A US Army UH-60 Black Hawk (Blackhawk) helicopter crew pre-briefs their flight before flying a mission over Turkey 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)
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: PROVIDE COMFORT
Base: Incirlik Air Base, Adana
Country: Turkey (TUR)
Scene Camera Operator: SRA Gudrun Cook
Release Status: Released to Public
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Date
01/05/1995
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