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The Black Hawk Aircrew Trainer, appropriately nicknamed

U.S. Marine pilots assigned to Marine Helicopter Light

Air National Guard aeromedical evacuation teams from

A landing support specialist assigned to Special Purpose

CAPT. William B. Hayden, commanding officer of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN-72), converses with flight deck crew members prior to conducting a preflight check on a Fighter Squadron 114 (VF-114) F-14A Tomcat aircraft

Airmen from the 535th Airlift Squadron at Joint Base

Members of the 86th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron

An aerial porter deployed in support of Combined Joint

Aerial porters deployed in support of Combined Joint

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View from the boom operators position through a Starlight system as an F-15C gets an in-flight fillup from a KC-135 during a combat air patrol. This F-15 was credited with a MIG-29 kill tonight. He and several others (not shown) are providing fighter cover for tankers and strike aircraft during the first night of NATO Operation Allied Force

View from the boom operators position through a Starlight system as an F-15C gets an in-flight fillup from a KC-135 (not shown) during a combat air patrol. This F-15 was credited with a MIG-29 (not shown) kill tonight. He and several others are providing fighter cover for tankers and strike aircraft (not shown) during the first night of NATO Operation Allied Force

This image was shot through a Starlight System out of the boom operator's location on a KC-135 Stratotanker. An F-15C gets an in-flight fillup from a KC-135 during a combat air patrol on the first night of NATO Operation Allied Force

This image was shot through a Starlight System out of the boom operator's location on a KC-135 Stratotanker. An F-15C gets an in-flight fillup from a KC-135 during a combat air patrol. This F-15 was credited with a MIG-29 (not shown) kill tonight. He and several others are providing fighter cover for tankers and strike aircraft (not shown) during the first night of NATO Operation Allied Force

Aerial shot through a Starlight System out a KC-135 boom operator's window at the right wing of an F-15E Eagle as it refuels (actual refueling not shown). Only visible in the frame are a AIM-120 AMRAAM and AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles attached under the right wing near the fuel pod. This refueling mission over foreign skies is in direct support of NATO Operation Allied Force

A KC-135 pilot (not shown) with the 92nd Aerial Refueling Squadron, Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, discusses procedures with the pilot while refueling fighters and strike aircraft (not shown) during the first night of NATO Operation Allied Force. This image was shot through a Starlight System

An air-to-air top view of an F-15 Eagle aircraft being refueled by a KC-135A Stratotanker aircraft. The view was taken from the Advanced Aerial Refueling Boom section of the KC-135A

An F-15E Strike Eagle receives fuel from a KC-135 during a mission over foreign skies in support of NATO Operation Allied Force. This image was shot through a Starlight System

KC-135 pilots from the 92nd Aerial Refueling Squadron, Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, make adjustments while refueling fighters and strike aircraft (not shown) during the first night of NATO Operation Allied Force. This image was shot through a Starlight System

View from the boom operators position through a Starlight system as an F-15C gets an in-flight fillup from a KC-135 during a combat air patrol. This F-15 and several others (not shown) were providing fighter cover for tankers and strike aircraft during the first night of NATO Operation Allied Force

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Subject Operation/Series: ALLIED FORCE

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Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Ken Bergmann

Release Status: Released to Public

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U.S. Air Force Videographer SENIOR AIRMAN Justin Fairley videos a taxiing KC-135 Stratotanker at Moron Air Bae, Spain on March 21st, 1999. SRA Fairley is assigned to the 1ST Combat Camera Squadron, Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina. This mission is in direct support of Joint Task Force Noble Anvil. The image was shot through a Starlight Night Vision Lens System

Members of a tank crew with the Tennessee Army National

Boom Operators point of view showing a US Air Force (USAF) B-2 Spirit aircraft approaching the refueling boom of a Alaskan Air National Guard KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft while conducting refueling operations during Exercise NORTHERN EDGE 02. Northern Edge '02 is an annual joint training exercise held in Alaska designed to exercise joint operations techniques, procedures and enhance interoperability among the services

A German Air Force PA200 Tornado performs refueling

Senior Airman Travis Moore, 350th Air Refueling Squadron

Green Berets assigned to 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne)

An F-14 "Tomcat" engages it's afterburners prior to a night launch off the flight deck of the U.S. aircraft carrier USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71). ROOSEVELT and its embarked carrier air wing are participating in strikes missions over the former Yugoslavia in support of NATO Operation Allied Force

A KC-135 Stratotanker from the 171st Air Refueling Wing of the Pennsylvania Air National Gaurd, heads a line up of tankers on the ramp at RAF Lakenheath United Kingdom on March 28, 1999. The Pennsylvania ANG aircraft temporarily assigned to the 100th Air Expeditionary Wing at RAF Mildenhall, United Kingdom, was diverted to Lakenheath due to adverse winds at Mildenhall. This mission is in direct support of NATO Operation Allied Force

One of the many entry control pointes (ECP), manned by the 363rd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron at Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, on October 23rd, 2000. The 363rd is part of the coalition force here to support Operation SOUTHERN WATCH, a military effort to enforce the no-fly and no-drive zone in Southern Iraq. This image was shot using the Starlight night vision system

LT. Dan Taylor negotiates the broken rungs of a Jacob's ladder as he climbs down from the guided missile frigate USS NICHOLAS (FFG-47) into a motor whaleboat. Taylor, a Navy Liaison Officer (NLO), will be transferred to a reflagged Kuwaiti tanker to act as a naval representative aboard the ship during an Earnest Will convoy mission in which the tankers are escorted through waters of the Gulf by U.S. naval ships

161015-N-QA919-0142 Petty Officer 2nd Class John Christner

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