World Armed Forces Pictures Thread

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Coup d'etat in Honduras!

Honduran soldiers block a street near the residence of Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya in Tegucigalpa June 28, 2009. The Honduran Supreme Court said it had ordered the army to oust Zelaya on Sunday because of his unlawful plan to hold a public vote on presidential re-election.

Civilians surround army soldiers (in vain) near the presidential house in Tegucigalpa June 28, 2009. Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was arrested Sunday by troops who surrounded his home ahead of a controversial constitutional referendum, Zelaya's private secretary Enrique Reina said. Rumors spread Sunday morning that the president could be at the air base in southern Tegucigalpa.

A Honduran civilian waves a baseball bat in anger at an army armoured car near the presidential house in Tegucigalpa June 28, 2009.

Supporters of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya lie on the road before an army armoured car during a protest against the coup d'etat in the surroundings of the presidential house in Tegucigalpa June 28, 2009.

Honduran Army troops surround the presidential house in Tegucigalpa June 28, 2009.

Honduran soldiers arrive at the presidential residency in Tegucigalpa June 28, 2009. Witnesses said leftist president Zelaya was detained at home by troops in a constitutional crisis over his attempt to win re-election. CNN's Spanish-language channel later quoted Costa Rican officials as saying he was in Costa Rica and seeking political asylum.

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Chaos and blood spilled in Honduras!

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Police and Army units clash with supporters of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya nearby the presidential palace in Tegucigalpa on June 29, 2009. Honduras interim leader Roberto Micheletti imposed a nationwide 48-hour curfew after the army ousted elected President Manuel Zelaya on June 28, and sent him into exile.

Some 1,500 protesters, some of them masked and carrying sticks, taunted soldiers and burned tires just outside the gates of the presidential palace in a face-off with security forces. Honduras came under pressure on Monday to reinstate Zelaya as many Latin American leaders agreed to withdraw envoys.

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Soldiers from the 9th Regional Commando Battalion, Iraqi special operations forces, operate during close-quarters combat training at an installation in Iraq's Anbar province June 10. Each ISOF soldier conducted multiple room entries and worked with team members to effectively clear the building and respond accordingly to any threats.
(Photos by Sgt. Brandon Pomrenke : Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force - Arabian Peninsula)

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Belarus' Mi-24 helicopter gun-ships fly over the Belarusian capital of Minsk as they prepare for a military air show ahead of the Independence Day military parade, Wednesday, July 1, 2009. Parade will take place on July, 3. (AP)

Military personel load a Transall plane bound for Moroni, with first aid equipment on June 30, 2009 at Sainte-Marie de la Reunion airbase 181, on the French island of Reunion in the Indian ocean following the crash of a Yemeni passenger jet with 153 people on board that went down near the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Comoros. Bad weather may have played a role in the crash of the Airbbus A310 said France's transport minister Dominique Bussereau. The flight started in Paris early Monday and had made stops in Marseille, Sanaa and Djibouti. (AFP / Richard Bouhet)

Soldiers stop motorists at a checkpoint in Cotabato city in southern Philippines July 1, 2009. Fighting has escalated in the oil and gas-rich marshlands in Mindanao in the last two months, forcing nearly 350,000 people to flee from their homes and farms and pushing back peace talks with Moro islamic Liberation Front stalled since August 2008. (Reuters)

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Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada presents the newly consecrated Queen’s Colour to Maritime Command. The event took place on Saturday, June 27, 2009, at the Garrison Grounds, in Halifax. Photo credit: MCpl Jean-François Néron, Rideau Hall www.combatcamera.forces.gc.ca

A mine diver attaches an explosive charge dummy on a sea mine during an exercise of the underwater bomb disposal diving branch of the German Navy for the media, in the Baltic Sea in the northern German town of Eckernfoerde near Kiel July 1, 2009. The underwater bomb disposal diving branch of the German Navy will celebrate it's 45th anniversary in October. Reuters

A German Navy mine diver jumps into the water from a helicopter during a media exercise of the underwater diving branch of the German Navy, in the Baltic Sea off the coast of the northern German town of Eckernfoerde near Kiel July 1, 2009. The underwater bomb disposal diving branch of the German Navy will celebrate it's 45th anniversary in October. Reuters

National Security Guard (NSG) commandos march during the inauguration of the NSG regional hub in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, July 1, 2009. Following last year's attacks in Mumbai, four NSG regional hubs have been set up in Mumbai, Calcutta, Chennai and Hyderabad to quickly and effectively respond to possible future terror attacks. (AP)

