He219
05-21-2004, 08:09 PM
So much for the other thread. There is more going on in the world today that you won't see in the AP World Photos section ;)
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Armed Spanish Civil Guards guard the arrival of guests at Madrid's Barajas airport Friday May 21, 2004. Security in Madrid has been tightened for the royal wedding between Spanish Crown Prince Felipe and Letizia Ortiz on May 22. (AP Photo/Denis Doyle)
More information on the Spanish Royal Wedding in MARINO's (http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15415) thread ..
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Police officers escort Javier Herrera Parrado to a police station in Bogota, Friday, May 21, 2004. Parrado was arrested when police, acting on a tip, intercepted the truck he was driving carrying a ton of explosives that the rebels planned to use to blow up a highway tunnel south of Bogota. A wave of attacks carried out by the rebel group, which marks the 40th anniversary of its founding next week has killed four people and downed electrical towers. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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Police officers inspect explosives seized from rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, at a police station in Bogota, Friday, May 21, 2004. Police, acting on a tip, intercepted a truck carrying a ton of explosives that the rebels planned to use to blow up a highway tunnel south of Bogota. A wave of attacks carried out by the rebel group, which marks the 40th anniversary of its founding next week has killed four people and downed electrical towers. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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SHENZHEN, CHINA: CHINA OUT - re cropped version Chinese police dodge a barrage of bricks and stones hurl at them by some 400 disgruntled farmers, who took one official hostage and attacked law enforcement workers seeking to demolish their makeshift homes in southern China's Shenzhen city 20 May 2004. Some 21 law enforcement workers were injured after they were showered with bricks and attacked with spades in the riot Wednesday that has so far resulted in at least two arrests. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP/***** Images)
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SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA: German Army Lieutenant-General Friedrich Riechmann (R) and Lieutenant-General Cecchi of Italian Army (L) inspect troops during a ceremony of dissolution of the German-Italian battle group of NATO's Stabilisation Force (SFOR), held at the German-Italian battle group headquarters in Rajlovac, near Sarajevo 21 May 2004. The battle group was dissolved due to the force reduction of the SFOR following a decision by the Italian government to pull out from operations in Bosnia.
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SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA: Italian soldiers, members of the NATO peacekeeping mission in Bosnia and Hercegovina parade in their vehicles during a ceremony of dissolution of the German-Italian battle group of NATO's Stabilisation Force (SFOR), held at the German-Italian battle group headquarters in Rajlovac, near Sarajevo 21 May 2004.
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Greek navy special forces soldiers take part in an anti-terrorism training exercise for the Olympic Games, aboard a frigate in the Aegean Sea, off the Greek coast near Athens, Thursday, May 20, 2004. (AP Photo/Greek Navy, ho)
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Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, center, is flanked by bodyguards as he leaves the Imam Ali Shrine after Friday prayers in Kufa , Iraq, Friday, May 21, 2004. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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BASRA, IRAQ: Shiekh Abdel Sattar al-Bahadli, raises a machinegun while preaching violence during his sermon at Friday noon prayers in the Iraqi southern city of Basra, 21 May 2004. Bahadli, a follower of wanted cleric Moqtada Sadr, urged people for Jihad (Holy War) against US and British forces across Iraq. One person was killed and 13 wounded in heavy clashes between US-led coalition troops and the militia of Sadr in the holy city of Najaf, hospital sources said.
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Someday we'll see Argyll and the Jocks in this picture ...
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Sgt. 1sts Class Clayborn, 2nd from left, platoon sergeant for 2nd Platoon of B Company, 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division (ID) hands an eager student a workbook during a goodwill visit to the Kalkalan school in Kirkuk, Iraq, May 18, 2004. 25th ID out of Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, is in Kirkuk in support of 1st ID.
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Sgt. 1sts Class Clayborn, 2nd from left, platoon sergeant for 2nd Platoon of B Company, 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division (ID) claps as the students at the Kalkalan School sing their school song during a goodwill visit to the school in Kirkuk, Iraq, May 18, 2004. 25th ID out of Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, is in Kirkuk in support of 1st ID. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Elizabeth Erste) (Released)
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Spc. Williams with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, plays with students at the Kalkalan School in Kirkuk, Iraq, during a goodwill visit, May 18, 2004.
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21st Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division (ID) joke with a group of happy students while distributing school supplies outside of the Kalkalan school in Kirkuk, Iraq, May 18, 2004.
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Airman 1st Class Joseph Lloyd with the 407th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron, Explosive Ordinance Team, provides protection for a returning convoy from Kuwait City atop a HMMWV Tallil Air Base, Iraq, May 14, 2004. DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Christina M. Rumsey, U.S. Air Force.
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1st Lt. Hall, platoon leader of 2nd Platoon of B Company, 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division (ID) listens as Wail Sabah, (2nd from r), an interpreter, translates the words of 1st Lt. Sherzad Meref Ahmed, (l) an investigator as well as the Chief assistant to Capt. Adel Zain Al-Abdean, (2nd from l), Chief of the Iraqi Police Force in Kirkuk, Iraq, during a coordinating meeting in the Chief's office at the Rahem-Awa Police Station, May 18, 2004. 25th ID out of Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, is in Kirkuk in support of 1st ID.
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Sgt. Dustin M. Gould, an explosive ordnance disposal technician with Marine Wing Support Squadron 374, disarms two improvised explosive devices found outside of Habaniyya, Iraq, May 10, 2004. DoD photo by Cpl. Chance W. Haworth, U.S. Marine Corps. (Released)
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Tech. Sgt. Scott McDaniel, a U.S. Air Force Tactical Air Control Party from the 116th Air Support Operations Squadron, Balad Air Base, Iraq, conducts a patrol on May 17, 2004. The area is being cleared of threats so the TACPs can call in an air-strike. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt Aaron Allmon II
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Soldiers with Comanche Company, 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division Stryker Brigade Combat Team conduct a foot march in Mosul, Iraq
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An interpreter with Comanche Company 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division Stryker Brigade Combat Team unlocks a car trunk during a cordon and search in Mosul, Iraq, May 13, 2004. C Company is conducting a cordon and search for insurgents and weapons.
