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US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Rafael Him (foreground) and USAF MASTER Sergeant Dan Smith, both Boom Operators assigned to the 900th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron (EARS), man their positions aboard a USAF KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft, during a refueling mission flown over Northern Iraq, in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH

US Air Force (USAF) MASTER Sergeant (MSGT) Dan Smith, Boom Operator, 900th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron (EARS), man his position aboard a USAF KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft, during a refueling mission flow over Northern Iraq, in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH

US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Rafael Him, Boom Operator aboard a USAF KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft assigned to the 900th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron (EARS), completes preflight procedures at his station onboard the aircraft, before departing on a refueling mission in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH

US Air Force (USAF) MASTER Sergeant (MSGT) STAFF Sergeant Dan Smith (left) and USAF (SSGT) Rafael Him, both Boom Operator aboard a USAF KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft assigned to the 900th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron (EARS), completes preflight procedures at their station onboard the aircraft, before departing on a refueling mission in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH

US Air Force STAFF Sergeant Tim Brightbill, 962nd Air Control Squadron, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, does in-flight maintenance on the E3 APY-1 radar assembly onboard a US Air Force E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft, flying in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH to enforce the No-Fly-Zone over Northern Iraq

US Air Force (USAF) personnel assigned to the 900th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron (EARS), man their position aboard a USAF KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft, during a refueling mission flown in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH

US Air Force (USAF) Captain (CPT) Scott Notestine, (Pilot) and USAF Second Lieutenant (2LT) Patrick Kelly (Co-Pilot) both assigned to the 900th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron (EARS), Ohio (OH), Air National Guard (ANG) man their positions aboard their USAF KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft during a refueling mission flown in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH

Boom Operators point of view onboard a US Air Force (USAF) KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft assigned to the 900th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron (EARS), showing a USAF F-16CG Fighting Falcon aircraft, approaching for refueling during a mission flow over Northern Iraq, in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH

US Air Force STAFF Sergeant Ray Ouellette (Left), a KC-135 Stratotanker Boom Operator with the 911th Aerial Refueling Squadron, Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, along with Captain Steve Stoner, a KC-135 pilot, also assigned to the 911 ARS, inprocess while deployed to Moron Air Base, Spain. This mission is in direct support of Joint Task Force Noble Anvil

US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Rafael Him, Boom Operator, 900th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron (EARS), man his position aboard a USAF KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft, as a USAF E-3A Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft refuels during a mission flown over Northern Iraq, in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH

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Subject Operation/Series: NORTHERN WATCH

Base: Incirlik Air Base, Adana

Country: Turkey (TUR)

Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Anna Hayman, USAF

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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Canadian Forces Air Command Sergeant Jason Day, a communications technician with the 962nd Air Control Squadron, Elmendorf Air Force Base Alaska, repairs a mission critical radio, onboard a US Air Force E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft, flying in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH to enforce the No-Fly-Zone over Northern Iraq

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US Air Force (USAF) Major (MAJ) Dan Lapastole (foreground) and USAF Captain (CPT) Esther Bley, both HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter Pilots assigned to the 129th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron (ERQS), talk inside the cockpit of their aircraft at Incirlik Air Base (AB), Turkey, while deployed in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH

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