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Title: An Alpha 66 group member takes a mock hostage during group training, Florida
Date: 1991-10
Creator: Gentile, Bill
Description: Alfa 66 10/91; Anti-Castro Org. Training in Fla.; Sipa Press; PH: Bill Gentile ** Original **
Subject: Anti-communist movements -- Cuba; Military training camps -- United States; Paramilitary forces
Country: United States
Local Identifier: SC_Gentile_0862
Type: color slides
Collection: Bill Gentile Photojournalism Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:66822
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Title: Alpha 66 group members walk on a gravel path during a training exercise, Florida
Date: 1991-10
Creator: Gentile, Bill
Description: Alfa 66 10/91; Anti-Castro Org. Training in Fla.; Sipa Press; PH: Bill Gentile ** Original **
Subject: Anti-communist movements -- Cuba; Military training camps -- United States; Paramilitary forces
Country: United States
Local Identifier: SC_Gentile_0860
Type: color slides
Collection: Bill Gentile Photojournalism Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:66820
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: An Alpha 66 volunteer looks into a car side mirror during a training exercise, Florida
Date: 1991-10
Creator: Gentile, Bill
Description: Alfa 66 10/91; Anti-Castro Org. Training in Fla.; Sipa Press; PH: Bill Gentile ** Original **
Subject: Anti-communist movements -- Cuba; Military training camps -- United States; Paramilitary forces
Country: United States
Local Identifier: SC_Gentile_0867
Type: color slides
Collection: Bill Gentile Photojournalism Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:66827
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Alpha 66 volunteers get onto a dinghy while others stand on the shoreline during a training exercise, Florida
Date: 1991-10
Creator: Gentile, Bill
Description: Alfa 66 10/91; Anti-Castro Org. Training in Fla.; Sipa Press; PH: Bill Gentile ** Original **
Subject: Anti-communist movements -- Cuba; Military training camps -- United States; Paramilitary forces
Country: United States
Local Identifier: SC_Gentile_0863
Type: color slides
Collection: Bill Gentile Photojournalism Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:66823
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Alpha 66 volunteers wade through the water during a training exercise, Florida
Date: 1991-10
Creator: Gentile, Bill
Description: Alfa 66 10/91; Anti-Castro Org. Training in Fla.; C. Bill Gentile/Zuma
Subject: Anti-communist movements -- Cuba; Military training camps -- United States; Paramilitary forces
Country: United States
Local Identifier: SC_Gentile_0864
Type: color slides
Collection: Bill Gentile Photojournalism Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:66824
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Atlacatl Rapid Reaction Battalion In Santa Tecla, El Salvador
Date: 1982-10-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A United States Army instructor, center right, inspects U.S.-made M-16 rifles during a training exercise at the First Battalion headquarters of the Atlacatl Battalion in Santa Tecla, El Salvador, October 1, 1982. As early as 1950, the United States provided extensive support in the establishment of a counterintelligence apparatus for the Salvadoran military and police forces, in addition to direct military funding and assistance. Over the course of the civil war from 1980-1992, the United States sent more than $6 billion to the Salvadoran government in economic and military aid.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Military aid; Military training; Human rights violations; United States foreign policy; Atlacatl Battalion
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0038_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96505
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Col. John D. Waghelstein Head Of U.S. Military Trainers
Date: 1983-03-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: United States Army Colonel John D. Waghelstein listens to an artillery instruction class given by one of the 55 U.S. military trainers to Salvadoran army soldiers stationed in San Juan Opico, El Salvador, March 1, 1983. Waghelstein served as commander of the U.S. trainers and was one of the army's leading experts on counterinsurgency warfare. Referred to as "trainers" to discourage comparisons with U.S. advisors during the Vietnam War, the trainers in El Salvador worked to strengthen the military capacity of the Salvadoran Armed Forces as well as enforce the preferred military strategy of the war's largest funder, the United States government.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Military training; Military aid; United States foreign policy; Cold War; John D. Waghelstein
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: John D. Waghelstein
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0051_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96179
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Combat practice in front of Mary Graydon Center
Date: 1918
Creator: Unknown
Subject: World War, 1914-1918 -- Washington (D.C.); Military training camps -- History -- Washington (D.C.)
Local Identifier: f01-a33-01
Type: Photographs
Physical Location: American University Library -- University Archives
Collection: AU History Photograph and Print Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-5530

