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A Marine with Headquarters Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) rests in the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, before leaving on a mission in support of OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

A Marine with Headquarters Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) lays down for a rest in the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, before leaving on a mission in support of OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

A Marine with Headquarters Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) catches up on a little reading while resting in the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, before leaving on a mission in support of OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

A Marine with Headquarters Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) rests, keeping a hand on his Barrett M82A1 Rifle, in the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, before leaving on a mission in support of OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

Corporal Mitchell, USMC, a member of Headquarters Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) rests in the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, before leaving on a mission in support of OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

Marines with Headquarters Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) prepare to leave the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, on a mission in support of OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

Marines with Headquarters Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) prepare to leave the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, on a mission in support of OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

Marines with Headquarters Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) prepare to leave the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, on a mission in support of OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

Corporal Mitchell, USMC, a member of Headquarters Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) rests in the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, before leaving on a mission in support of OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

A Marine with Headquarters Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) fullfill a military maxim, if you can sleep - sleep, while resting in the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, before leaving on a mission in support of OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

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Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM

Base: Kandahar International Airport

Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

Scene Major Command Shown: 26th MEU (SOC)

Scene Camera Operator: CAPT Charles G. Grow

Release Status: Released to Public

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16/01/2002
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label_outline Explore Maxim, Capt Charles, Kandahar International Airport

Brig. Gen. Bryan Wampler, commanding general, 143rd

Cpl. Michael Sheets, machine gun leader, 4th platoon,

A US Marine Corps (USMC) CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter assigned to the Aviation Combat Element, Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron One Six Two (HMM-162), 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Special Operations Capable (MEUSOC), lands at the Al Qatranah Range, in Jordan, while conducting a bi-lateral training exercise with the Jordanian Armed Forces

US Army (USA) SPECIALIST Fourth Class (SPC) David Johnson (left), GUNNER, and Sergeant (SGT) Justin Javar (right), Assistant GUNNER, Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC), 1ST Battalion (BN), 17th Infantry Regiment (1/17th), 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT), fire illumination flares from inside their Stryker Mortar Carrier Vehicle (MCV) 120 mm mortar cannon, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, in order to light-up the night sky over Mosul, Ninawa Province, Iraq (IRQ), in order to deny Iraqi insurgents the opportunity to place improvised explosive devices (IEDs) under the cover of darkness

US Navy (USN) Admiral (ADM) Vern Clark, CHIEF of Naval Operations (CNO), visits with wounded US Marine Corps (USMC) Corporal (CPL) Jaime Prieto, Charlie Company (C Co.), 23rd Marines, 1 Marine Division (MARDIV), in the medical facility on the base in Al Asad, Al Anbar Province, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

A Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck (HEMTT) tugs a trailer in a convoy of vehicles manned by US Marine Corps (USMC) personnel from Headquarters Company, Regimental Combat Team 1, at a dispersal area prior to crossing as a convoy into Iraq in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

Lance Cpl. Jeremy Phares, rifleman, left, rides in

A column of US Marine Corps (USMC) Amphibious Assault Vehicles (AAV7A1), from Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Special Operations Capable (SOC), prepare for a mission in the Central Command's Area of Responsibility during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

US Marine Corps (USMC) personnel from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Special Operations Capable (SOC), unload mail from a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter for delivery to forward deployed US Armed Forces personnel, in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

Villagers from Nojoy, outside Kandahar International Airport, follow the members of the US Army's Tactical Psychological Operations Team (TPT) 913, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, as they walk toward their vehicles after discussing local issues with the elders during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. The team is armed with 5.56 mm M16A2 rifles

US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines assigned to Headquarters Company, 6th Marine Regiment, armed with 5.56 mm M16A2 rifles and a 5.56 mm M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) conduct Quick Reaction Force (QRF) perimeter security training at Camp Stonewall, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, while deployed in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines assigned to 1ST Squad, 2nd Platoon, F/Company, Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Special Operations Capable (SOC), equipped with riot shields and batons, practice non-lethal crowd control techniques, aboard the US Navy (USN) WASP CLASS: Amphibious Assault Ship, USS NASSAU (LAH 4), during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

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