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Aerial of a C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft, 305th Air Mobility Wing (AMW), McGuire Air Force Base (AFB), departs after taking on fuel from an aerial tanker during a training mission over New Jersey (NJ)

A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III, a U.S. Army

A C-40 flies on final approach as a C-17 Globemaster

Members of the 36th Contingency Response group board

US Marine Corps (USMC) KC-130 Hercules aircraft, assigned to Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron Two Three Four (VMGR-234), taxies in after returning home at Naval Air Station, Joint Reserve Base (NAS, JRB), Fort Worth, Texas (TX), following a long deployment to Southwest Asia, in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft takes off at Michigan Air National Guard (MIARNG) Combat Readiness Training Center, Alpena, Mich., on Oct. 16, 2004, in support of Exercise Crisis Look 2004. (U.S. Air Force PHOTO by STAFF SGT. Scott T. Sturkol) (Released)

A KC-135 Stratotanker assigned to the 22nd Air Refueling

Air Force contractors wash a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster

A U.S. Air Force KC-10 Extender waits to take off at

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A US Air Force (USAF) E-9A Widget, a unique test support asset flown by the 82nd Aerial Targets Squadron (ATS), Tyndall Air Force Base (AFB), Florida (FL). This E-9A is one of only two aircraft in the USAF inventory and is used as an airborne platform and telemetry relay aircraft to provide ocean surface surveillance and to relay missile and target telemetry of missiles fired in over the horizon profiles on the Gulf Ranges

A US Air Force (USAF) E-9A Widget, a unique test support asset flown by the 82nd Aerial Targets Squadron (ATS), Tyndall Air Force Base (AFB), Florida (FL). This E-9A is one of only two aircraft in the USAF inventory and is used as an airborne platform and telemetry relay aircraft to provide ocean surface surveillance and to relay missile and target telemetry of missiles fired in over the horizon profiles on the Gulf Ranges

A US Air Force (USAF) E-9A Widget, a unique test support asset flown by the 82nd Aerial Targets Squadron (ATS), Tyndall Air Force Base (AFB), Florida (FL). This E-9A is one of only two aircraft in the USAF inventory and is used as an airborne platform and telemetry relay aircraft to provide ocean surface surveillance and to relay missile and target telemetry of missiles fired in over the horizon profiles on the Gulf Ranges

Two US Air Force (USAF) F-15A Eagle aircraft from the 53rd Fighter Wings (FW), Test and Evaluation Squadrons (TES) fly a refueling mission with a Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft from the 916th Air Refueling Wing (AWR), during a mission to evaluate the AIM-9X Sidewinder short-range, heat-seeking air intercept missile, conducted by the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center, Detachment 2, at Eglin AFB, Florida (FL)

A US Air Force (USAF) F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft assigned 57th Wing (WG) at Nellis Air Force Base (AFB), Nevada (NV), flies over the Gulf of Mexico during exercise Combat Archer, a Weapons System Evaluation Program (WSEP) hosted by the 83rd Fighter Weapons Squadron located at Tyndall, AFB, Florida (FL). The aircraft is armed with an AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles

A US Air Force (USAF) F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft assigned to the 522nd Fighter Squadron (FS), Cannon Air Force Base (AFB), New Mexico, in flight over the Utah Test and Training Range, during exercise Combat Hammer, a Weapons System Evaluation Program (WSEP), hosted by the 83rd Fighter Weapons Squadron located at Tyndall, AFB, Florida (FL). The aircraft is equipped with a blue airborne instrumentation pod, and two external fuel tanks, and armed with two AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles and one AGM-88 High-Speed Antiradiation Missile (HARM)

A US Air Force (USAF) F-15C Eagle aircraft from the 123rd Fighter Squadron (FS), Oregon (OR) Air National Guard (ANG), in flight over Northwestern Florida (FL), during exercise Combat Archer, a Weapons System Evaluation Program (WSEP) hosted by the 83rd Fighter Weapons Squadron located at Tyndall, AFB, Florida (FL). The aircraft is armed with two AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM) and a AIM-9 Sidewinder Missile

