(L) US Air Force Technical Sergeant Chris Ringland, and (R) US Air Force MASTER Sergeant Kenneth Martin, C-130 Hercules aircraft loadmasters from the 37th Airlift Squadron, Ramstein Air Base Germany, review a passenger manifest of 48 multinational paratroopers from the 173d Airborne Brigade, Southern European Task Force (Airborne) and Italian Army, Vicenza, Italy prior to boarding the aircraft in support of the multinational training exercise VENETO RESCUE 01, in northeast Italy and Slovenia. Veneto Rescue is an exercise that helps to train military units to conduct the safe evacuation of non-combatant civilians and other designated evacuates from a country or a region that has the ...
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[Complete] Scene Caption: (L) US Air Force Technical Sergeant Chris Ringland, and (R) US Air Force Master Sergeant Kenneth Martin, C-130 Hercules aircraft loadmasters from the 37th Airlift Squadron, Ramstein Air Base Germany, review a passenger manifest of 48 multinational paratroopers from the 173d Airborne Brigade, Southern European Task Force (Airborne) and Italian Army, Vicenza, Italy prior to boarding the aircraft in support of the multinational training exercise VENETO RESCUE 01, in northeast Italy and Slovenia. Veneto Rescue is an exercise that helps to train military units to conduct the safe evacuation of non-combatant civilians and other designated evacuates from a country or a region that has the potential for hostilities or danger. This type of operation is known as a non-combatant evacuation operation or NEO. This exercise involves over 34 aircraft and 1, 100 participants from military units with the US Army and Air Forces in Europe, the Italian Army, and the Slovenian Armed Forces.
Subject Operation/Series: VENETO RESCUE '01
Base: Aviano Air Base
State: Pordenone
Country: Italy (ITA)
Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Dave Ahlschwede, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
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