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Mongolian Soldiers from the Army Quick Reactionary Force (QRF) during a training exercise before deploying to Afghanistan with ISAF
US Marines, Instructors SOTG, demonstrates "snatching" techniques during crowd control tatics training in using Non-Lethal Weapons to Bangladesh Army personnel during NOLES-01-03...The US Marines are attached to the Special Operations Training Group (SOTG), III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF), Okinawa, Japan...The Non-Lethal Weapons Seminar (NOLES) held 09 September to 11 September 2003 is a US Army Pacific Command (PACOM) funded, US Marine Force Pacific (MARFORPAC) coordinaded initiative designed to improve the ability of the armed forces of all participating countries to conduct Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief (HA?DR) and Peacekeeping Operation (PKO) Missions where civil unrest may create a potential force protection issue. The countries of USA, Bangladesh, Indonesia, India, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka participated.
Czech Soldiers form the 71. mechanizovaného praporu (71st mechanized battalion) Part of the Czech 4th Rapid Deployment Brigade and is training for deployment to Afghanistan as part of the Czech combat maneuver element. The CME is preparing for their mission in Afghanistan by focused training on basic activities for dealing with a combat situation - the decision-making process for commanders, performance of operational tasks, combat orders and responding to improvised explosive systems. 3rd December 2012
Australian Army soldiers Private Harvey Ladd (left) and Lance Corporal Blair Moulton from the North-West Mobile patrol during a training activity in Alice Springs, on Friday 31st March 2017.
Sgt Maj Potter in a group debriefs some of his troops following a patrol
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SERGEANT MAJOR STUART TEACHES TROOPS TO OPEN UP AND TALK
A British Army Sergeant Major, more used to being feared by his troops for his hard line on discipline, is now finding himself in a quite different role - responsible for encouraging a 160 strong company of men serving in Afghanistan to talk through their problems and overcome any mental health issues.
In a stark diversion from the traditional role of a Company Sergeant Major, Stuart Potter offers front line mental health support for the men serving with 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment, in the southern Nad-e Ali area of Helmand province.
He operates the TRiM (Trauma Risk Management) system which teaches soldiers to spot signs of mental distress in their colleagues. The aim is to encourage troops to talk about their problems and seek help at the earliest stage from the team of Community Psychiatric Nurses and consultant psychiatrists who are on hand in Afghanistan to provide any care and treatment needed.
It’s a far cry from Stuart’s day job at the Battalion’s Headquarters in Shropshire. He explains:
“In the UK I enforce discipline, I shout at soldiers about their uniform, being late for work or having a ‘few too many’. In Afghanistan, sometimes I shout but mostly I listen. I listen to soldiers telling me how they put themselves into danger for their mates, how they extracted a casualty while under fire. How they were scared when they thought their number was up.”
But Sergeant Major Potter says that listening is vital on the front line:
“On patrol it can go from having a laugh with kids and building up trust with local nationals to lying in an irrigation ditch trying to locate the enemy in a blink of an eye. No matter who you are, the realisation that you are in someone’s sights, that someone wants to kill you, is traumatic; that’s where TRiM comes in.
c/CPT Casey Grill from SFHS's drill team anxiously waiting to compete in the last drill event of the day.
Casey Grill
A CH-47 Chinook delivers supplies to an Afghan-international security force in the Zurmat district, Pakyiya province, Afghanistan, March 28.
German Army Fernspäher Soldiers, setting up a hidden observation post during a field training exercise in storkow, Brandenburg, Germany 2020
Photo: Jana Neumann / Bundeswehr
Ukrainian Army during Peacekeeping operations with the United Nations in Liberia – Receiving their UN Medals
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0.704 (musket ball) Brunswick 1886 - 1885
0.577 (Minie ball) Pattern Enfield 1853 - 1867
0.577 (cartridge) Snider-Enfield 1866 - 1880
0.577 Martini-Henri 1871 - 1891
0.303 Lee-Metford / Enfield 1889 - 1950s
7.62 NATO 1947 - Date
5.56 NATO 1985 - Date
A U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook heavy lift helicopter lifts off from Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan on Feb 29.
