (NJ) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: AMC Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Jerry M... More

GULF OF ADEN (July 2, 2015) Crewmen prepare to launch

GULF OF ADEN (July 2, 2015) Crewmen prepare to launch

GULF OF ADEN (July 2, 2015) Crewmen prepare to launch a landing craft, air cushion from the well deck of the amphibious transport dock USS Anchorage (LPD 23). The Anchorage is part of the Essex Amphibious Rea... More

Corporal Zach Alexander, scout sniper, Company C, 1st

Corporal Zach Alexander, scout sniper, Company C, 1st

Corporal Zach Alexander, scout sniper, Company C, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, observes the drop zone from inside a CH-47 Chinook helicopter during a three-day reconnaissance and surveillance patrol aboard Joi... More

Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, Ind., as seen from

Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, Ind., as seen from

Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, Ind., as seen from above during Vibrant Response 14, Aug. 3. Vibrant Response 14 is a major field training exercise conducted by U.S. Northern Command and led by U.S. Army Nor... More

Cirque, a service dog for the Ohio Task Force 1, and

Cirque, a service dog for the Ohio Task Force 1, and

Cirque, a service dog for the Ohio Task Force 1, and his handler, Craig Veldheer, search for survivors buried in radioactive rubble during Vibrant Response, a training exercise held at the Muscatatuck Urban Tra... More

Alabama Air National Guardsman, Senior Airman Chris

Alabama Air National Guardsman, Senior Airman Chris

Alabama Air National Guardsman, Senior Airman Chris Lowery, 187th Medical Group, Task Force 46, is pulled from a cement structure while acting as a simulated survivor for a training exercise, Aug. 3, at Vibrant... More

A Belgian gate guard applies a tourniquet on a colleague

A Belgian gate guard applies a tourniquet on a colleague

A Belgian gate guard applies a tourniquet on a colleague who role-plays as they train on emergency casualty care, the civilian equivalent of Army's Tactical Combat Casualty Care, on Chièvres Air Base, Belgium, ... More

Belgian Firefighters treat the pretend wound of U.S.

Belgian Firefighters treat the pretend wound of U.S.

Belgian Firefighters treat the pretend wound of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Rashod Wade, a Military Police Investigator with U.S. Army Garrison Benelux, role player for the full scale exercise Sentinel Shield 2017, on... More

An enemy role player engages Marines during Integrated

An enemy role player engages Marines during Integrated

An enemy role player engages Marines during Integrated Training Exercise 2-15 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms (MCAGCC), Calif., Feb. 17, 2015. MCAGCC conducts relevant live-fire combin... More

STAFF SGT. Yocum (left), NCOIC of the Joint Information Bureau Command Information Section, reviews the ground rules for the civilian press with "role player" AIRMAN 1ST Class Suzanne Rogers, 1ST Combat Camera Squadron, Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., during preparations for the exercise

STAFF SGT. Yocum (left), NCOIC of the Joint Information Bureau Command...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: UNIFIED ENDEAVOR '95 Base: Fort Hood State: Texas (TX) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: A1C Ra... More

U.S. Marine Corps, Lance Cpl. Bradley Boucher, radio

U.S. Marine Corps, Lance Cpl. Bradley Boucher, radio

U.S. Marine Corps, Lance Cpl. Bradley Boucher, radio operator, Motor Transport, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, provides medical aid to a simulated civilian casualty during an infantry immersion train... More

Sergeant Wesley Ferguson, assistant team leader, Company

Sergeant Wesley Ferguson, assistant team leader, Company

Sergeant Wesley Ferguson, assistant team leader, Company C, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, provides security for his team during a simulated casualty evacuation aboard Joint Base Lewis McChord, Wash, April 10, 2... More

2nd Lt. Spencer Press, infantry officer, 2nd Battalion,

2nd Lt. Spencer Press, infantry officer, 2nd Battalion,

2nd Lt. Spencer Press, infantry officer, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, directs his platoon in an assault on Range 400 aboard Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., Aug. 10, 2016,... More

Anniston, Ala., December 19, 2013 -- An emergency response student assesses a role player during an exercise. Since 2006, the Center for Domestic Preparedness has employed Role Player/Actors who simulate survivors in a variation of disaster scenarios depicting chaotic scenes of emergency response and tragic consequences. Photo by Benjamin Crossley/FEMA

Anniston, Ala., December 19, 2013 -- An emergency response student ass...

