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Sgt. James Johnson, baritone in the 82nd Airborne Division’s All American Chorus, leads the chorus in a choreographed marching cadence at the introduction of the performance Jan. 13, 2007, at Contingency Operations Base Speicher, Iraq. The chorus visited 3rd Brigade Combat Team to entertain the deployed Paratroopers. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Joshua R. Ford (released)
Purple Heart.
CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE WARHORSE, Iraq – Lt. Col. Scott Murray, commander of 225th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Advise and Assist Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, presents a Purple Heart medal to Pfc. Carl Vickers, a food service specialist with Headquarters and Headquarters, 225th BSB, during an awards ceremony, Mar. 19, 2011 at Faulkenberg Theater on Contingency Operating Base Warhorse in the Diyala province of Iraq. Vickers sustained minor injuries during an indirect fire attack on COB Warhorse Jan. 22, 2011.
(U.S. Army photo by Cpl. Robert England, 2nd AAB PAO, 25th Inf. Div., USD-N)
CONTINGENCY OPERATING LOCATION Q-WEST, Iraq — Sgt. Gerrelaine Alcordo (right), a truck commander from New York City serving with A Company, 106th Brigade Support Battalion, out of Magee, Miss., receives a deployment coin from Lt. Col. Kerry Goodman, commander of 2nd Battalion, 198th Combined Arms, 155th Brigade Combat Team out of Senatobia, Miss., for scoring above the maximum 300 points on the annual physical fitness test, during a ceremony Feb. 15.
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)
Pre-packing inspections.
CONTINGENCY OPERATING LOCATION K1, Iraq – Electrical and security equipment lays ready for inspection before being packed and moved during the first stage of transition at Contingency Operating Location K1, Kirkuk province, Iraq, July 24, 2011. U.S. forces packed up gear and moved all personnel from COL K1 as Iraqi Security Forces assumed responsibility of the base.
(U.S. Army photo by Sgt. David Strayer, 109th MPAD, USD – N)
Dawn breaks over Contingency Operating Bas Basra, and the pilots and crewmembers of the Alpha Co., 1st Battalion, 189th Regiment are already getting their birds ready for the day. The UH-60 Black Hawk is a finicky machine, and a lot of work must be done before it can fly. It?s going to be a long day. (U.S. Army Photo by Chief Warrant Officer Mathew Rowley)
CONTINGENCY OPERATING LOCATION Q-WEST, Iraq — Mississippi Guardsmen with A Company, 2nd Battalion, 198th Combined Arms, 155th Brigade Combat Team, a mechanized infantry unit out of Hernando, Miss., sit in their company area at Contingency Operating Location Q-West, Jan 13, responding to pen pal letters from hometown school children. Spc. Daniel S. Moore (left), a gunner from Horn Lake, Miss., Sgt. James J. Hamblin (middle), a machine gunner from Tupelo, Miss., and Spc. Lorence K. Strange, a gun truck driver from New Albany, Miss., wrote letters to third-graders with Cheryl Hays’ Discovery class at Mooreville Elementary School, Mooreville, Miss., who sent “Flat Stanley,” a paper doll, along with cards and letters.
Airman First Class David Cuff, assigned to the conducts an entry control point security check with PV2 William James, assigned the 689th Rapid Port Opening Element, during the Operational Readiness Inspection at Eagle Flag, April 5, 2011. More than 100 Airmen assigned to the 615 CRW deployed to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., in support of a developing humanitarian crisis in the fictitious Kingdom of Nessor, during the ORI at EAGLE FLAG. The Airmen partnered with more than 50 Soldiers from the 689th Rapid Port Opening Element, Fort Eustis, Va., bringing their expertise to establish a Joint Task Force - Port Opening. The team was tested on their ability to quickly establish airbase operations, provide their own security, track cargo and personnel and move relief supplies from the plane to a distribution node. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Master Sgt. Stan Parker)
Traffic and Transportation Management Plan, and Program Contingency Engineers Contingency Engineers during the operation for the cicLAvia Melrose Avenue corridor between Vermont Avenue in East Hollywood and Fairfax Avenue in Fairfax District Open Streets Bicycle Route followed by Highland Avenue crossing points open to cross traffic for automobiles intersection traffic signal green lights, left turn protected permissive green arrow lights and pedestrian crosswalk crossing white walking lights, Mansfield Avenue, Orange Drive and a signalized crossing points for all traffic at La Brea Avenue located at Melrose Hill in Los Angeles, California 90004 - 90038.
