Inside a KC-135 Stratotanker, a female boom operator from the 108th Air Refueling Squadron, New Jersey Air National Guard, McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey explains the Combat Air Patrol mission to a guest reporter from Channel 12 New Jersey Network before departing for an air refueling mission over New York. The mission is part of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM Combat Air Patrol missions. 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
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Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM
Base: Mcguire Air Force Base
State: New Jersey (NJ)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Major Command Shown: AMC
Scene Camera Operator: Carlos Cintron, Civilian, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
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Date
19/10/2001
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