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Ambush training.
CONTINGENCY OPERATING SITE MAREZ, Iraq – Iraqi soldiers assigned to 1st Battalion, 10th Brigade, 3rd Iraqi Army Division, conduct ambush training at Ghuzlani Warrior Training Center, June 9, 2011. Iraqi soldiers trained alongside U.S. Soldiers assigned to Troop C, 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, in preparation for Operation Iron Lion, a series of exercises demonstrating capabilities of Iraqi Security Forces.
(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Angel Turner, 4th AAB PAO, 1st Cav. Div., USD-N)
Airmen assigned to the 621st Contingency Response Wing, process through a personnel deployment function (PDF) line during an operational readiness inspection at Travis AFB, Feb. 1, 2016. The base is currently conducting Crisis Look 16-01, to evaluate rapid mobile global readiness. The PDF line ensured Airmen were medically, legally and financially ready to deploy. Personnel from the 60th Logistics Readiness Squadron, 60th Force Support Squadron and chapel staff were on hand to address deployment-related concerns. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Heide Couch/Released)
A member of the U.S. Coast Guard guides a HWMMV into position behind a C-130 at Barbers Point Naval Air Station, April 11, 2012. The aircraft belongs to the Coast Guard, the vehicle to the U.S. Army Pacific Contingency Command Post, Humanitarian Assistance Survey Team who are at Barbers Point taking part in a load exercise. The USARPAC CCP HAST is a rapidly deployable team of from 6-14 soldiers, with specific skill sets, who can be on the ground anywhere in the Pacific within 24 hours to determine how the U.S. military can best provide relief support after a disaster.
SFC Eric Woody sits behind the wheel of an ATV on Palm Circle as part of the Contingency Command Post's operational display on 1 Aug 2012. This ATV is one of the unique pieces of equipment that the Humanitarian Assitance/Survey Teams can deploy with. (U.S. Army photo by Maj. Edward Hooks)
Covering the event.
CONTINGENCY OPERATING SITE MAREZ, Iraq – Iraqi and western media outlets position themselves to capture a demonstration by Iraqi Special Operations Forces during Operation Iron Lion, an exhibition of Iraqi Security Forces’ combat effectiveness and cooperative abilities at Ghuzlani Warrior Training Center in Ninewa province, Iraq, June 27, 2011.
(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Angel Turner, 4th AAB PAO, 1st Cav. Div., USD – N)
Multi-meter supervisor.CONTINGENCY OPERATING SITE, Marez – Sgt. 1st Class Charles Vanzandt, noncommissioned officer in charge of the logistical transition assistance team, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 27th Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, U.S. Division-North supervises soldiers of the 3rd Iraqi Army Division during hands-on multi-meter training at Al Kisik, Iraq, Oct. 25, 2010. The three-day training course focused on starting and charging the tactical vehicle systems. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Antwain Williams, HHC, 27th BSB, 4th AAB, 1st Cav. Div.)
Airmen from the 60th Medical Group and Contingency Response Wing, Travis Air Force Base, Ca., apply moulage to military and civilian volunteers during an Air Force Expeditionary Medical Support Health Response Team exercise simulating an urban earthquake in the SOUTHCOM AOR on Travis AFB, 8 Feb. 2011. The mission of an EMEDS team, which includes physicians, nurses, and a variety of medical technicians, is to rapidly deploy and provide forward stabilization, primary care, and dental services to support a population-at-risk of 3,000 to 5,000 people. Released (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dennis J. Henry Jr.)
U.S. Marines from Alert Contingency Platoon 6, 1st Fleet Anti-terrorism, Norfolk, Va., stand guard outside the U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in support of Operation Unified Response. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Richard Andrade)
Staff Sgt. Ryan Sickle and Senior Airman Patrick Eisenhard (l to r), both assigned to the 570th Global Mobility Squadron, share a quiet moment prior to marshalling in an arriving U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules at Mackall Army Airfield, N.C., Feb. 11, 2011, during the Joint Operational Access Exercise. Airmen from the 615th Contingency Response Wing, Travis AFB, Calif., partnered with Soldiers from the 689th Rapid Port Opening Element, Ft. Eustis, V.A., to sharpen their skills in airfield operations, aircraft on and off-loads, airbase defense, and establishing a distribution node of cargo and supplies. JOAX is designed to enhance cohesiveness between the Air Force and Army by executing large-scale heavy cargo and troop movements.(U.S. Air Force Photo/MSgt. Stan Parker)(RELEASED)
Building an antenna.
CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE SPEICHER, Iraq – Specialist Joseph Nolen a node network systems operator assigned to the Joint Node Network section, Company C, Division Special Troops Battalion, 4th Infantry Division, assembles an AN30 telecommunications antenna at Contingency Operating Base Speicher, Iraq, July 20, 2011. Nolen, who hails from Middletown, Pa., and other Soldiers assigned to the JNN section maintain and operate communication equipment used to keep leaders connected to Soldiers in the field.
(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Andrew Ingram, USD – N PAO)
Final words.
CONTINGENCY OPERATING SITE MAREZ, Iraq – Soldiers assigned to 6th Squadron, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, offer final remarks after being awarded Bronze Star Medals during a ceremony at Contingency Operating Site Marez, June 5, 2011. Colonel Brian Winski, commander, 4th AAB, awarded the Soldiers for their hard work during their deployment in support of Operation New Dawn.
(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Angel Turner, 4th AAB PAO, 1st Cav. Div., USD-N)
Preflight inspections.
CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE SPEICHER, Iraq – Sergeant Steven Guinn, a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter crew chief, Company B, 1st Battalion, 185th Attack Helicopter Regiment, 40th Combat Aviation Brigade, Arkansas National Guard, performs pre-flight checks on his Black Hawk helicopter at Contingency Operating Base Speicher, Iraq, July 29, 2011.
(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Andrew Ingram, USD – N PAO)
The Mystery of the Effervescent Contingencies
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Creative Photograph Manipulation
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Photo Taken Nov. 2010
Manipulation Jan. 2011
Focused on the mission.
CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE SPEICHER, Iraq – Sergeant Cynthia Philip, training noncommissioned officer, Company E, 1st Squadron, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, updates records for a Company E Soldier at Contingency Operating Base Speicher, Iraq, July 11, 2011. Philip, who hails from Albuquerque, N.M., overhauled the company’s filing and administration systems to better facilitate Soldiers’ needs when she assumed her new position.
(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Andrew Ingram, USD – N PAO)
A contingency from the Royal Thai Air Force recently visited Travis Air Force Base to see firsthand how the USAF and David Grand Medical Center implements military medical training and manages health care and preventative medicine programs. They also had the opportunity to explore other facets of Travis by touring the Heritage Center, traffic control tower and a static aircraft display. Thailand and the U.S. are committed to strengthening the long-standing relationship and paving the way for continued cooperation between the two air powers. (Released - U.S. Air Force Photograph/Heide Couch)
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Paratroopers of the 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, take cover behind a building during a wire-obstacle breach explosion on Fort Bragg, N.C., Sept. 9. The White Falcons, currently part of the Global Response Force, conducted a two-week intensive training cycle designed to reinforce combat skills for the nation’s airborne assault-capable, contingency unit.
(U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Jason Hull, 2/82 PAO NCOIC)
Col. David Mounkes (left), commander of the 123rd Contingency Response Group, presents Chief Master Sgt. Scott A. Wanner, the group’s chief enlisted manager, with a certificate of retirement during a ceremony held at the Kentucky Air National Guard Base in Louisville, Ky., April 26, 2015. Wanner served in the active-duty Air Force, Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard for more than 30 years. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Vicky Spesard)
A contingency of Northwestern State University students visit Universitaria Tecnologico Comfenalco and Universidad Libre in Cartagena, Colombia as part of their capstone leadership program.