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Soldiers with Comanche Company, 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division Stryker Brigade Combat Team search a room of a house during a search of a cemetery in Mosul, Iraq
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TALLIL AIR BASE, Iraq -- Staff Sgt. Joseph Biberston protects a convoy of contracting personnel returning here from Kuwait City on May 14. Sergeant Biberston is assigned to the 407th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Christina M. Rumsey)
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Smoke rises above the holy cemetery in Najaf, Iraq, Friday, May 21, 2004 as American tanks charge into the center of this holy city and shelled positions held by fighters loyal to a radical cleric who launched an uprising against the U.S.-led coalition last month. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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ID this weapon ..
An Iraqi armed militiaman takes up position in the center of Najaf, Iraq, Friday, May, 21, 2004, after American tanks charged into the center of the city. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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Spanish reporter Laura Caro, right, from Madrid, waves to Spanish soldiers driving an armoured personnel carrier as they enter Kuwait at Abdaly Border Post, Kuwait, Friday, May 21, 2004. The last batch of Spanish soldiers withdrawing from Iraq crossed the border from Safwan, Iraq into Kuwait. (AP Photo/Gustavo Ferrari)
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Jordanians shout anti-U.S. and anti-Israeli slogans during a demonstration to show solidarity with the Palestinians and Iraqis, after Friday prayers outside the al-Hussein mosque in Amman, May 21, 2004. *******/Majed Jaber
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Demonstrators carry Hezbollah and Iraqi flags as they chant "death to America, death to Israel" during a demonstration in Beirut southern suburb, Lebanon, Friday May 21, 2004. Thousands of Shiite Muslim demonstrators wearing white shrouds converged to protest coalition forces action in the Iraqi holy cities of Najaf and Karbala. (AP Photo/Adnan Hajj Ali)
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Iranian anti-riot police protect themselves from bricks thrown by protesters in front of the British embassy Friday May, 21, 2004 in Tehran during anti-US and anti-British protest by some 200 people over the occupation of Iraq. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)
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Iranian anti-riot police run from the scene after petrol bombs were thrown by student protestors during a demonstration over the US-led occupation of Iraq in front of the British Embassy in Tehran, on Wednesday May, 19, 2004. (AP Photo)
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Palestinian students burn an United States flag during an anti-Israeli rally in the southern West Bank city of Hebron's university, Wednsday May 19, 2004. Israeli forces fired tank shells, helicopter missiles and machine-guns Wednesday on a large crowd of Palestinians demonstrating In Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, against the Israeli forces operations in the adjacent refugee camp, killing at least eight people, among them two children, Palestinian witnesses and medical workers said. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
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Bahrain riot police fire teargas to disperse demonstrators in Manama Bahrain Friday May 21, 2004. Police fired tear gas to disperse thousands of demonstrators in Bahrain on Friday but the crowd broke through the police blokade and continued its march to protest fighting between U.S. forces and Iraqis in the holy cities of Karbala and Najaf.(AP Photo/Ali Fraidoon)
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Israeli army tanks sit at an army camp next to the Sufa crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip after returning from operations in the Rafah refugee camp Friday May 21, 2004. Israeli tanks and troops withdrew to the edges of the Tel Sultan and Brazil areas of the camp early Friday, leaving behind dozens of demolished and damaged houses, torn-up roads and flattened cars. Forty Palestinians have been killed during the four-day military offensive which it's aimed, according to the army, to search for arms-smuggling tunnels and militants.(AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Israeli forces demolish greenhouses and farming land belonging to Palestinian farmer Issa Zorob, in the outskirts of the Tel Sultan neighborhood of Rafah's refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip, Friday May 21, 2004. Israeli tanks and troops withdrew to the edges of the Tel Sultan and Brazil areas of the camp early Friday, leaving behind dozens of demolished and damaged houses, torn-up roads and flattened cars but the army said it was merely redeploying forces and that its offensive would continue. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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Backdropped by demolished greenhouses and farming land destroyed by Israeli forces, Palestinians return to the area after being denied entry by the forces to the Tel Sultan neighborhood of Rafah's refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip, Friday May 21, 2004. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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TUNIS, TUNISIA: Tunisian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi (R) receives Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri upon his arrival at Carthage airport in Tunis 21 May 2004, on the eve of the opening of the 16th Arab League Summit. Tunisia is facing the tricky task of re-hosting the Arab summit which earned it brickbats from fellow states in the region when Tunis called off the gathering eight weeks ago, with reform high on the agenda. AFP PHOTO/Ayman TRAWI-HO (Photo credit should read AYMAN TRAWI/AFP/***** Images)
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Tunisian security guards watch a convoy of Arab delegates leave Carthage airport in Tunis 21 May 2004, on the eve of the opening of the 16th Arab League Summit. Tunisia is facing the tricky task of re-hosting the Arab summit which earned it brickbats from fellow states in the region when Tunis called off the gathering eight weeks ago, with reform high on the agenda.
