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Members of the 621st Air Mobility Control Squadron, McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, unload a Mobile Air Reporting Center (M.A.R.C.), at the Kuwait International Airport, Kuwait, in support of Operation DESERT FOCUS. The M.A.R.C. will be fully functional and able to communicate with incoming aircraft in less than 4 hours after its arrival

US Air Force Technical Sergeant Gilbert Nelasco an Aerospace Ground Equipment technician, assigned to the 621st Air Mobility Control Squadron, McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, erects the front face of a Mobile Air Reporting Center (M.A.R.C.), at the Kuwait International Airport, Kuwait, in support of Operation DESERT FOCUS. The M.A.R.C. will be fully functional and able to communicate with incoming aircraft in less than 4 hours after its arrival

US Air Force Technical Sergeant Gilbert Nelasco, an Aerospace Ground Equipment technician, assigned to the 621st Air Mobility Control Squadron, McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, places a jack under the Mobile Air Reporting Center (M.A.R.C.), at the Kuwait International Airport, Kuwait, in support of Operation DESERT FOCUS. The M.A.R.C. will be fully functional and able to communicate with incoming aircraft in less than 4 hours after its arrival

Personnel assigned to the 821st Tanker Airlift Control Element (TACE), McGuire Air Force Base (AFB), New Jersey, deployed to the Kuwait City International Airport (KCIA), upload 43rd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron (AES) equipment aboard a C-5 Galaxy cargo aircraft from Dover AFB, using a 60k Tunner Material Handling Equipment (MHE) loader, in support of Operation SOUTHERN WATCH 1998

A U.S. Air Force (USAF) member with the 305th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, McGuire Air Force Base, N.J., checks the interior of a USAF C-141B Starlifter cargo aircraft during the recovery of the aircraft after a local flight on Sept. 1, 2004. The McGuire C-141B Starlifter, tail number 40633 returned to the base after its final mission flight with crewmembers from the 6th Airlift Squadron, 305th Air Mobility Wing and the 732nd Airlift Squadron, 514th Air Mobility Wing. The Starlifter is being retired from the"active duty"Air Force inventory on Sept. 16, 2004 after 40 years of service and nearly nine million flying hours. (U.S. Air Force photo by Denise Gould) (Released)

A HH-60G Pavehawk Helicopter and personnel assigned to the 48th Rescue Squadron, Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, are off-loaded from a C-5 Galaxy, assigned to the 436th Airlift Wing, Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, at the Kuwait International Airport, Kuwait, in support of Operation DESERT FOCUS. The members of the 48th Rescue Squadron are deployed to Kuwait to respond in the event any US airmen are downed in the region

Personnel assigned to the 821st Tanker Airlift Control Element (TACE), McGuire Air Force Base (AFB), New Jersey, deployed to the Kuwait City International Airport (KCIA), upload 43rd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron (AES) equipment aboard a C-5 Galaxy cargo aircraft from Dover AFB, using a 60k Tunner Material Handling Equipment (MHE) loader, in support of Operation SOUTHERN WATCH 1998

Members of the 615th Air Mobility Squadron, Travis Air Force Base, California, offload their Mobile Air Communication Shelter (MARC), from their C-5 Galaxy. All are in support of this years PATRIOT HOOK Exercise. The PATRIOT HOOK Exercise 2001, a joint force exercise involving four separate airfields in Southern California - March Air Reserve Base, Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Los Alamitos Army Air Field, and San Clemente Naval Landing Field. At the four airfields units practice air deployment of fighting forces and equipment during a wartime scenario

Six McGuire Air Force Base C-141 Starlifters taxi down McGuire's runway before taking off for a six-ship formation. The C-141B Starlifter is the workhorse of the Air Mobility Command. The Starlifter fulfills the vast spectrum of airlift requirements through its ability to airlift combat forces over long distances, deliver those forces and their equipment either by air, land or airdrop, resupply forces and transport the sick and wounded from hostile area to advanced medical facilities. The six-ship formation took place at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey

