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An F-16 Fighting Falcon takes off during Surge Week

Two F-16C Fighting Falcon Block 52 aircraft's from the 157th Fighter Squadron, 169th Fighter Wing, McEntire Air National Guard Station, South Carolina, in flight. The aircraft's are armed with AGM-88 HARM's (high-speed anti-radiation missile), AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles and AIM-120 AMRAAM's (advanced medium-range air-to-air missile)

A US Air Force (USAF) F-15C Eagle, 1ST Fighter Wing (FW), Langley Air Force Base (AFB), Virginia (VA), in flight over the Mediterranean Sea on it's first leg back home after participating in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM from a forward operating base (FOB). The Eagle is armed with AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM) and AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles

US Marine Corps (USMC) Captain (CAPT) Kevin Reece, Marine Aviator for Vertical Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 212 (VMFA-212), pilots his F/A18 Hornet over the South China Sea on the return trip from Paya Lebar, Singapore to Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Iwakuni, Japan, in support of Commando Sling

F-16s from the 93rd Fighter Squadron at Homestead Air

A 482nd Fighter Wing / 93rd Fighter Squadron Lockheed F-16C Fighting Falcon carrying a full combat load, AIM-120 AMRAAM, and AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles, a single GBU-12 laser-guided bomb (LGB), AN/ALQ-131 jamming pod, wing tanks and a Litening II navigation/targeting pod. The aircraft is normally based at Homestead Air Reserve Station and was flying near the Southern Flordia coastline

An F-15 Eagle from the 102nd Fighter Wing, Otis, Massachusetts, Air National Guard (ANG), provides Combat Air Patrol (CAP) over New York City during Operation NOBEL EAGLE

A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor flies above Southwest

A U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle, assigned to the

A US Air Force (USAF) F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft assigned to the 510th Fighter Squadron (FS), 31st Fighter Wing, Aviano Air Base (AB), Italy, flies over the Adriatic Sea during a mission supporting Operation JOINT FORGE

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Subject Operation/Series: JOINT FORGE

Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Mike Buytas, USAF

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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air force usaf falcon aircraft falcon aircraft fighter squadron aviano aviano air base adriatic sea adriatic sea mission operation fighter wing us air force technical sergeant high resolution operation joint tsgt mike buytas joint air force base us airforce in italy jet aircraft military aircraft fighter jet aircraft us national archives bosnia herzegovina
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Date

09/04/2003
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Location

Aviano AFB IT ,  46.03333, 12.61667
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The U.S. National Archives
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label_outline Explore Tsgt Mike Buytas, Falcon Aircraft, Falcon

US Air Force (USAF) Captain (CPT) Eric Armentrout, Pilot, 71st Fighter Squadron (FS), 1ST Operation Group (OG), 1ST Fighter Wing (FW), signal to his crew chief during the engine start sequence of his F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft prior to flying a sortie from Langley Air Force Base (AFB), Virginia (VA), as part of Operation NOBLE EAGLE, which is direct US military operations in support of homeland defense efforts

Flight deck personnel aboard the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN-73) prepare an F/A-18C Hornet from the Knighthawks of Fighter Attack Squadron One Three Six (VFA-136) for a mission over Bosnia Herzegovina. The USS George Washington is commanded by CAPT Malcolm P. Branch and is operating in the Adriatic Sea in support of the NATO-led Operation Decisive Endeavor

An F-14 "Tomcat" engages it's afterburners prior to a night launch off the flight deck of the U.S. aircraft carrier USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71). ROOSEVELT and its embarked carrier air wing are participating in strikes missions over the former Yugoslavia in support of NATO Operation Allied Force

Flight deck crewmen walk in front of a P-16 shipboard firefighting and rescue truck as a catapult crew prepares to launch a Fighter Squadron 14 (VF-14) F-14A Tomcat aircraft from the aircraft lands on the aircraft carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67)

A catapult officer on the aircraft carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67) confirms the go signal from the hook-up petty officer while preparing to launch a Strike fighter Squadron 105 (VFA-105) F/A-18C Hornet aircraft

Two parked US Army AH-64 Apache helicopter, 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry, at Comanche Base, located near Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina. The AH-64 in the foreground is IFOR marked and the crew is tying down the rotor blades. The 6th Cavalry is in Bosnia-Herzegovina participating in Operation Joint Endeavor, which is a peacekeeping effort by a multinational Implementation Force (IFOR), comprised of NATO and non-NATO military forces, deployed to Bosnia in support of the Dayton Peace Accords

A C-5 Galaxy arrives with the early morning sun carrying 366th Air Expeditionary Wing F-16C Fighting Falcon support personnel deployed in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. In response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 at the New York World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President George W. Bush initiated Operation ENDURING FREEDOM in support of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), fighting terrorism abroad

A C-5 Galaxy from the 9th Airlift Squadron, Dover AFB, Delaware, unloads equipment at Rhein Main AB, Germany, in support of Operation Joint Endeavor

A member of Sea-Air-Land (SEAL) Team 8 boards a Special Boat Unit 20 (SBU-20) rigid-hull inflatable boat secured alongside the amphibious transport dock USS AUSTIN (LPD-4)

A U.S. Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet with the Strike Fighter

A US Air Force (USAF) F-15A Eagle aircraft assigned to the 131st Fighter Wing (FW), Missouri (MO) Air National Guard (ANG) flies a refueling training mission with a KC-135E Stratotanker aircraft from the 134th Air Refueling Wing (ARW), Tennessee, ANG

A Strike Fighter Squadron 37 (VFA-37) F/A-18C Hornet aircraft lines up to be launched from the aircraft carrier USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67) during flight operations aboard the vessel

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