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Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Wash. (May 18, 2004) - Two EA-6B Prowlers assigned to the "Cougars" of Electronic Attack Squadron One Three Nine (VAQ-139) fly in formation around Washington's Mount Rainier during a routine training mission. VAQ-139 is homeported at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Wash. and will soon be deploying to support Operation Iraqi Freedom. The EA-6B's primary mission is to protect fleet surface units and other aircraft by jamming hostile radars and communications. With its jamming capabilities together with AGM-88 High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missiles (HARM), the Prowler a unique national asset that can be deployed from land bases and aircraft carriers. Its ability to monitor the electromagnetic spectrum and actively deny an adversary's use of radar and communications is unmatched by any airborne platform worldwide. At 14,410 feet, Mount Rainier is the most prominent peak in the Cascade Range. It dominates the landscape of a large part of western Washington State. The mountain stands nearly three miles higher than the lowlands to the west and one and one-half miles higher than the adjacent mountains. It is an active volcano that last erupted approximately 150 years ago.
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SEATTLE, UNITED STATES: A photo taken released 21 May 2004 shows the Royal Australian Air Force's new "Wedgetail" Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft during the flight with tests being made on the Wedgetail's systems and structures at Boeing's facility in Seattle, US. Under the Wedgetail project, the RAAF will acquire six Boeing 737 aircraft fitted with advanced Northrop Grumman radars and will enhance Australia's combat capability through leading-edge air and maritime surveillance. AFP PHOTO/ AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCE HANDOUT (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP/***** Images)
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Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (May 18, 2004) - Chilean crew members aboard the training ship "Esmeralda" (BE 43) sing the Chilean Navy Helm during its departure from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (May 18, 2004) - Chilean Sailors assigned to the training ship Esmeralda (BE 43) man the rails as the ship departs from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The Esmeralda is taking part in a 196-day training cruise with a crew of 300 sailors and 90 midshipmen. The midshipmen recently finished a four-year naval academy training program and will finish their fifth year with a cruise around the world aboard Esmeralda. The Esmeralda is home ported in Valparaiso, Chile.
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Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (May 20, 2004) - Commanding Officer Cmdr. James Pitts, center, USS Tucson (SSN 770), and members of this navigation detail man the boat's sail as they depart Pear Harbor, Hawaii. Tucson the 59th of 62 Los Angeles-class nuclear powered attack submarines is deploying to the Western Pacific
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Naval Air Station (NAS) Sigonella, Sicily (Apr. 15, 2004) - Four Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt attack aircraft line up for takeoff aboard NAS Sigonella. NAS Sigonella provides logistics support for Commander, Sixth Fleet and NATO forces in the Mediterranean area. The A-10 Thunderbolt is the first Air Force aircraft specially designed for close air support of ground forces. They are simple, effective and survivable twin-engine jet aircraft that can be used against all ground targets, including tanks and other armored vehicles.
NAVY Videos:
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Commadore Perry's Landing Comemmoration; Shimoda, Japan (mms://wm.nmc.global.speedera.net/wm.nmc.global/040521_1.wmv)
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Seal and SWCC Recruiting
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Eye on the Fleet (mms://wm.nmc.global.speedera.net/wm.nmc.global/nmcn_040522_01.wmv)
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Armed Forces Day (mms://wm.nmc.global.speedera.net/wm.nmc.global/nmcn_040522_03.wmv)
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AH-1 Cobra (mms://wm.nmc.global.speedera.net/wm.nmc.global/nmcn_040522_04.wmv)
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A Marine with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 775, Marine Aircraft Group 16 guides an AH-1W Super Cobra onto the flight line at Camp Taqaddum, Iraq. The activated reserve squadron has been conducting security escort and close air support missions since arriving in Iraq earlier this year
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Bombs explode on target from an AV-8 aircraft, VMA 211, Yuma, Ariz., at Chandy Range, Lopburi, Thailand, May 18, 2004, in support of Cobra Gold 2004. The AV-8 Aircraft are deployed to the 31 Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Iwakuni, Japan, for six months. More than 13,500 U.S. service members will participate in the exercise alongside 5,000 members of the Royal Thai Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force. This will be the first time that Mongolia and the Philippines will participate in a Cobra Gold exercise. Cobra Gold 2004 is a combined-joint exercise designed to improve U.S., Thai, Singaporean, Mongolian and Philippine combat readiness, combined-joint interoperability, enhance security relationships and demonstrate U.S. resolve to support the security and humanitarian interests of friends and allies in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Turkish Navy underwater defence and assault commandos jump into the Bosphorus from a helicopter during an exercise in Istanbul, May 21, 2004. Military sources deny any link between the exercise and the security preparations for the upcoming NATO summit in Istanbul next month. *******/Fatih Saribas
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Turkish Navy underwater defense and assault commandos from the Rescue and Underwater Command approach targets on a dinghy, and fire live ammunition, during a routine exercise in the north of the Bosphorus in Istanbul, May 21, 2004. Though the military sources denied any link between the exercise and the security preparations for the upcoming NATO summit in Istanbul next month. *******/Fatih Saribas
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(t to b) Lithuanian Ensign Sigitas Simkus and Belgian Sgt. 1st Class Anne-Claude Bonbled practice aiming the German MG-3 machine gun during the foreign weapons training at Combined Endeavor, May 14, 2004. Combined Endeavor 2004, May 6-19, is a U.S. European Command-sponsored exercise, designed to identify and document command, control, communications, and computer (C4) interoperability between NATO and Partnership for Peace nations. Representatives from 41 countries and NATO are taking part in the exercise, Lager Aulenbach, Germany. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Heather Forrest) (Released)
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Two CH-146 Griffon helicopters from 430 tactical Helicopter Squadron, Valcartier, Quebec begin to lift off from the helicopter pad at the National Command Element Camp in Port au Prince, Haiti. Operation Halo is Canada's contribution to the United Nations Multinational Interim Force, the Command is called Task Force Haiti. The Canadian Forces has deployed about 450 personnel and six CH-146 Griffon helicopters to Haiti. Their mission is to assist in bringing peace and stability to Haiti in anticipation of a follow-on United Nations stabilization force.
