A member of the 7th Wing, Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, monitors radios during an engine running offload of a C-130 Hercules aircraft at the Hagler Army Air Field, Hattisburg, Mississippi. Members of the 7th Wing are deployed to Gulfport, Mississippi, and forward deployed to Hagler while 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: Hagler Army Air Field
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
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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