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Spouses of military members at the 180th Fighter Wing

A U.S. Air Force C-130J Hercules crew preps their aircraft

Aviation Electrician's Mate 3rd Class Andrew Fulkroad,

An HC-130P Combat King, 81st Expeditionary Rescue Squadron,

A U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules pilot looks through

(Left) Capt. Jonathan Edwards and Capt. Stephen Massey,

Airmen from the 321st Contingency Response Squadron,

Michigan Air National Guard (MIANG) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Mike Mazure (left) and SSGT Ron Davenport (right), 107th Fighter Squadron (FS), Selfridge Air National Guard Base (ANGB), Michigan (MI), run a test on an F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft Pitot tube, which is used to record air speed, temperature, altitude, and elevation, at Kirkuk Air Base (AB), At Ta Mim Province, Iraq (IRQ), while deployed to conduct an Armed Reconnaissance mission during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

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US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Jason Egger, a Pararescueman with the 56th Rescue Squadron (RQS), 398th Air Expeditionary Group (AEG) takes Global Positioning System (GPS) readings during a training mission aboard a HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter, during a training mission in Sierra Leone. The 398th AEG is currently deployed at Sierra Leone to provide personnel recovery and emergency evacuation capability for the Humanitarian Assistance Survey Teams (HAST) and the Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Teams (FAST) in Liberia, during Joint Task Force (JTF) Liberia

US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Andrew Yost and STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Jason Egger, both Pararescuemen with the 56th Rescue Squadron (RQS), 398th Air Expeditionary Group (AEG), are hoisted aboard an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter during a Alternate Insertion Extraction training exercise at Sierra Leone. The 398th AEG is currently deployed at Sierra Leone to provide personnel recovery and emergency evacuation capability for the Humanitarian Assistance Survey Teams (HAST) and the Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Teams (FAST) in Liberia, during Joint Task Force (JTF) Liberia

US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Jason Egger, a Pararescueman with the 56th Rescue Squadron (RQS), 398th Air Expeditionary Group (AEG) checks in with Command and Control after landing aboard a HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter, during a training mission in Sierra Leone. The 398th AEG is currently deployed at Sierra Leone to provide personnel recovery and emergency evacuation capability for the Humanitarian Assistance Survey Teams (HAST) and the Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Teams (FAST) in Liberia, during Joint Task Force (JTF) Liberia

US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Andrew Yost and STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Jason Egger, both Pararescuemen with the 56th Rescue Squadron (RQS), 398th Air Expeditionary Group (AEG), are hoisted aboard an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter during a Alternate Insertion Extraction training exercise at Sierra Leone. The 398th AEG is currently deployed at Sierra Leone to provide personnel recovery and emergency evacuation capability for the Humanitarian Assistance Survey Teams (HAST) and the Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Teams (FAST) in Liberia, during Joint Task Force (JTF) Liberia

US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Andrew Yost and STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Jason Egger, both Pararescuemen with the 56th Rescue Squadron (RQS), 398th Air Expeditionary Group (AEG), are hoisted aboard an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter during a Alternate Insertion Extraction training exercise at Sierra Leone. The 398th AEG is currently deployed at Sierra Leone to provide personnel recovery and emergency evacuation capability for the Humanitarian Assistance Survey Teams (HAST) and the Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Teams (FAST) in Liberia, during Joint Task Force (JTF) Liberia

US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Andrew Yost, 56th Rescue Squadron (RQS), 398th Air Expeditionary Group (AEG), and STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Jon Harrison, 786th Security Forces Squadron (SFS), are hoisted aboard an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter during a Alternate Insertion Extraction training exercise at Sierra Leone. The 398th AEG is currently deployed at Sierra Leone to provide personnel recovery and emergency evacuation capability for the Humanitarian Assistance Survey Teams (HAST) and the Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Teams (FAST) in Liberia, during Joint Task Force (JTF) Liberia

US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Jon Harrison (foreground), 786th Security Forces Squadron (SFS), waits as a Pararescueman with the 56th Rescue Squadron (RQS), 398th Air Expeditionary Group (AEG), is hoisted aboard an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter during a Alternate Insertion Extraction training exercise at Sierra Leone. The 398th AEG is currently deployed at Sierra Leone to provide personnel recovery and emergency evacuation capability for the Humanitarian Assistance Survey Teams (HAST) and the Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Teams (FAST) in Liberia, during Joint Task Force (JTF) Liberia

US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Doug McDonnell, 85th Maintenance Squadron, 398th Air Expeditionary Group (AEG), performs maintenance on the tail rotor boot of a HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter while deployed at Lungi, Sierra Leone. The 398th AEG is currently in Sierra Leone to provide personnel recovery and emergency evacuation capability for the Humanitarian Assistance Survey Teams (HAST) and the Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Teams (FAST) in Liberia, during Joint Task Force (JTF) Liberia

