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386th Airmen Clear Hazards, Keep Locals Safe

A pilot checks a fire extinguisher before flying a helicopter that has just been off-loaded from a ship for use during the multinational joint service Exercise BRIGHT STAR '85

US Air Force (USAF) Pararescuemen from the 301st Rescue Squadron (RS), inventory their ammunition at a forward-deployed location in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

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West Virginia Air National Guard (WVANG) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Charles Hodge (left) from the 451st Air Expeditionary Group (AEG) and US Army (USA) SFC Victor Fontan from the789th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company (EODC), Fort Benning, Georgia (GA), connect the cable wires used to detonate two 105 mm Mortars. This is a simulation of what a land mine does to half-inch thick metal armor, during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

US Army (USA) Sergeant First Class (SFC) Victor Fontan (foreground left), assigned to the 789th Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Company, Georgia Army National Guard (GAARNG), drops some discarding wire cables on top of the 105mm Mortar Projectiles that will be detonated to simulate the explosion of a land mine, as Soldiers assigned to his Unit prepare two 105mm Mortar Projectiles for use in a metal armor ballistics resistance test demonstration for military vehicles floor plating at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. (A3588)

West Virginia Air National Guard (WVANG) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Charles Hodge from the 451st Air Expeditionary Group (AEG) places two 105 mm mortars underneath a half inch thick metal armor plate. The plate will be tested for strength, while US Army (USA) Sergeant (SGT) Andre Reynolds from the 55th Signal Company Combat Camera, Fort Meade, Maryland (MD), video documents the event, during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

US Army (USA) Sergeant First Class (SFC) Victor Fontan, assigned to the 789th Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Company, Georgia Army National Guard (GAARNG), is videotaped by USA Sergeant (SGT) Andre Reynolds, 55th Signal Company Combat Camera, as he explains the what the power of the blast and what the power of the 105mm Mortar Projectiles will do to the quarter inch thick metal as Soldiers assigned to his Unit prepare two105mm Mortar Projectiles for use in a metal armor ballistics resistance test demonstration for military vehicles floor plating at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. (A3588)

US Air Force (USAF) Munitions Specialists Technical Sergeant (TSGT) James Towle (left) 104th Fighter Wing (FW), Massachusetts (MA), Air National Guard (ANG) and USAF SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Lizette Rovaldi, 103rd FW, Connecticut (CT), ANG, hook cables to a Mark 82 500- pound general purpose bomb while deployed with the 387th Air Expeditionary Group (AEG) to Southwest Asia in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

U.S. Air Force TECH. SGT. James Widmark (left), 62nd Civil Engineer Squadron, Explosive Ordnance Disposal Flight, briefs Airmen from the 62nd Medical Group on identifying various explosive ordnances including mortars, grenades, and land mines. 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)

West Virginia Air National Guard TECH. SGT. Jamie A. Morris (right), 167th Airlift Wing, Shepherd Field, WV, renders Self Aid and Buddy Care to a fellow Guardsman after a simulated SCUD attack during Readiness Safeguard, Ability To Survive and Operate training exercise at Volk Field, Combat Readiness Training Center, Wis. (U.S. Air Force photo by SENIOR MASTER SGT. Jeff Rohloff) (Released)

West Virginia Air National Guard TECH. SGT. Harding, 167th Airlift Wing, Shepherd Field, W. Va., overlooks the flight line from a simulated bunker. The AIRMAN is participating in Readiness Safeguard Ability To Survive and Operate (ATSO) training exercise at the Combat Readiness Training Center, Volk Field, Wis. (U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Rob Jensen) (Released)

US Army (USA) Sergeant First Class (SFC) Victor Fontan (foreground left), assigned to the 789th Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Company, Georgia Army National Guard (GAARNG), spools wire cables away from the detonation site, during a metal armor ballistics resistance test demonstration for military vehicles floor plating at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. (A3588)

