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Marines with Headquarters Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) with full packs, cross the flightline at Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, to board a Marine Corps KC-130 on a mission in support of OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM. The KC-130 is part of Marine Aerial Refueling Squadron VMGR-352

Marines with Headquarters Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) standing, with M-16s and M82A1, on the flightline at Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, prepare to board a Marine Corps KC-130 on a mission in support of OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM. The KC-130 is part of Marine Aerial Refueling Squadron VMGR-352

Marines with Headquarters Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) at Khandahar International Airport, Khandahar, Afghanistan, prepare to board a Marine Corps KC-130 on a mission in support of OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM on 16 Jan 02. The C-130 is part of Marine Aerial Refueling Squadron VMGR-352. Official USMC photo by Captain Charles Grow, USMC

A Marine with Headquarters Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) prepares to leave Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, and board a Marine Corps KC-130 on a mission in support of OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

Marines with Headquarters and Service Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), prepare to embark upon a Marine KC-130 at Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, in support of OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

US Navy Corpsman Second Class Gartman, a member of Headquarters Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) stands the flightline at Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, waiting to board a Marine Corps KC-130 from the Marine Aerial Refueling Squadron VMGR-352, on a mission in support of OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

Inside the KC-130/R Hercules from Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron-352 (VMGR-352), Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) (MEU (SOC)) get ready to depart after landing at Kandahar Airport in Afghanistan during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) (MEU (SOC)) board the rear of a KC-130/R with engines running from Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron-252 (VMGR-252). It is located at a forward operating base and now preparing for a flight back into Kandahar, Afghanistan in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) (MEU (SOC)) board the rear of a KC-130/R with engines running from Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron-252 (VMGR-252). It is located at a forward operating base and now preparing for a flight back into Kandahar, Afghanistan in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

A Marine with Headquarters Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) at Khandahar International Airport, Khandahar, Afghanistan, prepares to board a Marine Corps KC-130 on a mission in support of OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM. The KC-130 is part of Marine Aerial Refueling Squadron VMGR-352

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Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM

Base: Kandahar International Airport

Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

Scene Major Command Shown: 26th MEU (SOC)

Scene Camera Operator: CAPT Charles G. Grow

Release Status: Released to Public

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A Marine with Helicopter Marine Medium Squadron 365 (HMM-365) (Reinforced) tends a pit fire near the Air Command Element Headquarters at Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

US Marine Corps (USMC) Lance Corporal (LCPL) Adam Peers, Reservist, Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron-234 (VMGR-234), Fort Worth, Texas (TX), drives a stake into the ground before attaching concertina wire to it at Ahmed Al Jaber Air Base (AB), Kuwait. US Marines are currently deployed to Southwest Asia in support of Operations ENDURING FREEDOM and IRAQI FREEDOM

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