COL Richard Myers, right, Commanding Officer, 38th Tactical Missile Wing, presents a pin to Soviet inspection team leader Vladmir Tselischev as MASTER SGT. Thomas Klobucar, left, an On-site Inspection Agency team member, and Soviet translator Miroslav Ufimtsev look on. The Soviets conducted an inspection at the base to ensure U.S. compliance with the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty

LCOL Scott Lang, an On-Site Inspection Agency team leader, and Soviet inspection team leader Vladmir Tselischev sign documents verifying U.S. compliance with the terms of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty following a Soviet inspection at the base. Wueschheim is home to the 38th Tactical Missile Wing, a ground-launched cruise missile unit

A close-up view of a Soviet inspector holding a Russian-language copy of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. A ten-man Soviet inspection team has come to the base to witness the destruction of ground launched cruise missile (GLCM) weapon systems. Forty-one GLCMs and their launch canisters and seven transporter-erector-launchers are being disposed of at the base in the first round of reductions mandated by the treaty

General-Major Yakovlev, the Soviet defense attache, speaks with Vice Admiral (VADM) Igor V. Kasatonov, first deputy commander-in-chief of the Soviet Northern Fleet, aboard the Slava Class Guided Missile Cruiser MARSHAL USTINOV (CG 088). MARSHAL USTINOV, the Guided Missile Destroyer OTLICHNYY (DDG 434) and the Oiler GENRIKH GASANOV are making the first-ever Soviet naval visit to a US military port

A Russian designed MiG-29 fighter flown by German Luftwaffer pilot Lieutenant Colonel (LCOL) Tom Hahn, Squadron Commander (SC) of Germany's (DEV) 73rd Fighter Wing (FW) or "Steinhoff," stays in formation with a US Air Force (USAF) F-15C Eagle piloted by Major (MAJ) Greg Thomas, from the 28th Test Squadron (TS), Nellis Air Force Base (AFB), Nevada, over the state of Florida during a joint training exercise

U.S. Army linguist, STAFF SGT. Michael Arrowsmith, translates as SENIOR AIRMAN Brad Domingo, a Missile Maintenance Team training instructor with the 341st Logistics Support Squadron, describes to Russian Strategic Rocket Forces Colonels Valeriy Germanovich Proskuryakov (Missile Division CHIEF of STAFF), Oleg Georgiyevich Gromov (Deputy CHIEF, Weapons Directorate), and Aleksandr Yur'yevich Zubkov (Missile Regiment Commander) the security measures involved in preventing unauthorized access to a Minuteman III missile. The group is standing near Launch Facility I-06's opened Primary Access Shaft, which has a ladder to go down to the missile

LT. COL. Mike Chase, commander of the 62nd Bombardment Squadron, right, converses with Russian LT. COL. Sergei Polunin during a visit to the base by Russian LT. COL. Sergei Polunin during a visit to the base by Russian military personnel, part of exchange program proposed by Air Force CHIEF of STAFF GEN. Merrill A. McPeak. Polunin landed the first Tu-95 Bear bomber aircraft, background, on an American base and Chase landed the first B-52 Stratofortress aircraft on a Russian base

COL Richard Myers, right, Commanding Officer, 38th Tactical Missile Wing, presents a pin to Soviet inspection team leader Vladmir Tselischev as MASTER SGT. Thomas Klobucar, left, an On-site Inspection Agency team member, and Soviet translator Miroslav Ufimtsev look on. The Soviets conducted an inspection at the base to ensure U.S. compliance with the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: Wueschheim Air Base

Country: Federal Republic Of Germany (FRG)

Scene Camera Operator: A1C Frank Simpkins

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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Date

01/01/1989

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The U.S. National Archives

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