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Zrfanullah, 11, flies a Canadian flag patterned kite, while a soldier from the 3rd Battalion, Royal 22nd Regiment Battalion Group (3 R22ndR Bn Gp) looks on from his LAV III infantry fighting vehicle near the village of Namuiaz outside Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Corporal Yan Lacroix (left) and Master Corporal Dany Dudemaine (right), members of Combat Support Company, 3rd Battalion Royal 22nd Regiment Battalion Group (3 R22eR Bn Gp), hand out toys to young children in a small village near the capital city of Kabul, Afghanistan
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Master Corporal Dany Dudemaine (foreground), a member of Combat Support Company, 3rd Battalion Royal 22nd Regiment Battalion Group (3 R22eR Bn Gp), hands out toys to three young girls in a small village near the capital city of Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Corporal Daniel Pilon, a member of Signals Platoon, 3rd Battalion Royal 22nd Regiment Battalion Group (3 R22eR Bn Gp), moves up a mountain side West of Kabul, in support of ongoing operations West of Kabul, Afghanistan
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Staff Sgt. Joshua Potter, a UH-1N Huey crew chief with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 775, Marine Aircraft Group 16, and a native of Placerville, Calif., reads a book inside his Huey while between missions April 28, 2004 at Camp Taqaddum, Iraq. The activated reserve squadron has been conducting security escort and close air support missions since arriving in Iraq earlier this year.
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The unit patch worn by activated reserve unit Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 775, Marine Aircraft Group 16 depicts their nickname “the Coyotes.” The Marines, currently based out of Camp Taqaddum, Iraq, has been conducting security escort and close air support missions since arriving in Iraq earlier this year.
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Staff Sgt. Jason Wohlberg, a crew chief with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 775, Marine Aircraft Group 16, and a native of Stroudsburg, Pa., mans a GAU-17 machine gun during a convoy escort mission near Fallujah, Iraq, inside a UH-1N Huey helicopter April 30, 2004. The activated reserve squadron has been conducting security escort and close air support missions since arriving in Iraq earlier this year
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Sgt. Jason Calvert, a crew chief with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 775, Marine Aircraft Group 16, a native of Stroudsburg, Pa., mans a .50 caliber heavy-machine gun during a convoy escort mission near Fallujah, Iraq, inside a UH-1N Huey helicopter April 30, 2004. The activated reserve squadron has been conducting security escort and close air support missions since arriving in Iraq earlier this year.
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Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, right, shakes hands with an unidentified soldier at the Palmerola Base Air, in Comayagua, 80 km north from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Friday, May 21, 2004. The Honduran soldiers arrived home to Honduras from active duty in Iraq . (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)
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Ladislao Caceres, 66, father of Cesar Caceres, 22, cries with his son after his arrival at the Palmerola air base, in Comayagua, 80 km (50 miles) north of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Friday, May 21, 2004. The contingent of 369 soldier arrived from Iraq after being there since last February on a humanitarian mission. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)
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Za ucasti prezidenta republiky Vaclava Klause, mistopredsedy vlady Stanislava Grosse, ministra obrany Miroslava Kostelky a dalsich politiku, vojaku, zastupcu mistnich samosprav a spolecenskych organizaci byly v sobotu 8. kvetna 2004 v 9.00 hodin v Praze na Vitkove zahajeny vzpominkove akce k oslavam Dne osvobozeni.
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Glad I never saw that scene during my time there ..
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Soon to come: Bahna 2004
Den pozemniho vojska – Bahna 2004 bude zahajen v 10.00 hodin. Navstevnici budou moci shlednout defile soucasne a historicke vojenske techniky a ukazky historickych udalosti v podani vojenskych historickych klubu. V dalsi casti se predstavi ukazkami vycviku jednotlive druhy vojsk Armady Ceske republiky. Prezentovat se svou technikou budou take armady Francie, Polska, Rakouska, SRN a USA.
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General Jones und General Ertl: Wien, 17. Mai 2004 - US-General James L. Jones, Oberbefehlshaber der NATO/Europa (SACEUR) und zugleich Oberkommandierender der US Streitkräfte in Europa hat am Montag, den 17. Mai 2004, den Chef des Generalstabes General Roland Ertl zu einem Arbeitsgespräch in Wien besucht.
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Generalmajor Paul Kritsch gratuliert dem Judo Europameister: Salzburg, 19. Mai 2004 - Ein Erfolg, der sich abzeichnete: Korporal Ludwig Paischer holte sich am Freitag, den 14. Mai, in Bukarest den Judo-Europameistertitel in der Klasse bis 60 Kilogramm. Paischer ist Angehöriger des Heeressport-Leistungszentrums Rif bei Hallein und Führender in der Europa-Rangliste. Nach drei grandiosen Vorrundenerfolgen und einem klaren Sieg im Halbfinale hieß der Finalgegner Revazi Zidridis aus Griechenland. Eine taktische Meisterleistung gegen den bisher unbekannten Gegner – Paischer stellte während des Finales seine Technik um – bescherte ihm den verdienten Titel. Damit avancierte Paischer zu einem der Favoriten seiner Klasse für die Olympischen Sommerspiele 2004 in Athen.
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Truppenübungsplatz Seetaler Alpe, 19. Mai 2004 - Bereits zum zwölften Mal besuchten Schülerinnen und Schüler des BORG Monsbergergasse und des BG Seebachergasse aus Graz den Truppenübungsplatz Seetaler Alpe. In der Zeit von 17. bis 19. Mai verschafften sich knapp 50 Jugendliche der 10. und 11. Schulstufe an Ort und Stelle ein realistisches Bild vom Soldatenalltag.
