Memorials to the Fallen

Memorial to Irish Peacekeeper Pte Seán Rooney at Camp Shamrock 2023

Irish Peacekeeper Pte Seán Rooney (24) out of the 27th Infantry Battalion in Dundalk, Ireland was killed south Lebanon after an armored vehicle carrying four soldiers was attacked on the 14th of December 2022.

Mural painted and finished in memory…

Memorial t-wall by the 713th EN CO Sappers- Indiana National Guard

713th EN CO
Indiana National Guard
2011-2012
Forward Operating Base Frontenac, in the Arghandab River valley, north of Kandahar.

Indiana Army National Guard combat engineers of the 713th Engineer Company, 81st Troop Command, returned home to…

Gone but Not Forgotten, SGT Joe Nurre

Mural was dedicated to SGT Joe Nurre who was KIA. He was apart of the 463rd Engineer Battalion, U.S. Army Reserve

Pedro 66 Memorial

Pedro 66 Memorial
' These things we do that others may live.'
Pirinçlik Air Base- Diyarbakır, Turkey 2017
Photo via Andreas Sanchez

HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter of the 66th Rescue Squadron, 563rd Rescue Group, US Air Force call sign Pedro 66,…

Memorial for Airman 1st Class Elizabeth Jacobson- Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait

Jacobson Barrier, the memorial dedicated in honor of Airman 1st Class Elizabeth Jacobson, was retouched, updated and rededicated recently by 386th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron Airmen.

Originally placed in front of the 386th ESFS…

USAF Air Advisors Memorial from FOB Oqab (Eagle)- Now at the National Museum of the US Air Force

The Memorial to 11 USAF Air Advisors killed in green on blue attacks was originally established at FOB Oqab, at the Kabul International Airport by members of the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing. At some point it was transported from Kabul and set up at…

Operation Iraqi Freedom Fallen Airman Memorial- Balad Iraq

'This memorial is dedicated to those Airmen who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and have made the ultimate sacrifice for their nation. Many were called to serve in the Global War on Terrorism, all have sacrificed. For those who are memorialized…

9/11 Monument/Memorial at ADAB

Al Dhafra, AB UAE 2017.
September 11, 2001 Monument/Memorial at ADAB- home of the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing
In support of Operation Freedom Sentinel and Operation Inherent Resolve.
September 11, 2001 monument/memorial
Photo via @chris.r1776

Bagram Airfield Afghanistan 2020 [36 Photos]

Photos by courtesy of James Von Holland

As troop levels dropped and the base closed the T-Walls began to be painted over and the murals were destroyed. A contractor at Bagram James photographed the remaining walls, memorials, and documented the…

Balad Air Base Murals by 727th EACS, 332nd EOG, 332nd AEW [11 photos]

Balad Air Base- Iraq 2006-09 'All these pics came from the 727th Expeditionary Air Control Squadron, 332nd Expeditionary Ops Group, 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing Balad Iraq. The ones you see with names listed are from specific unit tours. The second…

Walls of the “Warrior’s Lounge Balad Theater Hospital in Iraq

Walls of the “Warrior’s Lounge” at the US Air Force Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility (CASF) at Joint Base Balad Air Force Theater Hospital in Iraq 2011. Hundreds of handwritten notes were scribbled by medical staff and wounded troops waiting…

Victory Base- 5th Engineer Battalion Memorial

"The sun will rise and the day will end,
The battle is fought and never ends
Let us not forget those who fall
For the price of freedom
The sacrificed all"

The memorial was dedicated to the fallen of the 5th Engineer Battalion, 35th Engineer…

Sgt Adam Cann Memorial T-wall at Camp Pendleton

The Camp Cann monument honors Sgt. Adam Cann, a dog handler killed by an explosion in Ramadi, Iraq. The memorial sits outside of the base canine kennel complex known as Camp Cann. The memorial is made from a barrier “T-Wall” that was originally…

Memorial to the victims of the Nov. 5, 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood

On November 5, 2009, a mass shooting took place at Fort Hood, near Killeen, Texas. Nidal Hasan, a U.S. Army major and psychiatrist, fatally shot 13 people and injured 31 others. It was the deadliest mass shooting on an American military base. Hasan…

Davis Combat Clinic Mural at Forward Operating Base Kirkuk, Iraq

The smiling image of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Carletta S. Davis that adorns the entrance to the clinic would, "welcome patients to one of the best level II medical facilities in Iraq," Lt. Col. Joseph R. Novack, Jr., Brigade Support Battalion commander…

Memorial to Army Staff Sgt. Jerome Lemon

Memorial On A Concrete Blast Barrier https://pbase.com/junk_camera_soldier/in_iraq&page=4

Army Staff Sgt. Jerome Lemon, 42, of North Charleston, S.C.; assigned to the 1052nd Transportation Company, South Carolina Army National Guard, Kingstree,…

Camp Knott- the Seabee compound at Camp Fallujah, Iraq 2008 now at the Seabee Museum

The t-wall sign from Camp Knott in Fallujah Iraq. Camp Knott was named in memory of SW2 Eric W. Knott who died in a rocket attack in Fallujah, Iraq, on September 4, 2004, while serving with NMCB 4. The Camp Knott sign was painted on a K-Rail, a…

Memorial Wall from FOB Shoja 2012

On May 28, 2014, the 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Fort Wainwright, Alaska established a memorial to the fallen Bobcats from Operation Enduring Freedom ’11-‘12. The memorial t-wall…

Camp Dwyer, Garmsir District, Helmand Province 2009

Memorial by British Armed Forces for Lance Bombardier James Dwyer of 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery, aged 22. L/Bdr Dwyer died whilst on a patrol in Southern Helmand province when the vehicle he was driving struck an anti-tank mine on December…

Camp Knott the Seabee compound at Camp Fallujah, Iraq 2008

On Sept. 4, 2004, the 21 year-old Seabee, Steelworker 3rd Class Eric L. Knott was two weeks into his second tour in Iraq with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 4 fabricating parts critical to enhancing security at Camp Fallujah when a 122mm…

SFC Antonio Rey “ROD” Rodriguez Memorial at in the SF/ SFAB quarters at Camp Marmal 2021: Mazar-e-Sharif Airport, Northern Afghanistan left behind during the withdrawal.

Soldier art in the SF/ SFAB quarters at Camp Marmal 2021: Mazar-e-Sharif Airport, Northern Afghanistan left behind during the withdrawal.
'I don't make threats, I make sincere predictions.' 'Don't thread on me.'
Photos via @fp_dude87…