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An RQ-1L Predator from the 57th Wing Operations Group, Nellis AFB, Nevada, makes its way back to the hangar at a forward operating base in ENDURING FREEDOM area. This aircraft just returned from a flight over Afghanistan in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. The Predator is a medium-altitude, long-endurance, unmanned aerial vehicle system used for reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition

An RQ-1L Predator from the 57th Wing Operations Group, Nellis AFB, Nevada, makes its way back to the hangar at a forward operating base in ENDURING FREEDOM area. This aircraft just returned from a flight over Afghanistan in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. The Predator is a medium-altitude, long-endurance, unmanned aerial vehicle system used for reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition

An RQ-1L Predator from the 57th Wing Operations Group, Nellis AFB, Nevada, makes its way back to the hangar at a forward operating base in ENDURING FREEDOM area. This aircraft just returned from a flight over Afghanistan in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. The Predator is a medium-altitude, long-endurance, unmanned aerial vehicle system used for reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition

With an M1043 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) tagging along an RQ-1L Predator from the 57th Wing Operations Group, Nellis AFB, Nevada, makes its way back to the hangar at a forward operating base in ENDURING FREEDOM area. This aircraft just returned from a flight over Afghanistan in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. The Predator is a medium-altitude, long-endurance, unmanned aerial vehicle system used for reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition

A RQ-1L Predator UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) from the 57th Wing Operations Group, Nellis AFB, NV sits in a maintenance bunker at a forward operating airbase in the ENDURING FREEDOM area. The Predator is a medium-altitude, long-endurance, unmanned aerial vehicle system used for reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition and is in Afghanistan in direct support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

Airmen from the 15th Reconnaissance Squadron, Indian Springs, Nevada, recovers a RQ-1L Predator after it return from a flight over Afghanistan in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. The Predator is a medium-altitude, long-endurance, unmanned aerial vehicle system used for reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition

SENIOR AIRMAN Jose D. Nunez, USAF, 15th Reconnaissance Squadron, Nellis AFB, Nevada performs maintenance on a RQ-1L Predator UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) from the 57th Wing Operations Group, Nellis AFB, NV after its return flight over Afghanistan in direct support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. The Predator is a medium-altitude, long-endurance, unmanned aerial vehicle system used for reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition

AIRMAN First Class Nathan B. Eberle, USAF, 11th Reconnaissance Squadron, Nellis AFB performs an post flight check on this RQ-1L Predator UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) from the 57th Wing Operations Group, Nellis AFB, after its return flight over Afghanistan in direct support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. The Predator is a medium-altitude, long-endurance, unmanned aerial vehicle system used for reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition

AIRMAN First Class John D. Clark from the 15th Reconnaissance Squadron, Nellis AFB, Nevada, performs post flight maintenance on a RQ-1L Predator UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) from the 57th Wing Operations Group, Nellis AFB, NV, after its return flight from over Afghanistan. The Predator is a medium-altitude, long-endurance, unmanned aerial vehicle system used for reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition and is in Afghanistan in direct support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

An RQ-1L Predator from the 57th Wing Operations Group, Nellis AFB, Nevada, makes its way back to the hangar at a forward operating base in ENDURING FREEDOM area. This aircraft just returned from a flight over Afghanistan in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. The Predator is a medium-altitude, long-endurance, unmanned aerial vehicle system used for reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition

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Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM

