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Getting a feel for the work involved, Major (MAJ) Dan Birrenkott, USAF, Commander, 379th Expeditionary Communications Squadron (ECS), works a Case 580 backhoe as he prepares trenches to lay pipe for communication lines at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Dane Kavanaugh (left), USAF supervises the operation

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Kristian Solbergsengen og Simen Fjellheim lesser møkk med greip fra møkkjelleren på Fjellheim, Brøttum, Ringsaker.

U.S. Marine Cpl. Eneas Mori uses a bucket to drain

An old black and white photo of a crane. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

Staff Sgt. Anthony Maskarina (center) assists the civil

A Coast Guard member operates a crane aboard the Coast

Black & White photo.. . America during Great Depression and World War Two. FSA / OWI Photograph.

VAB Crane Work Progress. NASA public domain image. Kennedy space center.

Two Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133 (NMCB-133) set up a pump to drain water from a bomb crater on the runway at an Iraqi airfield. The airfield, which had been under construction prior to the start of the Persian Gulf war, is being repaired to allow relief supplies to be flown in for nearby Kurdish refugees as part of Operation Provide Comfort

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Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT

Base: Sirsenk

Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Jerry Ireland

Release Status: Released to Public

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01/05/1991
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A Pakistani boy waits near a helicopter landing zone

A close-up view of the Mark 45 5-inch 54-caliber gun aboard the guided missile destroyer ARLEIGH BURKE (DDG 51). The vessel, one of the few ships that has ever been named for a living person, is traveling down river for sea trials off the coast of Maine

Fifteen personnel assigned to the 823rd Red Horse Squadron from Hurlburt Field, Florida as part of Operation Sustain Hope put the fishing touches on a newly widened two-lane road leading to the flight line (not shown) increasing the speed of traffic and safety of those walking. Operation Sustain Hope is the U.S. effort to bring in food, water, medicine, relief supplies, and to establish camps for the refugees (not shown) fleeing from the Former Republic of Yugoslavia into Albania and Macedonia

A UH-60 Black Hawk (Blackhawk) helicopter patrols over a tent city near Zakhu that was established for Kurdish refugees. The encampment was erected as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid Kurds who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

Two Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4 (NMCB-4) guide a forklift operator as he lowers a piece of equipment into the bed of an M-817 5-ton dump truck. NMCB-4 is preparing to leave Cubi Point after helping to clean up the volcanic ash from Mount Pinatubo that covered the area and caused some buildings to collapse

Two members of the Army's 284th Military Police Company search for unexploded ordnance along a dirt road. U.S. and coalition troops are in Zakhu as part of Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq and southern Turkey

Pumpar.Från vänster pumpkanna och klakatscher för upptagning av hjärtat (ventil).

An M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) carrying U.S. military personnel enters Zakhu, part of convoy arriving to assist Kurdish refugees at a nerby tent city. The encampment was established as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to assist refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

Soil erosion takes a toll of millions of dollars in the United States annually. The causes of this drain upon productive lands and preventive measures are graphically shown in an exhibit prepared by the Office of Exhibits of the United States Department of Agriculture for exhibition at the sesquicentennial exposition. Florence Bryant, an artist, is shown painting the exhibit

US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Julio Maisonet, with the 20th Civil Engineering Squadron (CES), Shaw Air Force Base (AFB), South Carolina (SC), operates a front end loader through a simulated bomb crater, while performing a Rapid Runway Repair (RRR) exercise

An old prison complex on the outskirts of Dahuk City in northern Iraq that is now home to many Iraqi Kurdish families. These are conditions that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has forced upon the Kurds since he subdued their 1991 uprising (Unphal) after the Persian Gulf War. Here, laundry is hung out to dry with the prison courtyard below

CPL Darryl F. Fuller, Marine Service Support Group 24 (MSSG-24), mans an M-2 .50-caliber machine gun from his post atop an M-934 5-ton cargo truck as a convoy of Marines and Navy medical personnel enters Zakhu. The convoy has arrived to assist Kurdish refugees inhabiting a tent city set up as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq.

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