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GHAZNI PROVINCE, Afghanistan (March 17, 2010)— A policeman with the Afghan National Police force and a Polish Army soldier clear their weapons before re-entering Forward Operating Base Giro after a joint patrol to the village of Pana in Ghazni Province.
U.S. Army Sgt. Sinclair with Whiskey Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, scans the area with a Lightweight Laser Designator Range-finder (LLDR) in Khowst province, Afghanistan, June 06, 2013. Whiskey Company conducted a Key Leader Engagement with a village elder to show the Afghan people that the Afghan National Security Forces are dedicated to the improvement of life in Afghanistan. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Robert Porter/Released)
Hundreds turn out for Kaiserslautern Special Olympics
By Rick Scavetta, U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern
KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany – Crowds of spectators cheered as MeeHee Ashe and fellow Special Olympics athletes sprinted down the 50-meter track during the annual games held in Enkenbach-Alsenborn.
For those 22 seconds, as she ran under sunny skies beside German and American athletes, Ashe, 27, felt happy, she said. Over the past few weeks, she has been training and preparing herself for the May 5 event – as she has done for more than two decades.
“I like to run,” Ashe said. “I forget about some things and just do it.”
The spring games, sponsored by U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern, included tennis, track & field, badminton, soccer, basketball and volleyball. They have been held in Kaiserslautern Military Community for 28 years – the past 14 years at the German police academy, whose officers also supported the event. In all, more than 800 German and American athletes took part. They were supported by roughly 1,300 volunteers.
Lorelai Browning, 17, a Vilseck High School student carried the Olympic torch into the arena. Her parents, Sgt. 1st Class Henry Browning and his wife Lorenna, watched with pride.
“It’s such an honor for her.” Lorenna Browning said. “We’re so excited.”
Everyone who took part is a winner, said Lt. Col Kevin Hutchison, commander of U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern, during his opening remarks.
“These games are intended to help the athletes gain confidence and build a positive self-image that carries over into the classroom, home, job and community,” Hutchison said. “It also fosters friendships between volunteers and athletes and provides a forum for better understanding of adults and children with intellectual disabilities.”
Nearby, Spc. Brad Abraham, 20, of Turlock, Calif., handed 10-year-old Aaron Evans a bottle of water as the Ramstein Intermediate School student prepared for his sprint. Abraham was among hundreds of Kaiserslautern Soldiers and Airmen who volunteered to support the event.
“In the Army, helping people is part of what we do,” Abraham said. “It’s fun, when you get into it.”
Evans darted down the dusty track, flanked by other children who laughed and smiled as they crossed the finish line. Afterward, Abraham pinned a yellow ribbon to Evans’s blue Special Olympics t-shirt.
“I enjoy seeing kids enjoying this,” Abraham said. “If they’re having fun, then we’re having fun.”
The event marked the second year volunteering for Senior Airman James Carlisle, 29, and engineering assistant from Pascagoula, Miss., who serves with the 86th Civil Engineering Squadron at Ramstein Air Base. He served as a buddy for Dominik Keller, a seven-year-old Kaiserslautern athlete. Carlisle noticed that Keller and other young athletes were not so interested in “hearing all the talk in the beginning,” he said.
“They knew what they wanted when they got here. The first thing out of their mouth was ‘Fussball’ – they wanted to play soccer,” Carlisle said. “They look forward to this all year. It’s really exciting.”
Kids got plastic firefighters’ hats and clambered into U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern fire trucks on display. Nearby, participants made arts and crafts projects and hitched rides on a mini-train.
Garrison volunteers sweated over huge grills, barbequing hundreds of hot dogs and hamburgers.
The final sporting event was a friendly soccer match between German and American athletes. Germany won, 8-0. Then, crowds applauded as Command Sgt. Maj. Richard Jessup led fellow senior enlisted leaders from Kaiserslautern’s Army and Air Force units in the presentation of medallions to athletes.
Ashe climbed the pedestal and slightly bowed to receive her medal, to the cheers of her parents, Charlie and Nelda, plus hundreds of other people crowding the grandstands. Afterward, athletes, volunteers and spectators joined hands in a huge circle and sang “We Are The World.”
“It feels happy inside,” Ashe said. “It’s about winning and it’s not about losing. It’s about having fun.”
(Photos by Rick Scavetta, U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern)
The Second Lady, Dr. Jill Biden, speaks with attendees at the "Army Wives" Screening
© U.S. Army Photo by Janet L. Davis
Pfc. James Burson, a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, covers fellow paratroopers as they move across an open field May 17, 2012, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. Burson is from Tyler, Texas.
Around 100 Soldiers of the Military Police intervention units took part in an integrated training exercise at the Wędrzyn Army Training Centre – 19th to 30th March 2012
Carlisle Barracks, an Army garrison dates back to the American War of Independence. Most of the buildings were burned by Confederates troops during the Civil War. The building in the photograph was constructed sometimes after the Civil War for officer's quarters. The garrison closed in the late 1870s and the grounds and some facilities were used by the Carlisle Indian Industrial School from 1879 to 1918. During the Indian School days, the building held offices for a time but primarily served as a dormitory for teachers. After the Indian school closed, army nurses resided in the building. From 1920 to 1946, officers lived there. In 2015, the building contains five military apartments.