A contingency from the Royal Thai Air Force recently visited Travis Air Force Base to see firsthand how the USAF and David Grand Medical Center implements military medical training and manages health care and preventative medicine programs. They also had the opportunity to explore other facets of Travis by touring the Heritage Center, traffic control tower and a static aircraft display. Thailand and the U.S. are committed to strengthening the long-standing relationship and paving the way for continued cooperation between the two air powers. (Released - U.S. Air Force Photograph/Heide Couch)
Members of the 60th, 349th Air Mobility and 621st Contingency Response Wings participate in (Crisis Look 16-01) Position the Force Deployment. The exercise will test Team Travis’s ability to perform a major deployment in a safe and efficient manner. RELEASED (US AIR FORCE Photo by T.C. Perkins Jr.)
U.S. Air Force U.S. Air Force Gen. Joseph L. Lengyel, Chief of the National Guard Bureau, speaks to the Airmen of the 133rd Contingency Response Flight in St. Paul, Minn., June 17, 2020. Lengyel came to the 133rd Airlift Wing to personnel say thank you for the work which the Airmen and Military Security Guards have done during the recent State Active Duty assignments.
(U.S. Air National Guard photo by Amy M. Lovgren)
The Vermont National Guard sent a contingency of five soldiers along with Maj. Gen. Steven Cray, adjutant general, Vermont National Guard, to France celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the end of World War I. Each state that had National Guard representation in World War I were invited back to France to celebrate the anniversary. National Guardsmen visited monuments, cemeteries, villages, battle sites, trenches, museums, and attended ceremonies as part of their visit. The Center for Military History provided guides throughout the trip.
Airmen from the 60th Medical Group and Contingency Response Wing, Travis Air Force Base, Ca., apply medical assistance to military and civilian volunteers during an Air Force Expeditionary Medical Support Health Response Team exercise simulating an urban earthquake in the SOUTHCOM AOR on Travis AFB, 8 Feb. 2011. The mission of an EMEDS team, which includes physicians, nurses, and a variety of medical technicians, is to rapidly deploy and provide forward stabilization, primary care, and dental services to support a population-at-risk of 3,000 to 5,000 people. Released (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dennis J. Henry Jr.)
‘Let me show you.’
CONTINGENCY OPERATING SITE WARRIOR, Iraq – Sgt. Bernardo Medina, a native of Ocala, Fla., and infantryman assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 1st Advise and Assist Task Force, uses his experience as a “Lefty” to show an Iraqi Army soldier serving with Commando Company, 15th Brigade, 12th IA Division, how a left-handed shooter should be positioned when firing an M16 rifle, March 20, 2011. Lead instructor of M16 rifle familiarization training, Medina and U.S. Soldiers paired with Iraqi soldier to demonstrate the four fundamentals of executing a proper shot group during classroom instruction at Forward Operating Base Texan, near Kirkuk, Iraq.
(U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Alyxandra McChesney, 1st AATF PAO, 1st Inf. Div., USD-N)
Soldiers sprint to objective
CONTINGENCY OPERATING SITE MAREZ, Iraq – Iraqi soldiers from 3rd Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Brigade, 3rd Iraqi Army Division conduct a cordon and search exercise during urban operations training at Ghuzlani Warrior Training Center, May 12, 2011. U.S. Soldiers assigned to 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division oversaw their IA partners as the soldiers entered and cleared buildings during the urban operations training.
(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Terence Ewings, 4th AAB PAO, 1st Cav. Div., USD-N)
Handing over responsibility.
CONTINGENCY OPERATING LOCATION GAINES MILLS, Iraq – Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Ulrich, commander, 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 1st Advise and Assist Task Force, 1st Infantry Division, addresses soldiers assigned to 47th Brigade, 12th Iraqi Army Division, during the Contingency Operating Location Gaines Mills Transfer Ceremony in Kirkuk province, Iraq, June 1, 2011. U.S. forces officially signed over control of COL Gaines Mills to the Iraqi Government after occupying the base since 2004.
(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Andrew Ingram, USD-N PAO)
In a conference session focused on the AAUP's One Faculty campaign, national AAUP staff members Dawn Tefft and Emily McCann discussed how faculty can organize around contingency.