Made for a lovely lady who was in the Women's Land Army during the war. This is the second cake for the same lady over the weekend. The other was the Peony cake I made as she had two celebrations..xx
FORWARD OPERATING BASE SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan – Soldiers, with Blackfoot Company 2nd Battalion secure the area around an Afghan Border Police check point in order to enable the ABP to conduct a Traffic Control Point on a major highway Feb. 21 in the district of Spin Boldak, Afghanistan. A TCP is used to interdict contraband and disrupt insurgent movement. (U.S. Army Photo by Staff Sgt. Shane Hamann, 102nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment.)
An Australian Army soldier from 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, engages the 'enemy' during a live-fire attack as part of Exercise Southern Jackaroo 2016 in Shoalwater Bay training area, near Rockhampton in Queensland, on 25 May 2016.
Army ants (Eciton sp.). World Wildlife Fund/Global Wildlife Conservation Biodiversity Assessment Team 2-Potaro Plateau
An Australian Army soldier of 5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment scans his surroundings during a patrol at Mount Bundey Training Area, Northern Territory, during Exercise Talisman Saber 17 Field Training Exercise - North.
Located on a side street in Cajamarca, this shop is one idea that Peruvians could easily franchise in Red State America.
Private Colin Davidson from 31 Canadian Brigade Group advances through an enemy trench system during Exercise Stalwart Guardian.
Exercise Stalwart Guardian runs from August 20-28 at CFB Petawawa and involves 3,200 Army reservists from across Ontario conducting raids and airmobile assaults. This is part of a series of exercises training soldiers for domestic and overseas missions. Two hundred Ontario reservists will be deployed to Afghanistan next year.
Army Wallpaper HD
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My bowl of melted army dudes. I used the heat gun/piece-by-piece method I first saw on Make Projects
makeprojects.com/Project/Army-Guy-Bowl/1338/1
I'm using a glass bowl as the mold instead of a stainless steel one because I couldn't find a stainless bowl at the thrift store. The glass gets a bit hot and you have to stop and let it cool a couple of times but otherwise works fine and the plastic doesn't want to stick to it.
This bowl is available in my Etsy Shop:
www.etsy.com/listing/92060896/army-men-bowl-will-guard-yo...
From The Start Of The Salvation Army In Croydon - Rev. Dr. J. N. Morris
we read that "Croydon was the first mission station he established on something like permanent lines outside Central London" . the original name being the Christian Mission, as one reads on the portico. The first one founded by General Booth was in the East End of London.
This mission church was built in 1872-1873, following a series of meetings held in George Street, Croydon by Mrs Booth. The Salvation army holds minutes of these early days of the movement in Croydon. The building continued to be used as a Christian Mission until 1879, after which it became the Salvation Army.
According to Dr Morris, "The ceremony of laying the foundation stone took place on 8th October. It took a further year to wipe out the remaining debt on the building fund. Gospel Hall was a modest, brick-built chapel in classical Nonconformist tabernacle style, a rectangular building, with a triangular portico above the entrance.
The Croydon Mission thus "had a pivotal role in the growth of the Salvation Army outside Central London.
The building cost £725 to build, which was the equivalent of 7 years' rent, so a good investment. The movement engendered considerable hostility in the 1870s, at indoor and outdoor meetings.
Morris concludes..."In 1887 the Salvation Army moved from there to a new Citadel built on a site in Elis David Road; the old building, sold off, had a chequered history as a cinema and car repair shop, amongst other uses. Hopes that it could be restored as a museum for the Army have floundered on the high estimated cost, and its future remains uncertain. but makes no mention of the use of the Gospel Hall by the Brotherhood Church of J. Bruce Wallace and J. Kenworthy, the precursor of Tolstoyan settlements in Purleigh Essex and Whiteway in Gloucestershire. Indeed Tolstoy's amanuensis, Vladimir Chertkoff and his biographer Aylmer Maude both initially lived at Duppas Hill, Croydon on arriving in Britain from Russia (Maude being in business in Moscow).
