A C-5B Galaxy from 436th Airlift Wing, Dover, Delaware, sits with its nose visor up exposing the, soon to be lowered, hydraulic ramps as it is prepared to download four fuel trucks for the 100th Supply Squadron at RAF Mildenhall, United Kingdom. The aircraft is "kneeling" down on the landing gear to facilitate the offloading of the trucks. The fuel trucks are needed to support the increased KC-135 tanker operations at RAF Mildenhall as part of NATO Operation ALLIED FORCE. ALLIED FORCE objective "is to degrade and damage the military and security structure that President Milosevic (Yugoslav President) has used to depopulate and destroy the Albanian majority in Kosovo," William S. Cohen, ...

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[Complete] Scene Caption: A C-5B Galaxy from 436th Airlift Wing, Dover, Delaware, sits with its nose visor up exposing the, soon to be lowered, hydraulic ramps as it is prepared to download four fuel trucks for the 100th Supply Squadron at RAF Mildenhall, United Kingdom. The aircraft is "kneeling" down on the landing gear to facilitate the offloading of the trucks. The fuel trucks are needed to support the increased KC-135 tanker operations at RAF Mildenhall as part of NATO Operation ALLIED FORCE. ALLIED FORCE objective "is to degrade and damage the military and security structure that President Milosevic (Yugoslav President) has used to depopulate and destroy the Albanian majority in Kosovo," William S. Cohen, Secretary of Defense.

Subject Operation/Series: NATO Operation ALLIED FORCE

Base: RAF Mildenhall

Country: Great Britain / England (GBR)

Scene Major Command Shown: AMC

Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Brad Fallin, USAF

Release Status: Released to Public
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