Credit: Mike Ferguson/AAUP
Dane Cook performing at Contingency Operating Base Speicher, Iraq, during a USO comedy show on 31 May.
A contingency bus seen staged just north of Rose Quarter Transit Center (on Wheeler, Soutbound next to the Moda Center). It was to assist with the steel bridge closure MAX Shuttles, but they ended up not being needed on the day when this photo was taken.
U.S. Air Force logistics personnel, assigned to the 621st Contingency Response Wing from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, load support equipment and rolling stock cargo onto a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III large transport aircraft from Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, South Carolina, July 10, 2018. The South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing is deploying nearly 300 Airmen and approximately a dozen F-16 Block 52 Fighting Falcon fighter jets to the 407th Air Expeditionary Group in Southwest Asia in support of an Air Expeditionary Force rotation. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Edward Snyder)
MSG Derrick Hamilton sits behind the wheel of an ATV on Palm Circle as part of the Contingency Command Post's operational display on 1 Aug 2012. This ATV is one of the unique pieces of equipment that the Humanitarian Assitance/Survey Teams can deploy with. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Richard Colletta)
The Vermont National Guard sent a contingency of five soldiers along with Maj. Gen. Steven Cray, adjutant general, Vermont National Guard, to France celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the end of World War I. Each state that had National Guard representation in World War I were invited back to France to celebrate the anniversary. National Guardsmen visited monuments, cemeteries, villages, battle sites, trenches, museums, and attended ceremonies as part of their visit. The Center for Military History provided guides throughout the trip.
U.S. Air Force logistics personnel, assigned to the 621st Contingency Response Wing from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, load support equipment and rolling stock cargo onto a contracted Boeing 747 airliner at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, South Carolina, July 9, 2018. The South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing is deploying nearly 300 Airmen and approximately a dozen F-16 Block 52 Fighting Falcon fighter jets to the 407th Air Expeditionary Group in Southwest Asia in support of an Air Expeditionary Force rotation. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Megan Floyd)
Members of the 60th, 349th Air Mobility and 621st Contingency Response Wings participate in (Crisis Look 16-01) Position the Force Deployment. The exercise will test Team Travis’s ability to perform a major deployment in a safe and efficient manner. RELEASED (US AIR FORCE Photo by T.C. Perkins Jr.)
IA soldiers move to clear room
CONTINGENCY OPERATING SITE MAREZ, Iraq – Soldiers assigned to 3rd Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Brigade, 3rd Iraqi Army Division prepare to enter and clear a room housing possible hostile suspects during a cordon and search exercise at Ghuzlani Warrior Training Center, May 12, 2011. U.S. Soldiers assigned to 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, advise, train and assist their IA partners in enhanced combat tactics during the month-long training rotation as part of Tadreeb al Shamil, Arabic for all inclusive training.
(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Terence Ewings, 4th AAB PAO, 1st Cav. Div., USD-N)
CONTINGENCY OPERATING LOCATION Q-WEST, Iraq — Pfc. Quintavis B. Byrd (center), an entry control point sentry and native of Tutwiler, Miss., holds a Command Sergeant Major award, flanked by 1st Sgt. John L. Beasley (left), a Hernando, Miss., native, and Staff Sgt. Nicholas Hughes, a native of Batesville, Miss., and Byrd’s platoon sergeant, after a ceremony in the company area Feb. 1, which acknowledged Byrd for embodying the Army value of loyalty. All the Soldiers pictured serve with A Company, 2nd Battalion, 198th Combined Arms, 155th Brigade Combat Team, out of Hernando, Miss. To honor outstanding service at the end of the deployment, the senior NCOs of the battalion recognized seven Soldiers from throughout the Battalion who embody one of the Army values of loyalty, duty, respect, service, honor, integrity and personal courage.
