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TSGT Theresa Penn, Detachment 6, 7th Weather Squadron, Wiesbaden, Germany, digs drainage ditches at the U.S. encampment at Tirana, Albania. Penn and other U.S. forces are part of the U.S. contingent sent to Albania in support of Operation Sustain Hope, the U.S. effort to bring in food, water, medicine, relief supplies, and to establish camps for the refugees (not shown) fleeing from the Former Republic of Yugoslavia into Albania and Macedonia

U. S. Army Task Force Hawk personnel at Rinas Airport, Tirana, Albania, the base camp for members of Operation Sustain Hope, upload M-39 Guided Missile and Launch assemblies. A Soldier loads the munitions with a M10A large four-wheeled forklift. Sustain Hope is a combined NATO and joint U.S. military humanitarian relief effort in conjunction with civilian relief agencies. Sustain Hope is bringing relief to thousands of refugees (not shown) in Albania and Macedonia displaced by the current unrest in the region of Kosovo, Yugoslavia

US Air Force Technical Sergeant Bill Seighman, 31st Maintenance Squadron, Aviano Air Base, Italy, USAF Corporal Joeseph Paul and USAF Major Ted McClegkey, 16th Air Force, Aviano Air Base, Italy, build a swing set for Bosnian refugee children at Camp Kozina, Slovenia. Members of H.E.A.R.T., Humanitarian Essential Aid Relief Team aid Eastern European refugees and other displaced persons, through assessment of needs and collection and distribution of resources

U.S. Army personnel from the 181 Transportation Battalion, Mannheim, Germany, load their gear on a C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft. Ten C-17 aircraft and support personnel (not shown) from the 437 Airlift Wing, Charleston AFB, South Carolina, are currently deployed to Ramstein Air Base, Germany, in support of Operation Sustain Hope, the U.S. effort to bring in food, water, medicine, relief supplies, and to establish camps for the refugees fleeing from the Former Republic of Yugoslavia into Albania and Macedonia

Inside the Machine Shop, board the US Navy (USN) Nimitz Class, Aircraft Carrier, USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), Hull Mechanic Technician Fireman (HTFN) Steven Irwin, (foreground), and HTFN Chance Brooks prepare to weld stanchions to a potable fresh water manifold. The water manifold will be used to distribute drinking water during hurricane relief efforts underway along the Gulf Coast Regions. The USN is assisting in humanitarian assistance operations, led by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in conjunction with the Department of Defense (DOD). (Duplicate image, see also DNSD0600788 or search 050902N4308O004)

Left side front view medium close-up as US Air Force Captain Tom Allen, Officer in Charge of Operations for "Keen Sage", assigned to the 32nd Air Operations Group, Ramstein Air Base Germany, works out schedules and reports in the Joint Operations Center, in the Cardozo Hotel, where command and control is staffed in support of Operation Atlas Response, a humanitarian relief mission to help after heavy flooding (people and floods not shown) in Mozambique displaced over a million people

Aerial port workers at Rinas Airport (bottom right), offload humanitarian supplies from a C-130. They handled up to 450 flights a day during the early part of the operation. AIRMAN Magaine's Article "Shining Hope for Survival" describes an Air Force-led joint task force ensuring that international aid gets to the flood of refugees pouring into Albania. (AIRMAN Magazine/July 1999)

US Air Force (USAF) Major General (MGEN) Joe Wehrle, Commander, Joint Task Force (JTF) Operation ATLAS RESPONSE, inspects the condition of the hospital and talks with local doctors in the town of Machanga, Mozambique, where citizens continue to deal with problems caused by recent flooding. USAF personnel are deployed here in support of Operation ATLAS RESPONSE, a Humanitarian Aid Operation directed by the US European Command (USEUCOM) to help the people of Mozambique, after severe flooding displaced over a million people from their homes