Belarussian soldiers ride in armoured vehicles during an Independence Day parade rehearsal in the capital Minsk early on July 1, 2009. Belarus will celebrate Independence Day on July 3. (Viktor Drachev / AFP /Getty Images

A Sri Lankan police commando stands guard in front of the Pakistani team's dressing room as Pakistani cricketer Abdul Razzak, left, comes out during a three day practice match between Pakistan and Sri Lanka Cricket XI in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, June 29, 2009. (AP)

Policemen from the South Korean Coast Guard's Special Sea Attack Team (SSAT) board a patrol boat during an anti-terror exercise on their
training ground in Incheon, west of Seoul, on June 30, 2009.

Policemen from the South Korean Coast Guard's Special Sea Attack Team (SSAT) rappel down a building during an anti-terror exercise at its
training field in Incheon, west of Seoul, on June 30, 2009.

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South Korean special police force personnel jump over a vehicle during an anti-terrorism drill against possible attack from North Korea and other crimes at their training camp in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, July 2, 2009.

A policeman of Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency Special Operation Group breaks tiles using his head during a demonstration of martial arts skills at their training field in Seoul July 2, 2009

A South Korean special police force personnel breaks five bottles of beer by hand during an anti-terrorism drill against possible attack from North Korea and other crimes at their training camp in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, July 2, 2009.

Policemen from the South Korean Coast Guard's Special Sea Attack Team (SSAT) board a patrol boat during an anti-terror exercise on their training ground in Incheon, west of Seoul, on June 30, 2009.

Policemen from the South Korean Coast Guard's Special Sea Attack Team (SSAT) secure a building during an anti-terror exercise at its training field in Incheon, west of Seoul, on June 30, 2009.

South Korean special police force personnel rappel down from top of a building during an anti-terrorism drill against a possible attack from North Korea and other crimes at their training camp in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, July 2, 2009.

Members of a South Korean police SWAT team aim their weapons during an anti-terror exercise at their training field in Seoul on July 2, 2009.

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ATSUGI, Japan (July 2, 2009) Vice Adm. Kenichi Kuramoto, commander of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Fleet Air Force, welcomes Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Gary Roughead to Naval Air Facility Atsugi. During his brief visit, Roughead met with J Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force officials. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Steven Khor/Released)

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PUERTO BELGRANO, Argentina (June 30, 2009) Lt. j.g. Scott Cheney-Peters, weapons officer aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Oak Hill (LSD 51), conducts a tour of the well deck for Navy of the Argentine Republic officers. Oak Hill is participating in the combined multinational exercise Southern Exchange 2009, supporting U.S. Marine Corps Forces South in multinational amphibious exercises. (U.S Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Cory Rose/Released)

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PUERTO BELGRANO, Argentina (June 30, 2009) Navy of the Argentine Republic naval infantry demonstrate for the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Forces how they would enter a building through the window during a Marine Corps Forces South multinational amphibious exercise for Southern Exchange 2009. (U.S Army photo by Spc. Corey Idleburg/Release)

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Someone ID these uniforms..thanks!

STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. (June 29, 2009) Students from the patrol craft officer course at the Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School provides covering fire for an extraction of students from the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation during a field training exercise. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication specialist RJ Stratchko/Released)

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Female soldiers crawl through mud during a marine corp training session at a military base in Cavite city, south of Manila July 8, 2009. The Philippine marines have started recruiting women soldiers for front line duties including fighting Islamic militants on the restive southern Philippines island of Mindanao where an Italian red cross engineer has been held captive for nearly six months by Muslim rebels linked to Jemaah Islamiah. (Reuters)

A female soldier carries out push-ups after crawling through mud during a marine corp training session at a military base in Cavite city, south of Manila July 8, 2009. (Reuters)

A sniffer dog looks for victims at the scene of a mountain landslide in Khen Len village, in Vietnam's northern Bac Kan province, July 7, 2009. Vietnamese soldiers and police used sniffer dogs on Tuesday to search for victims of floods in the north of the country which killed at least 34 people. Photo taken on July 7, 2009. (Reuters)

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German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung visits soldiers of the 261 Paratroopers battalion in the southern German town of Lebach on July 7,
2009. The minister was informed of the training and work of the battalion.

