Members of the 819th Civil Engineering Squadron rapid runway repair team dump pea gravel into a bomb crater while a tractor prepares to cap the hole with prefabricated cement slabs during Exercise SALTY DEMO'85. SALTY DEMO'85 is an air base survivability exercise evaluating passive and active defenses, aircraft operation and generation, and base recovery systems
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: SALTY DEMO
Base: Spangdahlem Air Base
Country: West Germany (FRG)
Scene Camera Operator: Unknown
Release Status: Released to Public
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Date
13/05/1985
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The U.S. National Archives
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