Straight on internal medium shot as US Air Force members of the 86th Air Mobility Squadron, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, and the 21st Special Operations Squadron, Royal Air Force, Mildenhall, United Kingdom, load up a MH-53 helicopter with humanitarian relief supplies at the International Airport at Maputo, Mozambique, Africa, 17 March 2000. They and their teams and crews are deployed here in support of Operation Atlas Response, a Humanitarian Aid Operation to help the people of Mozambique, after severe flooding (flooding and victims not shown) displaced over a million people from their homes

A Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning Repair Technician with the 86th Contingency Response Group, fills ditches around the base camp at Tirana, Albania, to prepare tents (not shown) for newly arriving personnel. The 86th CRG from Ramstein AB, Germany, deployed to Tirana, Albania April 4, 1999, as the lead element of the U.S. Humanitarian Relief Force Shining Hope to distribute rations and water to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

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Subject Operation/Series: SHINING HOPE

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U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Robert Obrien, structures

US Air Force (USAF) AIRMAN (AMN) Stephen Blevins, Security Forces Journeyman, 86th Contingency Response Group (CRG), mans a 5.56mm M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) from a bunkered position near the perimeter at Bashur Airfield in Northern Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

SSGT Chuck Hensley of the 55th Organizational Maintenance Squadron services communications equipment in the battle staff compartment of an EC-135 Stratolifter "Looking Glass" aircraft of the 2nd Airborne Command and Control Squadron, 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, prior to a mission. Named "Glory Trip 143GB," the mission will be the first remote launch of a silo-housed Minuteman III missile by an aircraft based at Offutt. The missile will be launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California

Albanian Army Lt. Col. Ali Mali, Commander of the 1st

COL Clifton Bray, American Task Force commander for Joint Task Force Shining Hope, greets Congressman Bill Young, Republican from Florida's 10th District, Apr. 17, 1999, during their tour of the American campsite (not shown) at Rinas Airport, located near Tirana, Albania. This mission is in direct support of Operation Sustain Hope

Initial arrival of personnel and equipment at an undisclosed

A member of the Iraqi National Guard, using an AK-47 rifle, practices detaining U.S Marine Corps Marine CPL. Rodirguez from the 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1ST Marine Division, during a vehicle check point training at Camp Korean Village, a base camp near the Western Syrian-Iraq border, on Nov. 6, 2004. The 1ST MARDIV, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom II, is engaged in Security and Stabilization Operations (SASO) in the Al Anbar province of Iraq. (USMC PHOTO by LCpl Andrew D. Young) (Released)

A flag blows in the wind at the areal port staging

A log train of Bv-206, All Terrain Carriers are backed up on their way to the lower base camp from Grouse Meadows. Bv carriers are the only way to provide hot chow and are also used to medevac Marines to the lower base camp. 2nd Marine Regiment and 3rd Battalion 8th Marines from Camp Lejeune, NC spend 34 days at the Mountain Warfare Training Center to receive instruction in cold weather survival and arctic warfare training

An Air Force C-17A Globemaster III, 437th Airlift Wing (AW), Charleston AFB, South Carolina, prepares to depart Germany loaded with Tri-Wall Aerial Delivery System (TRIADS) containers. Air Force C-17's delivered Humanitarian Daily Rations (HDR) in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM from Germany to Afghan refugees who massed inside the borders of Afghanistan. The C-17's carried more than 35,000 HDRs packed in 84 TRIAD boxes. Each box measures 80 inches tall and 48 inches square, containing 420 HDRs. The HDRs were delivered in a first of its kind, high-altitude airdrop. This is the first operational TRIAD delivery from a C-17 aircraft as well as the first combat airdrop mission...

At Walbde, Iraq (IRQ), US Navy (USN) personnel with Sea Bees Detachment 14 provide security for their base camp near the Syrian border in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. US Navy personnel man an MK19 40 mm Machine Gun

Aerial transporters from the 320th Expeditionary Aerial Port Squadron (APS) push food and rations onto a Canadian C-130 Hercules aircraft destined for Bagram Air Base (AB), Afghanistan, in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

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