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A view of a Soviet surface to air missile site, possibly an SA-5, destroyed by coaliton air sorties, and is located near the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan. Image taken during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

A view of a Soviet surface to air missile, possibly an SA-5, site destroyed by coaliton air sorties. It is located near the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan. Image taken during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

A view of a Soviet surface to air missile (SAM) site which was destroyed by coaliton air sorties. It is located near the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan. Image taken during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

A Soviet surface to air missile site (SAM), possibly an S-125 "Newa" (SA-3 "Goa"), destroyed by coaliton air sorties. It is located near the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan. Image taken during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

Members of the Anti-Taliban Forces (ATF) walk around a Soviet surface-to-air missile (SAM) site that was destroyed by coalition air sorties near their observation post, near the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

As Marines patrol the area, in the foreground is the ruin of a Soviet surface to air missile (SAM) site destroyed by coaliton air sorties, possibly an SA-3 launch ramp. It is located near the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan. The image taken during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

Destroyed Soviet aircraft lie near the runway at the Kandahar International Airport (IAP) Afghanistan, during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

Members of the Anti-Taliban Forces (ATF) scan the area, around a Soviet surface-to-air missile (SAM) site destroyed by coalition air sorties, in order to locate unexploded munitions. This site is near their observation post, near the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

A view of an unexploded mortar round laying inside a mined area at Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

A view of a Soviet surface to air missile site, possibly an SA-5, destroyed by coaliton air sorties, and is located near the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan. Image taken during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

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Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM

Base: Kandahar International Airport

Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

Scene Camera Operator: CAPT Charles G. Grow

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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17/01/2002
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label_outline Explore Sorties, Surface To Air Missile, Surface

Airmen from the 378th Expeditionary Operations Group

A Marine with Helicopter Marine Medium Squadron 365 (HMM-365) (Reinforced) tends a pit fire near the Air Command Element Headquarters at Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

With his M-16 across his back, Lance Corporal Player, USMC, Marine Service Support Group 26 Engineers, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) works on a 125 gallon-per-minute pump at a fuel site on Khandahar International Airport, Khandahar, Afghanistan during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

1st Lt. Samuel Taylor, a UH-1Y Venom pilot with Marine

A view of an RIM-7 Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missile shortly after a test launch aboard the destroyer USS MERRILL (DD-976)

An Aerospatiale SA-330 Puma helicopter carries an automobile during a lift demonstration. The aircraft is operated by the West German border patrol

With interperters onboard Marines with Alpha Company, Second Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) conduct a mounted patrol using an LAV-25 (Light Armored Vehicle-25) near the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

Members of the Anti-Taliban Forces (ATF) eat lunch at an observation post site where US Marines were dispatched to destroy unexploded munitions dropped by coalition air sorties near the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

A right front view of several vehicle-mounted Soviet SA-3 Goa surface-to-air missiles

A view of an RIM-67B Standard (SM-2ER) surface-to-air missile on its launch platform aboard a guided missile cruiser

Detachment 24 student pilots train on a virtual reality

U.S. Marine Corps. Maj. Matthew Krivohlavy (right),

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