West Virginia Air National Guard (WVANG) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Charles Hodge (left) from the 451st Air Expeditionary Group (AEG) and US Army (USA) SFC Victor Fontan from the789th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company (EODC), Fort Benning, Georgia (GA), connect the cable wires used to detonate two 105 mm Mortars. This is a simulation of what a land mine does to half-inch thick metal armor, during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: Kandahar Army Air Field

Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

Scene Major Command Shown: Northeast

Scene Camera Operator: PFC Leslie Angulo, USA

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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US Army (USA) SPECIALIST Fourth Class (SFC) Krystal Darcey, 554th Military Police (MP) Company (CO), attached to the 173rd Airborne Brigade (ABN BDE), provides perimeter security with an MK 19 Mod 3 40 mm grenade machine gun system, during a meeting between an American commander and a local sheik outside of Kirkuk, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

U.S. Army SGT. Kris Campbell from Bravo Company of the 1ST/508th Infantry Airborne Battalion (standing) coaches an Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier that is qualifying with a MK-47 rifle during a training exercise called Atal Wali at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Nov. 14, 2005. (U.S. Army PHOTO by SPC. Leslie Angulo) (Released)

A US Army EOD soldier probing for a land mine in the immediate vicinity where a US Army High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) struck and detonated a Serbian TMA-1A Anti-tank Mine. The HMMWV that struck the mine was part of a convoy traveling in the Russian Brigade Area in Bosnia-Herzegovina

US Air Force (USAF) Technical Sergeant (TSGT) Ray Ashey, Non-Commissioned Officer In Charge (NCOIC), Finance Office, 407th Air Expeditionary Group (AEG), Tallil Air Base (AB), Iraq, charges his 9 mm M9 Pistol prior to departing his office to pay local national personnel during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Army (USA) Sergeant (SGT) Robert Dashiell, left and SPECIALIST First Class (SFC) Scott Ellis, from Detachment 1, Company G, 140th Aviation, Nevada Army National Guard (ANG), hookup a pair of M-149 400-gallon "Water Buffalos" to a hovering CH-47 Chinook helicopter, at the V.C. Bird International Airport, during the Tradewinds 2002 Field Training Exercise (FTX), on the island of Antiqua

U.S. Air Force TECH. SGT. Scott Butler, a Weather Technician assigned to the 90th Fighter Squadron, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, adjusts the temperature sensor on a piece of TMQ-53 Tactical Meteorological Equipment, while deployed with the 3rd Air Expeditionary Group at Kwang-Ju Air Base, Republic of Korea on Sept. 9, 2004. (U.S. Air Force PHOTO by TECH SGT. Corey A Clements) (Released)

US Air Force (USAF) MASTER Sergeant (MSGT) Keitt, 447th Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility (CASF), holds the stretcher as they move a patient from the CASF onto a C-141 Starlifter cargo aircraft for a flight to Germany from Camp Sather, Baghdad International Airport, Iraq for further treatment during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

A cache of 82mm mortars found by US Army (USA) Soldiers assigned to Alpha Company, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, while conducting search and attack missions in the area of Narizah, Afghanistan, during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

Army SFC Joseph Kipa instructs Air Force security policeman, A1C's Gregory Ullmer on the LAAW's, light anti-aircraft weapons during combat skills training (Air Base Ground defense) conducted by the U.S. Army at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Exact Date Shot Unknown

US Air Force (USAF) AIRMAN First Class (A1C) Alexander Birchett, a 48th Security Forces Squadron (SFS) member from Royal Air Force (RAF) Base Lakenheath, England, secures a deployed B-52H Stratofortress Bomber assigned to the 457th Air Expeditionary Group (AEG), at RAF Fairford

U.S. Air Force Airmen from the 130th Airlift Wing

Romanian Stablization Force (SFOR) soldiers wench the wires that pull up the poly cab while others are laying pipes down used to transport it into the final resting place at Mt. Lisin during Operation JOINT GUARDIAN. JOINT GUARDIAN is part of NATO's actions to promote regional stability, cooperation and security, in support of the international community. It's main aim is to allow safe return of refugees and displaced persons, to help alleviate human suffering and to achieve a peace settlement in Kosovo

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