Title: Four men disembark from a dinghy onto land during an Alpha 66 training exercise, Florida
Date: 1991-10
Creator: Gentile, Bill
Description: Alfa 66 10/91; Anti-Castro Org. Training in Fla.; Sipa Press; PH: Bill Gentile ** Original **
Subject: Anti-communist movements -- Cuba; Military training camps -- United States; Paramilitary forces
Country: United States
Local Identifier: SC_Gentile_0858
Type: color slides
Collection: Bill Gentile Photojournalism Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:66818
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: In anti-Castro organizational training, an older man lectures a group of Alpha 66 volunteers, Florida
Date: 1991-10
Creator: Gentile, Bill
Description: Alfa 66 10/91; Anti-Castro Org. Training in Fla.; Sipa Press; PH: Bill Gentile ** Original **
Subject: Anti-communist movements -- Cuba; Military training camps -- United States; Paramilitary forces
Country: United States
Local Identifier: SC_Gentile_0857
Type: color slides
Collection: Bill Gentile Photojournalism Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:66817
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: A man kneels with his weapon during training of the Alpha 66 anti-Castro organization, Florida
Date: 1991-10
Creator: Gentile, Bill
Description: Alfa 66 10/91; Anti-Castro Org. Training in Fla.; Sipa Press; PH: Bill Gentile ** Original **
Subject: Anti-communist movements -- Cuba; Military training camps -- United States; Paramilitary forces
Country: United States
Local Identifier: SC_Gentile_0853
Type: color slides
Collection: Bill Gentile Photojournalism Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:66813
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: A man lies in the tall grass with a weapon during an Alpha 66 training exercise, Florida
Date: 1991-10
Creator: Gentile, Bill
Description: Alfa 66 10/91; Anti-Castro Org. Training in Fla.; Sipa Press; PH: Bill Gentile ** Original **
Subject: Anti-communist movements -- Cuba; Military training camps -- United States; Paramilitary forces
Country: United States
Local Identifier: SC_Gentile_0861
Type: color slides
Collection: Bill Gentile Photojournalism Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:66821
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: A man paddles a dinghy during an Alpha 66 training exercise, Florida
Date: 1991-10
Creator: Gentile, Bill
Description: Alfa 66 10/91; Anti-Castro Org. Training in Fla.; Sipa Press; PH: Bill Gentile ** Original **
Subject: Anti-communist movements -- Cuba; Military training camps -- United States; Paramilitary forces
Country: United States
Local Identifier: SC_Gentile_0856
Type: color slides
Collection: Bill Gentile Photojournalism Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:66816
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: A man points a rifle at a mock hostage during a training exercise for Alpha 66, Florida
Date: 1991-10
Creator: Gentile, Bill
Description: Alfa 66 10/91; Anti-Castro Org. Training in Fla.; C. Bill Gentile/Zuma
Subject: Anti-communist movements -- Cuba; Military training camps -- United States; Paramilitary forces
Country: United States
Local Identifier: SC_Gentile_0865
Type: color slides
Collection: Bill Gentile Photojournalism Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:66825
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: A man works with an electronic device during the anti-Castro Alpha 66 training, Florida
Date: 1991-10
Creator: Gentile, Bill
Description: Alfa 66 10/91; Anti-Castro Org. Training in Fla.; Sipa Press; PH: Bill Gentile ** Original **
Subject: Anti-communist movements -- Cuba; Military training camps -- United States; Paramilitary forces
Country: United States
Local Identifier: SC_Gentile_0850
Type: color slides
Collection: Bill Gentile Photojournalism Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:66810
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Members of the 30th Engineers receiving training in trench warfare
Date: 1917
Creator: Unknown
Description: Inscribed on back: "Hell fire" or Gas and Flame Regiment became 1st Gas Regiment of newly created Chemical Warfare Service in July 1918.
Subject: World War, 1914-1918 -- Trench warfare -- Washington (D.C.); Military training camps -- History -- Washington (D.C.)
Local Identifier: f01-a29-01
Type: Photographs
Physical Location: American University Library -- University Archives
Collection: AU History Photograph and Print Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-5526

Title: Salvadoran Army On A Training Exercise Near San Salvador
Date: 1982-07-15
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Salvadoran army soldiers move down a hillside during a training maneuver in Cuscatancingo, El Salvador, July 15, 1982. At the time, the country was engaged in a twelve-year civil war between successive authoritarian regimes, backed by the United States, and the guerrilla coalition Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN. The conflict would claim over 75,000 lives before peace negotiations concluded in 1992.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Counterinsurgency; Military training
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0142_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96270
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Salvadoran Army Receive Helicopter Training By U.S. Military Advisors
Date: 1982-01-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Salvadoran army soldiers listen to a United States Army instructor during a helicopter training exercise overseen by U.S. Army Rangers and Special Forces at the Ilopango air base in San Salvador, El Salvador, January 1, 1982. The base was favored by the U.S. military operating in the region as a headquarters for covert activities. Among the operations carried out were C.I.A.-sponsored supply flights to the Nicaraguan contras.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Military aid; Military training; United States foreign policy; Cold War; Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0236_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96703
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Salvadoran Army Receive Parachute Training By U.S. Military Advisors
Date: 1982-01-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Salvadoran army soldiers listen to a United States Army instructor during a parachute training exercise overseen by U.S. Army Rangers and Special Forces at the Ilopango air base in San Salvador, El Salvador, January 1, 1982. With the escalation of U.S. military aid in 1981, 55 military advisors, or the Mobile Training Team, MTT, arrived in El Salvador and were stationed at bases around the country. The advisors were prohibited from engaging in combat missions with Salvadoran troops and from carrying weapons other than a sidearm. However, regulations on the capacities and number of advisors stationed were largely ignored or circumvented by the Reagan administration.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Military aid; Military training; United States foreign policy; Cold War; Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Country: United States
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0189_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96317
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Salvadoran Army Receive Parachute Training By U.S. Military Advisors
Date: 1982-01-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Salvadoran army soldiers listen to a United States Army instructor during a parachute training exercise overseen by U.S. Army Rangers and Special Forces at the Ilopango air base in San Salvador, El Salvador, January 1, 1982. With the escalation of U.S. military aid in 1981, 55 military advisors, or the Mobile Training Team, MTT, arrived in El Salvador and were stationed at bases around the country. Referred to as "trainers" to discourage comparisons with U.S. advisors during the Vietnam War, the trainers in El Salvador worked to strengthen the military capacity of the Salvadoran Armed Forces as well as enforce the preferred military strategy of the war's largest funder, the United States government.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Military; Military aid; Military training; United States foreign policy; Cold War; Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Country: United States
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0190_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96318
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

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