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1RHF soldiers zero the sights of their Saxons' machine-guns
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D Day (http://www.raf.mod.uk/falklands/dday1.html) - The British Task Force lands at San Carlos - 21st May 1982
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Armed Spanish Civil Guards guard the arrival of guests at Madrid's Barajas airport Friday May 21, 2004. Security in Madrid has been tightened for the royal wedding between Spanish Crown Prince Felipe and Letizia Ortiz on May 22. (AP Photo/Denis Doyle)
More information on the Spanish Royal Wedding in MARINO's (http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15415) thread ..
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Police officers escort Javier Herrera Parrado to a police station in Bogota, Friday, May 21, 2004. Parrado was arrested when police, acting on a tip, intercepted the truck he was driving carrying a ton of explosives that the rebels planned to use to blow up a highway tunnel south of Bogota. A wave of attacks carried out by the rebel group, which marks the 40th anniversary of its founding next week has killed four people and downed electrical towers. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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Police officers inspect explosives seized from rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, at a police station in Bogota, Friday, May 21, 2004. Police, acting on a tip, intercepted a truck carrying a ton of explosives that the rebels planned to use to blow up a highway tunnel south of Bogota. A wave of attacks carried out by the rebel group, which marks the 40th anniversary of its founding next week has killed four people and downed electrical towers. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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SHENZHEN, CHINA: CHINA OUT - re cropped version Chinese police dodge a barrage of bricks and stones hurl at them by some 400 disgruntled farmers, who took one official hostage and attacked law enforcement workers seeking to demolish their makeshift homes in southern China's Shenzhen city 20 May 2004. Some 21 law enforcement workers were injured after they were showered with bricks and attacked with spades in the riot Wednesday that has so far resulted in at least two arrests. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP/***** Images)
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SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA: German Army Lieutenant-General Friedrich Riechmann (R) and Lieutenant-General Cecchi of Italian Army (L) inspect troops during a ceremony of dissolution of the German-Italian battle group of NATO's Stabilisation Force (SFOR), held at the German-Italian battle group headquarters in Rajlovac, near Sarajevo 21 May 2004. The battle group was dissolved due to the force reduction of the SFOR following a decision by the Italian government to pull out from operations in Bosnia.
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SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA: Italian soldiers, members of the NATO peacekeeping mission in Bosnia and Hercegovina parade in their vehicles during a ceremony of dissolution of the German-Italian battle group of NATO's Stabilisation Force (SFOR), held at the German-Italian battle group headquarters in Rajlovac, near Sarajevo 21 May 2004.
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Greek navy special forces soldiers take part in an anti-terrorism training exercise for the Olympic Games, aboard a frigate in the Aegean Sea, off the Greek coast near Athens, Thursday, May 20, 2004. (AP Photo/Greek Navy, ho)
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Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, center, is flanked by bodyguards as he leaves the Imam Ali Shrine after Friday prayers in Kufa , Iraq, Friday, May 21, 2004. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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BASRA, IRAQ: Shiekh Abdel Sattar al-Bahadli, raises a machinegun while preaching violence during his sermon at Friday noon prayers in the Iraqi southern city of Basra, 21 May 2004. Bahadli, a follower of wanted cleric Moqtada Sadr, urged people for Jihad (Holy War) against US and British forces across Iraq. One person was killed and 13 wounded in heavy clashes between US-led coalition troops and the militia of Sadr in the holy city of Najaf, hospital sources said.
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Someday we'll see Argyll and the Jocks in this picture ...
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Sgt. 1sts Class Clayborn, 2nd from left, platoon sergeant for 2nd Platoon of B Company, 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division (ID) hands an eager student a workbook during a goodwill visit to the Kalkalan school in Kirkuk, Iraq, May 18, 2004. 25th ID out of Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, is in Kirkuk in support of 1st ID.
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Sgt. 1sts Class Clayborn, 2nd from left, platoon sergeant for 2nd Platoon of B Company, 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division (ID) claps as the students at the Kalkalan School sing their school song during a goodwill visit to the school in Kirkuk, Iraq, May 18, 2004. 25th ID out of Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, is in Kirkuk in support of 1st ID. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Elizabeth Erste) (Released)
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Spc. Williams with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, plays with students at the Kalkalan School in Kirkuk, Iraq, during a goodwill visit, May 18, 2004.
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21st Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division (ID) joke with a group of happy students while distributing school supplies outside of the Kalkalan school in Kirkuk, Iraq, May 18, 2004.
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Airman 1st Class Joseph Lloyd with the 407th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron, Explosive Ordinance Team, provides protection for a returning convoy from Kuwait City atop a HMMWV Tallil Air Base, Iraq, May 14, 2004. DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Christina M. Rumsey, U.S. Air Force.
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1st Lt. Hall, platoon leader of 2nd Platoon of B Company, 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division (ID) listens as Wail Sabah, (2nd from r), an interpreter, translates the words of 1st Lt. Sherzad Meref Ahmed, (l) an investigator as well as the Chief assistant to Capt. Adel Zain Al-Abdean, (2nd from l), Chief of the Iraqi Police Force in Kirkuk, Iraq, during a coordinating meeting in the Chief's office at the Rahem-Awa Police Station, May 18, 2004. 25th ID out of Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, is in Kirkuk in support of 1st ID.
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Sgt. Dustin M. Gould, an explosive ordnance disposal technician with Marine Wing Support Squadron 374, disarms two improvised explosive devices found outside of Habaniyya, Iraq, May 10, 2004. DoD photo by Cpl. Chance W. Haworth, U.S. Marine Corps. (Released)
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Tech. Sgt. Scott McDaniel, a U.S. Air Force Tactical Air Control Party from the 116th Air Support Operations Squadron, Balad Air Base, Iraq, conducts a patrol on May 17, 2004. The area is being cleared of threats so the TACPs can call in an air-strike. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt Aaron Allmon II
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Soldiers with Comanche Company, 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division Stryker Brigade Combat Team conduct a foot march in Mosul, Iraq
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An interpreter with Comanche Company 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division Stryker Brigade Combat Team unlocks a car trunk during a cordon and search in Mosul, Iraq, May 13, 2004. C Company is conducting a cordon and search for insurgents and weapons.
