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Tech Sgt. Miguel Garza, 363rd Training Squadron armament

Ordnancemen pose with an AGM-123A Skipper II laser-guided bomb aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69)

US Air Force SENIOR AIRMAN Patrick Fotz, 36th Fighter Squadron, guides a Paveway III laser guided bomb (GBU-24) onto an MJ1 Weapons Lift truck which is driven by US Air Force AIRMAN First Class Adam Wright, 36th Fighter Squadron, during the Operational Readiness Inspection at Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea

Members of the 187th Electronic Warfare shop pose with

U.S. Air Force Ammunition Maintenance Technicians assemble the guidance control unit on a GBU-15, 2000-pound precision-guided munitions, while deployed with the 3rd Air Expeditionary Group at at Kwang-Ju Air Base, Republic of Korea, on September 9, 2004. Pictured are Technical SGT. Robert Bentler; STAFF Sergeant John Marshall; and SENIOR AIRMAN Paul Rodriquez (U.S. Air Force photo by STAFF SGT. Steven R. Nabor) (Released)

Gen. Donald Hoffman, Air Force Material Command commander,

Sailors arrange inert ordnance in a magazine aboard

Staff Sgt Deion Montana-Graham, 48th Munition Squadron

Airmen from the 51st Munitions Squadron assemble various

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US Air Force Major James Isherwood, 48th Operations Support Squadron, 48th Fighter Wing, Royal Air Force Lakenheath, United Kingdom, give a tour of an F-15 Strike Eagle to World War II veterans and their family members. The 48th FW hosted approximately seventy-five World War II veterans and family members of four World War II bombardment groups that were stationed in England with the 8th Air Force. The group represented the 100th, 447th, 452nd and the 393rd Bomb Groups

US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Steven L. Kwast, 492nd Fighter Squadron commander, 48th Fighter Wing, Royal Air Force Lakenheath, United Kingdom, addresses a group of World War II veterans and their family members during a luncheon at the Lakenheath Officers' Club. The 48th FW hosted approximately seventy-five World War II veterans and family members of four World War II bombardment groups that were stationed in England with the 8th Air Force. The group represented the 100th, 447th, 452nd and the 393rd Bomb Groups

US Air Force Major James Isherwood, 48th Operations Support Squadron, 48th Fighter Wing, Royal Air Force Lakenheath, United Kingdom, give a tour of an F-15 Strike Eagle to World War II veterans and their family members. The 48th FW hosted approximately seventy-five World War II veterans and family members of four World War II bombardment groups that were stationed in England with the 8th Air Force. T he group represented the 100th, 447th, 452nd and the 393rd Bomb Groups

US Air Force (USAF) AIRMAN First Class (A1C) Michael Lundin (left), and USAF AIRMAN (AMN) William Sword, Conventional Maintenance Crewmembers, 48th Munitions Squadron (MUNS), RAF Lakenheath, United Kingdom (UK), work on a RAMS (Rapid Assembly Munitions System) to assemble these 1,000-pound bombs. The RAMS is used to put together bombs during wartime and critical situations. Assemblies such as these allow for the 48th Munitions Squadron to provide munitions and armament systems maintenance for three fighter squadrons

A US Air Force (USAF) member, 100th Security Forces Squadron (SFS), 100th Air Refueling Wing (ARW), Royal Air Force (RAF) Mildenhall, England (ENG), aims his 5.56 mm M16A2 rifle in preparation to protect a 100th ARW KC-135 Stratotanker refueling aircraft from a suspected intruder during a stop alert training exercise conducted on RAF Fairford, ENG. The 100th ARW is at RAF Fairford during a temporary change of station while the runway at RAF Mildenhall is closed for a six-month reconstruction program

A member of 48th Fighter Wing, Royal Air Force Lakenheath United Kingdom, helps to restore an F-15E Eagle aircraft static display at Imperial War Museum, Duxford, England. The F-15E, which is on loan from the United Sates Air Force Museum, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, is one of about 40 American aircraft on display at the Imperial War Museum

