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Montford Point Marines honored at reception in Arlington - U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. John E. Wissler, right,
the deputy commandant for programs and resources, stands for a photo with an original Montford Point Marine, the
first African-Americans allowed to enlist in the Marine Corps, during a reception honoring these veterans June 26,
2012, at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, Va. Marines who served at Montford Point, a North Carolina
training facility that operated from 1942 to 1949, received the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award
bestowed by the U.S. Congress, during a June 27 ceremony.
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Thomas DeMelo/Released
Original date/time: 2012:06:26 19:31:44
Object Name: 120626-M-MI461-023
Special Instructions: Released for public use by Mr. Christopher Cox, Headquarters Marine Corps Combat Camera, Via DVIDS
By-line: Courtesy Photo
By-line Title: Defense Imagery Management Operations Center
City: Arlington
Province-State: VA
Credit: U.S. Department of Defense
Copyright Notice: Public Domain
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Fort Bragg Firefighters Train On Burning Plane - Army Sgt. Jeremy Lorton (front), a firefighter with 8th Ordnance
Company, 189th Combat Sustainment Battalion, 82nd Sustainment Brigade, followed by firefighter Robert Brogdon
and Lieutenant Daniel Purcell, a crew chief, combat flames during their annual aircraft rescue and firefighting training
on Pope Army Airfield, June 6th, 2012. The scenario uses a mock C-130 Hercules airplane outfitted with propane gas
to assess the firefighters response to a crashed aircraft.
Original date/time: 2012:06:06 10:28:39
Object Name: 120606-A-IA524-625
Special Instructions: Released, Sgt. Katryn Tuton, 50th Public Affairs Detachment, via DVIDS.
City: Pope Army Airfield
Province-State: NC
Primary Location Code: US
Credit: U.S. Army
Copyright Notice: Public Domain
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Years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq have brought post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD ) among military personnel to the attention of the American people as never before. I want to dedicate the following song to all our soldiers who are suffering from PTSD.
Service Members: Let's Trash Talk - Members from the Escort Flight - Tango Element also known as '˜Dumpster
Divers' sort through trash looking for operation security violations in Southwest Asia, July 2, 2012. Last month alone,
Tango Element recovered more than 1,900 OPSEC violations. Airmen from Tango Element are assigned to the 379th
Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron.
Original date/time: 2012:07:11 04:13:05
Object Name: 120711-F-XA488-017
Special Instructions: Released by 379th AEW/Public Affairs, Via DVIDS.
Province-State: USCENTCOM
Primary Location Code: UL
Credit: U.S. Air Force
Copyright Notice: Public Domain
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Veterans Seek Donations for World War II Memorial - Representatives of the Mayor’s Veterans Advisory
Committee of Manchester Township collected donations for the World War II Veterans Memorial which will be in the
township’s World War II Veterans Memorial Park in Whiting, N.J. The vets reached out to the Joint Base community at
the commissary Feb. 19 – 20, for help in raising additional funds needed due to the rise in material costs because of
the recession. Representing the band of brothers at the commissary were, left to right, Al Cirone, Army veteran of
Korean War, Rocco Coscia, WWII and Korean War Marine Corps veteran, Frank Barone, WWII Army veteran, and
Milton (Pappy) Gore, WWII and Korean War veteran.
Fort Dix Public Affairs Office, FORT DIX, N.J.
Story by Wayne Cook
Saturday, February 2, 2010
Original date/time: 2010:02:19 17:38:29
Object Name: Vets Raise Dollars and Awareness for Memorial Park.
Caption: 100219-A-4786C-001
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Army Officer Jumps At Normandy Reenactment - Members of the Liberty Jump team headquartered in Denison, Texas
pose for a photo in front of the Drag-em-oot, a vintage 1943 Douglas C-47 Dakota. Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey
Foundas, (second row, third from left) is a founding member of the team and recently participated in parachute jumps
commemorating the 1944 Allied Invasion of Normandy. Foundas' current military assignment is as a senior liaison
officer for the Center for Army Lessons Learned at U.S. Army Africa's G-3 Operations section in Vicenza, Italy.
(Courtesy photo)
Object Name: 120622-A-FW911-001
Keyword: Jeffrey Foundas
Keyword-1: Liberty Jump Team
Keyword-2: U.S. Army Africa
Keyword-3: USARAF
Special Instructions: Released, Margret Menzies, U.S. Army Africa, via DVIDS.
By-line Title: U.S. Army Africa
Primary Location Code: FR
Country Name: FR
Credit: U.S. Army
Copyright Notice: Public Domain
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US Army Soldier Plants Seeds In Kandahar Province, Afghanistan - Sgt. 1st Class Catherine Corson of Nicholasville,
Kentucky, spreads flower seeds in a drip-irrigation demonstration garden on May 21st, 2012 in southern Afghanistan.
Corson is a soldier with Kentucky's Agribusiness Development Team 4, whose mission is help local farmers in the
Kandahar province through agricultural and business education.
Original date/time: 2012:05:21 01:57:23
Object Name: 120521-A-UH571-218
Keyword-1: Afghanistan
Keyword-10: Kandahar Province
Special Instructions: Released, Staff Sgt. Paul Evans, Kentucky National Guard, via DVIDS.
Country Name: AF
Credit: U.S. Department of Defense
Copyright Notice: Public Domain
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Marines Ship Off To Boston For July 4Th - Marines with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 162, stationed aboard
Marine Corps Air Station New River, give Bostonians a brief overview of the MV-22B Osprey's capabilities aboard the
USS Wasp, June 29th, 2012. Marines with VMM-162 staged static displays of their aircraft during Boston Navy Week to
show local Bostonians how the U.S. military operates.
Original date/time: 2012:06:29 15:30:47
Object Name: 120629-M-MX805-027
Special Instructions: Released, Sgt. Alicia R. Leaders, Marine Corps Air Station New River, via DVIDS.
City: Boston
Province-State: MA
Primary Location Code: US
Credit: U.S. Marines
Copyright Notice: Public Domain
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Seasoned Veteran - Air Force Colonel Bill Myers shoots the breeze with one of his ground crew in front of an F-4
Phantom at Alconbury Royal Air Force Base in 1965. Myers had a 35-year military career that saw service in three
wars as a fighter pilot. He initially enlisted the military as a private in the field artillery. Bill Myers holds a photo of
his first unit assigned after enlisting, the 168th Service Battery, Colorado Army National Guard, out of Golden,
Colorado in 1938.
Caption: Courtesy Photo
Photo by Sergeant Aaron RognstadSmall
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Seasoned Veteran - Air Force Colonel Bill Myers shoots the breeze with one of his ground crew in front of an F-4
Phantom at Alconbury Royal Air Force Base in 1965. Myers had a 35-year military career that saw service in three
wars as a fighter pilot. He initially enlisted the military as a private in the field artillery. Bill Myers holds a photo of
his first unit assigned after enlisting, the 168th Service Battery, Colorado Army National Guard, out of Golden,
Colorado in 1938.
Caption: Courtesy Photo Photo by Sergeant Aaron RognstadSmall 245346
Would be interesting to know more about the Colonels ground crew member (MSgt) in the khakis during that era. See what you can dig up Rich ....Thanks.
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