U.K. Lance Cpl. Mark Waddingham, and other soldiers with the 664 Squadron of the U.K.'s Army Air Corps, take a wild ride on a United States Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 365, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward). The U.K. soldiers were invited to the squadron to see how the U.S. aviation crews work. It was one of several visits as both country's aviation service members visited each others' squadrons. Both services were amazed at the similarities in operations and squadron layouts. However, the 664 Squadron soldiers learned something about the Marines’ Ospreys. The soldiers are familiar with agile aircraft because they work with AH-64D Apache light attack helicopters over on the other side of the flight line. However, the smiles seemed almost permanent as the soldiers finished their ride on the much-larger Osprey, boasting how impressed they were with the aircraft's capability to pull off roller coaster-like moves.
Pictured: A soldier covers the movment of a simulated casulty being carried to saftey during Live firing ranges for students of the Light Close Reconnaissance Commanders course.
The Light Close Reconnaissance Commanders Course (LCRCC) is one of several combined arms and collective training courses offered by the Combined Arms Manoeuvre School based in Warminster.
Soldiers learn how to get the right information to the right people at the right time.
The Combat Manoeuvre Centre provides combat and Combined Arms Manoeuvre (CAM) individual training, from initial training to sub-unit, Battle Group commanders and, in time, formation staff (Brigade and Division staff).
COMBINED ARMS MANOEUVRE SCHOOL (CAMS)
Comprising of units formerly known as the Specialist Weapons School and the Reconnaissance and Armoured Tactics Division, the Combined Arms Manoeuvre School (CAMS) is based at Warminster and delivers agile and adaptable specialist weapons training to Officers and Soldiers of the Field Army.
Photographer: Sgt Donald C Todd
U.S. Army Pfc. Haley serving with 2nd Platoon, Alpha Troop, 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, provides security in the village of Badu Khel, Paktika province, Afghanistan, June 19, 2012.
Canadian Armed Forces light armored vehicles from the 1st Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry approach the fictional village of El Pennon during Exercise MAPLE RESOLVE 13 (JOINTEX) in Wainwright, Alberta on May 31, 2013.
Photo: Sergeant Matthew McGregor, Canadian Forces Combat Camera
Des véhicules blindés légers du 1er Bataillon, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry des Forces armées canadiennes s’approchent du village fictif d’El Pennon, à Wainwright (Alberta), le 31 mai 2013, dans le cadre de l’exercice Maple Resolve 13 (JOINTEX).
Photo : Sergent Matthew McGregor, Caméra de combat des Forces canadiennes
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The Army West Point Boxing team hosted the Beat Citadel Rumble Friday, October 9th at Trophy Point (U.S. Army Photo by CDT Angeline Tritschler).
Army vs. Liberty football game. West Point, NY. September 8, 2018. (US Army photo by Cadet cameron hudson
Colombian Army Professional Soldier Manuel Dario Ramos from the Demining Battalion #6 in Bogotá, practice the use of the wire to detect trip wires when opening a trail to start a search on a practice minefield during the Humanitarian Demining Training on May 18, 2010. This humanitarian demining training is a train the trainer course conducted by ARSOUTH in Bogotá, Colombia, as part of the professional development exchange program and sponsored by USSOUTHCOM, which provided equipment to the Colombian Army to facilitate their mission.
GHAZNI PROVINCE, Afghanistan—U.S. Army Spc. Skylar Mallchok of 3rd Platoon, Company D, 2nd Brigade, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Infantry Division and U.S. Army 1st Lt. Philip Bulger with the Security Forces Advise and Assist Team, pull security in a wadi system after receiving enemy contact from the town of Shituri, Afghanistan, Aug. 29, 2012. Bulger was accompanying 3rd Platoon during their 72-hour mission in the area as a liaison between the platoon’s leadership and the Afghan National Army Soldiers.
U.S. Army Soldiers with Whiskey Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, provides security while other Soldiers conduct a key leader engagement in the village of Sara Kalay in Khowst province, Afghanistan, June 10, 2013. Whiskey Company in partnership with Afghan National Security Forces talk to the population of Sara Kalay to establish relationships with key village elders and to establish needs of the local population. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Robert Porter/Released)
U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Anthony Heck, a native of Wasilla, Alaska, and dog handler attached to Chosen Company, and Nina 3, a military working dog, patrol in the Jani Khel district April 11 during Operation Marble Lion. Chosen Company is part of the 3rd Battalion (Airborne), 509th Infantry Regiment, Task Force Gold Geronimo.
U.S. Army soldiers assigned to the 982nd (Airborne) Combat Camera Company and the 384th Military Police fire their M9 Beretta pistols at their targets at Padgett Range Complex, Bagram Air Field, Parwan province, Afghanistan, April 26, 2012.
