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The maintenance crew and the pilot in the cockpit of an F-16C Falcon from the 169th Fighter Wing complete their preflight inspections. They are preparing for a 15+ hour flight to Qatar to participate with active duty units in the Air Expeditionary Force (AEF) deployment. The F-16 is armed with AIM-120 AMRAAM missiles

LT. COL. George R. Jernigan, 157th Fighter Squadron, commander of the 169th Fighter Wing, stands beside his F-16C with all the items he will need for his 15+ hour flight to Qatar. His unit will participate with active duty units in the Air Expeditionary Force (AEF) IV deployment

A US Air Force (USAF) F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft Crew CHIEF assigned to the 18th Fighter Squadron (FS), 354th Fighter Wing (FW), inspects the air intake on his aircraft, following a fighter interceptor mission flown during the Wings Operational Readiness Inspection (ORI) at Eielson Air Force Base (AFB), Alaska (AK)

A US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon is refueled inflight as another F-16 waits in formation to be refueled for a mission over Iraq. This operation is a security mission to enforce the United Nations no-fly zone north of the 36 degree parallel from Iraqi air and ground incursion. A four nation coalition of US, Turkey, Great Britain and France has been actively protecting and supplying Kurdish refugees since Desert Storm in 1991.(Exact date unknown)

A ground crewman conducts a pre-flight check of an F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft during Exercise AIR WARRIOR. The F-16 is assigned to the 19th Tactical Fighter Squadron

An F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot prepares for flight during

An unidentified US Air Force (USAF) F-16CJ Fighting Falcon aircraft Pilot assigned to the 157th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron (EFS), 379th Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW), South Carolina (SC), Air National Guard (ANG), exits his F-16CJ Fighting Falcon aircraft, after returning from a sortie flowing in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

The pilot of a KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft monitors equipment in the cockpit as he prepares his plane for refueling of an F-15 Eagle aircraft during Operation Desert Shield

An F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft from the 68th Fighter Squadron, Moody Air Force Base, Georgia prepares to take off from Azaraq Air Base, Jordan. The plane just arrived and was quick loaded with munitions for the sortie. The aircraft will be participating in the Air Power Expeditionary Force. An ancillary mission of the Force is to assist US Air Force and other multinational forces operating in Saudi Arabia and other nearby countries patrol the no-fly zone over southern Iraq

The pilot of an F-16C Falcon from the 169th Fighter Wing emerges from behind the auxiliary gas tank after completing his pre-flight inspection. He is preparing for his 15+ hour flight to Qatar where his unit will participate with active duty units in the Air Expeditionary Force (AEF) IV deployment

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Base: Mcentire Ang Station

State: South Carolina (SC)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: SRA Kevin C. Collins

Release Status: Released to Public

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19/02/1997
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Mr. Jack Skolds F-16 Fighting Falcon, (Aircraft #924) takes off. Skolds is the President of SCE&G. He is visiting the 169th Fighter Wing at McEntire, South Carolina's Air National Guard Station to receive an orientation flight on the F-16C, Block 52 aircraft

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US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Jason Lovett, 732nd Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron (ELRS), Holloman Air Force Base (AFB), New Mexico, (NM), transfers Aviation Gas (AVGAS) to his filling truck in order to fuel a Predator Reconnaissance plane at Balad Air Base (AB), Salah Ad Din Province, Iraq (IRQ), during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

A Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) Maintainer assigned to Wing 1 Military Air Base, and a US Air Force (USAF) Airmen, assigned to the 12th Fighter Squadron (FS), perform a pre-flight inspection on a USAF F-15C Eagle aircraft at Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base (RTAFB), Thailand, during Exercise COPE TIGER 2003. Cope Tiger is an annual multinational exercise in the Asia-Pacific region that promotes closer relations and enables air force units in the region to sharpen air combat skill and practice interoperability with US Forces

Three unidentified US Air Force Munitions people carry a AIM-9 Sidewinder Missile on the flight line towards a F-16 Falcon, Block 52 aircraft (the only such aircraft in the Air National Guard) from the 157th Fighter Squadron and assigned to the 169th Fighter Wing at McEntire ANG Station South Carolina. Lans Stout, a visiting free-lance photographer from Atlantic Beach, Florida, captures pure beauty in flight (OCT 97). This photo was used for a picture story in the popular "Code One" magazine

A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot, assigned

A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III large transport

US Air Force Captain Connor Blackwood an F-15 Eagle pilot, from the 493rd Fighter Squadron, 48th Fighter Wing, RAF Lakenheath, United Kingdom, takes Eric Domagalski, a member of the Texas A&M University male cadet choir, on a pre-flight inspection of the F-15D Blackwood will be flying. The 'Voice of Aggieland, Texas 60-man choir performed a free concert for the East Anglian American Military Community. As a recruiting initiative aimed at stateside audiences, base officials, with the approval of higher headquarters, offered an F-15 incentive flight to one student. Eric's teachers chose him out of the 72 members. He received a flight physical; egress training and a full mission briefing ...

Weary travellers recieve assistance from Air Force volunteers after completing a 19 hour from Saudi Arabia flight to Charleston International Airport, South Carolina. US DoD, military, and civilian personnel were forced to relocate to the United States from Saudi Arabia in the wake of a terrorist bombing there during Operation SOUTHERN WATCH. They were met in Charleston by a barrage of military and civilian volunteers determined to make the relocation as painless as possible

The Marines and sailors of the Shock Trauma platoon,

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