A loadmaster from the 136th Airlift Wing (AW), Fort Worth, Texas, chains down a grader on to a C-130 Hercules aircraft at the Gulfport Guard Combat Training Center, Mississippi. Members of the 136th AW are deployed to Gulfport, Mississippi, participating in exercise IGX-5. IGX-5 is an ORI (Operational Readiness Exercise) simulating the deployment of an Air Expeditionary Force to a forward operating location. The exercise, which lasts just under a week, is designed to evaluate the readiness of US Air Force personnel
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: IGX-5
Base: Gulfport
State: Mississippi (MS)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Jeffrey Allen, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
03/11/2000
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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