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US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Joseph Smarr (on platform under top group of antennas), Cable and Antenna team member, had an unusual request for his re-enlistment ceremony to climb the nearly 300-foot Digital European Backbone (DEB) tower and give his oath of enlistment. USAF Lieutenant Colonel (LCOL) Ian Dickinson (climbing up lower half of antenna), Commander, 422nd Air Base Squadron (ABS), obliged him and made the almost 300-step journey up to the top of the tower

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: RAF Croughton State: North Hamptonshire Country: United Kingdom (GBR) Scene Major Command Shown: USAFE Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Tim Woodworth More
US Air Force (USAF) Technical Sergeant (TSGT) Derrick Kidd (left), USAF Lieutenant Colonel (LCOL) Ian Dickinson, Commander, 422nd Air Base Squadron (ABS), USAF SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Joseph Smarr, and USAF MASTER Sergeant (MSGT) Michael Hendricks (right), atop the nearly 300-foot Digital European Backbone (DEB) tower waving to onlookers. SRA Smarr requested his reenlistment ceremony atop the tower and LCOL Dickinson obliged

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: RAF Croughton State: North Hamptonshire Country: United Kingdom (GBR) Scene Major Command Shown: USAFE Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Tim Woodworth More
US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeants (SSGT) Casey Helmer and Dustin Hemingway, 1ST Communications Maintenance Squadron (CMS), Kapaun Air Station (AS), Germany, remove wave guide for recycling as part of the decommissioning of the Digital European Backbone (DEB). The DEB consisted of 17 sites in England and others throughout Europe forming a network of radio sites. A new system, using government-owned and leased fiber-optic cabling technology, will allow voice, video and data transfer at higher rates

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Mildenhall State: Suffolk Country: England / Great Britain (ENG) Scene Major Command Shown: USAFE Scene Camera Operator: A1C Franklin J. Perkins More
US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeants (SSGT) Chris Sheppard and Joseph Libby, 1ST Communications Maintenance Squadron (CMS), Kapaun Air Station (AS), Germany, detach a satellite receiver for removal. This was part of the decommissioning of the Digital European Backbone. The DEB consisted of 17 sites in England and others throughout Europe forming a network of radio sites. A new system, using government-owned and leased fiber-optic cabling technology, will allow voice, video and data transfer at higher rates

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: RAF Mildenhall State: Suffolk Country: United Kingdom (GBR) Scene Major Command Shown: USAFE Scene Camera Operator: A1C Franklin J. Perkins, USA More
US Air Force (USAF) Technical Sergeant (TSGT) Quondell Mclean (left), 100th Communication Squadron (CS), Royal Air Force (RAF) Mildenhall, USAF SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Andy Bader, 422nd Air Base Squadron (ABS), RAF Croughton, USAF STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Joseph Libby, and USAF TSGT Russell Lawrence (right), 1ST Communications Maintenance Squadron (CMS), Kapaun Air Station (AS), Germany, remove a satellite dish as part of the decommissioning of the Digital European Backbone (DEB). The DEB consisted of 17 sites in England and others throughout Europe forming a network of radio sites. A new system, using government-owned and leased fiber-optic cabling technology, will allow voice, video and data...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: US Air Force (USAF) Technical Sergeant (TSGT) Quondell Mclean (left), 100th Communication Squadron (CS), Royal Air Force (RAF) M More
US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Thomas Savage, 1ST Communications Maintenance Squadron (CMS), Kapaun Air Station (AS), Germany, in the process of detaching a satellite dish for removal as part of the decommissioning of the Digital European Backbone (DEB). The DEB consisted of 17 sites in England and others throughout Europe forming a network of radio sites. A new system, using government-owned and leased fiber-optic cabling technology, will allow voice, video and data transfer at higher rates

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Mildenhall State: Suffolk Country: England / Great Britain (ENG) Scene Major Command Shown: USAFE Scene Camera Operator: A1C Franklin J. Perkins More
US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Chris Sheppard, 1ST Communications Maintenance Squadron (CMS), Kapaun Air Station (AS), Germany, attaches the winch from a crane to a satellite receiver for removal as part of the decommissioning of the Digital European Backbone (DEB). The DEB consisted of 17 sites in England and others throughout Europe forming a network of radio sites. A new system, using government-owned and leased fiber-optic cabling technology, will allow voice; video and data transfer at higher rates

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Mildenhall State: Suffolk Country: England / Great Britain (ENG) Scene Major Command Shown: USAFE Scene Camera Operator: A1C Franklin J. Perkins More
US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Dustin Hemingway, 1ST Communications Maintenance Squadron (CMS), Kapaun Air Station (AS), Germany, removes a wave-guide for recycling as part of the decommissioning of the Digital European Backbone (DEB). The DEB consisted of 17 sites in England and others throughout Europe forming a network of radio sites. A new system, using government-owned and leased fiber-optic cabling technology, will allow voice; video and data transfer at higher rates

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Mildenhall State: Suffolk Country: England / Great Britain (ENG) Scene Major Command Shown: USAFE Scene Camera Operator: A1C Franklin J. Perkins More
US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Thomas Savage (top), watches as USAF SSGT Chris Sheppard, 1ST Communications Maintenance Squadron (CMS), Kapaun Air Station (AS), Germany, disconnects a satellite dish for removal as part of the decommissioning of the Digital European Backbone (DEB). The DEB consisted of 17 sites in England and others throughout Europe forming a network of radio sites. A new system, using government-owned and leased fiber-optic cabling technology, will allow voice; video and data transfer at higher rates

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Mildenhall State: Suffolk Country: England / Great Britain (ENG) Scene Major Command Shown: USAFE Scene Camera Operator: A1C Franklin J. Perkins More
US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) John Noble, 86th Communications Squadron (CS), installs a transmitter plate to a Line of Sight Radio Digital used to support the Digital European Backbone (DEB) connecting microwave sites from the United Kingdom to Italy

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Ramstein Air Base State: Rheinland-Pfalz Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU) Scene Major Command Shown: USAFE Scene Camera Operator: SRA Jonath More