Photos from April, 2005

GORI, Georgia — Members of Task Force Georgia Sustainment and Stability Operations Program explore ancient caves here. The service members are deployed to Georgia to help train selected Georgian units. (DoD photo by Army Spc. David Boerst) Hi-res / Details / Comments ...
KRTSANISI, Georgia — The Honorable Richard Miles, U.S. ambassador to Georgia, spoke of the importance of the Georgian Sustainment and Stability Operations Program April 29 at the Krtsanisi National Training Center here. He addressed members of the task force, comprised of Marines, Sailors, Airmen and Soldiers, emphasizing the impact the program has on the country of Georgia and the morale of the Georgian military. (DoD Photo by Marine Master Gunnery Sgt. Dwaine Roberts) Hi-res / Details / Comments ...
GARMISH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany — More than two dozen senior enlisted leaders from 13 nations met at the George C. Marshall Center for Security Studies here April 26 for the first international senior noncommissioned officer seminar. (DoD Photo by Karl Wedhorn) Hi-res / Details / Comments ...
SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE, Germany — Air Force Tech. Sgt. Lorenzo Javier, 52nd Security Forces Squadron force protection evaluator, practices shooting the M-4 carbine assault rifle while wearing his gas mask here. About six months ago, the Air Force began requiring all Airmen qualifying for weapons training to shoot while wearing their gas masks. (DoD Photo by Air Force Airman 1st Class Eydie Sakura) Hi-res / Details / Comments ...
TAGLIO DI PO, Italy — Army Brig. Gen. Richard Tabor, commander of the 7th Army Reserve Command, stares into the crowd as the mayor of Taglio Di Po, Dr. Margaret Crivellari, reads the certificate declaring the general an honorary citizen of the town April 25. (Army Reserve photo by Sergeant 1st Class Derrick Witherspoon) Hi-res / Details / Comments ...
KRTSANISI NATIONAL TRAINING CENTER, Georgia — Navy Lt. Louis Cimorelli, and Navy Corpsmen Patricia Meier and Joshua Wohlfarth carry patients into the field intensive care unit to be evaluated during a medical evacuation drill here April 23. The medical team is deployed to the Republic of Georgia providing medical care for U.S. service members attached to Task Force Georgia Sustainment and Stability Operations Program. (DoD photo by Marine Master Gunnery Sgt. Dwaine Roberts) Hi-res / Details / Comments ...
INCIRLIK AIR BASE, Turkey — Air Force Airman 1st Class Jennifer Benevides test's the voltage on a voice communication system here April 22. Benevides is a visual imagery and intrusion detection systems technician with the 39th Communications Squadron here. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Airman 1st Class Bradley Lail) Hi-res / Details / Comments ...
USS ASHLAND, Mediterranean Sea — A Navy Landing Craft Air Cushion sprays a curtain of water as it enters the well deck of the amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48) during a training exercises here April 20. The Landing Craft Air Cushion, a type of hovercraft, is assigned to Assault Craft Unit 4 deployed onboard the Ashland. (DoD Photo by Navy Airman Christopher Newsome) Hi-res / Details / Comments ...
USS KEARSARGE, Mediterranean Sea — Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit prepare to load motorcycles into a CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) during flight operations here April 18, 2005. The motorcycles allow the Marines an alternative means of transporting messages, documents or light cargo, and conducting reconnaissance in the field. Kearsarge and the embarked 26th MEU are on a regularly scheduled deployment in support of the Global War on Terrorism. (DoD Photo by Navy Airman Christopher Newsome.) Hi-res / Details / Comments ...
TBILISI, Georgia — Marine Cpl. Justin Allen, left, trains Georgian soldiers in the techniques of Marine martial arts here April 18. Allen is part of Task Force Georgia Sustainment and Stability Operations Program, which is training the Georgian 23rd Light Infantry Battalion. The GSSOP is scheduled to end during the spring of 2006. (DoD photo by Marine Master Gunnery Sgt. Dwaine Roberts) Hi-res / Details / Comments ...
PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro — Air Force Maj. Brian Benson hoops it up with children on the basketball court during a visit to the Pristina Mother and Child Center here April 15. (DoD Photo by Air Force Master Sgt. Lee Roberts.) Hi-res / Details / Comments ...
ROYAL AIR FORCE LAKENHEATH, England — Air Force Staff Sgt. Antonio Guerrero inspects the umbilical cable and block connection on an AIM-9X missile here April 13. Guerrero is one of two people from a group of Sailors, Airmen and Marines who received the first Air Intercept Missile-9X Cutting Edge Award during the 2005 AIM-9X Integrated Logistics Support Management Team meeting in Phoenix, Ariz., May 10-11. He is a precision guided munitions crew chief with the 48th Munitions Squadron here. Guerrero, involved in the field introduction of the AIM-9X, identified a number of improvements to include changing the way the umbilical cable and block connected the missile to the aircraft to prevent an eventual break in the components. The AIM-9X is a short-range, heat-seeking weapon employed in both offensive and defensive air operations. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Verla Davis.) Hi-res / Details / Comments ...
