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US Air Force STAFF Sergeant Rick Sapone (left) and US Air Force Second Lieutenant Adam Cuquet (right), 31st Fighter Wing, Aviano Air Base, Italy, read coordinates off their global positioning satellite device in their roles as "survivors" during a joint NATO search and rescue exercise with the 83rd Search and Rescue Squadron, Italian Air Force, in Rimini, Italy. The mission allows the two countries to put into practice procedures that will maintain search and rescue proficiency

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Aviano Air Base State: Pordenone Country: Italy (ITA) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Jennifer C. Wallis, USAF Release Status: Released to Public Co More

A parajumper from the Italian Air Force Special Operations Forces, 83rd Combat Search and Rescue Squadron, armed with a Baretta rifle, attempts to validate US Air Force STAFF Sergeant Rick Sapone from the 31st Fighter Wing, Aviano Air Base, Italy, as a friendly "survivor" during a joint NATO search and rescue exercise in Rimini, Italy. The joint mission allows the two countries to put into practice procedures that will maintain search and rescue proficiency

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Aviano Air Base State: Pordenone Country: Italy (ITA) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Jennifer C. Wallis, USAF Release Status: Released to Public Co More

US Air Force Second Lieutenant Adam Cuquet, 510th Fighter Squadron pilot candidate from Aviano Air Base, Italy, practices a hoist recovery manuever with a Pavehawk helicopter during a joint NATO search and rescue exercise with the 83rd Combat Search and Rescue Squadron, Italian Air Force, in Rimini, Italy. The mission allows the two countries to put into practice procedures that will maintain search and rescue proficiency

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Aviano Air Base State: Pordenone Country: Italy (ITA) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Jennifer C. Wallis, USAF Release Status: Released to Public Co More

US Air Force STAFF Sergeant Rick Sapone (left) and US Air Force Second Lieutenant Adam Cuquet (right), from the 31st Fighter Wing, Aviano Air Base, Italy, await rescue by the 83rd Combat Search and Rescue Squadron, Italian Air Force, during a joint NATO search and rescue exercise in Rimini, Italy. The mission allows the two countries to put into practice procedures that will maintain search and rescue proficiency

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Aviano Air Base State: Pordenone Country: Italy (ITA) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Jennifer C. Wallis, USAF Release Status: Released to Public Co More

US Air Force STAFF Sergeant Rick Sapone, 31st Fighter Wing survival instructor from Aviano Air Base, Italy, takes a final inventory of his pack prior to the start of a joint NATO search and rescue exercise in Rimini, Italy. SSGT Sapone, the noncomissioned officer in charge of survival, evasion, resistance & escape (S.E.R.E.) training, instructs pilots proper survival techniques

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Aviano Air Base State: Pordenone Country: Italy (ITA) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Jennifer C. Wallis, USAF Release Status: Released to Public Co More

(from left to right) Italian Air Force Captain Vittorio Carminato, 83rd Combat Search and Rescue Squadron, briefs US Air Force STAFF Sergeant Rick Sapone and US Air Force Second Lieutenant Adam Cuquet from the 31st Fighter Wing, Aviano Air Base, Italy, prior to the start of a joint NATO search and rescue exercise in Rimini, Italy. The joint mission allows the two countries to put into practice procedures that will maintain search and rescue proficiency

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Aviano Air Base State: Pordenone Country: Italy (ITA) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Jennifer C. Wallis, USAF Release Status: Released to Public Co More

Italian Air Force Lieutenant Dario de Liguorno, 83rd Combat Search and Rescue Squadron, gives last minute instructions to US Air Force STAFF Sergeant Rick Sapone and US Air Force Second Lieutenant Adam Cuquet, 31st Fighter Wing, Aviano Air Base, prior to a joint NATO search and rescue exercise in Rimini, Italy. The joint mission allows the two countries to put into practice procedures that will maintain search and rescue proficiency

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Aviano Air Base State: Pordenone Country: Italy (ITA) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Jennifer C. Wallis, USAF Release Status: Released to Public Co More