Members assigned to the 621st Air Mobility Control Squadron, McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, off-load a Mobile Air Reporting Center (M.A.R.C.), assigned to the 621st Air Mobility Operation Group, from a C-141B Starlifter aircraft, assigned to the 437th Airlift Wing, Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina, at the Kuwait International Airport, Kuwait, in support of Operation DESERT FOCUS. The M.A.R.C. will be fully functional and able to communicate with incoming aircraft in less than 4 hours

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Subject Operation/Series: DESERT FOCUS

Base: Kuwait International Airport

Country: Kuwait (KWT)

Scene Camera Operator: SRA Richard T. Kaminsky, USAF

Release Status: Released to Public

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Army National Guardsmen from Columbia, Missouri have been working nearly twenty four hours a day to protect small businesses. An extensive sandbagging and pumping operation are ongoing along the rear of a pawn, trophy and other small business shops

Combat ready US Army (USA) soldiers, from Fort Stewart, Georgia arrive at Kuwait City International Airport and are greeted by the US Ambassador, the Honorable James A. Larocco, Lieutenant General (LTGEN) Tommy R. Franks, Deputy Commanding General, US Army Forces Command (AFC) and CHIEF of STAFF Kuwaiti Armed Forces, LTGEN Ali Mohammed Hassan Al-mumin

An air-to-air right side view of four F/A-18 Hornet aircraft from Fighter Attack Squadron 125 (VFA-125). The squadron is on a 23-day deployment from Naval Air Station, Lemoore, California. VFA-125 began flying the F/A-18 aircraft about 12 months ago. Squadron pilots have accumulated more than 1,500 hours in the aircraft so far

A United States Marine Corps C-130 Hercules aircraft from Marine Aerial Refueler/ Transport Squadron (VMGR) 352 pulls onto the tarmac at Wajir air field in Northern Kenya to execute a combat off-load during Operation NOBLE RESPONSE '98

American Red Cross - Groups - Ambulance drivers, Louis Goldman (left) and Roy L. Yelverton both of New York worked eighty hours without sleep carrying the American woudned from the battle front to the American base hospital at Neully

A US Marine Corps (USMC) KC-130 Hercules aircraft assigned to Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron Two Three Four (VMGR-234) sits on the flight deck in the early morning hours prior to departure at Ahmed Al Jaber Air Base, Kuwait, ending a deployment in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

A US Air Force (USAF) EC-130E Command Solo aircraft Number 63-7828 from the 193rd Special Operations Wing (SOW), Pennsylvania Air National Guard (ANG) is marshaled on the flight line at Middletown, Pennsylvania (PA). The Command Solo aircraft is being decommissioned after having acquired the highest number of flying hours in the fleet and will surpass 28,000 flying hours on its final flight. The 193rd SOW will transition to the new EC-130J Command Solo II aircraft. The aircraft bears the signature of many of its former and present crew chiefs in honor of its retirement

Lance Cpl. Esgar Castro, a water support technician,

U.S. Secretary of Defense, Donald H. Rumsfeld is greeted by State of Kuwait Minister of Defense, Jabir Mubarak, al Hamad Al Sabah, as he arrives for a visit on April 29, 2003, at the Kuwait International Airport, Kuwait. OSD Package No. A07D-00577 (DOD PHOTO by Helene C. Stikkel) (Released)

Rwandan refugees curiously observe cargo off-load operations of a C-141 Starlifter aircraft from the 452nd Avionics Maintenance Wing (AMW) Air Force Reserve (AFRES), March AFB, Calif

STAFF Sergeant Larry Gerads, a Computer Communications Technician, 38th Engineering and Installation Wing, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, works on the Deployed Local Area Network or DLAN, a computer service for Prince Sultan Air Base. Sergeant Gerads is providing communications support during the relocation of the 4404th Wing (Provisional) from Dhahran after a terrorist bomb attack killed 19 Air Force personnel

US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Steven "Pigpen" Schrader, Commander, 510th Fighter Squadron, Aviano Air Base, Italy, climbs out of his F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft after completing over 3000 flying hours during his Air Force career

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