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Ammunition operations personnel load trailers with containers of 30mm high explosive incendiary (HEI) ammunition. The containers will be placed on a C-141B Starlifter aircraft for shipment to the Persian Gulf area during Operation Desert Shield

Airmen unload pallets of gear from a C-141B Starlifter aircraft during Operation Desert Shield

An MIM-104 Patriot tactical air defense missile launcher of Btry. E, 3rd Bn., 43rd Air Defense Arty., is deployed in the desert during Operation Desert Shield

A J-57 aircraft engine is hauled aboard a KC-135A Stratotanker aircraft bound for the Persian Gulf region in support of Operation Desert Shield

US Air Force (USAF) AIRMAN First Class (A1C) Jason Meir (left) and USAF STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Daniel Yost, load a GBU-32 1,000-pound Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) onto an F-16 Fighting Falcon pylon prior to a mission from a desert air base in the Arabian Gulf Region during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

Members of Btry. C, 1ST Bn., 319th Field Artillery Regt., prepare an M-102 105mm howitzer for airlifting by a 2nd Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division UH-60 Black Hawk (Blackhawk) helicopter during Operation Desert Shield

SENIOR MASTER SGT. James Miles of the 4409th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Branch, Myrtle Beach, S.C., and 1ST LT. Jan Copher transfer a Scud missile, shot down by an MIM-104 Patriot tactical air defense missile outside of Riyadh, from an M-13K rough terrain fork lift truck to a flatbed trailer during Operation Desert Storm

A Jordanian M113 armored personnel carrier is offloaded from a 437th Military Airlift Wing C-141B Starlifter aircraft at King Hussein Airport during Exercise SHADOW HAWK'87, a phase of BRIGHT STAR'87. The US Central Command exercise represents a Joint Ch

A 30 mm cannon loader is loaded aboard a C-130 Hercules aircraft during Refueling and Armament Team operations

Edward Mitchell, Jim Jones and Bill Benkovich, all ammunition operations personnel, load a C-141B Starlifter aircraft with containers of 30mm high explosive incendiary (HEI) ammunition bound for the Persian Gulf area during Operation Desert Shield

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Subject Operation/Series: DESERT SHIELD

Base: Seneca Army Depot, Romulus

State: New York (NY)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: Richard M. Mearns

Release Status: Released to Public

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07/10/1990
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Crew members paint the hull of the amphibious command ship USS BLUE RIDGE (LCC-19) as the ship is docked in port. The BLUE RIDGE has arrived in Yokosuka following deployment in the Persian Gulf area during Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm

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