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A US Air Force (USAF) E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS), 12th Expeditionary Airborne Command Control Squadron (EACCS), hooks up with a USAF KC-135 Stratotanker, 92nd Air Refueling Wing (ARW), Fairchild Air Force Base (AFB), Washington (WA), to receive fuel over Iraq in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The E-8C is a long-range, air-to-ground surveillance system designed to locate, classify and track ground targets in all weather conditions

A US Air Force (USAF) E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS), 12th Expeditionary Airborne Command Control Squadron (EACCS), lines up to hookup with a USAF KC-135 Stratotanker, 92nd Air Refueling Wing (ARW), Fairchild Air Force Base (AFB), Washington (WA), to receive fuel over Iraq in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The E-8C is a long-range, air-to-ground surveillance system designed to locate, classify and track ground targets in all weather conditions

A US Air Force (USAF) E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS), 12th Expeditionary Airborne Command Control Squadron (EACCS), lines up to hookup with a USAF KC-135 Stratotanker, 92nd Air Refueling Wing (ARW), Fairchild Air Force Base (AFB), Washington (WA), to receive fuel over Iraq in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The E-8C is a long-range, air-to-ground surveillance system designed to locate, classify and track ground targets in all weather conditions

A US Air Force (USAF) E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS), 12th Expeditionary Airborne Command Control Squadron (EACCS), in flight over Iraq in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The E-8C is a long-range, air-to-ground surveillance system designed to locate, classify and track ground targets in all weather conditions

A US Air Force (USAF) E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS), 12th Expeditionary Airborne Command Control Squadron (EACCS), in flight over Iraq in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The E-8C is a long-range, air-to-ground surveillance system designed to locate, classify and track ground targets in all weather conditions

A US Air Force (USAF) E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS), 12th Expeditionary Airborne Command Control Squadron (EACCS), in flight over Iraq in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The E-8C is a long-range, air-to-ground surveillance system designed to locate, classify and track ground targets in all weather conditions

An E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS/JSTARS), Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, aircraft deployed to a base in Southwest Asia in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. "The E-8C Joint STARS is an airborne battle management and command and control (C2) platform that conducts ground surveillance to develop an understanding of the enemy situation and to support attack operations and targeting that contributes to the delay, disruption and destruction of enemy forces. These functions support the primary mission of Joint STARS to provide dedicated support of ground and air theater commanders." Operation ENDURING FREEDOM is in support of the Global War on Terrorism...

A US Air Force (USAF) E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) aircraft assigned to the 128th Expeditionary Air Command and Control Squadron (EACCS) flies a combat sortie over Iraq, in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

A US Air Force (USAF) E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) aircraft assigned to the 128th Expeditionary Air Command and Control Squadron (EACCS) takes off for a combat sortie over Iraq, in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

A US Air Force (USAF) E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS), 12th Expeditionary Airborne Command Control Squadron (EACCS), hooks up with a USAF KC-135 Stratotanker, 92nd Air Refueling Wing (ARW), Fairchild Air Force Base (AFB), Washington (WA), to receive fuel over Iraq in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The E-8C is a long-range, air-to-ground surveillance system designed to locate, classify and track ground targets in all weather conditions

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Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Scene Major Command Shown: AMC

Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Suzanne M. Jenkins, USAF

Release Status: Released to Public

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A port beam view of an auxiliary ship taken from the aircraft carrier USS AMERICA (CV 66) during foggy weather conditions

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A left side view of three F-14A Tomcat aircraft from Fighter Squadron 142 (VF-142) in flight with their arresting hooks down. The aircraft are based aboard the Nuclear-powered Aircraft Carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69)

Kent Pietsch performs in his Interstate Cadet aircraft

A US Navy (USN) Strike Fighter Squadron 41 (VFA-41, Black Aces) aircrew member (left) signals to the USN VFA-41 F/A-18F Super Hornet multi-mission fighter/attack aircraft pilot prior to his taking off from Eielson Air Force Base (AFB), Alaska (AK), for a training mission 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

US Navy Lieutenant Junior Grade Tara "Judy" Golden monitors a surveillance system inside an E-2C Hawkeye aircraft from Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron One two Six (VAW-126) while patrolling the skies of the Persian Gulf on the last day of Operation SOUTHERN WATCH. The Seahawks are embarked on board USS HARRY S. TRUMAN (CVN 75)

U.S. Air Force CHIEF MASTER SGT. Jeff Hulme, a competition judge from Wright- Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, writes down his notes while checking an F-15 Eagle aircraft from the 123rd Fighter Squadron, Oregon Air National Guard, during exercise William Tell at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., on Nov. 8, 2004. This is the 50th Anniversary of the William Tell competition, an exercise that tests an aircrew's ability to perform under combat conditions. (USAF PHOTO by STAFF SGT. Dennis J. Henry Jr.) (Released)

US Marine Corps (USMC) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Jeffrey Sundermier, a Platoon Sergeant with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), hooks up a Marine to a Special Purpose Insertion and Extraction (SPIE), in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

A US Air Force (USAF) F-16C Fighting Falcon, 120th Fighter Squadron (FS), 140th Fighter Wing (FW), Colorado Air National Guard (COANG), flown by USAF Major (MAJ) Julian Clay, finishes refueling from a USAF KC-135 Stratotanker, 108th Air Refueling Wing (ARW), New Jersey Air National Guard (NJANG), during the second Tiger Meet of the Americas. The Falcon is carrying an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile (left) and Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation (ACMI) pod under the wing and an Acceleration Monitor Assembly (AMA) pod on the wing tip. The Tiger Meet of the Americas, first ever held in Canada, inaugurated in 2001 in the Western Hemisphere to carry on the Tiger tradition of the long-established...

An aerial view of a jet formation with a KC-135 from Fairchild AFB, F-15 from Langley AFB, F-16s from Moody and Mountainhome AFBs with an F-1 and F-5 from the RAF Jordan

STAFF SGT. Raymond Holland, 33rd Equipment Maintenance Squadron, chocks a 60th Tactical Fighter Squadron F-15 Eagle aircraft at the end of a runway. He is participating in Exercise Cornet Phaser, a NATO rapid deployment exercise conducted under simulated wartime conditions

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