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Two Soldiers from 7th Battalion (Mechanised), Royal Australian Regiment, move under the cover of a smoke grenade during an attack for Exercise Predator’s Strike.
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Exercise PREDATOR’S STRIKE, held from the 11th to the 19th of June 2012 at the Shoalwater Bay Training Area in Queensland, is the final brigade level exercise for the Darwin based 1st Brigade, prior to Exercise Hamel 12.
The exercise provided an opportunity for 1st Brigade Battlegroups to focus on Combat Team level combined arms integration around a series of demanding force on force and live fire activities, testing all aspects of fighting against a near peer enemy in a complex environment.
The exercise marked the first night operations conducted by the new Army Reconnaissance Helicopter or ARH Tiger.
1st Brigade will changeover to Exercise Hamel 12 where they will achieve certification to Army Training Level/S 7, ready to commence operations.
Photography by: Able Seaman Lee-Anne Mack, 1st Joint Public Affairs Unit.
2011 - Salvation Army - William Booth Society Luncheon
Photos by www.RonSombilonGalleryPhotography.com
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U.S. Army Spc. Edgar Ruiz, from 2nd Platoon, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, 172nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, checks his perimeter during a roadside clearance mission of Main Supply Route Tampa near Forward Operating Base Kalsu, Iraq, Dec. 29, 2008.
Belgian Army soldiers conduct a reconnaissance and surveillance mission during exercise Saber Junction 15 at the U.S. Army’s Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany, April 23, 2015. Saber Junction 15 prepares NATO and partner nation forces for offensive, defensive, and stability operations and promotes interoperability among participants. Saber Junction 15 has more than 4,700 participants from 17 countries, to include: Albania, Armenia, Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Turkey and the U.S. (U.S. Army photo by Visual Information Specialist Markus Rauchenberger/Released)
Visiting Baghdad We visited the Al Faw Palace.
for 2 weeks everyone kept talking about how Saddam had gold toilets and how we were going to take a shit on the golden toilet. I mean like everyday someone saying "I'm gonna shit in the gold toilet" or "pee in the gold toilet" ... " puke in it" whatever.
So we get to the palace and ask if we can see the golden toilets.
The guy looks at us like we have 3 heads!!! So we had to get a picture of the NOT golden toilets. Here I am suffering from Disappointed Ass Syndrome!
25 November 2013
Edmonton, Alberta
3PPCLI members are jumping out of a CC-177 Globemaster during an exercise called Pegasus Spear.
Exercise Pegasus Spear was a training event focusing on the parachuting skills of members of the Third Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (3PPCLI). It enabled over 120 parachute-qualified soldiers, military freefall soldiers and jump masters to hone their skills in airborne operations from a CC-177. This exercise was also significant as it was the first time members from 3PPCLI were dispatched from the RCAF largest aircraft.
429 (Transport) Squadron is the purveyor of strategic airlift for Canada. Since August 2007, the squadron has been flying the CC-177 Globemaster III. 8 Wing Trenton has been home base to the Bisons since 1990 and has performed a wide range of air transport roles on behalf of Canada - everything from delivering humanitarian aid to disaster zones around the world to ferrying supplies and Canadian troops in Afghanistan. ..
Canadian Forces Combat Camera photo by : Sgt Gaétan Racine
© 2012 DND-MDN Canada
Australian Army soldier Company Sergeant Major of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, Warrant Officer Class 2 Peter Mitchell, inside the vehicle deck of HMAS Choules before conducting a beach assault at Fog Bay, Northern Territory, during Talisman Sabre 2015.
Deployed Soldiers with the 143d Expeditionary Sustainment Command conducts the Army Combat Fitness Test at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, throughout March 2023.
An M113AS4 Armoured Personnel Carrier advances towards its objective at the range in Puckapunyal Military Area.
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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.
Army paratroopers wearing night vision goggles and armed with M249 squad automatic weapons move into position to provide security after conducting a successful assault on an enemy mortar position during a training exercise on Fort Bragg, N.C., May 7, 2011.
The paratroopers belong to the 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, a unit that will be augmenting the nation's global response force by early summer.
Soldiers from Mentoring Task Force - Four begin a dismounted patrol in the Char Chineh Valley of Uruzgan province.
Mid Caption: Soldiers from the 4th Brigade Afghan National Army (ANA) and Mentoring Task Force – Four (MTF-4) continue to make progress in Uruzgan province with the completion of Operation Hamkari Gogai Jangee II (return of the wolf) in the Char Chineh Valley. MTF-4 supported the push for ANA to independently carry out their own operations in the region.
Photo by Sergeant Mick Davis
Joint Task Force 633
Terracotta Army, Xi'An, Shaanxi province, China
The Terracotta Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BC and whose purpose was to protect the emperor in his afterlife.
