US Air Force (USAF) Technical Sergeant (TSGT) Mark Morrison, Air Traffic Controller, 332nd Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron (EOSS), monitors his scope for aircraft returning to the desert air base in the Arabian Gulf Region, following strike missions against targets in Iraq during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Operation IRAQI FREEDOM is the multinational coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of Saddam Hussein

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US Air Force (USAF) Technical Sergeant (TSGT) Mark Morrison, Air Traffic Controller, 332nd Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron (EOSS), monitors his scope for aircraft returning to the desert air base in the Arabian Gulf Region, following strike missions against targets in Iraq during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Operation IRAQI FREEDOM is the multinational coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of Saddam Hussein

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Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Stefan Alford, USAF

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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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