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Soldiers with Comanche Company, 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division Stryker Brigade Combat Team search a room of a house during a search of a cemetery in Mosul, Iraq
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TALLIL AIR BASE, Iraq -- Staff Sgt. Joseph Biberston protects a convoy of contracting personnel returning here from Kuwait City on May 14. Sergeant Biberston is assigned to the 407th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Christina M. Rumsey)
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Smoke rises above the holy cemetery in Najaf, Iraq, Friday, May 21, 2004 as American tanks charge into the center of this holy city and shelled positions held by fighters loyal to a radical cleric who launched an uprising against the U.S.-led coalition last month. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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ID this weapon ..
An Iraqi armed militiaman takes up position in the center of Najaf, Iraq, Friday, May, 21, 2004, after American tanks charged into the center of the city. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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Spanish reporter Laura Caro, right, from Madrid, waves to Spanish soldiers driving an armoured personnel carrier as they enter Kuwait at Abdaly Border Post, Kuwait, Friday, May 21, 2004. The last batch of Spanish soldiers withdrawing from Iraq crossed the border from Safwan, Iraq into Kuwait. (AP Photo/Gustavo Ferrari)
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Jordanians shout anti-U.S. and anti-Israeli slogans during a demonstration to show solidarity with the Palestinians and Iraqis, after Friday prayers outside the al-Hussein mosque in Amman, May 21, 2004. *******/Majed Jaber
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Demonstrators carry Hezbollah and Iraqi flags as they chant "death to America, death to Israel" during a demonstration in Beirut southern suburb, Lebanon, Friday May 21, 2004. Thousands of Shiite Muslim demonstrators wearing white shrouds converged to protest coalition forces action in the Iraqi holy cities of Najaf and Karbala. (AP Photo/Adnan Hajj Ali)
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Iranian anti-riot police protect themselves from bricks thrown by protesters in front of the British embassy Friday May, 21, 2004 in Tehran during anti-US and anti-British protest by some 200 people over the occupation of Iraq. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)
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Iranian anti-riot police run from the scene after petrol bombs were thrown by student protestors during a demonstration over the US-led occupation of Iraq in front of the British Embassy in Tehran, on Wednesday May, 19, 2004. (AP Photo)
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Palestinian students burn an United States flag during an anti-Israeli rally in the southern West Bank city of Hebron's university, Wednsday May 19, 2004. Israeli forces fired tank shells, helicopter missiles and machine-guns Wednesday on a large crowd of Palestinians demonstrating In Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, against the Israeli forces operations in the adjacent refugee camp, killing at least eight people, among them two children, Palestinian witnesses and medical workers said. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
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Bahrain riot police fire teargas to disperse demonstrators in Manama Bahrain Friday May 21, 2004. Police fired tear gas to disperse thousands of demonstrators in Bahrain on Friday but the crowd broke through the police blokade and continued its march to protest fighting between U.S. forces and Iraqis in the holy cities of Karbala and Najaf.(AP Photo/Ali Fraidoon)
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Israeli army tanks sit at an army camp next to the Sufa crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip after returning from operations in the Rafah refugee camp Friday May 21, 2004. Israeli tanks and troops withdrew to the edges of the Tel Sultan and Brazil areas of the camp early Friday, leaving behind dozens of demolished and damaged houses, torn-up roads and flattened cars. Forty Palestinians have been killed during the four-day military offensive which it's aimed, according to the army, to search for arms-smuggling tunnels and militants.(AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Israeli forces demolish greenhouses and farming land belonging to Palestinian farmer Issa Zorob, in the outskirts of the Tel Sultan neighborhood of Rafah's refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip, Friday May 21, 2004. Israeli tanks and troops withdrew to the edges of the Tel Sultan and Brazil areas of the camp early Friday, leaving behind dozens of demolished and damaged houses, torn-up roads and flattened cars but the army said it was merely redeploying forces and that its offensive would continue. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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Backdropped by demolished greenhouses and farming land destroyed by Israeli forces, Palestinians return to the area after being denied entry by the forces to the Tel Sultan neighborhood of Rafah's refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip, Friday May 21, 2004. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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TUNIS, TUNISIA: Tunisian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi (R) receives Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri upon his arrival at Carthage airport in Tunis 21 May 2004, on the eve of the opening of the 16th Arab League Summit. Tunisia is facing the tricky task of re-hosting the Arab summit which earned it brickbats from fellow states in the region when Tunis called off the gathering eight weeks ago, with reform high on the agenda. AFP PHOTO/Ayman TRAWI-HO (Photo credit should read AYMAN TRAWI/AFP/***** Images)
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Tunisian security guards watch a convoy of Arab delegates leave Carthage airport in Tunis 21 May 2004, on the eve of the opening of the 16th Arab League Summit. Tunisia is facing the tricky task of re-hosting the Arab summit which earned it brickbats from fellow states in the region when Tunis called off the gathering eight weeks ago, with reform high on the agenda.