Current estimates are that in the three pits containing the Terracotta Army there were over 8,000 soldiers, 130 chariots with 520 horses and 150 cavalry horses, the majority of which are still buried.
The Terracotta Army was discovered on 29 March 1974 to the east of Xi'an in Shaanxi province by a group of farmers when they were digging a water well.
Mongolian soldiers cordon and search a small town at the Five Hills Training Center near Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Aug. 6, 2007, during peacekeeping training as part of Exercise Khaan Quest 2007. Khaan Quest is a annual United Nations peacekeeping exercise designed to promote improved interoperability and mutual understanding of each nation's tactics, techniques and procedures. U.S. Marines with 2nd Platoon, Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division are also participating in the exercise.
Private William Lewis from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment Task Force, Other Government Agency Platoon, during a security task in Tarin Kot.
A Romanian soldier of the 33rd Mountain Battalion Posada mans a semi-auto Pulemyot Kalashnikova while conducting a simulated attack during exercise Combined Resolve VII at the U.S. Army’s Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels Germany, Sept. 11, 2016. Combined Resolve VII is a 7th Army Training Command, U.S. Army Europe-directed exercise, taking place at the Grafenwoehr and Hohenfels Training Areas, Aug. 8 to Sept. 15, 2016. The exercise is designed to train the Army’s regionally allocated forces to the U.S. European Command. Combined Resolve VII includes more than 3,500 participants from 16 NATO and European partner nations. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Nathaniel Nichols)
Mexican Army.... truck mounted infantry on patrol/spot checks.....mainly in use for the prevention of drug trafficking during large cruise ship visits. Seen here close to the main shopping/tourist area in Cozumel. 23/08/2011.
Turkish soldiers in armored vehicles patrol in Sirnak province on the Turkish-Iraqi border October 21, 2011. The Turkish military said on Friday that air and ground operations against Kurdish militants, following an attack earlier this week that killed 24 soldiers, were concentrated on the Turkish side of the border with Iraq.
Former Army Wickham 'Type 40 MkII' petrol-mechanical railcar 'Army 9040' (Works No.6963 built in 1955) soon after arrival at the Quainton Railway Society sidings at Quainton Road, Buckhinghamshire on 29th August 1970. It had latterly been used on the Bicester Military Railway, but originally supplied to the Eskmeals Ranges railway in Cumbria and had arrived at Quainton on 25th June .
The Buckinhamshire Railway Centre stocklist reads as follows:
The largest of the Wickhams at Quainton, No. 9040 was originally owned by the Ministry of Defence. This was built by D.Wickham & Co. Ltd., Ware, in January 1955 as Car No. 6963, and was supplied to the Ministry of Supply, P & E Establishment, Eskmeals, Cumberland. It was later transferred to the MOD Bicester depot.
The frame consists of a double H section of channels with two longitudinal members carrying a Ford V-8 engine and the gearbox. From this frame there are angle iron stanchions supporting the floor, side sheets and the roof. The vehicle sides are of mild steel sheet including the doors which are faced internally with upholstered board. The roof is also made of steel plate carried on the cab body pillars.
The rail car is carried on two axles running in roller bearing boxes sprung by leaf springs with shackles mounted on the main frames. Lateral motion is restrained by a system of radius link arms. The running wheels are pressed steel, flanged and they have comparatively wide tyres. At both ends there are Wickham type central buffers.
It was purchased by a QRS member in April 1969 following an advertisement in Exchange and Mart. A scrap dealer in Abingdon had brought it from the Ministry of Defence, Bicester where it had been used until about 1967 for passenger transport between the station and various parts of the depot. In 1968, still carrying its number ARMY 9040, it was disposed of to the Abingdon dealer, whence it arrived at Quainton Down Yard on 25th June 1969. An inspection revealed a broken drive shaft, an unusable battery, no starting handle and various other work before it could become mobile again. This was tackled and the rail car was used by small groups of members visiting the site, and more humbly for taking rubble up to the end of the long siding. In 1973 it suffered impact damage, and was put to one side. In time the damage was repaired, some electrical repairs made, and partial repainting completed.
The controls of the vehicle are rod linked except the brake which has vacuum assistance. There is a vacuum storage reservoir in which the vacuum is induced from the inlet manifold. The foot brake pedals work valves supplying two slave cylinders, one on each side of the engine and the brakes are rigged to shoes operating onto the inside of the tyres on the running wheels.
The transmission from the four speed crash gearbox on 9040 is through a propeller shaft with two universal couplings into the differential which is on the leading axle. Engine cooling is by water and the system includes two radiators which are mounted one at each end of the car. The front bonnets have expanded metal grilles to direct air flow and to protect the radiators.