Country: Unknown

Scene Major Command Shown: 57th Wing Ops Group

Scene Camera Operator: CWO2 William D. Crow, Usmc

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

The United States Marine Corps traces its roots to the Continental Marines of the American Revolutionary War, formed by a resolution of the Second Continental Congress on 10 November 1775. That date is celebrated as the Marine Corps's birthday. Throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries, Marine detachments served aboard Navy cruisers, battleships, and aircraft carriers. About 600,000 Americans served in the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II, performed a central role in the Pacific War. The Pacific theatre battles saw fierce fighting between Marines and the Imperial Japanese Army. The Battle of Iwo Jima was arguably the most famous Marine engagement of the war with high losses of 26,000 American casualties and 22,000 Japanese. By the end of WWII, the Corps expanded totaling about 485,000 Marines. Nearly 87,000 Marines were casualties during World War II (including nearly 20,000 killed), and 82 were awarded the Medal of Honor. The Korean War saw the Corps expand from 75,000 regulars to a force of 261,000 Marines, mostly reservists. 30,544 Marines were killed or wounded during the war. During Vietnam War Marines evacuated Saigon. Vietnam was the longest war for Marines. By its end, 13,091 had been killed in action, 51,392 had been wounded. Marines participated in the failed 1980 Iran hostage rescue attempt, the invasion of Grenada, the invasion of Panama. On 23 October 1983, the Marine headquarters building in Beirut, Lebanon, was bombed, causing the highest peacetime losses to the Corps in its history. 220 Marines and 21 other service members were killed. Marines liberated Kuwait during the Persian Gulf War, participated in combat operations in Somalia (1992–1995), and took part in the evacuation of American citizens from the US Embassy in Tirana, Albania. Following the attacks on 11 September 2001, Marine Corps, alongside the other military services, has engaged in global operations around the world in support of War on Terror. Marines were among first sent to Afghanistan in November 2001. Since then, Marine battalions and squadrons have been engaging Taliban and Al-Qaeda forces. U.S. Marines also served in the Iraq War.

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A U.S. Army Soldier from 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry

U.S. Army Soldiers, assigned to 1st Battalion, 25th

Eight KC-10 Extenders taxi out to the runway Dec. 20

Corporal Leonard Rodriguez, USMC, (right) and Lance Corporal Andres Almaguer, USMC, (left), make adjustments on the Allison T56-A-15 turboprop engine. The Marines are in the process of swapping an engine on a Marine KC-130 Hercules at a forward operating base in the Operation ENDURING FREEDOM area of operations. Both are members of the Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron-352 (VMGR-352), Combined Task Force 58

Machinery Repairman Third Class (DV) Erin Telitz works alongside Signalman First Class (EOD/SW) Joel Blea as he communicates with a patient and medical diver inside a transportable recompression chamber aboard USS DENVER (LPD 9) during a drill on the system as part of Exercise KERNEL BLITZ '97 off coast of Southern California (CA). The sailors are attached to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 3, Naval Amphibious Base, Coronado, CA. KERNEL BLITZ is a bi-annual Commander-in-CHIEF Pacific (CINCPAC) fleet training exercise (FLEETEX) focused on operational/tactical training of Commander, Third Fleet (C3F)/ I Marine Expeditionary Forces (MEF) and Commander, Amphibious Group 3 (CPG-3)/...

Uncheon Base Camp, South Korea....Marines drive an LVTP-7A1 armored amphibious assault vehicle past two South Korean children during exercise Bear Hunt '87. OFFICIAL U.S. MARINE CORPS PHOTO (RELEASED)

U.S. Army Soldiers from 35th Combat Sustainment Support

A UH-60 Blackhawk flies over Soldiers, assigned to

A Maintainer from the 386th Expeditionary Aircraft

US Marine Corps Reserve (USMCR) Sergeant John Marsh (left), and Corporal (CPL) Brian Woods (right), USMCR, both assigned to Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron Two Three Four (VMGR-234), examine the information on a customs declaration form after returning home at Naval Air Station, Joint Reserve Base (NAS, JRB), Fort Worth, Texas (TX), following a long deployment to Southwest Asia, in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

Ground-to-air view of a US Air Force (USAF) Desert Hawk Force Protection Airborne Surveillance (FPAS), Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

U.S. Soldiers demonstrate use of the new Gunfighter

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rq predator l predator operations group operations group nellis afb nellis afb nevada way hangar freedom area aircraft flight medium altitude vehicle system vehicle system reconnaissance surveillance target acquisition military operations united states marine corps us marine corps air force base enduring freedom high resolution freedom operation scene major command rq 1 l predator ops group target acquisition cwo 2 william marine base us national archives