ROTA, Spain (April 12, 2005) -- Seabees of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion ONE's (NMCB 1) DFT Morocco pour concrete during one of the battalion's project in support of African Lion 2005 Engineering Exercise. Approximately 50 Seabees from NMCB 1 are participating in the bilateral exercise spending three months side-by-side with engineering forces from Morocco. (U.S. Navy photo by NMCB 1) Hi-res / Details / Comments ...
TBILISI, Georgia — A U.S. Air Force crew unloads cargo from a C-5 Galaxy aircraft here April 11 to support the Georgia Sustainment and Stability Operations Program. The U.S. European Command program, which begins April 23, will train select Georgian units to help the country sustain its scheduled deployments to support UN peacekeeping and stability operations in Iraq. (DoD Photo by Marine Master Gunnery Sgt. Dwaine Roberts.) Hi-res / Details / Comments ...
SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE, Germany — Air Force Staff Sgt. Caleb Blake pulls cable into a manhole here April 11 as Air Force Senior Airmen Lake Bouder and Gil Yzaguirre, and Air Force Airman Juan Natividad assist. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. John Barton.) Hi-res / Details / Comments ...
KRTSANISI NATIONAL TRAINING CENTER, Georgia — Marine Sgt. Michael Szeman, instructor trainer, explains some infantry tactics fundamentals here. (DoD photo by Marine Master Gunnery Sgt. Dwaine Roberts) Hi-res / Details / Comments ...
KOUNDOUL, Chad — Chadian Army Soldiers sit on top of a U.S. European Command-provided truck here April 10. Air Force Gen. Charles Wald, EUCOM deputy commander, visited the unit, which received training by the U.S. Marine Corps in the spring of 2004 as part of EUCOM’s Pan-Sahal Initiative. The initiative focused on training select units in Africa to help countries maintain internal and regional security. The truck was given the unit to help them improve boarder patrols in the region. (DoD Photo by Army Maj. Holly Silkman.) Hi-res / Details / Comments ...
KOUNDOUL, Chad — Air Force Gen. Charles Wald, right, U.S. European Command deputy commander, speaks with a company commander in the Chadian Army here April 10. Wald visited the unit, which received training by the U.S. Marine Corps in the spring of 2004 as part of EUCOM’s Pan-Sahal Initiative. The initiative focused on training select units in Africa to help countries maintain internal and regional security. (DoD Photo by Army Maj. Holly Silkman.) Hi-res / Details / Comments ...
TIRANA, Albania — Army Spc. Brian Harvey, a flight medic with Task Force Shadow, scans his side of a UH-60 Blackhawk as it lifts off from the airport here April 10. (DoD photo by Army Staff Sgt. Ralph Kyle) Hi-res / Details / Comments ...
COL Michael Anderson (right), Chief of the Europe Division, from EUCOM’s Directorate of Strategy and Policy, and COL Petro Mekhed, from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense’s Department of International Cooperation and Euro-Atlantic Integration, co-chairing the recent, 5-8 April 2005 meeting of the “US-Ukraine Colonels’ Working Group” in Garmisch, Germany. Hi-res / Details / Comments ...
CAMP TALON PRIDE, Albania — Air Force Airman 1st Class Jacob Clark takes a quiet moment here April 8 to read a book after a recovery mission in the Albanian Mountains. Clark is assigned to the 31st Fighter Wing’s mortuary affairs team. The unit is deployed to Camp Talon Pride in support of an aircraft accident investigation and recovery effort after a special operation MC-130H carrying nine crewmembers crashed March 31, 2005, while flying a low-level night exercise in the Albania Mountains. (DoD Photo by Air Force Staff Sgt. Michael Holzworth) Hi-res / Details / Comments ...
ROYAL AIR FORCE MILDENHALL, England — An Air Force member here salutes the flags representing the nine crewmen who died when their MC-130H Combat Talon II crashed in Albania March 31. Eight of the crewmen were assigned to the 7th Special Operations Squadron and one was assigned to Detachment 2, 25th Intelligence Operations Squadron. (DoD Photo by Air Force Airman 1st Class Cecil McCloud) Hi-res / Details / Comments ...
USS GONZALEZ, Eastern Atlantic Ocean — Moroccan frigates Hassan II (FFL 612) and Muhammed V (FFL 611) follow the U.S. destroyer USS Gonzalez during a combined international exercise April 3-5. In addition to joining the Moroccan frigates in formations and exercise maneuvers, the Gonzalez temporarily exchanged a few crew members to increase understanding between the two navies. (U.S. Navy Photo.) Hi-res / Details / Comments ...
TAN TAN, Morocco — A U.S. military dentist, center, with the Utah Air National Guard performs a free dental examination on a Morocco citizen with the help of a translator here April 4. This U.S. European Command humanitarian and civil assistance event included free medical examinations and treatment, and prescription glasses. In addition Navy Seabees, construction engineers, helped the Moroccan Army to build a civilian five-room school house. (DoD photo) Hi-res / Details / Comments ...