World Armed Forces Pictures & Videos

Nearly 250 Polish soldiers engaged in organized and took part in the Armed Forces exhibition. With a display of weapons equipment and tactics, including a downed Pilot extraction display – 2nd September 2011













An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier an M24 sniper rifle during a sniper training session by 1st Platoon of Task Force 3-66, Bravo Company of the 172nd Infantry Brigade at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Kuschamond in Paktika province on September 5, 2011. Despite the deployment of US and

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has grown every passing year since it was launched by the remnants of the

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in late 2001, after their regime was toppled in a US-led invasion.




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Hunting Club' during a sniper training session by 1st Platoon of Task Force 3-66, Bravo Company of the 172nd Infantry Brigade at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Kuschamond in Paktika province on September 5, 2011.
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Trainees trying to secure a shophouse during an attack mission in a urban area.




Trainees simulating an attack mission at the break of dawn.




Trainees exhibit teamwork as they take turns to carry a “casualty” on a stretcher.




Some of the tasks during the Rite of Passage (ROP) phase of the GCC included pulling tyres and evacuating “casualties” over long distances.




Most of the route marches during the ROP phase included casualty evacuations on stretchers.




Trainees on their last route march during the ROP.




The task of pulling tyres was made more difficult when Guards instructors added loads to the tyres.




3SG Harikrishnan Veerasamy carrying a fellow trainee on his back during one of the ROP tasks.




Despite enduring days of little rest, trainees continue to display perseverance as they dig shell scrapes.




Trainees planning for an attack mission.




As a morale booster, trainees hold a barbeque out in the field.


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Trainees honing their rappelling skills at a tower in Bedok Camp.




Trainees doing a heli-rappel dry run.




Trainees running towards the Super Puma helicopters for their heli-rappel.




Performing a heli-rappel is one of the pre-requisites to becoming a guardsman.




3rd Sergeant (3SG) Alvin Lim (right) who finished his fast march test early, handing out water to trainees after their test.




A trainee sprinting towards the finish line during the 12km fast march test.




The fast march is a test of trainees' endurance to cover long distances on foot while carrying heavy loads.




Trainees at a fast march on the first day of the Guards Conversion Course (GCC).




Chief Guards Officer Colonel Nelson Yau (right) handing out the Guards beret to graduates at the parade.




More than just a symbol of a Guardsman's elite status, the khaki beret represents what Guards trainees went through during the rigorous GCC




3SG Syahrulnizam Bin Aziz enjoying a proud moment as his mother Madam Jaliah Kassim pins the Guards formation badge on his collar.




Commander 7th Singapore Infantry Brigade Senior Lieutenant Colonel Clifford Keong putting the Guards tab on a trainee's sleeve.




3SG Alvin Lim putting on the khaki beret that he worked hard to get.




The newly minted guardsmen at their GCC graduation parade at Bedok Camp.


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Personnel from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment mounted their ASLAVs (Australian Light-Armoured Vehicles) and are currently conducting a regimental exercise in the Mt Bundey training area, south of Darwin, to fine-tune their war-fighting skills. Dubbed “Eagle’s Run”, the 2nd Cavalry Regiment is using the exercise to build the capability of its ASLAV crews to ensure the unit is ready to deploy on operations with the rest of 1st Brigade from late-2012.




A crew commander from 2nd Cavalry Regiment mounts an ASLAV before a night live-fire practise in the Mount Bundey training area, south of Darwin, as part of Exercise Eagle’s Run.




An ASLAV from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment fires its 25mm Bushmaster cannon during a night live-fire practise at Mount Bundey training area during Exercise Eagle's Run.




An ASLAV from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment fires its 25mm Bushmaster cannon during a night live-fire practise at Mount Bundey training area during Exercise Eagle's Run.




An ASLAV from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment fires its 25mm Bushmaster cannon during a night live-fire practise at Mount Bundey training area during Exercise Eagle's Run.




An ASLAV from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment fires its 25mm Bushmaster cannon during a night live-fire practise at Mount Bundey training area during Exercise Eagle's Run.


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A Royal Military College staff cadet calms an angry 'local' during training at the urban operations training facility at Mt Bundey, Northern Territory.




A Royal Military College staff cadet assists a 'local' to move away from the danger area during urban operations training at Mt Bundey, Northern Territory.




A Royal Military College staff cadet provides cover for his classmates while clearing buildings during urban operations training at Mt Bundey, Northern Territory.




A Royal Military College staff cadet provides cover for his classmates while clearing buildings during urban operations training at Mt Bundey, Northern Territory.




Royal Military College staff cadets move through the urban operations training facility at Mt Bundey, Northern Territory, clearing buildings of 'enemy' as part of Battle Group Eagle.




Royal Military College staff cadets clear buildings during urban operations training at Mt Bundey, Northern Territory.




Royal Military College staff cadets tend to a 'casualty' in the field during training with 1st Brigade units in the Mt Bundey training area, Northern Territory.




An 'injured' Royal Military College staff cadet receives treatment from a medic on the ramp of an M113AS4 armoured fighting vehicle from the 5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, in the urban operations training facility at Mt Bundey, Northern Territory.


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Fighters loyal to the National Transitional Council fire 106 mm artillery during fighting against fighter loyal to strongman Moamer Kadhafi in the city of Sirte, Kadhafi's hometown on September 24, 2011. The assault was launched following reports of a rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation in the city of around 75,000 inhabitants.




Fighters loyal to the National Transitional Council fire 106 mm artillery during fighting against fighters loyal to strongman Moamer Kadhafi in the city of Sirte, Kadhafi's hometown, on September 24, 2011. The assault was launched following reports of a rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation in the city of around 75,000 inhabitants.





Fighters loyal to the National Transitional Council fire mortar shells during fighting against fighter loyal to strongman Moamer Kadhafi in the city of Sirte, Kadhafi's hometown on September 24, 2011. The assault was launched following reports of a rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation in the city of around 75,000 inhabitants.



Revolutionary fighters take cover from heavy artillery, rocket and missile counter-attacks launched by Gadhafi loyalists in Sirte, Libya, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011. Backed by rockets and heavy artillery, hundreds of Libyan revolutionary fighters pushed into Moammar Gadhafi's hometown from the west Saturday in the first significant assault in about a week.



Forces loyal to Libya's interim rulers, the National Transitional Council (NTC), fire rockets from an area about 2km (1.2 miles) from the centre of the coastal city of Sirte September 22, 2011.




A fighter loyal to Libya's interim rulers, the National Transitional Council (NTC), prepares for battle in an area about 2km (1.2 miles) from the centre of the coastal city of Sirte September 22, 2011.



Anti-Gaddafi fighters drive a roofless pick-up truck around 50 km (31 miles) east of Sirte, September 22, 2011. Sirte is Muammar Gaddafi's hometown and one of just a handful of places in Libya still held by fighters loyal to him. Hundreds of civilians continued to pour out of the city on Thursday in cars and pickups loaded with mattresses and food as the former rebel fighters fired machine guns and incoming rockets crashed on the city's outskirts.




A pall of smoke covers the city of Tripoli, Libya, as it rises from the military warehouse belonged to the army of Libya's ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi in the port area of the city, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011. A series of explosions rocked the military warehouse and a huge plume of smoke rose over the harbor on Saturday afternoon, although the cause of the blasts is not immediately known.


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