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Soldiers from the Honduran 2nd Airborne Battalion perform battle maneuvers as soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, watch their technique. President Ronald Reagan mobilized US Exercise Task Force DRAGON/GOLDEN PHEASANT, consisting of both the 82nd Airborne Division and the 7th Light Infantry Division, to help discourage Nicaraguan forces from entering Honduras

Honduran troops from the 2nd Airborne Battalion cover their faces from debris stirred up by a CH-47 Chinook helicopter taking off for a joint US/Honduran jump during a mobilization of US Exercise Task Force DRAGON/GOLDEN PHEASANT. The task force, consisting of both the 82nd Airborne Division and the 7th Light Infantry Division, was deployed by President Ronald Reagan to help discourage Nicaraguan forces from entering Honduras

Honduran Soldiers, armed with an FN MAG 7.62 mm machine gun, foreground, and M16A1 rifles, participate in battle maneuvers during a mobilization of US Exercise Task Force DRAGON/GOLDEN PHEASANT. The task force, consisting of both the 82nd Airborne Division and the 7th Light Infantry Division, was deployed by President Ronald Reagan to help discourage Nicaraguan forces from entering Honduras

Honduran troops from the 2nd Airborne Battalion jump from a C-47 aircraft in a joint US/Honduran jump during a mobilization of US Exercise Task Force DRAGON/GOLDEN PHEASANT. The task force, consisting of both the 82nd Airborne Division, was deployed by President Ronald Reagan to help discourage Nicaraguan forces from entering Honduras

Soldiers from the Honduran 16th Infantry Battalion show members of the 3rd Battalion, 319th Artillery Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, their method for setting up a mortar during a mobilization of US Exercise Task Force DRAGON/GOLDEN PHEASANT. The task force consisting of both the 82nd Airborne Division and the 7th Light Infantry Division, was deployed by President Ronald Reagan to help discourage Nicaraguan forces from entering Honduras

Soldiers from the Honduran 16th Infantry Battalion demonstrate the operation of one of their mortars for members of 3rd Battalion, 319th Artillery Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, during a mobilization of US Exercise Task Force DRAGON/GOLDEN PHEASANT. The task force consisting of both the 82nd Airborne Division and the 7th Light Infantry Division, was deployed by President Ronald Reagan to help discourage Nicaraguan forces from entering Honduras

Members of the 82nd Airborne Division assist Honduran jumpers from the 2nd Airborne Battalion with rigging their parachutes during a mobilization of US Exercise Task Force DRAGON/GOLDEN PHEASANT. The task force, consisting of both the 82nd Airborne Division and the 7th Light Infantry Division, was deployed by President Ronald Reagan to help discourage Nicaraguan forces from entering Honduras

Members of the 82nd Airborne Division assist Honduran jumpers from the 2nd Airborne Battalion with rigging their parachutes during a mobilization of US Exercise Task Force DRAGON/GOLDEN PHEASANT, consisting of both the 82nd Airborne Division and the 7th Light Infantry Division. The task force was deployed by President Ronald Reagan to help discourage Nicaraguan forces from entering Honduras

A US Soldier from the 1ST Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, visits with local children. The 82nd is participating in a mobilization of US Exercise Task Force DRAGON/GOLDEN PHEASANT, consisting of both the 82nd Airborne Division and the 7th Light Infantry Division. The task force was deployed by President Ronald Reagan to help discourage Nicaraguan forces from entering Honduras

A Honduran 2nd Airborne Battalion Soldiers turns and gives a thumbs up to American Soldiers on his arrival at the jump zone during the mobilization of US Exercise Task Force DRAGON/GOLDEN PHEASANT, consisting of both the 82nd Airborne Division and the 7th Light Infantry Division. The task force was deployed by President Ronald Reagan to help discourage Nicaraguan forces from entering Honduras

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Base: Tamara

Country: Honduras (HND)

Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Bob Simons

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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label_outline Explore Nicaraguan Forces, Exercise Task Force Dragon, Light Infantry Division

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US and Honduran participants work with computer systems during Peace Keeping Operations North 2000, held at the Honduran Military Academy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Central America. The exercise runs through 14-25 August 2000, sponsored by US Southern Command in Miami, Florida, and executed by US Army South in Ft. Buchanan, Puerto Rico

Soldiers from Fort Lewis, Washington, prepare to board a C-130 Hercules transport aircraft that will return them to their base after nearly a month spent battling fires in Yellowstone National Park as part of a joint military/civilian effort

A US Navy (USN) (green shirt) Catapult Operator gives the thumbs up signal as a F-14D Tomcat aircraft assigned to the "Tomcatters" of Fighter Squadron 31 (VF-31) prepares to launch from the flight deck of the USN Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier, USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71). The ROOSEVELT and embarked Carrier Air Wing 8 (CVW-8) are currently on a regularly scheduled deployment conducting maritime security operations in the Mediterranean Sea

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Sergio Rodriguez, an infantry

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Eric Domagalski, a member of the Texas A&M University male cadet choir gives a thumbs up. The pilot of the F-15D Eagle aircraft is US Air Force Captain Connor Blackwood, an F-15 pilot from the 493rd Fighter Squadron, 48th Fighter Wing, RAF Lakenheath, United Kingdom. As a recruiting initiative aimed at stateside audiences, base officials, with the approval of higher headquarters, offered an F-15 incentive flight to one student. Eric's teachers chose him out of the 72 members. He received a flight physical, egress training and a full mission briefing before the afternoon take off

Lieutenant (LT), Joshua Armey, USAF, F-16 Falcon aircraft pilot assigned to the 35 Fighter Squadron (FS), Kunsan AB, Korea give the thumbs up sign prior to takeoff, during an exercise at Kunsan AB, Korea

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