A US Air Force (USAF) E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS), 12th Expeditionary Airborne Command Control Squadron (EACCS), hooks up with a USAF KC-135 Stratotanker, 92nd Air Refueling Wing (ARW), Fairchild Air Force Base (AFB), Washington (WA), to receive fuel over Iraq in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The E-8C is a long-range, air-to-ground surveillance system designed to locate, classify and track ground targets in all weather conditions
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Country: Iraq (IRQ)
Scene Major Command Shown: AMC
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Suzanne M. Jenkins, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
02/01/2004
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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