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US Air Force (USAF) MASTER Sergeant (MSGT) Ricky Fitzgerald, a Combat Photographer assigned with the 332nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron (ESFS) shares the viewfinder on his digital video recorder with an Iraqi girl near Balad AB, Iraq during Operation Sole Train. During Operation Sole Train, Airmen assigned to the 332nd ESFS distributed 1,100 pairs of children and adult shoes to resident in villages at three separate locations near Balad AB, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
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Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM
Base: Balad
State: Salah Ad Din
Country: Iraq (IRQ)
Scene Camera Operator: 1LT Ronaldo D. Alombro, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Iraq War aka Operation IRAQI FREEDOM was the 2003 invasion of Iraq, led by U.S. Army General Tommy Franks, under the code-name "Operation Iraqi Freedom". 248,000 soldiers from the United States, 45,000 British soldiers, 2,000 Australian soldiers and 194 Polish soldiers from Special Forces unit GROM sent to Kuwait for the invasion. The invasion force was also supported by Iraqi Kurdish militia troops, estimated to number upwards of 70,000.
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