A silhouette of members of the 52nd Fighter Wing, 606 Air Control Squadron, overseeing the main gate in their M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany. The crew is armed with Colt 5.56 mm M16A2 Rifles and an FNMI 5.56 M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) is mounted on the HMMWV. Increased security measures were implemented after terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centers Twin Towers in New York and at the Pentagon, when hijackers deliberately flew civilian airliners into the buildings, on the morning of 11 September 2001
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Spangdahlem Air Base
State: Rheinland-Pfalz
Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)
Scene Major Command Shown: USAFE
Scene Camera Operator: A1C Michelle S. Roquid, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
12/09/2001
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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