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In the afternoon of the 7th of May 1996, a British Army Lynx Helicopter hovers over the Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Corps Helicopter Landing Zone after having delivered a generator by slingload. The generator will be used by troops located on the Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Corps compound in the Sarajevo suburb of Ilidza, Bosnia during Operation Joint Endeavor

A US Army (USA) Black Hawk helicopter comes in for a landing at Camp Butmir, located in Sarajevo. This air base heavily bombarded during the war that ended in 1995 with the Dayton Peace Accord now converted to the Command Operations for Stabilization Force (SFOR) troops in Bosnia during Operation JOINT FORGE

A US Air Force (USAF) HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter from the 56th Rescue Squadron (RS), Naval Air Station (NAS) Keflavik, Iceland (ISL), prepares for aerial refueling from a Special Operations Combat Shadow MC-130P Hercules aircraft, from Royal Air Force (RAF) Mildenhall, during an evacuation mission at the US Embassy, in Monrovia, Liberia (LBR)

Soldiers from the Portuguese Army, 2nd Mechanical Battalion, Camp Visoko, NATO Stabilization Force, Bosnia-Herzegovina embark a US Army UH-60 Black hawk helicopter as part of Operation RESCUE AIR. This Joint exercise between the United States Army, Bravo Company, 2-224th Aviation Battalion, Task Force Pegasus, Comanche Base, Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Portuguese Army is designed to familiarize soldiers with the Black hawk and other aircraft they may use during combat

A US Navy (USN) MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25 (HSC-25) sling lifts cargo during Vertical Replenishment (VERTREP) operations from the flight deck of the USN Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN 72). The LINCOLN and Carrier Air Wing 2 (CVW-2) are currently underway in the Western Pacific Ocean for a scheduled six-month deployment

British soldiers guard the entrance to Headquarters, Allied Europe Command Rapid Reaction Corps in Ilidza, a suburb of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina

A US Navy (USN) MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25 (HSC-25) flies past the bow of the USN Arleigh Burke Class (Flight I) Guided Missile Destroyer USS RUSSELL (DDG 63) during Vertical Replenishment (VERTREP) operations. The RUSSELL is currently underway in the Western Pacific Ocean for a scheduled six-month deployment

U.S. Army Rangers fast rope from a helicopter in preparation

A UH-1H Iroquois helicopter from the Georgian Air Force, flown by a combination of Georgian Air Force and US Air Force (USAF) 6th Special Operations Squadron (SOS) pilots, load Georgian Army Soldiers for a tactical infiltration mission, during Air Mobile Operations (AMO)

In the afternoon of the 7th of May 1996, a British Army Lynx Helicopter hovers over the Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Corps Helicopter Landing Zone with a generator sling-loaded to its cargo hook. This generator will be used by troops located on the Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Corps compound in the Sarajevo suburb of Ilidza, Bosnia

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Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR

Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

Scene Camera Operator: SPEC Jean-Marc Schaible

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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07/05/1996
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