A US Air Force (USAF) F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft assigned to the 121st Fighter Squadron (FS), District of Columbia Air National Guard (DCANG), armed with an AIM-9MA Sidewinder Missile and equipped with an airborne instrumentation pod, in flight over the Gulf of Mexico, while participating in Exercise COMBAT ARCHER, a air-to-air Weapons System Evaluation Program (WSEP) hosted by the 83rd Fighter Weapons Squadron located at Tyndall Air Force Base (AFB), Florida (FL)

A US Air Force (USAF) F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft assigned to the 121st Fighter Squadron (FS), District of Columbia Air National Guard (DCANG), armed with an AIM-9MA Sidewinder Missile and equipped with an airborne instrumentation pod, in flight over the Gulf of Mexico, while participating in Exercise COMBAT ARCHER, a air-to-air Weapons System Evaluation Program (WSEP) hosted by the 83rd Fighter Weapons Squadron located at Tyndall Air Force Base (AFB), Florida (FL)

A US Air Force (USAF) E-9A Widget, a unique test support asset flown by the 82nd Aerial Targets Squadron (ATS), Tyndall Air Force Base (AFB), Florida (FL). This E-9A is one of only two aircraft in the USAF inventory and is used as an airborne platform and telemetry relay aircraft to provide ocean surface surveillance and to relay missile and target telemetry of missiles fired in over the horizon profiles on the Gulf Ranges

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: Tyndall Air Force Base

State: Florida (FL)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: Msgt Michael Ammons, USAF

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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Logistics Specialist Seaman Rennie Gonzalez, assigned to the supply department aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), conducts an inventory in a storeroom.

US Air Force (USAF) Technical Sergeant (TSGT) Steve McElwain, left and SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Jason Capehart place the landing door edge covers on the landing gear doors of their B-2 Spirit bomber, "The Spirit of Pennsylvania," at Nellis Air Force Base (AFB), Nevada (NV). B-2 bombers often particapate in Red Flag exercises on the Nellis air ranges

A NATO E-3A Sentry airborne warning and control system aircraft from NATO Air Base Geilenkirchen, West Germany, prepares to refuel from a KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft during a training mission. The plane is one of eighteen such aircraft providing surveillance for member nations as directed by NATO's Airborne Early Warning Force commander

GRID AREA OF THE RADIATION SURVEY TAKEN FOR THE ISOLATION OF THE ATS BUILDING PRIOR TO CONSTRUCTION

FORT SHAFTER FLATS, Hawaii - Company commanders, first

Sailors in the aircraft intermediate maintenance department (AIMD) check the inventory in a parts screening pool on board the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN-72). The ship is homeward bound after a six month deployment for WestPac '93

A Maintainer from the 386th Expeditionary Aircraft

Ground-to-air view of a US Air Force (USAF) Desert Hawk Force Protection Airborne Surveillance (FPAS), Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

Marines inventory ammunition confiscated during the multinational relief effort Operation Restore Hope

U.S. Army Soldiers, with the 332nd Medical Brigade,

In participation with EXERCISE DESERT RESCUE IX, STAFF Sergeant Lee T. Gaudreau with the 320th Special Tactical Squadron, Okinawa, Japan (hometown is Haverhill, Mass.), completes a High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) jump from the HC-130 near the B-16 range at Fallon Naval Air Station, Nevada.Desert Rescue IX is the premiere search and rescue (SAR) training exercise involving Navy, Army, Air Force and Marine personnel. It is conducted at the ranges of Fallon Naval Air Station, Nevada

A-10s from the U.S. Air Force Fighter Weapons School, Nellis AFB, Nevada fly in formation over the skies above the ranges north of Nellis after flying a training mission during the extensive course

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