Renovation of the former Salvation Army chapel at no 46 Tamworth Road, Croydon in 2000. Over100 years previously, this building was home to the debating church called the Croydon Brotherhood which would have been attended by, among others, Tolstoy's amanuensis, Vladimir Chertkov whilst in exile and Tolstoy's biographer, Aylmer Maude, who also landed here en route to the subsequent nucleus of Tolstoyans in Essex.. Other members included the famous Charing Cross Road anarchist bookseller, Frank Henderson,who later lived at Downham in Essex and Fred Muggeridge, a relative of Malcolm. Its pastor was the Reverend John Colman Kenworthy who had journed to Russia to meet the great author at Yasnaya Polyana ( Ясная Поляна). and followed the Croydon Tolstoyan splinter group of this church to their first land colony at Cock Clarks near Purleigh in Essex, where a house was built for him. Nelly Shaw's book "Whiteway - a Colony on the Cotswolds" describes the scene in this building in the 1890s. A Tolstoyan Brotherhood hotel was run along co-operative and vegetarian lines at nearby Waddon in the late 1890s and early 1900s , and it still stands today as the Waddon Hotel in an odd sort of Swiss/German Villa style.
operated as the Star Cinema 1912 to 1917
An Abramss M1A1 Tank advances to its objective during rehearsals for Exercise Chong Ju.
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The roar of the venerable RAAF F-111 was heard in the Goulburn valley for one of the last times this week (12-13 May 10).
Two of the Amberley- based aircraft supported the Army’s firepower and manoeuvre demonstration at Puckapunyal Military Area, called EXERCISE CHONG JU.
EX CHONG JU is named after a series of offensive actions by the 3rd Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR) on 29 October 1950 against North Koreans, during which infantry company advances were supported by US Army tanks and artillery.
Artillery from 53 Independent Battery fired 105mm rounds in support of the biannual exercise. The battery usually supports courses run by the School of Artillery.
53 Independent Battery was the only Australian battery to bring its guns to bear against the Japanese during the Battle of Kokoda in 1942.
Besides the effect of artillery and aircraft, EX CHONG JU demonstrated M1A1 Abrams tanks, M113AS4 armoured personnel carriers (APCs), ASLAV and the Javelin Medium Defensive Fire Support Weapon. All of these weapon systems are available to an Australian combat team when it employs synchronised arms effects.
From a dense treeline, tanks and armoured personnel carriers (APCs) advanced to their target, called Objective Spike.
The M113AS4 is an updated APC, and features improved armour and cross country capability that allows it to keep up with the M1A1 Tank.
The assaulting force made short work of is objective, and clearly demonstrated the potency of the modern Australian combat team.
EX CHONG JU is a training activity for the Combat Officer Advanced Course, which trains combat arms officers on combined arms tactics.
Turkish Army soldiers during follow up operations after two sergeants were killed and a soldier was injured after a military vehicle passed over a PKK mine trap in the rural area of Hakkari province - The mine explosion took place in Kirikdag area of rural Hakkari in southeastern Turkey on Monday morning. Two specialist sergeants were killed and a soldier was injured after a military vehicle of Zap Army Post passed over a previously laid mine - The vehicle fell to the River Zap with the impact of the explosion, and left 2 specialist sergeants dead and another soldier injured.
The PKK attack was announced with a press release from the Hakkari Governorship shortly after the incident.
3RIFLES hold PJNCO Cadre
Junior soldiers from the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th Battalions The Rifles have been getting put through their paces by instructors from their Battalions on the final exercise week of a grueling four week Potential Junior Non-Commissioned Officers (PJNCO) Cadre on Garelochhead Training Area in Scotland.
The Rifles run a number of PJNCO Cadres throughout the year and, having recently returned from Afghanistan, 3RIFLES were the organising Battalion this time around.
The aim of the PJNCO Cadre is to develop leadership potential and prepare Riflemen for promotion to Lance Corporal (LCpl). The training is delivered modularly to teach and qualify Riflemen for employment in a number of key positions - a Rifle Company Second in Command (2IC), a support weapons detachment 2IC or as an account holder. The training covers their responsibilities across this large employment spectrum from tactical skills and techniques through to administrative duties.