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Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Wash. (May 18, 2004) - Two EA-6B Prowlers assigned to the "Cougars" of Electronic Attack Squadron One Three Nine (VAQ-139) fly in formation around Washington's Mount Rainier during a routine training mission. VAQ-139 is homeported at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Wash. and will soon be deploying to support Operation Iraqi Freedom. The EA-6B's primary mission is to protect fleet surface units and other aircraft by jamming hostile radars and communications. With its jamming capabilities together with AGM-88 High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missiles (HARM), the Prowler a unique national asset that can be deployed from land bases and aircraft carriers. Its ability to monitor the electromagnetic spectrum and actively deny an adversary's use of radar and communications is unmatched by any airborne platform worldwide. At 14,410 feet, Mount Rainier is the most prominent peak in the Cascade Range. It dominates the landscape of a large part of western Washington State. The mountain stands nearly three miles higher than the lowlands to the west and one and one-half miles higher than the adjacent mountains. It is an active volcano that last erupted approximately 150 years ago.
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SEATTLE, UNITED STATES: A photo taken released 21 May 2004 shows the Royal Australian Air Force's new "Wedgetail" Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft during the flight with tests being made on the Wedgetail's systems and structures at Boeing's facility in Seattle, US. Under the Wedgetail project, the RAAF will acquire six Boeing 737 aircraft fitted with advanced Northrop Grumman radars and will enhance Australia's combat capability through leading-edge air and maritime surveillance. AFP PHOTO/ AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCE HANDOUT (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP/***** Images)
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Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (May 18, 2004) - Chilean crew members aboard the training ship "Esmeralda" (BE 43) sing the Chilean Navy Helm during its departure from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (May 18, 2004) - Chilean Sailors assigned to the training ship Esmeralda (BE 43) man the rails as the ship departs from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The Esmeralda is taking part in a 196-day training cruise with a crew of 300 sailors and 90 midshipmen. The midshipmen recently finished a four-year naval academy training program and will finish their fifth year with a cruise around the world aboard Esmeralda. The Esmeralda is home ported in Valparaiso, Chile.
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Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (May 20, 2004) - Commanding Officer Cmdr. James Pitts, center, USS Tucson (SSN 770), and members of this navigation detail man the boat's sail as they depart Pear Harbor, Hawaii. Tucson the 59th of 62 Los Angeles-class nuclear powered attack submarines is deploying to the Western Pacific
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Naval Air Station (NAS) Sigonella, Sicily (Apr. 15, 2004) - Four Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt attack aircraft line up for takeoff aboard NAS Sigonella. NAS Sigonella provides logistics support for Commander, Sixth Fleet and NATO forces in the Mediterranean area. The A-10 Thunderbolt is the first Air Force aircraft specially designed for close air support of ground forces. They are simple, effective and survivable twin-engine jet aircraft that can be used against all ground targets, including tanks and other armored vehicles.
NAVY Videos:
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Commadore Perry's Landing Comemmoration; Shimoda, Japan (mms://wm.nmc.global.speedera.net/wm.nmc.global/040521_1.wmv)
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Seal and SWCC Recruiting
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Eye on the Fleet (mms://wm.nmc.global.speedera.net/wm.nmc.global/nmcn_040522_01.wmv)
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Armed Forces Day (mms://wm.nmc.global.speedera.net/wm.nmc.global/nmcn_040522_03.wmv)
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AH-1 Cobra (mms://wm.nmc.global.speedera.net/wm.nmc.global/nmcn_040522_04.wmv)
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A Marine with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 775, Marine Aircraft Group 16 guides an AH-1W Super Cobra onto the flight line at Camp Taqaddum, Iraq. The activated reserve squadron has been conducting security escort and close air support missions since arriving in Iraq earlier this year
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Bombs explode on target from an AV-8 aircraft, VMA 211, Yuma, Ariz., at Chandy Range, Lopburi, Thailand, May 18, 2004, in support of Cobra Gold 2004. The AV-8 Aircraft are deployed to the 31 Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Iwakuni, Japan, for six months. More than 13,500 U.S. service members will participate in the exercise alongside 5,000 members of the Royal Thai Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force. This will be the first time that Mongolia and the Philippines will participate in a Cobra Gold exercise. Cobra Gold 2004 is a combined-joint exercise designed to improve U.S., Thai, Singaporean, Mongolian and Philippine combat readiness, combined-joint interoperability, enhance security relationships and demonstrate U.S. resolve to support the security and humanitarian interests of friends and allies in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Turkish Navy underwater defence and assault commandos jump into the Bosphorus from a helicopter during an exercise in Istanbul, May 21, 2004. Military sources deny any link between the exercise and the security preparations for the upcoming NATO summit in Istanbul next month. *******/Fatih Saribas
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Turkish Navy underwater defense and assault commandos from the Rescue and Underwater Command approach targets on a dinghy, and fire live ammunition, during a routine exercise in the north of the Bosphorus in Istanbul, May 21, 2004. Though the military sources denied any link between the exercise and the security preparations for the upcoming NATO summit in Istanbul next month. *******/Fatih Saribas
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(t to b) Lithuanian Ensign Sigitas Simkus and Belgian Sgt. 1st Class Anne-Claude Bonbled practice aiming the German MG-3 machine gun during the foreign weapons training at Combined Endeavor, May 14, 2004. Combined Endeavor 2004, May 6-19, is a U.S. European Command-sponsored exercise, designed to identify and document command, control, communications, and computer (C4) interoperability between NATO and Partnership for Peace nations. Representatives from 41 countries and NATO are taking part in the exercise, Lager Aulenbach, Germany. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Heather Forrest) (Released)
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Two CH-146 Griffon helicopters from 430 tactical Helicopter Squadron, Valcartier, Quebec begin to lift off from the helicopter pad at the National Command Element Camp in Port au Prince, Haiti. Operation Halo is Canada's contribution to the United Nations Multinational Interim Force, the Command is called Task Force Haiti. The Canadian Forces has deployed about 450 personnel and six CH-146 Griffon helicopters to Haiti. Their mission is to assist in bringing peace and stability to Haiti in anticipation of a follow-on United Nations stabilization force.
