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US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Carlos Gupton (right) and USAF SSGT Kenneth Barns, 332nd Expeditionary Fire Department, 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW), Balad Air Base (AB), Iraq (IRQ), enter a building to extinguish a structural fire during a controlled burn exercise during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Both are wearing Proximity Suits and Breathing Apparatus
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A US Air Force (USAF) firefighter, in a Proximity Suit and Breathing Apparatus, from the 332nd Expeditionary Fire Department, 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW), Balad Air Base (AB), Iraq (IRQ), moves away after igniting a fire for a controlled burn exercise during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Balad Air Base
Country: Iraq (IRQ)
Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Scott Reed, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
14/06/2004
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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