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Stormy flight.
CONTINGENCY OPERATING SITE COBRA, Iraq – An HH-60M medevac helicopter lifts off as the crew evacuates an injured Soldier from Contingency Operating Site Cobra, Iraq, April 4, 2011. The medevac crew faced low visibility and blowing dust as they flew through a storm to evacuate the Soldier.
(U.S. Army photo by 1st Lt. Kyle Miller, 2nd Sqdn., 14th Cav. Regt., 2nd AAB, 25th Inf. Div.)
Soldiers assigned to the 407th Brigade Support Battalion participate in their first ramp jump from
a CH-47 on Sicily Drop Zone, Sept. 1. The training is part of Fort Bragg’s commitment to maintain a ready force, able to deploy at moment’s notice as a worldwide contingency-response force
CONTINGENCY OPERATING LOCATION Q-WEST, Iraq — Sgt. Seth A. Bloodworth – a Lake Cormorant, Miss., native and truck commander with A Company, 2nd Battalion, 198th Combined Arms, 155th Brigade Combat Team, the Q-West force protection company from Hernando, Miss. – rests at the northwest corner rampart of an old fortress, which stands remarkably intact on the saddle of a ridge near the village of Khan Najma, Ninewa Province. Members of Bloodworth’s company, a Mississippi Army National Guard unit, visited the site while returning from a mission, Feb. 3.
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.)
Airmen from the 621st Contingency Response Wing, Travis Air force Base, ready pallets packed with equipment and supplies to load on to aircraft deploying to Honduras as part of relief efforts for a simulated earthquake scenario during a Travis Response Exercise, 19 March 2014. (Released - U.S. Air Force Photograph - Heide Couch)
McWhorter goes over course of action.
CONTINGENCY OPERATING SITE MAREZ, Iraq – Lt. Col. Clint McWhorter, primary staff trainer assigned to Task Force Sword, 4th Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, reviews a course of action analysis with Iraqi staff officers at Ghuzlani Warrior Training Center, May 18, 2011. McWhorter, a native of Overland Park, Kan., trains Iraqi officers at GWTC to increase the officers’ knowledge on planning and preparing operation orders.
(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Angel Turner, 4th AAB PAO, 1st Cav. Div., USD-N)
Aerial porters from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group set up a Halvorsen Loader to unload cargo from aircraft at Amedee Army Airfield, Calif., during Operation Lumberjack on March 7, 2016. The Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd CRG, the U.S. Army’s 688th Rapid Port Opening Element and a team from the Defense Logistics Agency are all participating in the week-long exercise. (Kentucky Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Phil Speck)
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 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)
CONTINGENCY OPERATING LOCATION Q-WEST, Iraq —In true Cavalry fashion, wearing spurs and Stetsons, 1st Squadron, 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment Troopers attend the Transfer Of Authority ceremony between incoming 1st Squadron, 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment and outgoing 2nd Battalion, 198th Combined Arms March 10.
CONTINGENCY OPERATING LOCATION Q-WEST, Iraq — Spc. Tobias Butler (right), a gunner from Indianola, Miss., serving with C Company, 2nd Battalion, 198th Combined Arms, 155th Brigade Combat Team, out of Oxford and Indianola, Miss., receives a deployment coin from Lt. Col. Kerry Goodman, commander of 2nd Battalion, 198th Combined Arms, 155th Brigade Combat Team out of Senatobia, Miss., for scoring above the maximum 300 points on the annual physical fitness test, during a ceremony Feb. 15.
Senior Airman Vaughn Price, right, inspects Senior Airman Guss Tyshawn Jenkins‘ uniform prior to the 108th Contingency Response Group’s Assumption of Command ceremony at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., Dec. 8, 2013. Both Airmen are members of the 108th Wing Honor Guard. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Mark C. Olsen)
German soldiers of 291st Infantry Division receive a safety brief prior to a mounted convoy during Rotation 14-09 at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center (JMRC) in Hohenfels, Germany, Oct. 7, 2014. The rotation is based on the current operational environment and is designed to prepare the unit for peace support, stability and contingency operations. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. John Cress Jr./Released)
Four MV-22 Ospreys with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 261 follow a KC-130J with Detachment A, Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 352, from Helmand province, Afghanistan, to the USS Iwo Jima in the Arabian Sea, Sept. 6, 2012. The KC-130J provided an escort for the Ospreys to the ship as a contingency.