Major Ian Posgate, Cadre Director, said
"The candidates must pass a physically demanding course that trains and then evaluates their leadership potential"
"They have to show courage, determination, integrity and demonstrate leadership potential if they are to pass off the square in Redford Barracks, Edinburgh"
All Photos: Cpl Paul Morrison, Army Photographer ©MOD/Crown Copyright 2013
Army Vs NAVY Rugby at Twickenham Picture: LA(Phot) Alex Cave
Today 09 May 2015, the annual rugby match between the Army and Navy is taking place at the home of English rugby. Pictures are a from the women’s match, which the Army won 65-0 FX150132
A German soldier of 6th Company, 31st Parachute Infantry Regiment scouts the location for simulated opposing forces during exercise Swift Response 15 at the U.S. Army’s Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany, Aug. 30, 2015. The purpose of the exercise is to conduct joint and combined training events in order to evaluate brigade and battalion level execution of strategic out-load in conjunction with Allied Partner nations through an intermediate staging base. Swift Response 15 is the U.S. Army’s largest combined airborne training event in Europe since the end of the Cold War. More than 4,800 service members from 11 NATO nations- including Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States- will take part in the exercise on training areas in Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, and Romania, Aug. 17- Sept. 13, 2015. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Matthew Hulett/Released)
British soldiers from the 13th Air Assault Support Regiment prepare their trucks prior to an operation to deliver supplies to several British Army Forward Operating bases (FOB) in Helmand Province on July 15, 2008 at their base in Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The 13th Air Assault Support Regiment provides logistic support to the multi-national force in Helmand Province. The British drivers navigate hostile desert terrain to deliver combat supplies, ammunitions, food, water and engineering equipment. During a recent operation, drivers spent 48 hours avoiding enemy forces, mine fields and indirect fire. On return to Camp Bastion, vehicles are serviced immediately for further operations leaving little recreational time for the British soldiers who work in heat reaching 54 degrees celcius and drive on terrain without recognizable roads.
Mongolian Soldiers from the Army Quick Reactionary Force (QRF) during a training exercise before deploying to Afghanistan with ISAF
Acting as “ground guide”, Bombardier Stéphane Bélanger of the battery deployed on Op ATHENA directs a German Army CH-53G Sea Stallion helicopter during an exercise. Working with the helicopter, the gunners are practising airlifting their LG-1 howitzer and its ammunition.
A battery from the 5e Régiment d’artillerie légère du Canada is deployed in Kabul to support the Kabul Multinational Brigade on operations.
The goal of Operation ATHENA, Canada’s participation in International Security and Assistance Force, is to ensure a safe, secure environment for the provisional government of Afghanistan. Canadian troops have served in Kabul with this UN-authorized mission since August 2003.
A bugler from The U.S. Army Band, “Pershing’s Own”, plays taps during the full honors repatriation of U.S. Army Cpl. Dow F. Worden in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, March 27, 2018.
Worden, 20, from Boardman, Oregon, went unaccounted in late September 1951 during the Korean War. A member of Company A, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, Worden’s company was in the vicinity of Hill 1024 in South Korea, conducting operations near an area known as Heartbreak Ridge, when the Chinese launched an attack. The company repelled and was relieved by the Republic of Korea Army elements, but continued to attack east on nearby Hill 867. After the American forces withdrew, Worden could not be accounted for and was declared missing in action on Sept. 28, 1951. Due to no reports of Worden being a prisoner of war and the lack of any other evidence, the U.S. Army declared him deceased on Dec. 31, 1953.
In February and May 2016, South Korea turned over remains believed to be unaccounted-for U.S. servicemen from the Korean War recovered from an area associated with the above battle. “To identify Worden’s remains, scientists from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) and the Armed Forces Medial Examiner System used Y-Chromosome (Y-STR) DNA analysis, which matched his family, as well as dental and anthropological analysis, which matched his records, and circumstantial evidence,” according to a news release from DPAA.
Worden was laid to rest in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery with Full Military Honors at 11 a.m on March 27, 2018. The American flag from Worden’s casket was presented to his cousin, Guy Worden.
(U.S. Army photo by Elizabeth Fraser / Arlington National Cemetery / released)