The original finding aid described this as: Date Taken: 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC Photographer Name: Benjamin Crossley Keywords: EMO Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activit... More

Alabama National Guardsmen, 440th Chemical Company,

Alabama National Guardsmen, 440th Chemical Company,

Alabama National Guardsmen, 440th Chemical Company, Task Force 46, perform search and extraction training in Hazardous Material Suits during Vibrant Response 14, Aug. 3, Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training C... More

Soldiers conduct reconnaissance of a building containing

Soldiers conduct reconnaissance of a building containing

Soldiers conduct reconnaissance of a building containing toxic industrial chemicals during Vibrant Response, a training exercise held at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Complex, Ind., July 23, 2014. Vibrant Resp... More

Marines with Company C, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion,

Marines with Company C, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion,

Marines with Company C, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, gather on a flight line prior to being inserted into remote locations for a three-day reconnaissance and surveillance patrol aboard Joint Base Lewis-McChord... More

ARTA BEACH, Djibouti (July 22, 2015) U.S. Marines with

ARTA BEACH, Djibouti (July 22, 2015) U.S. Marines with

ARTA BEACH, Djibouti (July 22, 2015) U.S. Marines with Battalion Landing Team 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, fire an M240B medium machine gun during a night-fire exercise. ... More

GULF OF ADEN (Oct. 31, 2015)  U.S. Marine Sgt. Rodney

GULF OF ADEN (Oct. 31, 2015) U.S. Marine Sgt. Rodney

GULF OF ADEN (Oct. 31, 2015) U.S. Marine Sgt. Rodney Gleisner reloads an M16A4 rifle during a deck shoot aboard the amphibious transport dock ship USS Anchorage (LPD 23). Gleisner is a motor transport mechanic... More

Alabama National Guardsman Erica Haynes, 440th Chemical

Alabama National Guardsman Erica Haynes, 440th Chemical

Alabama National Guardsman Erica Haynes, 440th Chemical Company, Task Force 46, prepare to perform an extraction during the Vibrant Response 14 exercise, Aug. 2, at Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center... More

Various U.S. military leaders and distinguished guests

Various U.S. military leaders and distinguished guests

Various U.S. military leaders and distinguished guests to the Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Facility, Ind., look on as a Soldier demonstrates his moulage dressing skills, during a tour of the Muscatatu... More

Zachary Larson, moulage tech, creates the illusion

Zachary Larson, moulage tech, creates the illusion

Zachary Larson, moulage tech, creates the illusion of a mannequin missing an arm in the Effects & Enablers facility at Sierra Army Depot, California, during the United States Forces Command Medical Emergency De... More

Spc. Goeun Crabtree, a combat medic assigned to the

Spc. Goeun Crabtree, a combat medic assigned to the

Spc. Goeun Crabtree, a combat medic assigned to the 44th Medical Brigade, volunteers to be a role player during the United States Forces Command Medical Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise at Sierra Army De... More

Anniston, Ala., November 21, 2013 -- A role player calls out for help during an exercise. Since 2006, the Center for Domestic Preparedness has employed Role Player/Actors who simulate survivors in a variation of disaster scenarios depicting chaotic scenes of emergency response and tragic consequences. Photo by Benjamin Crossley/FEMA

Anniston, Ala., November 21, 2013 -- A role player calls out for help ...

The original finding aid described this as: Date Taken: 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC Photographer Name: Benjamin Crossley Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

GULF OF ADEN (July 2, 2015) U.S. Marine Cpl. Nicholas

GULF OF ADEN (July 2, 2015) U.S. Marine Cpl. Nicholas

GULF OF ADEN (July 2, 2015) U.S. Marine Cpl. Nicholas Belles, right, helps Lance Cpl. Demitri Evert, left, set up an M249 Squad Automatic Weapon on the flight deck of the amphibious transport dock USS Anchorage... More

ARABIAN SEA (July 20, 2015) U.S. Marine Lance Cpl.

ARABIAN SEA (July 20, 2015) U.S. Marine Lance Cpl.