U.S. Air Force TECH. SGT. James Widmark (right), 62nd Civil Engineer Squadron, Explosive Ordnance Disposal Flight, briefs Airmen from the 62nd Medical Group on identifying various explosive ordnances such as the bomb in the foreground. The briefing, given during an Ability to Survive and Operate Training session on McChord Air Force Base, Wash., trains Airmen on how to identify and respond to unexploded ordnances. (U.S. Air Force photo by Kristin Royalty, CIV) (Released)

A US Air Force (USAF) F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft assigned to the 494th Fighter Squadron (FS), Royal Air Force (RAF) Lakenheath, armed with AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM); AIM-9 Sidewinders Missiles; GBU-12 500-pound bombs, and a GBU-31 Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM), in flight over the skies of Iraq on a combat sortie in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

STAFF SERGEANT Glenn Rehr a crew chief from the 492nd Fighter Squadron, 48th Fighter Wing, Royal Air Force (RAF) Lakenheath, United Kingdom, England talks with General (GEN) Gregory Martin, United Sates Air Forces in Europe Commander in order to perform all necessary checks on the F-15E Strike eagle prior to take off. GEN Martin was playing host to GEN Jean-Pierre Job, CHIEF of staff for the French Air Force, during his visit to RAF Lakenheath

US Air Force Technical Sergeant Darren Langen, 48th Operations Group, 48th Fighter Wing, Royal Air Force Lakenheath, United Kingdom, talks to World War II veterans and their family members about some of the munitions that are used on the F-15E Strike Eagle at RAF Lakenheath. The 48th FW hosted approximately seventy-five World War II veterans and family members of four World War II bombardment groups that were stationed in England with the 8th Air Force. The group represented the 100th, 447th, 452nd and the 393rd Bomb Groups

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Base: Raf Lakenheath

State: East Anglia

Country: England / Great Britain (ENG)

Scene Camera Operator: A1C Joanna E. Reihle, USAF

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Captain (CAPT) Chris Bridges (left), USAF, Pilot, 492nd Fighter Squadron (FS), RAF Lakenheath, United Kingdom, watches as Group Captain Richard Garwood, RAF, Commanding Officer, RAF Marham, United Kingdom, acquaints himself with the front seat station after they completed a flight in a F-15E Strike Eagle. Group Captain Garwood visited RAF Lakenheath for an orientation ride in the Strike Eagle

KINGS BAY, Georgia (Nov. 2, 2018) James Campbell claps

An F-15E Strike Eagle painted in the 494th Fighter

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

AIRMAN First Class (A1C) Tommy Miller, USAF, member of the First Term AIRMAN Center (FTAC), 48th Fighter Wing (FW), RAF Lakenheath, United Kingdom, performs one of the duties of the Base Appearance Team (BAT). Base appearance is one of the responsibilities of First Team AIRMAN. FTAC is a two-week program that provides commanders and supervisors with mission-ready airmen by completing base in processing, and familiarizing them with base support functions and services

A right side view of an FB-111A aircraft of the 509th Bombardment Wing as it takes off

An illustration made after the war shows 2nd Lt. Harry

An airshow was held at Dover Air Force Base, Del.,

US Air Force (USAF) Crew Chiefs from the 48th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (AMXS), 48th Fighter Wing (FW), Royal Air Force (RAF) Lakenheath, England (ENG), conduct preflight checks on an F-15E Strike Eagle fighter from the 492nd Fighter Squadron (FS), prior to a mission

TSgt Stephen Cox takes over crew supervisor duties at the 3rd Combat Communications Groups radar approach control (RAPCON) shift change

As the American flag flies at half-mast, members of the 48th Fighter Wing, RAF Lakenheath, UK, lower their heads during a three-minute period of silence. The event is in memory of the victims of the September 11th terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centers Twin Towers in New York and at the Pentagon. Hijackers deliberately flew civilian airliners into the buildings, killing themselves, the passengers and thousands on the ground

KC-135R Stratotanker from the 100th Aerial Refueling Wing at Royal Air Force Mildenhall shares a hardstand at its home base in East Anglia, United Kingdom

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