Retired Master Sgt. Julian Morales, a three-tour Vietnam veteran and Korean War veteran, hugs his daughter, Stephanie Silvas, following a Vietnam Veterans Welcome Home Ceremony on Fort Hood May 21. Nearly 700 Vietnam veterans were welcomed home at Fort Hood with the same fanfare and celebration that active-duty Soldiers traditionally receive when returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. (U.S. Army Photo by Christie Vanover, III Corps and Fort Hood Public Affairs)
Southern Musket
Midway between Granity and Karamea the bush is as dense and daunting as the West Coast can offer.
Barely penetrable in parts, Little Wanganui is untouched and beautiful to an onlooker, especially from the air. But to the young soldiers who have been making their way north through it for the best part of five days it’s, well, ‘what you get in the Army’ one says, with only a hint of a smile.
Rain has pelted down on them throughout much of their trek. They live in sodden hutchies, eating ration packs when they can, and keeping a close eye out for an elusive enemy.
This is Southern Musket, 3 Land Force Group’s second major training activity for the year. It’s a counter insurgency exercise with a contemporary twist in countryside as close and harsh as anything much you’ll get in New Zealand. And very few of the soldiers and officers have been here before, which means they have little real knowledge of the terrain and must stay constantly alert and navigate carefully.
But all that is an important part what makes for a highly beneficial exercise in which skills can be tuned, and lessons learned, says the Commanding Officer, of 2/1 Battalion 1RNZIR, Lieutenant Colonel Hugh McAslan.
The exercise encompasses several different units and scenarios, and while in Little Wanganui a platoon is pursuing an enemy party. Back in Marlborough early on in the exercise the soldiers conducted a non-combatant evacuation involving 50 local volunteers. 18 November 2010
Soldiers from 3 Rifles practice their drills and skills on Lydd Ranges in preparation for their deployment to Afghanistan in early 2012
Photos: Cpl Paul Morrison, Army Photographer - Crown Copyright, 2011
Latvian Soldiers during a joint NRF (Nato Response Force) training exercise in in Latvia with the Estonian Army 18/05/2010
Major Josh Bowman (R), Commander of A Company 1st Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles meets local people at their compound during Operation Kapcha Door in Nahr e Saraj, in Helmand, on June 26, 2010. Britain has around 9,500 troops in Afghanistan and is the second biggest contributor of forces to ISAF after the United States.
Cadets on the Army Black Knight football team exit the lockerroom tunnel on the way out to the field during the University of Hawaii MIlitary Appreciation football game with the Army Black Knights and UH Warriors at the Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Nov. 30.
Paratroopers from Company A, 1-504 PIR ,1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division during a mission with the Afghan National Army and Police – July 2012
Annic Aviation’s Auster AOP9 G-BURR on display at the RAF Cosford Airshow at Royal Air Force Cosford. Sunday 19th June 2016
Note, G-BURR was built by Auster Aviation Limited for the Royal Air Force as WZ706, being delivered in July 1955. It was transferred to Army Air Corps upon its formation on 1st September 1957 and was damaged on 20th September 1957 when it force-landed onto a track near Yala in Thailand while is use by 656 Squadron Army Air Corps. It migrated back to the United Kingdom and was issued with the maintenance serial 7851M. On 16th June 1964 it was flown from Number 19 Maintenance Unit at Royal Air Force St Athan to the Royal Military College of Science at Shrivenham. It was still at the Royal Military College of Science in the mid 1980s but was registered to Richard Peter Devenish Folkes as G-BURR on 28th September 1992. The registration G-BURR was cancelled by the Civil Aviation Authority on 18th March 1999 and re-issued to Peter John Gill trading as Annic Aviation on 2nd December 2008
G-BURR was painted as Army Air Corps Auster AOP9 WZ706 of 656 Squadron Army Air Corps
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At one of the many old Nike missile sights around Rockland County, ny. This is on the grounds of Colton School. East Ramapo district used it. I believe it is gone now.
Sept. 17, 2011; West Point, NY, USA; The Army Black Knights hosted the Northwestern Wildcats in an NCAA Division 1 college football game at Michie Stadium at the United States Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. The cadets wore a patch for the 82nd Airborne Division on their uniforms on Hall of Fame Day following a cadet review celebrating the class of 1976. Army won, 21-14. Credit: Danny Wild/USMA
California Army and Air National Guard firefighting aircraft and their crews from the 129th Rescue Wing, out of Moffett Field, and the 3-140th Aviation Battalion, out of Los Alamitos, work out of a wildfire staging base near Redding, Calif., Aug. 24, 2012, where they maintain their birds, rest, and take to the skies with gigantic buckets of water filled from local dip sites and dropped on the fire line. The citizen Soldiers and Airmen are assisting CALFIRE and other local agencies in battling numerous blazes in the Golden State’s northern mountainous region. (Air National Guard photo/Master Sgt. David Loeffler)