ARABIAN SEA (July 20, 2015) U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Garred Sims guides a Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR) onto a landing craft, air cushion aboard the amphibious transport dock ship USS Anchorage (LPD ... More

GULF OF ADEN (Oct. 29, 2015) U.S. Navy Sailor Petty

GULF OF ADEN (Oct. 29, 2015) U.S. Navy Sailor Petty

GULF OF ADEN (Oct. 29, 2015) U.S. Navy Sailor Petty Officer 1st Class David Johnson prepares steaks for the October birthday dinner aboard the USS Anchorage (LPD 23). Johnson is a culinary specialist aboard the... More

A group of Afghan role player serve as a village elders

A group of Afghan role player serve as a village elders

A group of Afghan role player serve as a village elders during a Shura, or leader meeting, between Afghan villagers and U.S. soldiers. Their role is vital to recreate a real Afghan cultural atmosphere to train ... More

Soldiers of the 11th Engineering Battalion, Fort Benning,

Soldiers of the 11th Engineering Battalion, Fort Benning,

Soldiers of the 11th Engineering Battalion, Fort Benning, Ga., extract injured survivors from a vehicle trapped in a crevasse during Vibrant Response, a training exercise held at the Muscatatuck Urban Training ... More

Alabama National Guardsmen Erica Haynes (with litter),

Alabama National Guardsmen Erica Haynes (with litter),

Alabama National Guardsmen Erica Haynes (with litter), 440th Chemical Company, Task Force 46, along with her teammates also from the same company, select equipment to use for search and extract training during ... More

German civilians wave down a convoy for help after

German civilians wave down a convoy for help after

German civilians wave down a convoy for help after a simulated improvised explosive device explosion during an Operational Mentor Liaison Team training exercise at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Ho... More

ARABIAN SEA (June 23, 2015) U.S. Marine Cpl. Ryan Jackson

ARABIAN SEA (June 23, 2015) U.S. Marine Cpl. Ryan Jackson

ARABIAN SEA (June 23, 2015) U.S. Marine Cpl. Ryan Jackson leads his students in a guided discussion during a Martial Arts Instructor Course. Jackson is a rifleman and a martial arts instructor trainer with Bat... More

Miles Bernardez, moulage tech, applies moulage to a

Miles Bernardez, moulage tech, applies moulage to a

Miles Bernardez, moulage tech, applies moulage to a role player in the Effects & Enablers facility at Sierra Army Depot, California, during the United States Forces Command Medical Emergency Deployment Readines... More

Sergeant (SGT) John Scott, 2nd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment searches a role player during a simulated Non Combatant Evacuation Operation (NEO), in support of Exercise TANDEM THRUST 2003

Sergeant (SGT) John Scott, 2nd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment searche...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: TANDEM THRUST 2003 State: Guam Country: Northern Mariana Islands (MNP) Scene Camera Operator: SSG Michael R. Picklo, Usmc Re... More

Michigan Army National Guard (MIARNG) Soldiers from the Manistee, Michigan (MI), Bravo Company, 1ST Battalion, 126th Armor, capture an insurgent role-player after making contact with the enemy during a Presence Patrol training lane exercise at Camp Grayling, Michigan. Armed participants are wearing the Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES)

Michigan Army National Guard (MIARNG) Soldiers from the Manistee, Mich...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Camp Grayling State: Michigan (MI) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: SSG Jim Downen Jr., Miarng Release Status: Rel... More

What seems like a bath for Cirque, a service dog for

What seems like a bath for Cirque, a service dog for

What seems like a bath for Cirque, a service dog for the Ohio Task Force 1, is actually a complete decontamination done at the hands of his handler, Craig Veldheer, after spending an hour searching for survivor... More

GULF OF ADEN (June 28, 2015) U.S. Marine Lance Cpl.

GULF OF ADEN (June 28, 2015) U.S. Marine Lance Cpl.

GULF OF ADEN (June 28, 2015) U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Cody Fann, right, and U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Eathan Hendrix, left, serve food in the mess deck of the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock s... More

Wendy Hubbert, casualty simulation expert, applies

Wendy Hubbert, casualty simulation expert, applies

Wendy Hubbert, casualty simulation expert, applies moulage to a role player in the Effects & Enablers facility at Sierra Army Depot, California, during the United States Forces Command Medical Emergency Deploym... More

U.S. and Canadian military police work together to

U.S. and Canadian military police work together to

U.S. and Canadian military police work together to handcuff a detainee role-player during a demonstration for key leaders as part of the Guardian Justice training exercise at McGregor Range Complex, N.M., June ... More

Marines with Company C, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion,

Marines with Company C, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion,

Marines with Company C, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, observe the drop zone from inside a CH-47 Chinook helicopter during a three-day reconnaissance and surveillance patrol aboard Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash... More