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Zrfanullah, 11, flies a Canadian flag patterned kite, while a soldier from the 3rd Battalion, Royal 22nd Regiment Battalion Group (3 R22ndR Bn Gp) looks on from his LAV III infantry fighting vehicle near the village of Namuiaz outside Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Corporal Yan Lacroix (left) and Master Corporal Dany Dudemaine (right), members of Combat Support Company, 3rd Battalion Royal 22nd Regiment Battalion Group (3 R22eR Bn Gp), hand out toys to young children in a small village near the capital city of Kabul, Afghanistan
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Master Corporal Dany Dudemaine (foreground), a member of Combat Support Company, 3rd Battalion Royal 22nd Regiment Battalion Group (3 R22eR Bn Gp), hands out toys to three young girls in a small village near the capital city of Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Corporal Daniel Pilon, a member of Signals Platoon, 3rd Battalion Royal 22nd Regiment Battalion Group (3 R22eR Bn Gp), moves up a mountain side West of Kabul, in support of ongoing operations West of Kabul, Afghanistan
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Staff Sgt. Joshua Potter, a UH-1N Huey crew chief with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 775, Marine Aircraft Group 16, and a native of Placerville, Calif., reads a book inside his Huey while between missions April 28, 2004 at Camp Taqaddum, Iraq. The activated reserve squadron has been conducting security escort and close air support missions since arriving in Iraq earlier this year.
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The unit patch worn by activated reserve unit Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 775, Marine Aircraft Group 16 depicts their nickname “the Coyotes.” The Marines, currently based out of Camp Taqaddum, Iraq, has been conducting security escort and close air support missions since arriving in Iraq earlier this year.
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Staff Sgt. Jason Wohlberg, a crew chief with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 775, Marine Aircraft Group 16, and a native of Stroudsburg, Pa., mans a GAU-17 machine gun during a convoy escort mission near Fallujah, Iraq, inside a UH-1N Huey helicopter April 30, 2004. The activated reserve squadron has been conducting security escort and close air support missions since arriving in Iraq earlier this year
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Sgt. Jason Calvert, a crew chief with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 775, Marine Aircraft Group 16, a native of Stroudsburg, Pa., mans a .50 caliber heavy-machine gun during a convoy escort mission near Fallujah, Iraq, inside a UH-1N Huey helicopter April 30, 2004. The activated reserve squadron has been conducting security escort and close air support missions since arriving in Iraq earlier this year.
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Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, right, shakes hands with an unidentified soldier at the Palmerola Base Air, in Comayagua, 80 km north from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Friday, May 21, 2004. The Honduran soldiers arrived home to Honduras from active duty in Iraq . (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)
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Ladislao Caceres, 66, father of Cesar Caceres, 22, cries with his son after his arrival at the Palmerola air base, in Comayagua, 80 km (50 miles) north of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Friday, May 21, 2004. The contingent of 369 soldier arrived from Iraq after being there since last February on a humanitarian mission. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)
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Za ucasti prezidenta republiky Vaclava Klause, mistopredsedy vlady Stanislava Grosse, ministra obrany Miroslava Kostelky a dalsich politiku, vojaku, zastupcu mistnich samosprav a spolecenskych organizaci byly v sobotu 8. kvetna 2004 v 9.00 hodin v Praze na Vitkove zahajeny vzpominkove akce k oslavam Dne osvobozeni.
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Glad I never saw that scene during my time there ..
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Soon to come: Bahna 2004
Den pozemniho vojska – Bahna 2004 bude zahajen v 10.00 hodin. Navstevnici budou moci shlednout defile soucasne a historicke vojenske techniky a ukazky historickych udalosti v podani vojenskych historickych klubu. V dalsi casti se predstavi ukazkami vycviku jednotlive druhy vojsk Armady Ceske republiky. Prezentovat se svou technikou budou take armady Francie, Polska, Rakouska, SRN a USA.
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General Jones und General Ertl: Wien, 17. Mai 2004 - US-General James L. Jones, Oberbefehlshaber der NATO/Europa (SACEUR) und zugleich Oberkommandierender der US Streitkräfte in Europa hat am Montag, den 17. Mai 2004, den Chef des Generalstabes General Roland Ertl zu einem Arbeitsgespräch in Wien besucht.
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Generalmajor Paul Kritsch gratuliert dem Judo Europameister: Salzburg, 19. Mai 2004 - Ein Erfolg, der sich abzeichnete: Korporal Ludwig Paischer holte sich am Freitag, den 14. Mai, in Bukarest den Judo-Europameistertitel in der Klasse bis 60 Kilogramm. Paischer ist Angehöriger des Heeressport-Leistungszentrums Rif bei Hallein und Führender in der Europa-Rangliste. Nach drei grandiosen Vorrundenerfolgen und einem klaren Sieg im Halbfinale hieß der Finalgegner Revazi Zidridis aus Griechenland. Eine taktische Meisterleistung gegen den bisher unbekannten Gegner – Paischer stellte während des Finales seine Technik um – bescherte ihm den verdienten Titel. Damit avancierte Paischer zu einem der Favoriten seiner Klasse für die Olympischen Sommerspiele 2004 in Athen.
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Truppenübungsplatz Seetaler Alpe, 19. Mai 2004 - Bereits zum zwölften Mal besuchten Schülerinnen und Schüler des BORG Monsbergergasse und des BG Seebachergasse aus Graz den Truppenübungsplatz Seetaler Alpe. In der Zeit von 17. bis 19. Mai verschafften sich knapp 50 Jugendliche der 10. und 11. Schulstufe an Ort und Stelle ein realistisches Bild vom Soldatenalltag.
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1RHF soldiers zero the sights of their Saxons' machine-guns
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D Day (http://www.raf.mod.uk/falklands/dday1.html) - The British Task Force lands at San Carlos - 21st May 1982