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A Marine CH-53 Sea Stallion with Helicopter Marine Medium Squadron 265, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) (MEU (SOC)) sits at the end of the runway at Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

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Forward Arming and Refueling Points Operations

U.S. Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion aircraft assigned

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A CH-47 Chinook sits on Hunter Army Airfield prior

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A 10th Combat Aviation Brigade UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter

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A soldier directs a UH-60A Black Hawk (Blackhawk) helicopter as it begins to take off from a landing zone during Operation Desert Shield

A pilot and co-pilot of a UH-60 Black Hawk (Blackhawk) helicopter run through a preflight cockpit check during Operation Desert Shield

A flight crewman watches as troops board his UH-60 Black Hawk (Blackhawk) helicopter during Operation Desert Shield

A soldier refuels a UH-60 Black Hawk (Blackhawk) helicopter during Operation Desert Shield

A left front view of a U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk (Blackhawk) helicopter in-flight during Operation Desert Shield

A UH-60 Black Hawk (Blackhawk) helicopter departs a landing zone near a medical facility during Operation Desert Shield

A UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter flies past a group of soldiers during Operation Desert Shield

A front view of a UH-60A Black Hawk (Blackhawk) helicopter in-flight during Operation Desert Shield

Two UH-60 Black Hawk (Blackhawk) helicopters wait to follow a third Black Hawk (Blackhawk) helicopter into the air during Operation Desert Shield

A soldier begins a preflight check on a UH-60 Black Hawk (Blackhawk) helicopter during Operation Desert Shield

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Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD

Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU)

Scene Camera Operator: SRA Rodney M. Kern

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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14/08/1990
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label_outline Explore Preflight, Desert Shield, Operation Desert Shield

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US Marine Corps (USMC) Sergeant (SGT) Carlos Carrasco, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, Twentynine Palms, California (CA), performs a preflight inspection on the Dragon Eye (DE) Interim-Small Unit Remote Scouting System (I-SURSS) at Camp Ripper, Kuwait, in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

Members of C Btry., 1ST Bn., 319th Air Field Arty. Regt., secure M-102 105mm towed howitzers to the slings of 2nd Battalion, 82nd Aviation Brigade UH-60 Black Hawk (Blackhawk) helicopters for a two-gun raid training mission during Operation Desert Shield

A right front view of a KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft in flight during Exercise GLOBAL SHIELD '84

Wearing an MCU-2P protective mask as part of a Nuclear-Biological-Chemical (NBC) warfare drill, LT. Thomas Stubblefield signals to the deck edge operator during the launch of an A-7E Corsair aircraft on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67). The KENNEDY is operating in support of Operation Desert Shield

Captain (CPT), Christopher Comeaux, USA, CH-47 Chinook helicopter pilot, assigned to Detachment 1, Company F, 106th Division, Iowa National Guard, Davenport, IA performs a preflight inspection of the aircraft, before flying to Asuncion, Paraguay during Operation NEW HORIZONS. The mission flown to support personnel at Asuncion, Paraguay is part of Combined Task Force Guarani Springs, which will conduct engineering and medical operations in Paraguay from 10 March to 30 June 2001 enabling joint service training between US and Paraguayan military personnel. The task force will renovate, construct and improve infrastructure of four schools; four water wells; and conduct three Medical...

Sailors in the aircraft intermediate maintenance department (AIMD) check the inventory in a parts screening pool on board the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN-72). The ship is homeward bound after a six month deployment for WestPac '93

Members of a minehunting unit prepare to lower the sonar device of an AQS-14 minehunting system from a Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 14 (HM-14) MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter during operations off the coast of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The system is being used to locate inert mines planted by U.S. forces as part of a minehunting exercise during Operation Desert Shield

An F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft of the 388th Tactical Fighter Wing flies alongside Falcon as the planes are en route to Saudi Arabia to take part in Operation Desert Shield. The aircraft in the foreground is armed with AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles

U.S. Navy Aviation Warfare Systems Operator 3rd Class Kyle Kurzendoerfer, assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 28, performs a tail rotor check on a MH-60S Seahawk helicopter at Naval Station Norfolk., Nov. 8, 2006. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication SPECIALIST SEAMAN Vincent J. Street) (Released)

A Strike Fighter Squadron 81 (VFA-81) F/A-18C Hornet aircraft flies over the sea during Operation Desert Shield. The aircraft is carrying an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile on each wing tip. VFA-81 is based aboard the aircraft carrier USS SARATOGA (CV-60)

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