Miles Bernardez, moulage tech, creates the illusion

Miles Bernardez, moulage tech, creates the illusion

Miles Bernardez, moulage tech, creates the illusion of a field amputation on a mannequin in the Effects & Enablers facility at Sierra Army Depot, California, during the United States Forces Command Medical Emer... More

Alabama Air National Guardsman Senior Airman Chris

Alabama Air National Guardsman Senior Airman Chris

Alabama Air National Guardsman Senior Airman Chris Lowery (far right), 187th Medical Group, Task Force 46, puts his gloves on during a search and extraction brief at the Vibrant Response 14 exercise, Aug. 3, at... More

Senior Master Sgt. Lavar Jordan, an Observer/Controller

Senior Master Sgt. Lavar Jordan, an Observer/Controller

Senior Master Sgt. Lavar Jordan, an Observer/Controller Trainer assigned to 452nd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, speaks to other flight nurses during an aeromedical evacuation from Sierra Army Depot, Californ... More

A role player pleads for help from a US Marine Corps Team 4 soldier during the Non-combatant Evacuation portion of Situational Training Exercise -2, COOPERATIVE OSPREY '96. Cooperative Osprey '96 is a United States Atlantic Command sponsored exercise, that will be conducted by Marine Forces Atlantic, in August 1996 at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Cooperative Osprey, under the Partnership for Peace program, will provide interoperability training in peacekeeping and humanitarian operations along NATO/IFOR standards, with anemphasis on individual and collective skills

A role player pleads for help from a US Marine Corps Team 4 soldier du...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: COOPERATIVE OSPREY '96 Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (US... More

A South Carolina Disaster Medical Assistance Team provides rapid medical treatment to role-player victims after a mass casualty chemical bomb attack during exercise Life Saver. Life Saver 2004 is a Homeland Security exercise held at Keesler Air Force Base (AFB), Biloxi, Mississippi (MS)

A South Carolina Disaster Medical Assistance Team provides rapid medic...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: State: Georgia (GA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: AETC Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Wayne Clark, USAF Release Stat... More

Members of the Indiana Urban Search & Rescue Task Force

Members of the Indiana Urban Search & Rescue Task Force

Members of the Indiana Urban Search & Rescue Task Force 1 check each other for residual radiation after completing a search for survivors within an irradiated hospital located on the Muscatatuck Urban Training ... More

Lt. Gen. Leopoldo (Lee) Quintas, Jr., U.S. Army Forces

Lt. Gen. Leopoldo (Lee) Quintas, Jr., U.S. Army Forces

Lt. Gen. Leopoldo (Lee) Quintas, Jr., U.S. Army Forces Command (FORSCOM) Deputy Commanding General, watches Zachary Larson, a moulage tech, create artificial skin in the Effects & Enablers facility at Sierra Ar... More

Marines with Company C, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion,

Marines with Company C, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion,

Marines with Company C, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, load onto a CH-47 Chinook helicopter for a three-day reconnaissance and surveillance patrol aboard Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash, April 9, 2015. Marines wi... More

A role player acting as a local Afghan talks to Sgt.

A role player acting as a local Afghan talks to Sgt.

A role player acting as a local Afghan talks to Sgt. William Rodriguez during a Tactical Conflict Assessment and Planning Framework exercise, July 15. The three-day course taught these Afghanistan-bound Marines... More

Marines with Black Sea Rotational Force 13 hold security

Marines with Black Sea Rotational Force 13 hold security

Marines with Black Sea Rotational Force 13 hold security at the entry control point during a crisis contingency exercise aboard Mihail Kogalniceanu Military Base, Romania, May 3, 2013. BSRF-13 serves as a crisi... More

GULF OF ADEN (July 2, 2015) A rigid-hulled inflatable

GULF OF ADEN (July 2, 2015) A rigid-hulled inflatable

GULF OF ADEN (July 2, 2015) A rigid-hulled inflatable boat speeds past the amphibious transport dock USS Anchorage (LPD 23) during high-speed maneuvering drills. The Anchorage is part of the Essex Amphibious Re... More

ARABIAN SEA (July 20, 2015) U.S. Navy Petty Officer

ARABIAN SEA (July 20, 2015) U.S. Navy Petty Officer

ARABIAN SEA (July 20, 2015) U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Keith Blair signals a landing craft, air cushion to depart from the well deck of the amphibious transport dock ship USS Anchorage (LPD 23). Blair i... More