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although hard too see the G36's carried by these German soldiers are actually two different versions. one the older model with it's built in red dot the other an Eotech Holographic weapons sight

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Royal Australian Air Force, Defence Materiel Organisation, United States Navy and Boeing personnel pose in front of Australia's first F/A-18F Super Hornet, at the rollout ceremony in St Louis, Missouri, on 8 July 2009. www.defence.gov.au

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Commanding Officer No 1 Squadron, Wing Commander Glen Braz, tries out the cockpit of Australia's first F/A-18F Super Hornet at the roll out ceremony in St Louis, Missouri, on 8 July 2009. www.defence.gov.au

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U.S. Marines and Afghan army soldiers rush back to their vehicles to pick up supplies from an air drop outside Fire Base Fiddler Green, Afghanistan, July 5, 3009. The Marines are assigned to the 3rd Battalion. A KC-130 dropped 12 pallets of fuel, food and water to support the personnel at the fire base. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Scott Whittington

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U.S. airmen and French legionnaires wait to board a French C-130 Transall aircraft on a French military base in Djibouti, June 30, 2009. The U.S. airmen, assigned to the 82nd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron, are training with the legionnaires to promote interoperability between the two militaries. The troops jumped together twice that day from a French C-160 Transall aircraft using French parachutes. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jesse B. Awalt

Two Russian nuclear Viktor-3 class submarines were transported to Russia’s Zvezda factory at Bolshoi Kamen, 56 miles east of Vladivostok, Friday. Both vessels were brought to the factory for dismantling. (Yuri Maltsev/Reuters)

Israeli border policemen scuffle with an ultra-Orthodox Jew during a demonstration against the opening of a car park during the Sabbath, outside Jerusalem's old city walls on July 11, 2009. Ultra-Orthodox Jews in their hundreds clashed with police in Jerusalem for the third consecutive Saturday during rowdy protests over the opening of a car park during the sabbath, police said. A series of protests centre on the decision by the municipality to require a car park outside the walls of the Old City to open on Friday and Saturday, when religious Jews observe a day of rest from sundown to sundown.

A Hungarian ISAF soldier secures an area for the take off of a German helicopter transporting a wounded Afghan policeman from a military base in Pul-e-Khumri, Baghlan province of Afghanistan, Saturday, July 11, 2009. Afghan police clashed with pro-Taliban fighters in the nearby Baghlan Jalid Friday night.

An Iraqi soldier stands guard during a soccer match between the Iraqi and Palestinian teams in Irbil, a city in the Kurdish controlled north, Iraq, Friday, July 10, 2009. Iraq won its first home soccer game since 2002 in a stadium packed with 25,000 fans, defeating the Palestinian team 3-0 in a contest that was as much about the nation's struggle for stability as it was about sports.

An Israeli soldier tries to restrain a Palestinian demonstrator during a protest against the Israeli controversial separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah on July 10, 2009. Israel says the "security barrier" that it began to construct in the wake of the violent Palestinian uprising in 2000 has dramatically reduced attacks on Israelis by preventing militants from infiltrating the country. Palestinians see the barrier as an "apartheid wall" that hampers freedom of movement and carves off Jewish settlements and other lands from their future state, threatening its economic viability

Iranian police officers protect the German Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, July 11, 2009, during a demonstration to condemn the slaying of the Marwa Al-Sherbini, an Egyptian woman who was stabbed repeatedly inside a German courtroom earlier this month. Al-Sherbini was attacked by a Russian-born German during his trial on charges of insulting her with racial slurs.

Pakistani police commandos sit next to to ammunition confiscated from militants after a gun battle in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan on Saturday, July 11, 2009. Police killed one suspected militant and seized a truck load of automatic weapons and explosives after the five-hour shootout early Saturday at a religious school in central Pakistan.

EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on leaving the office to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. Iranian police stand guard in front of the German embassy as a Nazi sign is seen on the ground during a protest gathering in Tehran July 11, 2009. Iranians gathered on Saturday to protest against the death of Marwa El-Sherbiny, a Egyptian woman who was killed inside a court in Germany

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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (3rd R), French Army joint Chief of Staff Jean-Louis Georgelin (2nd R) and Prime Minister Francois Fillon (R) review troops prior to the Bastille day parade on the Champs Elysees in Paris July 14, 2009.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, second right(top pic)at rear, and French Army Chief of Staff Jean-Louis Georgelin, rear right, open the Bastille Day military parade on their command car, at the top of the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris, Tuesday July 14, 2009. French Republican Guards on horseback are seen at left.

