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An F/A-18 Hornet with the VFA-151 Fighter Attack Wing, Naval Air Station Lemoore, California breaks away from the KC-135E tanker, from the 146th Air Refueling Squadron, 171st Air Refueling Wing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, after being refueled during Roving Sands '96, the US military's largest annual joint air defense training exercise

Boom operator, MASTER SGT. Sam Via, refuels an F-16 Fighting Falcon over the Adriatic Sea. MASTER SGT. Via is a member of the 141st Refueling Wing, Washington Air National Guard, which is deployed on a 30 day rotation to Pisa, Italy. The four man crews, pilot, copilot, navigator and boom operator will fly 5 to 10 hour missions aboard the specially equipped KC-135s circling a preplanned route over the Adriatic refueling NATO fighters participating in Operation Decisive Edge and Joint Endeavor

MASTER SGT. Steve Butler, a KC-135 Stratotanker tanker aircraft boom operator from the 126th Air Refueling Wing, Illinois Air National Guard, refuels a B-2 Spirit bomber aircraft from the 509th Bomber Wing, Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, over the Pacific Ocean on April 4, 2005. (U.S. Air Force PHOTO by MASTER SGT Val Gempis) (Released)

An F/A-18 Hornet with the VFA-151 Fighter Attack Wing, Naval Air Station Lemoore, California is being refueled by a KC-135E from the 146th Air Refueling Squadron, 171st Air Refueling Wing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Air National Guard during Roving Sands '96, the US military's largest annual joint air defense training exercise

STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Ken Pryor, 527th Aircraft Maintenance Unit, monitors the fuel flow as an F-5E Tiger II aircraft is readied for a mission during Exercise RED STAR'87. The annual exercise, which is hosted by the 527th Aggressor Squadron, employs F-5 Tiger II aircraft and F-111 aircraft to simulate Soviet formations and tactics, thereby providing realistic training for US Air Force F-15 Eagle aircraft pilots

US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR MASTER Sergeant (SMSGT) Anthony Bartolomeo, Boom Operator aboard a KC-10 Extender aircraft, assigned to the 305th/514th Air Mobility Wing (AMW), attached to the 409th Air Expeditionary Group, delivers fuel to a US Navy (USN) F/A-18C Hornet aircraft assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron One Zero Five (VFA-105), during a refueling mission flown in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

California Air National Guard (CAANG) Technical Sergeant (TSGT) Jeffrey Penzel, 144th Fighter Wing (FW), Fresno Air National Guard Base (ANGB), Fresno, California (CA), carefully inspects an AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missile on a F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft during an Operational Readiness Exercise (ORE) conducted by the 144th FW

U.S. Air Force Aircrews and Maintenance Personnel unload a KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft (left), 319th Air Refueling Wing, Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D., at Michigan Air National Guard (MIARNG) Combat Readiness Training Center, Alpena, Mich., on Oct. 18, 2004, in support of Exercise Crisis Look 2004. (U.S. Air Force PHOTO by STAFF SGT. Scott T. Sturkol) (Released) (SUBSTANDARD)

US Air Force (USAF), SENIOR MASTER Sergeant (SMSGT) Kevin Stickley (left) and Technical Sergeant (TSGT) Roberto Muniz, Weapon Loaders, 93rd Fighter Squadron, makes adjustments on a GBU-12 500-pound laser guided bomb attached to the wing pylon of a USAF F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, in support of Operation SOUTHERN WATCH

MASTER SGT. Plonski, boom operator on the KC-135 from the 146th Air Refueling Squadron, 171st Air Refueling Wing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Air National Guard waits for the arrival of an F/A-18 Hornet, from the VFA-151 Fighter Attack Wing, Naval Air Station Lemoore, California, to be begin aerial refueling during Roving Sands '96, the US military's largest annual joint air defense training exercise

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Subject Operation/Series: ROVING SANDS '96

Base: Midland

State: Texas (TX)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: SSGT. Andy Dunaway

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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11/06/1996
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Captain Pat Ryan, an F-15 Eagle pilot from the 159th Fighter Group, New Orleans, LA, fills out the aircraft forms after returning from a mission in support of Roving Sands '96, the US military's largest annual joint air defense training exercise

A front view medium shot of three US Marine Corps Light Armored Vehicles (LAV-25) moving along the beach at the Pacific Missile Range Facility, "Barking Sands" Kauai, HI. Marines from the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Camp Pendleton, CA and involved Navy and Marine Air, Ground and Sea Forces trained as a combined amphibious assault force during Operation RIMPAC 96

Senior Airman Travis Moore, 350th Air Refueling Squadron

An air-to-air right side view of four F/A-18 Hornet aircraft from Fighter Attack Squadron 125 (VFA-125). The squadron is on a 23-day deployment from Naval Air Station, Lemoore, California. VFA-125 began flying the F/A-18 aircraft about 12 months ago. Squadron pilots have accumulated more than 1,500 hours in the aircraft so far

(From left-to-right), The Honorable Paul Bremer, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, The Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, and U.S. Army LT. GEN. Sanchez, share a laugh during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq, on Sept. 6, 2003. (DoD photo by TECH. SGT. Andy Dunaway) (Released)

US Air Force STAFF Sergeant Shawn Cordray, Communications Repair Technician, 255th Air Control Squadron, Mississippi Air National Guard, performs operation checks on the Tropo Satellite Support Radar. The Tropo Satellite Support Radar provides phone lines for communication among the units that will be participating in Exercise ROVING SANDS '96

AIRMAN Jason Bass, Crew CHIEF for the 77th Fighter Squadron, Shaw Air Force Base (AFB), South Carolina, launches his F-16 Fighting Falcon at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, for a local airspace orientation flight in preparation for ROVING SANDS '97. ROVING SANDS is a multinational effort and is the largest military exercise on United States soil that allows training in a joint environment to hone command and control procedures and integrate new systems in Theater and Air Missile Defense

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Indonesian Marines take cover during a beach assault exercise at Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands.

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US Navy (USN) Airmen (AN) from Fighter Strike Squadron One Three One (VFA-131) "Wildcats" perform maintenance on a F/A-18 Hornet during a no-fly day aboard the USN NIMITZ CLASS: Aircraft Carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN73), while underway on a scheduled deployment in the Mediterranean Sea

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