Army

Gear in the Wild: Even Special Forces operators need to check their gear one more time

A U.S. Army Special Operation Soldier with 3rd Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) checks over his gear before a night time operation during Integrated Training Exercise 3-19 at Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms (MCAGCC), Calif., May 2, 2019. The Green Berets utilized the training areas at MCAGCC while supporting ITX as a special operations unit for force on force training.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. William Chockey

See some of the gear utilized by the Green Beret’s below:

Gear in the Wild: The face you make when the kid has no trigger discipline…

DEVESELU, Romania (May 31, 2019) – Romanian military personnel, along with U.S. Sailors and Soldiers hosted more than 150 kids for the International Children’s Day events at the 99th Military Base in Deveselu, Romania, May 31, 2019. U.S. military and civilian personnel from the NSFD displayed gear and equipment for a hands-on experience for local school children and special-needs kids from nearby orphanage. The kids also enjoyed face-painting, sports provided by Navy MWR and a pizza party. The annual event is designed to foster positive relations and to strengthen local U.S. and Romanian community partnerships.

Photo by U.S. Navy Lt. Amy Forsythe, Public Affairs Officer, Naval Support Facility Deveselu

Watch U.S. Marines conduct live-fire training alongside Romanian troops below:

Gear in the Wild: F-35 pilot’s arctic survival kit

Components of an F-35A Lightning II arctic survival kit lie on a table at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, April 24, 2019. A standard survival kit includes a compass, a flare and a five-inch knife. The cold-weather kit also includes components intended to increase survival chances in environments where temperatures reach negative 40 degrees Fahrenheit and below.

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Aaron Larue Guerrisky

See a collection of fighter pilots being forced to eject below:

Gear in the Wild: Training with the Army’s new Sig Sauer M17

1st Lt. Evan Kreamer loads the M17 pistol. Twenty-two Soldiers from Task Force Carentan conducted pistol marksmanship training with the M17 pistol at Gallery 9, Yavoriv, Ukraine June 22.

U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Justin Navin

Watch U.S. Army soldiers train with the new M17 below:

Gear in the Wild: Coast Guard dive operations under the Artic ice

Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Adam Harris, a member of a joint Coast Guard-Navy dive team deployed on the Coast Guard Cutter Healy, holds a Coast Guard ensign during a cold water ice dive off a Healy small boat in the Arctic, July 29, 2017. The joint dive team successfully completed the first shipboard Coast Guard dive operations in the Arctic in eleven years.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class David Bradbury

Watch the Coast Guard-Navy dive team go for a dip beneath the ice below:

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U.S. Navy Diver 1st Class James Mostek, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Company ONE-SIX, embarked aboard USNS Salvor (T-ARS 52), waits on a diving stage during a two-hour decompression stop after diving to 240 feet off the coast of Madang, Papua New Guinea, Dec. 7, 2018. The sailor is completing a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) underwater recovery mission searching for personnel who went missing during WWII. DPAA conducts global search, recovery and laboratory operations to provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel to their families and the nation.

U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Tyler Thompson

See these recovery divers in action in the video below: