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JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, WA, UNITED STATES 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, 2015. Marines with the company operated in remote locations of the wilderness and provided surveillance of the surrounding area to […]
ROCKHAMPTON, ACT, AUSTRALIA U.S. Air Force 320th Special Tactics Squadron jumpmasters prepare for high altitude, high opening (HAHO) jump operations July 11, 2017, over Shoalwater Bay Training Area in Queensland, Australia during Talisman Saber 2017. The 320th STS combat controllers and U.S. Marine Corps 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion operators infilled two days prior to the exercise’s […]
ZION NATIONAL PARK, UTAH, UNITED STATES Loadout Room writer Matt Shin traveling across the Southwest.  Explore and take in the views at the national parks during the off-season (not summer) to avoid the crowds traveling in from all over the world.  Start early enough and you won’t run across another soul.  His choice of gear […]
CAMP LEJEUNE, NC, UNITED STATES A Multi-Purpose Canine handler, with U.S. Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command, fast-ropes with his canine aboard Stone Bay, Oct. 1, 2014. As MARSOC continues to demonstrate their capabilities and versatilities, MPC handlers with the command are preparing themselves and their canines for new areas of operation they’ll be deploying […]
STENNIS SPACE CENTER, MS, UNITED STATES STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. (March 12, 2015) A member of Special Boat Team 22 stands by his weapon during a Special Operations Craft Riverine demonstration at the Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School. NAVSCIATTS trains and educates foreign security forces and other international students on small craft […]
TUCSON, AZ, UNITED STATES U.S. Air Force pararescuemen with the 58th Rescue Squadron prepare for aerial transport during a personnel recovery scenario at Pond Lading Zone during Angel Thunder 17 in Tucson, Ariz., May 11, 2017. Angel Thunder is a two-week, Air Combat Command-sponsored, joint certified and accredited personnel recovery exercise focused on search and […]
FORT HUNTER LIGGETT, CA, UNITED STATES U.S. Army Rangers from B Company, 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, fire M4 carbines, Special Operations Forces Combat Assault Rifles (SCAR) and Mk46 machine guns during a close quarter marksmanship range in Fort Hunter Liggett, Calif., Jan. 25, 2014. (U.S. Army Photo by Spc. Steven Hitchcock/Released) Courtesy of DVIDS
MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, VA, UNITED STATES The Military Enhancement Kit provides versatile capabilities to Marine units trained to engage on breaching missions. The kit builds upon the Mossberg M500A2, but gives Marines a shorter, vented breaching barrel and three interchangeable buttstock attachments pictured here. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Alan Matthews) Courtesy of DVIDS
CAMP RUDDER, FL, UNITED STATES A U.S. Army Ranger student, assigned to the Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade, crosses a river using a single line rope bridge to the other side on Camp Rudder, Eglin Air Force Base, Fl., July 7, 2016. The Florida Phase of Ranger School is the third and final phase that […]
GILA BEND, AZ, UNITED STATES U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Wayne White (right), a member of the tactical air control party with the 177th Fighter Wing, New Jersey Air National Guard, and Senior Airmen Jason Hughes, a pararescue troop from the 306th Rescue Squadronuses look at a map of the range while communicating with a […]
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