An Indian army regiment marches on the Champs Elysees during the annual Bastille Day parade in Paris July 14, 2009. Several army regiments were guests honour this year

Nine Alpha Jets from the French Air Force's Patrouille de France, or French Acrobatic Patrol, fly in an arrow formation over the Arc de Triomphe monument during the Bastille Day military parade on the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris, Tuesday July 14, 2009.

Army soldiers patrol the streets as the internally displaced were starting to return to their homes in Batkhela, a town in Malakand district, about 210 km (130 miles) by road north west of Pakistan's capital Islamabad on July 13, 2009. The The Pakistani government on Monday began sending home about 2 million people displaced two months ago by the army's assault on Taliban militants in the Swat valley.

A policeman accompanies internally displaced families as they prepare to go home from the UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) Jalozai camp, about 140 km (87 miles) northwest of Pakistan's capital Islamabad July 13, 2009.

Mexican policemen run to the site where clashes between criminals and federal agents ensued in Veracruz July 13, 2009. According to the police, gunmen traveling in a white car opened fire on the federal agents in downtown Veracruz. Police reported that two gunmen were killed, one arrested and three police wounded.

Brazilian wife of former Canadian world boxing champion Arturo Gatti, Amada Rodrigues (C), 23, is escorted by policemen after being arrasted in Recife July 12, 2009. Gatti was found dead in a holiday apartment in a northern Brazilian seaside resort on July 11, 2009 with wounds to his neck and head, Pernambuco state police said. "She is the only suspect," a spokesman for Pernambuco police told Reuters by telephone. Picture taken on July 12, 2009.

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ATLANTIC OCEAN (July 13, 2009) The Portuguese Navy frigate POS Corte Real (F 332) participates in a pass and review during the North Atlantic Council at Sea Day. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Shonna Cunningham/Released)

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RIO DE JANEIRO (July 12, 2009) Brazilian Marine 1st Lieutenant Jose Sena holds up a Brazil flag aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Oak Hill (LSD 51) before arriving in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Oak Hill is participating in Southern Partnership Station '09, a combined naval and amphibious operation with Oak Hill and maritime forces from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, and Uruguay. Oak Hill is also supporting U.S. Marine Corps Forces South multinational amphibious exercise Southern Exchange 2009. (U.S. Army photo by Pvt. Cory Torres/Released)

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ATLANTIC OCEAN (July 13, 2009) The Dutch Navy ship HrMs De Zeven Provincien (F 802) participates in a pass and review during the North Atlantic Council at Sea Day. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Shonna Cunningham/Released)

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ATLANTIC OCEAN (July 13, 2009) The German Navy frigate Emden (F 210) participates in a pass and review during the North Atlantic Council at Sea Day. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Shonna Cunningham/Released)

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ATLANTIC OCEAN (July 13, 2009) Ships prepare for a pass and review during the North Atlantic Council at Sea Day aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). The Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group is operating in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of responsibility after a scheduled five-month deployment in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility supporting Operation Enduring Freedom anpprentice Shonna Cunningham/Released)

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Philippines National Police Chief Jesus Versoza (R) watches Hayim Funes of Israel-based company Bul Ltd, demonstrating the function of a Corner Shot system or Assault Pistol Rifle (APR) at the Defense and Sporting Arms show at a shopping mall in Manila on July 16, 2009. Over one million unlicensed firearms are in the hands of civilians and rebels in the Philippines, leading to a high incidence of gun-related homicides, Versoza said recently.

Soldiers stand guard at Phuket international airport July 16, 2009. Thailand is ready to host this week's Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ministerial meeting in Phuket smoothly, with tight security measures, Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya reaffirmed Wednesday, Thailand News Agency (TNA) reported. (Reuters)

Soldiers are seen at Phuket international airport July 16, 2009. Thailand is ready to host this week's Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ministerial meeting in Phuket smoothly, with tight security measures, Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya reaffirmed Wednesday, Thailand News Agency (TNA) reported. (Reuters)

A member of the Afghan National Police stands guard in a street in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, July 15, 2009. (AP / Emilio Morenatti)

French army Chief Sergeant Johan Bonnevialle of the 8th Artillery Regiment returns after a joint patrol with U.S. and Afghan troops in a village in Kharuti, in the mountains of Wardak Province in Afghanistan July 16, 2009.

Colombian soldiers attend the launching of a new campaign of public relations. This campaign consists of the 6 TV commercials that shows the daily work and all the sacrifices the soldiers make every day.

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Golly's friends..the Swedes in the Gulf of Aden!

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