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Members of the 82nd Airborne Division give their parachutes a final check prior to boarding a C-141B Starlifter aircraft that will transport him back to Fort Bragg, North Carolina (NC). US troops, including members of the 7th Light Infantry Division and the 82nd Airborne Division, spent two weeks participating in a mobilization of US Exercise Task Force DRAGON/GOLDEN PHEASANT. The task force was deployed by President Ronald Reagan to help discourage Nicaraguan forces from entering Honduras

Members of the 82nd Airborne Division watch as a C-141B Starlifter aircraft from the 62nd Military Airlift Wing lands on the runway. U.S. troops, including members of the 7th Light Infantry Division and 82nd Airborne Division, spent two weeks participating in a mobilization of U.S. exercise task force Dragon/Golden Pheasant. The task force was developed by President Ronald Reagan to help discourage Nicaraguan forces from entering Honduras

Members of the 82nd Airborne Division clean an M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle in preparation for transport back to the United States. US troops, including members of the 7th Light Infantry Division and the 82nd Airborne Division, spent two weeks participating in a mobilization of US Exercise Task Force DRAGON/GOLDEN PHEASANT. The task force was deployed by President Ronald Reagan to help discourage Nicaraguan forces from entering Honduras

Members of the 1ST Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, board UH-60 Black Hawk (Blackhawk) helicopters for transport back to Palmerola Air Base. The men are participating in a mobilization of US Exercise Task Force DRAGON/GOLDEN PHEASANT, consisting of both the 82nd Airborne Division and the 7th Light Infantry Division. The task force was deployed by President Ronald Reagan to help discourage Nicaraguan forces from entering Honduras

A member of the 82nd Airborne Division is assisted with his parachute prior to boarding a C-141B Starlifter aircraft that will transport him back to Fort Bragg, North Carolina (NC). US troops, including members of the 7th Light Infantry Division and the 82nd Airborne Division, spent two weeks participating in a mobilization of US Exercise Task Force DRAGON/GOLDEN PHEASANT. The task force was deployed by President Ronald Reagan to help discourage Nicaraguan forces from entering Honduras

A member of the 82nd Airborne Division is assisted with his parachute prior to boarding a C-141B Starlifter aircraft that will transport him back to Fort Bragg, North Carolina (NC). US troops, including members of the 7th Light Infantry Division and the 82nd Airborne Division, spent two weeks participating in a mobilization of US Exercise Task Force DRAGON/GOLDEN PHEASANT. The task force was deployed by President Ronald Reagan to help discourage Nicaraguan forces from entering Honduras

A member of the 82nd Airborne Division is assisted with his parachute prior to boarding a C-141B Starlifter aircraft that will transport him back to Fort Bragg, North Carolina (NC). US troops, including members of the 7th Light Infantry Division and the 82nd Airborne Division, spent two weeks participating in a mobilization of US Exercise Task Force DRAGON/GOLDEN PHEASANT. The task force was deployed by President Ronald Reagan to help discourage Nicaraguan forces from entering Honduras

Members of the 82nd Airborne Division prepare to board C-141B Starlifter aircraft for transport to Honduras. President Ronald Reagan mobilized U.S. exercise task force Dragon/Golden Pheasant, consisting of both the 82nd Airborne Division and the 7th Light Infantry Division, to help discourage Nicaraguan forces from entering Honduras

Members of the 82nd Airborne Division prepare to board C-141B Starlifter aircraft for transport to Honduras. President Ronald Reagan mobilized U.S. exercise task force Dragon/Golden Pheasant, consisting of both the 82nd Airborne Division and the 7th Light Infantry Division, to help discourage Nicaraguan forces from entering Honduras

Members of the 82nd Airborne Division wait as a C-141B Starlifter aircraft from the 62nd Military Airlift Wing taxis along the runway. U.S. troops, including members of the 7th Light Infantry Division and 82nd Airborne Division, spent two weeks participating in a mobilization of U.S. exercise task force Dragon/Golden Pheasant. The task force was deployed by President Ronald Reagan to help discourage Nicaraguan forces from entering Honduras

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Subject Operation/Series: DRAGON/GOLDEN PHEASANT

Base: Palmerola Air Base

Country: Honduras (HND)

Scene Camera Operator: STAFF SGT. Scott Stewart

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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01/03/1988
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label_outline Explore Palmerola Air Base, Nicaraguan Forces, Exercise Task Force Dragon

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Passengers depart from a C-141B Starlifter aircraft during the 30th anniversary of Operation DEEP FREEZE

US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Charles Gillaspie, 55th Maintenance Squadron (MXS), Munitions Flight, punches out a military specifications label for live ammunition during a pallet build up in preparation for the 2004 Offutt Air Force Base (AFB) Operational Readiness Exercise (ORE). Over the next two weeks, the 55th Wing is conducting an ORE in preparation for an upcoming Air Combat Command (ACC) inspection in March

US Air Force (USAF) Colonel (COL) Timothy J. Wrighton (left), Commander, 452nd Air Mobility Wing; USAF Major (MAJ) Tim Harris; Mr. Johnny Grant, Honorary Mayor of Hollywood, creator of the Hollywood Walk of Fame; USAF Major General (MGEN) James P. Czekanski, Commander, 4TH Air Force and Mr. Mike Tillemann, Hollywood Films National, pose for a photograph in front of a USAF C-141B Starlifter aircraft, on the flight line at March Air Reserve Base (ARB), California (CA). Mr. Grant presented MGEN Czekanski with videotapes of Oscar nominated movies to be flown overseas for the entertainment of American troops deployed in Afghanistan

STAFF SGT. Jeff W. Schmidt, 63rd Military Airlift Wing (MAW), checks aircraft arrival times on a list in the Military Airlift Command airlift control element facility. The 63rd MAW is transporting troops and equipment to the base from Fort Hood, Texas, during Purple Penny, a mobility exercise simulating a deployment to South Korea following an attack by North Korean forces

Rear view of a C-141B Starlifter aircraft, with contrails, flying toward the setting sun. The aircraft is returning to Christchurch, New Zealand, after a successful airdrop over Antarctica

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Members of the 82nd Airborne Division aboard a C-141B Starlifter aircraft prepare for a jump during Exercise Gallant Eagle '82

Staff Sgt. Craig Cox makes a final check on a cargo of supplies to be dropped from a C-141B Starlifter aircraft over the South Pole. The drop is a joint U.S./New Zealand operation to resupply both South Pole and McMurdo Stations in Antarctica. The operation is being staged from Det. 2, 619th Military Airlift Support Squadron, at the New Zealand International Airport

Captain Scott Stewart, commanding officer, Weapons

American and Korean members of a joint services honor guard salute as pallbearers carry a flag-draped coffin toward a C-141B Starlifter aircraft. The coffin contains the body of one of the 19 Marines from Co. C., 1ST Bn., 5th Marines, who were killed in the crash of a CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter during the joint U.S./Korean exercise Team Spirit '89

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