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US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Nick Seibel, Combat Controller (CCT), 321st Special Tactics Squadron (STS), RAF (Royal Air Force) Mildenhall, United Kingdom (UK), Jumpmaster for the day, searches for the 'Iron Mike' drop zone (DZ) in preparation for a jump into St Mere Eglise, Normandy, France (FRA), during the 60th Anniversary of the D-Day invasion

US Army (USA) Sergeant First Class (SFC) Charles Cooley (right), Jumpmaster, XVIII Airborne (ABN) Corps, Ft Bragg, North Carolina (NC), performs a check on USA STAFF Sergeant (SSG) Wesley Thomas Neel (left), Jumpmaster, XVIII ABN Corps, making sure his equipment is properly attached prior to boarding an aircraft for a jump onto the Iron Mike Drop Zone (DZ) commemorating the 60th Anniversary of D-Day. More than 650 paratroopers jumped for the event near St Mere Eglise, France (FRA)

US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Tim Brauch (left), gets assistance from USAF STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Gerald Nicholls, both assigned to the321st Special Tactics Squadron (STS), as he climbs aboard the rescue raft after participating in a water rescue drop, during a training mission conducted in the waters of the North Sea, off the coast of England. The training is being conducted Airmen from the 21st Special Operations Squadron (SOS), located at Royal Air Force (RAF) Mildenhall, United Kingdom (UK). The units are part of the 352nd Special Operations Group (SOG), the air component for special operations within the European Command Area of Responsibility (AOR)

US Air Force (USAF) Technical Sergeant (TSGT) Tommy Manis, Flight CHIEF, assigned as a student to the 22nd Training Squadron (TRS), 336th Training Group (TRG), Fairchild Air Force Base (AFB), Washington (WA), gathers his parachute after safely landing following a 1,500-foot (ft.) jump from a C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft during the parachuting portion of the Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) training at the USAF Survival School at Fairchild AFB, WA

From left to right- US Air Force (USAF) AIRMAN First Class (A1C) Jason Lavelle, USAF SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Bertrand Asselin, USAF STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) David Ingram and team leader USAF Technical Sergeant (TSGT) Steven Root, all with 5th Maintenance Group (MXG), Minot Air Force Base (AFB), North Dakota (ND), stand at attention after their missiles are loaded onto the aircraft. The load crew is under evaluation on their job performance in cold weather gear

US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR MASTER Sergeant (SMSGT) Brian Duke, Videographer, 52nd Communications Squadron (CS), Spangdahlem Air base (AB), Germany (DEU), videotapes USAF C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft during the airdrop outside St Mere Eglise, France (FRA), on 5 Jun 2004. SMSGT Duke is in France to document activities for the 60th Anniversary of the D-Day invasions of World War II (WWII)

A U.S. Army parachute rigger (left) works with SENIOR MASTER SGT. David Leightenberger (right), a C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft loadmaster from the 164th Airlift Wing, Mansfield Air Reserve Station, OH., before an airdrop miison during Operation Enduring Freedom at Karshi-Khanabad Air Base, Uzbekistan, on Feb. 10, 2005. (U.S. Air Force PHOTO by TECH. SGT. Scott T. Sturkol) (Released)

US Air Force (USAF) AIRMAN (AMN) Sarah Mayerskv, left, SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Nick Hines, center and STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Monica Knight, with the 355th Expeditionary Medical Squadron (EMS), lift SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Virgil Bandy, from a gurney where his remaining contaminated Mission-Oriented Protective Postures level 4 (MOPP-4) gear, can be removed during Exercise Bushwhacker 03-04 at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (AFB), Arizona (AZ)

US Army (USA) paratroopers with the XVIII Airborne Corps, Ft Bragg, North Carolina (NC), board a US Air Force (USAF) C-130H Hercules cargo aircraft, 94th Airlift Wing (AW), Dobbins Air Reserve Base (ARB), Georgia (GA), on their way to the Iron Mike Drop Zone (DZ) to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of D-Day. More than 650 paratroopers jumped for the event near St Mere Eglise, France (FRA)

US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Nick Seibel (left), Combat Controller (CCT), 321st Special Tactics Squadron (STS), RAF (Royal Air Force) Mildenhall, United Kingdom (UK), Jumpmaster for the day, offloads jumpers from a USAF C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft, to the 'Iron Mike' drop zone (DZ) during a jump into St Mere Eglise, Normandy, France (FRA), during the 60th Anniversary of the D-Day invasion

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Base: Mildenhall

State: Suffolk

Country: England / Great Britain (ENG)

Scene Camera Operator: A1C Franklin J. Perkins, USAF

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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