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Medium shot, right front view, soldier in jump gear, from the 1/508th Infantry (Airborne Battalion Combat Team), from Vicenza, Italy, on C-130, Hercules, rear cargo ramp, aircraft from the 37th Airlift Squadron, Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Not shown: Troops will be dropped into Grafenwohr, Germany, 9 August 2000, Exercise Lion Drop 12

Medium shot, rear view, soldiers, in jump gear, from the 1/508th Infantry (Airborne Battalion Combat Team), from Vicenza, Italy, sitting on flight line behind a C-130, Hercules, aircraft from the 37th Airlift Squadron, Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Not shown: Troops will be dropped into Grafenwohr, Germany, 9 August 2000, Exercise Lion Drop 12

Medium shot, left front view, two soldiers, camouflaged marking on faces, in jump gear from the 1/508th Infantry (Airborne Battalion Combat Team), from Vicenza, Italy, standing on flight line . Not shown: Troops will board C-130s, Hercules, from the 37th Airlift Squadron, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, and be dropped into Grafenwohr, Germany, 9 August 2000, Exercise Lion Drop 12

Medium shot, troops from the 1/508th Infantry (Airborne Battalion Combat Team), from Vicenza, Italy, wait in line to receive jump gear. Not shown: Before they board a C-130, Hercules, from the 37th Airlift Squadron, Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Troops will be dropped into Grafenwohr, Germany, 9 August 2000, Exercise Lion Drop 12

Medium shot, right front view, soldiers, from the 1/508th Infantry (Airborne Battalion Combat Team), from Vicenza, Italy, walk past a row of parked C-130s, Hercules, of the 37th Airlift Squadron, Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Not shown: Troops will be dropped into Grafenwohr, Germany, 9 August 2000, Exercise Lion Drop 12

Straight on medium shot from a high angle looking down as US Army troops from the 1ST of the 508th Infantry Airborne Battalion Combat Team (ABCT), 173rd Airborne Brigade, from Vicenza, Italy, jump from a US Air Force C-130 Hercules from the 37th Airlift Squadron, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, as they drop into Bunker Drop Zone at Grafenwohr, Germany for Lion Drop 12 on 09 August 2000

Straight on medium shot from a high angle looking down as US Army troops from the 1ST of the 508th Infantry Airborne Battalion Combat Team (ABCT), 173rd Airborne Brigade, from Vicenza, Italy, jump from a US Air Force C-130 Hercules from the 37th Airlift Squadron, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, as they drop into Bunker Drop Zone at Grafenwohr, Germany for Lion Drop 12 on 09 August 2000

Straight on medium shot from a high angle looking down as US Army troops from of the 1ST of the 508th Infantry Airborne Combat Team (ABCT), 173rd Airborne Brigade, from Vicenza, Italy, jump from a C-130 Hercules from the 37th Airlift Squadron, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, as they drop into Bunker Drop Zone at Grafenwohr, Germany for Lion Drop 12 on 09 August 2000

Medium shot, paratrooper, camouflage face paint, 1/508th Infantry (Airborne Battalion Combat Team), from Vicenza, Italy, being handed a parachute. Tail sections of parked C-130s, Hercules, in background. Not shown: Troops will board C-130s from the 37th Airlift Squadron, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, and be dropped into Grafenwohr, Germany, 9 August 2000, Exercise Lion Drop 12

Medium shot, left rear view, soldiers in jump gear, from the 1/508th Infantry (Airborne Battalion Combat Team), from Vicenza, Italy, lined up in two columns behind a C-130E, Hercules, 37th Airlift Squadron, Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Aircraft has "RS" tail letters, 86th Airlift Wing, Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Not shown: Troops will be dropped into Grafenwohr, Germany 9 August 2000, Exercise Lion Drop 12

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Subject Operation/Series: LION DROP 12

Base: Ramstein Air Base

State: Rheinland-Pfalz

Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)

Scene Camera Operator: A1C Bradley C. Church

Release Status: Released to Public

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label_outline Explore Exercise Lion, Airborne Battalion Combat Team, Lion Drop

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