U.S. Air Force logistics personnel, assigned to the 621st Contingency Response Wing from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, load support equipment and rolling stock cargo onto a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III large transport aircraft from Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, South Carolina, July 10, 2018. The South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing is deploying nearly 300 Airmen and approximately a dozen F-16 Block 52 Fighting Falcon fighter jets to the 407th Air Expeditionary Group in Southwest Asia in support of an Air Expeditionary Force rotation. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Edward Snyder)
Soldiers of U.S. Army, Pacific, HHBN, OPS Co. showed off the Contingency Command Post's readiness during an operational display of the CCP's capabilities and equipment on 1 Aug 2012. The CCP is a flexible, tailorable and rapidly deployable Operational Command Post, capable of planning and conducting small scale contingency operations in the Asia-Pacific Area of Responsibility. (U.S. Army photo by Maj. Edward Hooks)
Center-stage.
CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE WARHORSE, Iraq – Nate Bargatze, a comedian for Armed Forces Entertainment Comedians Ready to Entertain tour, grips the microphone building a moment of suspense before dropping a joke, part of his routine for the troops of 2nd Advise and Assist Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, at the Faulkenberg Theater on Contingency Operating Base Warhorse in the Diyala province, Iraq, Mar. 4, 2011.
(U.S. Army photo by Cpl. Robert England, 2nd AAB PAO, 25th Inf. Div., USD-N)
A convoy of vehicles from 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade 1st Cavalry Division, arrives on Contingency Operating Base Adder, Iraq, Oct. 7. The unit, which is the first self-redeploying unit to leave Iraq, passed through COB Adder to allow soldiers to rest and refuel before heading on to Kuwait.
Staff Sgt. John Nelson, Master Sgt. Eric Dukes, and Technical Sgt. Daniel Weinfurter (l to r), all assigned to the 570th Global Mobility Squadron, look on as C-17 Globemaster IIIs conduct operations during the bi-annual Mobility Air Forces Exercise at Nellis and Creech Air Force bases. More than 40 Airman from the 615th Contingency Response Wing supported MAFEX with communications and airfield support. (US Air Force Photo/MSgt Stan Parker)
The Vermont National Guard sent a contingency of five soldiers along with Maj. Gen. Steven Cray, adjutant general, Vermont National Guard, to France celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the end of World War I. Each state that had National Guard representation in World War I were invited back to France to celebrate the anniversary. National Guardsmen visited monuments, cemeteries, villages, battle sites, trenches, museums, and attended ceremonies as part of their visit. The Center for Military History provided guides throughout the trip.
CONTINGENCY OPERATING LOCATION Q-WEST, Iraq — Lt. Col. Kerry Goodman (left), resident of Meridian, Miss., and commander of 2nd Battalion, 198th Combined Arms, 155th Brigade Combat Team out of Senatobia, Miss., awards deployment coins to Spc. Tobias Butler (facing, left), a gunner from Indianola, Miss., Sgt. Gerrelaine Alcordo, a truck commander from New York City, and Sgt. Rocklyn Reed, a truck commander from Batesville, Miss., for scoring above the maximum 300 points on the annual physical fitness test, during a ceremony Feb. 15. Butler and Reed serve with C Company, 2nd Battalion, 198th Combined Arms, 155th Brigade Combat Team, out of Oxford and Indianola, Miss., and Alcordo serves with A Company, 106th Brigade Support Battalion, attached to 2/198th CAB and headquartered in Magee, Miss.
Care under fire.
CONTINGENCY OPERATING LOCATION K1, Iraq – During a mass casualty exercise at Contingency Operating Location K1, combat medics of 12th Iraqi Army Division provide emergency medical care to a “notional” casualty, simulating wounds as part of a training scenario led by medics of 1st Advise and Assist Task Force, 1st Infantry Division, March 23, 2011. Designed to test 12th IA Div. medics’ ability to treat patients under the pressures of combat, the exercise presented realistic scenarios and stressors, such as taking enemy fire, to validate the Iraqi soldiers’ training provided by U.S. Army medics of Company C, 101st Brigade Support Battalion, 1st AATF, 1st Inf. Div.
(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Kandi Huggins, 1st AATF PAO, 1st Inf. Div., USD-N)