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Loadmaster SENIOR AIRMAN Tommy Cramshaw of the 61st Airlift Squadron (AS) from Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, guides a forklift driven by 623rd (AMSS) Air Mobility Support Squadron (AMSS) SENIOR AIRMAN Tony Gilberti to upload cargo headed for Tuzla Air Base (AB), Bosnia. The Green Hornets are deployed to Ramstein AB, Germany, for a 100-day Temporary Duty (TDY) tour assisting Operation JOINT GUARD (previously Operation Joint Endeavor). Flying C-130 Hercules everyday to the Former Yugoslav region (primarily Tuzla). They pickup and deliver cargo and passengers in support of JOINT GUARD. Tuzla is the dispersion and collection point for supplies, vehicles and personnel. JOINT GUARD...

US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Scott Taylor, Aerial Port SPECIALIST, 62nd Aerial Port Squadron (APS), marshals a 20-ton K-loader towards the cargo ramp of an Arab Republic of Egypt Air Force (EAF) C-130H Hercules in order to assist EAF team members, who have recently arrived at McChord Air Force Base (AFB), Washington (WA), offload their gear and equipment prior to participating in the US Air Force (USAF) Air Mobility Command (AMC) sponsored Rodeo 98 airlift competition

US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Ariel A. Reyes a Munitions Handler assigned to the 96th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Wing, helps to guide an MJ-1 weapons loader transporting an M-117 750-pound general purpose bombs from the weapons bay on a B-52H Stratofortress aircraft, while deployed at an undisclosed operating location in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. Three GBU-32 Mk-84 2,000-pound Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) mounted under the wing of the aircraft

Loadmaster SENIOR AIRMAN Tommy Cramshaw the 61st Airlift Squadron (AS) from Little Rock AFB, Arkansas, guides a forklift to upload cargo headed for Tuzla Air Base (AB), Bosnia. The Green Hornets are deployed to Ramstein AB, Germany for a 100-day Temporary Duty (TDY) tour assisting Operation JOINT GUARD (previously Operation Joint Endeavor). Flying C-130 Hercules everyday to the Former Yugoslav region (primarily Tuzla), they pick up and deliver cargo and passengers in support JOINT GUARD. Tuzla is the dispersion and collection point for supplies, vehicles and personnel. JOINT GUARD enforces the Dayton Peace Accords and with multi-national allies continues to monitor the militaries...

United States Air Force AIRMAN First Class Jason Bishop, a Loadmaster assigned to the 50th Airlift Squadron, Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, looks out the troop door window of an Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft. A1C Bishop is looking for possible threats against the aircraft, as it flies over Bosnia and Herzegovina airspace. The aircraft is carrying supplies to Tuzla Air Base in Bosnia in support of Operation Joint Guard

US Air Force (USAF) AIRMAN First Class Matthew R. Fratzke, Weapons Load Team Member assigned to the 96th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Wing, positions M-117 750-pound general purpose bombs atop a munitions trailer, after downloading them from a US Air Force (USAF) B-52H Stratofortress aircraft, at an undisclosed operating location in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

US Air Force AIRMAN First Class Corby Priddy, a Satellite Wide Band Communications Journeyman from the 54th Combat Communications Squadron, Robbins Air Force Base, Georgia, sets up an INMARSAT Satellite at Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, during Operation SOUTHERN WATCH. SRA Storm is part of the coalition forces of the 363rd Air Expeditionary Wing, Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, that enforce the no-fly and no-drive zone in Southern Iraq to protect and defend against Iraqi aggression in support of Operation SOUTHERN WATCH

AIRMAN First Class Mark Taylor, USAF, Air Transportation SPECIALIST, 86th Contingency Response Group, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, marshals a forklift to a halt to place a cargo pallet on dunnage at the airfield in Accra, Ghana, in preparation to transport US forces and cargo involved in Operation FOCUS RELIEF. Operation FOCUS RELIEF, a United Nations peacekeeping operation in Sierra Leone, to equip and train seven battalions from West African countries to be able to conduct peace enforcement operations

AIRMAN 1ST Class Melissa Edwards, 436th Aerial Port Squadron, Charleston Air Force Base, SC, uses a forklift (not shown) to move pallets of tarpaulins at the airport in preparation for loading onto a U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules which will fly them into Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, on a relief mission. The three-year-old relief effort known as Operation Provide Promise has been able to resume its relief missions after a five month hold due to aircraft receiving ground fire over Sarajevo

US Air Force AIRMAN First Class Tito Bigornia uses a torque gun to tighten the large bolts of a Cochran Pallet loader during assembly as US Air Force AIRMAN First Class Anousone Say assists him. AMNs Bigornia and Say both Cargo SPECIALIST with the 615 Aerial Port Squadron, Travis Air Force Base, California, are at Al-Kharj Air Base, Saudi Arabia, in support of the Relocation of Operation SOUTHERN WATCH Personnel

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Subject Operation/Series: SOUTHERN WATCH

Base: Al Kharj Air Base

Country: Saudi Arabia (SAU)

Scene Camera Operator: SRA Richard M. Heileman, USAF

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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label_outline Explore Amns, Al Kharj Air Base, Al Kharj

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

AIRMAN First Class (A1C) Ray Barlon and A1C G. Thomas Jr., 388th Electronic Maintenance Squadron, check the torque on an AIM-9L Sidewinder missile during Operation OCEAN VENTURE '84

A front loader pushes mud out of the way to cleanup

U.S. Air Force STAFF SGT. Dennis Bilog of the 18th Services Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan, carries a cargo net to be placed over a cargo pallet bound for Southeast Asia on Dec. 28, 2004. The cargo is part of U.S. military tsunami relief operations following the 9.0 magnitude earthquake that struck the coast of Indonesia. (USAF photo by TECH. SGT. Richard Freeland) (Released)

ENSIGN Darius Banaji, resident officer in charge of construction, supervises loader/excavator operators at a construction site at Naval Station, Roosevelt Roads

Miki Kikuta looks for a photo of herself in a Big Circle

North Dakota Air National Guard (NDANG) MASTER Sergeant (MSGT) Michael W. Schreiner, 119th Security Forces Squadron (SFS), secures a pallet during preparation for an operational readiness exercise (ORE) at Fargo, North Dakota (ND)

U. S. Army Garrison Okinawa Commander Lt. Col. Zachary

An HH-52A Pelican helicopter from the US Coast Guard icebreaker NORTHWIND (WAGB 282) airlifts a crated musk ox to its new habitat during a joint Denmark-US relocation operation

A worker uses a loader to remove ash and debris from yards in the aftermath of Mount Pinatubo's eruption. The volcano erupted for the first time in over 600 years on June 10th and covered the area in ash and debris

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

Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia - U.S. National Archives Public Domain photograph

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