CONTINGENCY OPERATING LOCATION Q-WEST, Iraq – A rocket from the C Battery, 1st Battalion, 14th Field Artillery, Task Force Leader, departs its high mobility artillery rocket system launcher here on its way to destroy an enemy mortar position Mar. 2. The launch was the first fire mission for the members of C Battery at Contingency Operating Location Q-West, Iraq. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Rob Strain, 15th Sustainment Brigade Public Affairs)
Senior Airman Paula Daniels, a member of the 108th Wing Honor Guard, stands at attention prior to the 108th Contingency Response Group’s Assumption of Command ceremony at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., Dec. 8, 2013. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Mark C. Olsen)
Senior Airman Vaughn Price, right, inspects Senior Airman Guss Tyshawn Jenkins‘ uniform prior to the 108th Contingency Response Group’s Assumption of Command ceremony at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., Dec. 8, 2013. Both Airmen are members of the 108th Wing Honor Guard. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Mark C. Olsen)
Maj. Greg Schanding, a civil engineer for the Kentucky Air National Guard's 123rd Contingency Response Group, measures distances for tent layout March 26, 2012, as a member of the Joint Assessment Team for Eagle Flag. The 123rd Contingency Response Group from Louisville, Ky., and the 690th Rapid Port Opening Element from Fort Eustis, Va., have joined to form a Joint Task Force-Port Opening at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., through March 30. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Phil Speck)
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.)
Prepping the mortar round.
CONTINGENCY OPERATING SITE MAREZ, Iraq – Spc. Christopher Hunthrop, a mortar man assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, prepares a 120mm mortar round by removing extra charges from the round during a combined arms live fire exercise at Destiny Range, May 28, 2011. Hunthrop, a native of Omaha, Neb., fired mortar rounds to increase his proficiency while deployed in support of Operation New Dawn.
(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Angel Turner, 4th AAB PAO, 1st Cav. Div., USD-N)
Rollout
CONTINGENCY OPERATING SITE WARRIOR, Iraq – Soldiers of “Guardians,” 101st Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Advise and Assist Task Force, 1st Infantry Division, leave Contingency Operating Site Warrior in order to conduct a Counter Surface-to-Air Improvised Explosive Device patrol, Aug. 14, 2011. “As we close on Operation New Dawn, units are required on a daily bases to conduct new missions that are not normally in their spectrum of operations,” said Maj. Edward Huddleston, operations officer for the 101st BSB.
(U.S. Army Photo by Staff Sgt. Robert DeDeaux, 1st AATF, 1st Inf. Div. PAO, USD-N)
Los Angeles Department of Transportation, Special Traffic Operations, Traffic and Transportation Management Plan, and Program Contingency Engineers Contingency Engineers during the operation for the cicLAvia Melrose Avenue corridor between Vermont Avenue in East Hollywood and Fairfax Avenue in Fairfax District Open Streets Bicycle Route, and Highland Avenue crossing points open to cross traffic for automobiles intersection traffic signal green lights, left turn protected permissive green arrow lights and pedestrian crosswalk crossing white walking lights, and Highland Avenue crossing points open to cross traffic for automobiles intersection traffic signal green lights, left turn protected permissive green arrow lights and pedestrian crosswalk crossing white walking lights, Mansfield Avenue, Orange Drive and La Brea Avenue located at Melrose Hill in Los Angeles, California 90004 - 90038.
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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 —An Iraqi Army Soldier displays his voting finger proudly to Soldiers of C Company, 1st Squadron, 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment of the Tennessee Army National Guard headquartered in Henderson, Tenn. The Iraqi Soldier voted in Ninawa Province during the special elections along with other security personnel who were permitted to vote prior to the regular parliamentary elections scheduled for March 7. The Iraqi Army provides a protection force for a pump house on the Tigris River in Ninawa Province, and the 1/278th ACR, who has just recently occupied Q West, will be conducting patrols to that area on a regular basis, even after the completion of the elections.
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.