Pyrotechnics are utilized Aug. 7, on a simulated area

Pyrotechnics are utilized Aug. 7, on a simulated area

Pyrotechnics are utilized Aug. 7, on a simulated area of disaster for a training exercise during Vibrant Response 14, Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Facility, Indiana. Vibrant Response is a U.S. Norther... More

Romanian soldiers assess and treat wounded civilians

Romanian soldiers assess and treat wounded civilians

Romanian soldiers assess and treat wounded civilians after a simulated improvised explosive device explosion during an Operational Mentor Liaison Team training exercise at the Joint Multinational Readiness Cent... More

Pyrotechnics are utilized Aug. 7, on a simulated area

Pyrotechnics are utilized Aug. 7, on a simulated area

Pyrotechnics are utilized Aug. 7, on a simulated area of disaster for a training exercise during Vibrant Response 14, Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Facility, Ind. Vibrant Response is a U.S. Northern Co... More

A Marine with  Company C, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion,

A Marine with Company C, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion,

A Marine with Company C, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, coordinates with aircraft to evacuate a simulated casualty during a three-day reconnaissance and surveillance patrol aboard Joint Base Lewis McChord, Wash... More

Airman 1st Class Tristian Baus, left, and Senior Airman

Airman 1st Class Tristian Baus, left, and Senior Airman

Airman 1st Class Tristian Baus, left, and Senior Airman Colby Morin, both entry controllers for the 66th Security Forces Squadron, drag a simulated injured opposition force role player during a readiness exerci... More

Lithuanian soldiers stand guard, armed with 5.56mm Colt M16 rifle (background) and 7.62mm M60 machine gun, while a fellow soldier searches a role player for contraband during the field training phase of BALTIC CHALLENGE '98

Lithuanian soldiers stand guard, armed with 5.56mm Colt M16 rifle (bac...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: BALTIC CHALLENGE '98 Country: Lithuania (LTU) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Johancharles Van Boers, USA Release Status: Release... More

A Lithuanian soldier searches a role player for contraband during the field training phase of BALTIC CHALLENGE '98

A Lithuanian soldier searches a role player for contraband during the ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: BALTIC CHALLENGE '98 Country: Lithuania (LTU) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Johancharles Van Boers, USA Release Status: Releas... More

Members of the North Vernon, Ind., community act as

Members of the North Vernon, Ind., community act as

Members of the North Vernon, Ind., community act as displaced civilians during Vibrant Response, a training exercise held at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Complex, Ind., July 23, 2014. Vibrant Response is a ma... More

U.S. and Canadian military police form a wall of riot

U.S. and Canadian military police form a wall of riot

U.S. and Canadian military police form a wall of riot gear and move in to suppress a detainee altercation during an exercise for Guardian Justice at McGregor Range Complex, N.M., June 26. (U.S. Army photo by Sg... More

Wendy Hubbert, casualty simulation expert, applies

Wendy Hubbert, casualty simulation expert, applies

Wendy Hubbert, casualty simulation expert, applies moulage to a mannequin in the Effects & Enablers facility at Sierra Army Depot, California, during the United States Forces Command Medical Emergency Deploymen... More

ARABIAN SEA (July 20, 2015)  Landing craft, air cushion

ARABIAN SEA (July 20, 2015) Landing craft, air cushion

ARABIAN SEA (July 20, 2015) Landing craft, air cushion 76 with Assault Craft Unit 5, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, approaches the amphibious transport dock ship USS Anchorage (LPD 23). Elements of the 15th ... More

Lt. Gen. Leopoldo (Lee) Quintas, Jr., U.S. Army Forces

Lt. Gen. Leopoldo (Lee) Quintas, Jr., U.S. Army Forces

Lt. Gen. Leopoldo (Lee) Quintas, Jr., U.S. Army Forces Command (FORSCOM) Deputy Commanding General, addresses the Soldiers, moulage artists and role players in the Effects & Enablers facility at Sierra Army Dep... More

Pyrotechnics are utilized Aug. 7, on a simulated area

Pyrotechnics are utilized Aug. 7, on a simulated area

Pyrotechnics are utilized Aug. 7, on a simulated area of disaster for a training exercise during Vibrant Response 14, Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Facility, Indiana. Vibrant Response is a U.S. Norther... More

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