US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Dennis Snyder, a Flight Engineer with the 56th Rescue Squadron (RQS), 398th Air Expeditionary Group (AEG) mans a 7.62mm Minigun machine gun as he scans for obstacles from a hovering HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter while landing during a training mission in Sierra Leone. The 398th AEG is currently deployed at Sierra Leone to provide personnel recovery and emergency evacuation capability for the Humanitarian Assistance Survey Teams (HAST) and the Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Teams (FAST) in Liberia, during Joint Task Force (JTF) Liberia

US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Jason Egger, a Pararescueman with the 56th Rescue Squadron (RQS), 398th Air Expeditionary Group (AEG), signal thumbs up as he prepare to be hoisted aboard an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter during a Alternate Insertion Extraction training exercise at Sierra Leone. The 398th AEG is currently deployed at Sierra Leone to provide personnel recovery and emergency evacuation capability for the Humanitarian Assistance Survey Teams (HAST) and the Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Teams (FAST) in Liberia, during Joint Task Force (JTF) Liberia

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Subject Operation/Series: JTF LIBERIA

Base: Lungi

Country: Sierra Leone (SLE)

Scene Camera Operator: Tsgt Justin D. Pyle, USAF

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Gregory Featherstone, stands as part of the 86th Airlift Wing Honor Guard to present the colors at the African-American Heritage Committee luncheon. The Kaiserslautern African-American Heritage Committee luncheon held at the Ramstein Air Base (AB) Officers Club, Germany as part of African-American Heritage Month

U.S. Navy Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69) Sailors attach supplies to a Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 28 (HSC-28,"Dragon Whales") MH-60S Knighthawk (Sierra) multi-mission helicopter during an underway replenishment between the EISENHOWER and the Military Sealift Command (MSC) Supply Class Fast Combat Support Ship USNS ARCTIC (T-AOE 8) on Jan. 25, 2007, while the EISENHOWER and embarked Carrier Air Wing 7 (CVW-7) are on a regularly scheduled deployment in support of maritime security operations in the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command Area of Responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication SPECIALIST SEAMAN Apprentice Jon Dasbach) (Released)

Air-to-air, side view of a 22nd Air Refueling Wing KC-10A Extender from March AFB, California preparing to refuel an in trail 60th Airlift Wing's C-5B Galaxy over the High Sierra mountains in northern California. Exact Date Shot Unknown

A US Navy (USN) (green shirt) Catapult Operator gives the thumbs up signal as a F-14D Tomcat aircraft assigned to the "Tomcatters" of Fighter Squadron 31 (VF-31) prepares to launch from the flight deck of the USN Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier, USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71). The ROOSEVELT and embarked Carrier Air Wing 8 (CVW-8) are currently on a regularly scheduled deployment conducting maritime security operations in the Mediterranean Sea

SSGT Bill Lovins, ground radio maintenance, left, and SSGT Randall Brinlee, teletype communications operator, install communications antennas on one of several converted railway cars which function as the Alaskan Air Command's Alternate Command Post. Both men are assigned to the 1930th Information Systems Squadron

Civilians disembark from a Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 162 (HMM-162) CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter at the Lungi airport, just north of Freetown, Sierra Leone, during Operation Sharp Edge. The civilians, who were evacuated from the midst of the civil war in Liberia, were processed aboard a U.S. Navy ship off the coast of Liberia before being flown to Sierra Leone

The thumbs up signal is given by LT. COL. Charlie Heald (front seat) and Peter Jennings of ABC News in the back seat of the F-15E Strike Eagle. The signal is given to notify everyone that everything is "A" all right for the incentive flight to begin

A family has one of its bags searched while being processed aboard the tank landing ship USS BARNSTABLE COUNTY (LST-1197) prior to a flight to Freetown, Sierra Leone, during Operation Sharp Edge. The family was brought to the BARNSTABLE COUNTY after being evacuated from the midst of the civil war in Liberia

Military personnel take part in a brief ceremony following the arrival of medical supplies and equipment at Freetown International Airport. The 436th Military Airlift Wing C-5A Galaxy aircraft, standing in background, delivered the material as part of a U.S. humanitarian effort to provide food and other necessities to five African countries stricken by war and famine

US Air Force (USAF) C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft in Lisbon, Portugal (PRT), undergoing scheduled maintenance checks and refurbishment

A happy US Air Force F-15 pilot gives the thumbs up after he receives fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker (Not shown) during a mission in the European Theatre supporting Operation Allied Force

Eric Domagalski, a member of the Texas A&M University male cadet choir gives a thumbs up. The pilot of the F-15D Eagle aircraft is US Air Force Captain Connor Blackwood, an F-15 pilot from the 493rd Fighter Squadron, 48th Fighter Wing, RAF Lakenheath, United Kingdom. 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 before the afternoon take off

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