US Army (USA) Sergeant First Class (SFC) Ronnie Thompson, Platoon Sergeant, 2nd Brigade Reconnaissance Troop (BRT), contacts helicopters for an extraction at an alternate location after the original location came under attack with mortars and small arms fire shortly after his team was infiltrated. SFC Thompson is a member of the Quick Response Force (QRF) mission that responds to immediate action situations directed by the Tactical Operations Center (TOC) commander during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. SFC Thompson is armed with a KAC 5.56 mm Modular Weapon System (MWS) SOPMOD (Special Operation Peculiar Modification) M4

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US Army (USA) Sergeant First Class (SFC) Ronnie Thompson, Platoon Sergeant, 2nd Brigade Reconnaissance Troop (BRT), contacts helicopters for an extraction at an alternate location after the original location came under attack with mortars and small arms fire shortly after his team was infiltrated. SFC Thompson is a member of the Quick Response Force (QRF) mission that responds to immediate action situations directed by the Tactical Operations Center (TOC) commander during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. SFC Thompson is armed with a KAC 5.56 mm Modular Weapon System (MWS) SOPMOD (Special Operation Peculiar Modification) M4

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: Lsa Anaconda

State: Salah Ad Din

Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Scott Reed, USAF

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Iraq War aka Operation IRAQI FREEDOM was the 2003 invasion of Iraq, led by U.S. Army General Tommy Franks, under the code-name "Operation Iraqi Freedom". 248,000 soldiers from the United States, 45,000 British soldiers, 2,000 Australian soldiers and 194 Polish soldiers from Special Forces unit GROM sent to Kuwait for the invasion. The invasion force was also supported by Iraqi Kurdish militia troops, estimated to number upwards of 70,000.

A very large dataset of various big guns, howitzers, mortars, columbiads, all types of canon-like things - everything besides machine guns and rockets. This collection as well as all massive collections on Picryl.com required two steps: First, we picked a set to train AI vision to recognize cannon artillery, and after that, ran all 25M+ images in our database through our image recognition network. All media in the collection is in the public domain. There is no limitation on the dataset usage - educational, scientific, or commercial.

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19/06/2004
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