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A Canadian Air Force CF-18 Hornet aircraft approaches for a landing during Cope Thunder North, an exercise that tests aircrews' skills in strike, support, air defense and combat rescue roles. Units from the Canadian Forces, the U.S. Marine Corps, Alaska Air National Guard, Strategic Air Command and other Pacific Air Forces units are participating in the exercise.

Crewmen from the 14th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Misawa, Japan, AIRMAN 1ST Class Andrew Ecker, back, STAFF SGT. Drew, middle, and AIRMAN 1 Class Tyron Flynn load a Mark 84 bomb under the wing of an F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft during Cope Thunder North. The exercise tests aircrews' skills in strike, support, air defense and combat rescue roles. Units from the Canadian Forces, the U.S. Marine Corps, Alaska Air National Guard, Strategic Air Command and other Pacific Air Forces units are participating.

A US Air Force (USAF) Crew CHIEF assigned to the 27th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (AMXS), at Cannon Air Force Base (AFB), New Mexico (NM), performs a pre-flight inspection on an F-16C Fighting Falcon fighter, during Air Warrior II, an Air Combat Command (ACC) exercise, at Barksdale Air Force Base (AFB), Louisiana (LA)

A US Air Force (USAF) F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft assigned to the 523rd Fighter Squadron (FS), 27th Fighter Wing (FW), takes off on a mission during Phase-1 of the Operational Readiness Inspection (ORI) exercise at Cannon Air Force Base (AFB), New Mexico (NM). The aircraft is armed with AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-air Missiles (AMRAAM), and AIM-9 Sidewinder Missiles

A US Air Force and a Japanese Air Self Defense Force pilot perform a preflight inspection of an F-15 Eagle aircraft during the joint US/Japanese Exercise COPE NORTH'86-3

AIRMAN 1ST Class Marta Kimbal, crew chief, 67th Tactical Fighter Squadron, secures a bolt on an F-15 Eagle aircraft during exercise Cope North 86-4. U.S. Air Force squadrons are engaging in dissimilar air combat training with Japan Air Self-Defense Force squadrons during the exercise

Fighter pilots from various nations conduct a debrief after a raining mission inside a ready room at Eielson Air Force Base (AFB), Alaska (AK), during Exercise COOPERATIVE COPE THUNDER, the largest multinational air combat training exercise in the Pacific. This 15-day exercise simulates wartime combat conditions so that military personnel from 12-nations can sharpen their air fighting skills, exchange air operational tactics, and build closer relations with each other

F/A-18A Hornet fighter attack aircraft from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 314 (VMFA-314), Marine Aircraft Group II (MAG-11), El Toro, California, await takeoff instructions during Cope Thunder North, an exercise that tests aircrews' skills in strike, support, air defense and combat rescue roles. Units from the Canadian Forces, the U.S. Marine Corps, Alaska Air National Guard, Strategic Air Command and other Pacific Air Forces units are participating in the exercise.

A1C Joel Bell, crew chief from the 14th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Misawa, Japan, signals aircrewmen during Cope Thunder North, an exercise that tests aircrews' skills in strike, support, air defense and combat rescue roles. Units from the Canadian Forces, the U.S. Marine Corps, Alaska Air National Guard, Strategic Air Command and other Pacific Air Forces units are participating in the exercise.

A crew chief from the 14th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Misawa, Japan, does a post-flight check on an F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft during Cope Thunder North. The exercise tests aircrews' skills in strike, support, air defense and combat rescue roles. Units from the Canadian Forces, the U.S. Marine Corps, Alaska Air National Guard, Strategic Air Command and other Pacific Air Forces units are participating in the exercise.

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Subject Operation/Series: COPE THUNDER NORTH

Base: Eielson Air Force Base

State: Alaska(AK)

Country: United States Of America(USA)

Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Russ Pollanen

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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17/06/1991
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