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A US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon leaves the hangar as it begins a security mission over Iraq in support of the operation. This operation is a security mission to enforce the United Nations no-fly zone north of the 36 degree parallel from Iraqi air and ground incursion. A four nation coalition of US, Turkey, Great Britain and France has been actively protecting and supplying Kurdish refugees since Desert Storm in 1991.(Exact date unknown)

A US Air Force F-15 Eagle is refueled inflight for a mission over Iraq in support of the operation. This operation is a security mission to enforce the United Nations no-fly zone north of the 36 degree parallel from Iraqi air and ground incursion. A four nation coalition of US, Turkey, Great Britain and France has been actively protecting and supplying Kurdish refugees since Desert Storm in 1991.(Exact date unknown)

An overhead aerial view of a US Air Force (USAF) F-16C Fighting Falcon, 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW), Balad Air Base (AB), Salah Ad Din Province, Iraq (IRQ), banking to the right launches a flare somewhere over Iraq during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The Falcon has a weapons compliment of two AIM-120A Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM) on the wing tips, four Guided Bomb Units -12 (GBU-12) under the wings, and under the fuselage is the AN/AAQ-28(V) LITENING AT targeting pod

A US Air Force F-15 Eagle takes off for a mission over Iraq in support of the operation. This operation is a security mission to enforce the United Nations no-fly zone north of the 36 degree parallel from Iraqi air and ground incursion. A four nation coalition of US, Turkey, Great Britain and France has been actively protecting and supplying Kurdish refugees since Desert Storm in 1991.(Exact date unknown)

A US Air Force (USAF) F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft from the157th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron (FS), 379th Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW), armed with AIM-120B Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM), AGM-88 High-Speed Antiradiation Missile (HARM), and one AIM-9 Sidewinder missile, prepares for its next mission at a forward deployed location during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Air Force SENIOR AIRMAN Raymond Diaz-Rios, a Crew CHIEF from the 22nd Expeditionary Fighter Squadron (EFS), inspects the engine of an F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft as part of his post-flight procedures, Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia. The 22nd EFS is part of the coalition force here to support Operation SOUTHERN WATCH, a military effort to enforce the no-fly and no-drive zone in Southern Iraq

US Air Force (USAF) F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft assigned to the 23rd Fighter Squadron (FS), armed with AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM), AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles and AGM-88 High Speed Antiradiation Missile (HARM) taxies onto the flight line at Incirlik Air Base (AB), Turkey, for a mission in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH

A US Air Force EF-111 Raven makes the approach for an inflight refueling mission in support of a no-fly zone north of the 36 degree parallel from Iraqi air and ground incursion. A four nation coalition of US, Turkey, Great Britain and France has been actively protecting and supplying Kurdish refugees since Desert Storm in 1991.(Exact date unknown)

An F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft takes off at Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, during Operation SOUTHERN WATCH. The Aircraft is part of the coalition forces of the 363rd Air Expeditionary Wing, Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, that enforces the no-fly and no-drive zone in Southern Iraq to protect and defend against Iraqi aggression

A US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon is refueled inflight as another F-16 waits in formation to be refueled for a mission over Iraq. This operation is a security mission to enforce the United Nations no-fly zone north of the 36 degree parallel from Iraqi air and ground incursion. A four nation coalition of US, Turkey, Great Britain and France has been actively protecting and supplying Kurdish refugees since Desert Storm in 1991.(Exact date unknown)

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Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT

Base: Incirlik Air Base, Adana

Country: Turkey (TUR)

Scene Camera Operator: SRA Gudrun Cook

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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label_outline Explore Sra Gudrun Cook, Iraqi Air, Ground Incursion

A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft pulls away from a KC-10 Extender aircraft after an aerial refueling mission over the skies of Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom on Nov. 18, 2004. (USAF PHOTO by TECH. SGT. Erik Gudmundson) (Released)

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

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...

Rwandan refugees curiously observe cargo off-load operations of a C-141 Starlifter aircraft from the 452nd Avionics Maintenance Wing (AMW) Air Force Reserve (AFRES), March AFB, Calif

A UH-60 Black Hawk (Blackhawk) helicopter patrols over a tent city near Zakhu that was established for Kurdish refugees. The encampment was erected as part of Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid Kurds who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq

Aerial view of B-52 Stratofortress bombers at the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center, commonly known as the "Boneyard". Hundreds of B-52s were destroyed as part of the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty and sold for scrap at 12 cents a pound. Exact Date Shot Unknown Published in AIRMAN Magazine May 1977

US Army Green Berets from the 10th Special Forces pre-brief a search and rescue exercise conducted as part of the operation. This operation is a security mission to enforce the United Nations no-fly zone north of the 36 degree parallel from Iraqi air and ground incursion. A four nation coalition of US, Turkey, Great Britain and France has been actively protecting and supplying Kurdish refugees since Desert Storm in 1991.(Exact date unknown)

An air-to-air side view of a 438th Airlift Wing, C-141 Starlifter, flying over forests with fall leaf color in the background. The C-141, tail #70166, with a white painted fuselage is used to transport senior civilian and military officials. Exact Date Shot Unknown

An air-to-air view of a U.S. Air Force F-4 Phantom, assigned to the 33rd Tactical Fighter Wing, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida as it climbs vertical while participating in REFORGER '82. Exact Date Shot Unknown

Vietnamese refugees evacuated from Saigon are processed at the air station passenger terminal before departing for Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton

Air to air top front view of Air Mobility Command's 22nd Air Refueling Wing, March AFB, Calfornia, KC-10 Extender flying a training mission over the northern California mountains. Flying behind the KC-10 are 60th Airlift Wing, Travis AFB, California C-5 Galaxy and C-141 Starlifter. Exact Date Shot Unknown

A USAF female crew chief checks with the RF-4C pilot on the ladder of an RF-4C Phantom aircraft after a competition mission during Reconnaissance Air Meet 88, a multi-national competition of military aerial reconnaissance teams at Bergstrom Air Force Base. Exact Date Shot Unknown

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