Periodically we’ll be sharing favorite military photos we’ve come across in putting together our various defense publications and the DMN website. These photos won’t necessarily be the newest or the most newsworthy, in any kind of chronological order, or even an equal representation of each service. They are photos that sometimes depict important events, sometimes illustrate the everyday service of men and women in the armed forces, and sometimes just struck us as being great compositions or arresting images.
Military Photos | Air Cavalry, Alaskan Patrols, Australian Rappels…
Lt. Ryan Ramsden, assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 5, performs a head-first, or Australian, rappel off a tower while training with members of the Australian Northern Territory Tactical Response Group during exercise Talisman Sabre 2011. Talisman Sabre is a bilateral exercise intended to train Australian and U.S. Forces in planning and conducting combined task force operations. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jennifer A. Villalovos
Third Platoon, Bravo Battery of the Automatic Battalion, 2nd Battalion, 8th Field Artillery Regiment, light up the Zabul province night by firing illumination from their M777A2, 155 mm howitzer at suspected enemy movements from FOB Pasab, Zharay District, Zabul province, Afghanistan, July 20, 2011. Photo by Sgt. Christopher McCann
A KC-135 Stratotanker from the Kansas Air National Guard’s 190th Air Refueling Wing prepares to refuel Navy F/A-18 Hornets over Wake Island during an escort mission from Japan to the United States. Wake Island was the scene of a heroic defense by U.S. Marine Corps and Navy personnel during World War II. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Ben Fulton
Staff Sgt. Travis Brown, a flight medic assigned to Company C, Task Force Lobos, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, and a German soldier who is part of a German extrication team lower to the ground with an aircraft hoist while latched on to a jungle penetrator during rescue hoist training July 16, 2011. The purpose of the training was to familiarize the German extrication team with usage of the aircraft hoist, since insertion via the hoist can oftentimes be the only option into certain austere locations within the mountainous and rugged terrain of Afghanistan. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Joe Armas, 1st ACB, 1st Cav. Division Public Affairs
President Barack Obama signs the certification stating that the statutory requirements for repeal of DADT (Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell) have been met, in the Oval Office, July 22, 2011. Pictured, from left, are: Brian Bond, Deputy Director of Public Liaison; Kathleen Hartnett, Associate Counsel to the President; Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta; Kathryn Ruemmler, Counsel to the President; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen; and Vice President Joe Biden. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
The Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf departs Dutch Harbor May 9, 2011, in support of a fisheries and law enforcement patrol in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska. This was the first time a Coast Guard National Security Cutter patrolled Alaskan waters. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Charly Hengen
Two U.S. Marine Corps KC-130T Hercules aircraft, Rangers 28 and 29, with the air combat element of Black Sea Rotational Force 11, fly during the Thunder Over Romania air show to display Romanian and U.S. military air power June 8, 2011, at Mihail Kogalniceanu Airfield, Romania. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Tatum Vayavananda
The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay (CG 53) rolls to starboard while executing a turn to port while steaming through the North Arabian Sea supporting the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) in 2008. Lincoln was deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility to support Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom as well as maritime security operations. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Justin R. Blake
An aircraft director guides an E-2C Hawkeye assigned to Carrier Airborne Early Warning and Control Squadron (VAW) 125 onto the bow catapults aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group was deployed supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class James R. Evans
Lt. Col. Michael Watson and Maj. Andrew Jennings go through a startup checklist in the cockpit of an EC-130J Commando Solo Feb. 11, 2011, at the Harrisburg International Airport, Pa. Class 1101 is the first group of students to attend mission qualification training for the EC-130J that will replace all the E- and P-model aircraft within the next few years. U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Julianne M. Showalter
Third Platoon, Bravo Battery of the Automatic Battalion, 2nd Battalion, 8th Field Artillery Regiment, light up the Zabul province night by firing illumination from their M777A2, 155 mm howitzer at suspected enemy movements from FOB Pasab, Zharay District, Zabul province, Afghanistan, July 20, 2011. Photo by Sgt. Christopher McCann
A KC-135 Stratotanker from the Kansas Air National Guard’s 190th Air Refueling Wing prepares to refuel Navy F/A-18 Hornets over Wake Island during an escort mission from Japan to the United States. Wake Island was the scene of a heroic defense by U.S. Marine Corps and Navy personnel during World War II. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Ben Fulton
Staff Sgt. Travis Brown, a flight medic assigned to Company C, Task Force Lobos, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, and a German soldier who is part of a German extrication team lower to the ground with an aircraft hoist while latched on to a jungle penetrator during rescue hoist training July 16, 2011. The purpose of the training was to familiarize the German extrication team with usage of the aircraft hoist, since insertion via the hoist can oftentimes be the only option into certain austere locations within the mountainous and rugged terrain of Afghanistan. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Joe Armas, 1st ACB, 1st Cav. Division Public Affairs
President Barack Obama signs the certification stating that the statutory requirements for repeal of DADT (Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell) have been met, in the Oval Office, July 22, 2011. Pictured, from left, are: Brian Bond, Deputy Director of Public Liaison; Kathleen Hartnett, Associate Counsel to the President; Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta; Kathryn Ruemmler, Counsel to the President; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen; and Vice President Joe Biden. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
The Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf departs Dutch Harbor May 9, 2011, in support of a fisheries and law enforcement patrol in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska. This was the first time a Coast Guard National Security Cutter patrolled Alaskan waters. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Charly Hengen
Two U.S. Marine Corps KC-130T Hercules aircraft, Rangers 28 and 29, with the air combat element of Black Sea Rotational Force 11, fly during the Thunder Over Romania air show to display Romanian and U.S. military air power June 8, 2011, at Mihail Kogalniceanu Airfield, Romania. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Tatum Vayavananda
The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay (CG 53) rolls to starboard while executing a turn to port while steaming through the North Arabian Sea supporting the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) in 2008. Lincoln was deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility to support Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom as well as maritime security operations. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Justin R. Blake
An aircraft director guides an E-2C Hawkeye assigned to Carrier Airborne Early Warning and Control Squadron (VAW) 125 onto the bow catapults aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group was deployed supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class James R. Evans
Lt. Col. Michael Watson and Maj. Andrew Jennings go through a startup checklist in the cockpit of an EC-130J Commando Solo Feb. 11, 2011, at the Harrisburg International Airport, Pa. Class 1101 is the first group of students to attend mission qualification training for the EC-130J that will replace all the E- and P-model aircraft within the next few years. U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Julianne M. Showalter
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