A heavy M1097 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) cargo/troop carrier, rigged for airdrop on a flatbed "K" loader behind a C-130E Hercules. Aircraft has "RS" tail letters, 86th Airlift Wing, Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Not shown: Vehicle is to be dropped at Bunker Hill Drop Zone, Grafenwohr, Germany, in Exercise Lion Drop 12, 9 August 2000. The 37th Airlift Squadron, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, dropped members of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, 1/508th Infantry (Airborne Battalion Combat Team), from Vicenza, Italy
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: LION DROP 12
Base: Ramstein Air Base
State: Rheinland-Pfalz
Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Ken Bergmann
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
08/08/2000
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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