Members of the 82nd Airborne Division wait as a C-141B Starlifter aircraft from the 62nd Military Airlift Wing taxis along the runway. U.S. troops, including members of the 7th Light Infantry Division and 82nd Airborne Division, spent two weeks participating in a mobilization of U.S. exercise task force Dragon/Golden Pheasant. The task force was deployed by President Ronald Reagan to help discourage Nicaraguan forces from entering Honduras

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Members of the 82nd Airborne Division wait as a C-141B Starlifter aircraft from the 62nd Military Airlift Wing taxis along the runway. U.S. troops, including members of the 7th Light Infantry Division and 82nd Airborne Division, spent two weeks participating in a mobilization of U.S. exercise task force Dragon/Golden Pheasant. The task force was deployed by President Ronald Reagan to help discourage Nicaraguan forces from entering Honduras

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Subject Operation/Series: DRAGON/GOLDEN PHEASANT

Base: Palmerola Air Base

Country: Honduras (HND)

Scene Camera Operator: STAFF SGT. Scott Stewart

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

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01/03/1988
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The U.S. National Archives
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