A KC-10 Boom Operator from the 60th Air Expeditionary Group, Diego Garcia, uses the HP Weight and Balance Computer to check the weight and balance of 51,846 gallons of fuel loaded into a KC-10 Extender. The KC-10 is preparing to fly a mission to refuel aircraft in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. In response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 at the New York World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President George W. Bush initiated Operation ENDURING FREEDOM in support of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), fighting terrorism abroad
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM
Base: Nsf Diego Garcia
Country: British Indian Ocean Territory (IOT)
Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Cedric H. Rudisill, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
30/10/2001
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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