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A 10th Military Airlift Squadron C-23 Sherpa aircraft is ready to depart from the base after taking on passengers, cargo and fuel. A 436th Military Airlift Wing C-5A Galaxy aircraft being serviced in the background. Exact Date Shot Unknown

Passengers board a 10th Military Airlift Squadron C-23 Sherpa aircraft. The Sherpa is stopping at the base to pick up the passengers, take on cargo and refuel. A 436th Military Airlift Wing C-5A Galaxy aircraft being serviced in the background. Exact Date Shot Unknown

Air-to-air, high, front view of a 22nd Air Refueling Wing, March AFB, California, KC-10A Extender, flying toward the camera over the clouds with Travis-based 60th Airlift Wing C-141 Starlifter and C-5 Galaxy flying behind the refueler. Exact Date Shot Unknown

A 22nd Air Refueling Wing, March AFB, California, KC-10A Extender is seen from above as it flies over the 21R runway threshold. Waiting for take-off on the ramp are a C-141B Starlifter and a C-5 Galaxy from the 60th Airlift Wing. Exact Date Shot Unknown

Air-to-air, side view of a 22nd Air Refueling Wing KC-10A Extender from March AFB, California preparing to refuel an in trail 60th Airlift Wing's C-5B Galaxy over the High Sierra mountains of northern California. Exact Date Shot Unknown

Air-to-air, side view of a 22nd Air Refueling Wing KC-10A Extender from March AFB, California preparing to refuel an in trail 60th Airlift Wing's C-5B Galaxy over the High Sierra mountains of northern California. Exact Date Shot Unknown

Air-to-air, side view of a 22nd Air Refueling Wing KC-10A Extender from March AFB, California preparing to refuel an in trail 60th Airlift Wing's C-5B Galaxy over a lake in the High Sierra mountains of northern California. Exact Date Shot Unknown

A 60th Airlift Wing C-5 Galaxy transport comes in for a landing at Travis Air Force Base. Exact Date Shot Unknown

A C-23 Sherpa aircraft from the 10th Military Airlift Squadron and a C-5A Galaxy aircraft of the 436th Military Airlift Wing are parked on the "hot cargo pad."

A 10th Military Airlift Squadron C-23 Sherpa aircraft is ready to depart from the base after taking on passengers, cargo and fuel. A 436th Military Airlift Wing C-5A Galaxy aircraft being serviced in the background. Exact Date Shot Unknown

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Base: Ramstein Air Base

State: Rheinland-Pfalz

Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)

Scene Camera Operator: CMSGT Don C. Sutherland

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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01/09/1986
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A Soviet Mi-14 Haze helicopter and a Soviet Kashin class guided missile destroyer (583) shadow salvage operations for downed Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (KAL-007). The commercial jet was shot down by Soviet aircraft over Sakhalin Island on August 30, 1983 in the Sea of Japan. All 269 passengers and crewmen were killed

Passengers depart from a C-141B Starlifter aircraft during the 30th anniversary of Operation DEEP FREEZE

A C-5 Galaxy aircraft is unloaded at sunrise during exercise BRIGHT STAR '80

An air-to-air left front view of a 36th Tactical Airlift Squadron C-130E Hercules aircraft

A Cardwell-500 drilling rig mast is lifted onto a support structure atop a 40-K-loader in preparation for loading onto a 60th Marine Air Wing C-5B Galaxy aircraft. The rig will be flown to Semipalatinsk, USSR, where it will be used to drill a satellite h

A Garrison Flag, the largest authorized for the military, from the US Army Band at Fort Myers, Virginia, is delivered to the Pentagon as a backdrop for US President George W. Bushs visit to the impact site. The morning before, in an attempt to frighten the American people, five members of Al-Qaida, a terrorist group of fundamentalist Muslims, hijacked American Airlines Flight 77, then flew it into the Pentagon killing all 64 passengers onboard and 125 people on the ground. Firefighters fought the fire through the night. The Pentagon was the third target by four hijacked aircraft, the twin towers of the World Trade Center (WTC) were the other targets, and one unknown when the passengers...

Air Force officers and civilians cut the ribbon officially opening the new 437th Military Airlift Wing Headquarters building. From left to right: Major General (MGEN) Jack W. Sheppard, commander, 21st Air Force; Colonel (COL) James C. McCombs, commander, 437th Military Airlift Wing; Sergeant (SGT) David A. Ecton, noncommissioned officer-in-charge of wing command section; Senator Ernest F. Hollings, (Democrat-South Carolina); and retired Lieutenant General (LGEN) James C. Sherrill, former commander of the 437th Military Airlift Wing

Air-to-air, side view of a 22nd Air Refueling Wing KC-10A Extender from March AFB, California preparing to refuel an in trail 60th Airlift Wing's C-5B Galaxy over the High Sierra mountains in northern California. Exact Date Shot Unknown

U.S. Army personnel, dressed in combat gear with weapons, from the 3/15 Infantry, 24th Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Georgia, wait in a grassy area to board a helicopter at Port au Prince International Airport, Haiti during Operation Uphold Democracy. A C-5 Galaxy aircraft is in the background. U.S. military forces are in Haiti to preserve law and order and to restore the democratic government of President Aristide

STAFF SGT. Jeff W. Schmidt, 63rd Military Airlift Wing (MAW), checks aircraft arrival times on a list in the Military Airlift Command airlift control element facility. The 63rd MAW is transporting troops and equipment to the base from Fort Hood, Texas, during Purple Penny, a mobility exercise simulating a deployment to South Korea following an attack by North Korean forces

An Army National Guard CH-47D Chinook helicopter from Detachment 1, Company F, 106th Aviation Davenport, Iowa is loaded into a 436th Airlift Wing, 3rd Airlift Squadron's C-5B Galaxy airlifter. The Chinook is on its way to Georgetown, Guyana in support of New Horizon '97, the first combined humanitarian and civic assistance exercise conducted between the United States and Guyana. Military personnel from the Air Force, Air Force Reserve & National Guard, Army, Army National Guard and Marine Corps participated in the exercise which included engineering and medical readiness training

A C-130 Hercules aircraft takes off during Exercise Reforger '81

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