The driving controls of the car are duplicated at each end on the same side, but there is one handbrake and the gear stick is taken by the driver from end to end and inserted into a socket as required. On the dashboards are speedometers, fuel gauges, ammeters and oil and ignition lights. There are also switches for the horn and head, tail and interior lights, starter, choke, and a light confirming engagement of the gear after changing ends. The bonnet ends have two CAV headlights and a centrally mounted tail lamp. Twin electric operated windscreen wipers are fitted and all fixed windows are glazed with safety glass. The four doors have drop lights.
Inside there are the two fixed driving seats, a bench of three seats at the end and four reversible seats in the middle of the car. These four seats can be taken out and a section of the lino covered wood floor removed to give access to the engine covers.
The paint work of the railcar reflects its Army origin, for the inside is dark green with a white roof and the outside is finished in black below the body and green for the body shell, grey roof and wasp ends. Stencilled on the centre if the frames is the weight 2tons 19 hundredweight.
www.brc-stockbook.co.uk/no9040.htm
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Tunisians soldiers looking for possible supporters of former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali search vehicles at a checkpoint on Rome Avenue on January 16, 2011 in Tunis. Dozens of people crowded on Sunday at the few stalls open at the main market in Tunis as soldiers patrolled the streets but spirits were high after the overthrow of strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. "Our children will live in a free country," said Mouna Ouerghi, 29, a university lecturer who was queueing for bread. "The situation is getting better," she said. "A lot of shops are open today. We believe in our people." Ouerghi said local residents in her area had organised into vigilante groups to guard against looters after numerous shops and homes were ransacked in the aftermath of Ben Ali's downfall on Friday after 23 years in power.
Australian Soldiers from 7 RAR conducted over 6 weeks its Basic Recon Course. The course saw trainees conduct intensive individual training and worked as a patrol during the conduct of full mission profiles and life fire contact drills.
Photo: 7th Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment
DE61 EGZ......seen here heading north on the A9 near Redgorton with Rapier missile launch equipment.
Polish Army Snipers from 18 Dywizji Zmechanizowanej ,Training to improve their ability to operate in cold weather conditions.
Weapons are the TRG M10 SWS and the bullpup Bor Rifle
Photos: 18 Dywizji Zmechanizowanej
Advanced Mountain Operator, Lieutenent Steven Swinamer from The Princess Louise Fusiliers scans his arcs of fire, while conducting mountain operation training at Avalanche Gulch during Exercise TARGHEE SUMMIT, Montana.
Reservists from The Princess Louise Fusiliers and soldiers from The New Hampshire Army National Guard climbed to new heights while revisiting the once notorious Devil’s Brigade training grounds for mountain operations training on Exercise TARGHEE SUMMIT.
Over 100 Canadian and US personnel from The Princess Louise Fusiliers, New Hampshire Army National Guard, Land Force Atlantic Area HQ, 36 Canadian Brigade Group HQ, The West Nova Scotia Regiment, The 1st Battalion, The Nova Scotia Highlanders, 33 Field Ambulance (Halifax), Canadian Forces Health Services (Atlantic), 37 Signals Regiment Detachment (Saint John) took part on the exercise held from 26 Apr – 7 May, 2012. The exercise also helped foster camaraderie, boost moral and bridged the gap between Canadian and US soldiers.
Cpl. Dean Disotell, a heavy-machine gunner, and Master Cpl. Robert Rogowski, weapons detachment commander, Canadian Army, Princess Patricia's Light Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, climb a ladder to clear a roof top during a Marine Operations on Urban Terrain exercise at Marine Corps Training Area Bellows on July, 6. Approximately 2,200 personnel from nine nations are participating in RIMPAC 2012 as part of Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force 3, Combined Force Land Component Command. The CFLCC is conducting amphibious and land-based operations in order to enhance multinational and joint interoperability. Twenty-two nations, more than 40 ships and submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC exercise from June 29 to Aug. 3, in and around the Hawaiian Islands. The world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity that helps participants foster and sustain the cooperative relationships that are critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world's oceans. RIMPAC 2012 is the 23rd exercise in the series that began in 1971.
Latvian Soldiers during a joint NRF (Nato Response Force) training exercise in in Latvia with the Estonian Army 18/05/2010
Singapore Army Recruits from Kestrel Company undergoing weapons training with the SAR21 during their Basic Military Training – 9th December 2011
Photos: Cyberpioneer
Spanish Paratroopers in Afghanistan wearing the new Desert Camouflage Pattern Uniforms and Equipment
HERAT, Afghanistan--Italian soldiers participate in training at Camp Arena, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Regional Command-West Headquarters, Sept. 24, 2008. ISAF is assisting the Afghan government in extending and exercising its authority and influence across the country, creating the conditions for stabilization and reconstruction.
Army vs. Abilene Christian University at Michie Stadium in West Point, New York Oct. 3, 2020. (U.S. Army photo by Hannah Lamb)