A US Army (USA) Soldier from 3rd Battalion (BN), 187th Infantry Regiment (INF REGT), 3rd Brigade (BDE), 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) (AD (AA)), Fort Campbell, Kentucky (KY), pulls security, with FNMI 5.56 mm M240 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW), for the Soldiers during 0peration APACHE SNOW II as part of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. The operation staged from Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan. This was the longest air assault operation in military history taking place in Sulamain Khel region of Afghanistan. It was a total of 185 miles long, only 18 miles from the Pakistan border
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Kandahar Army Air Field
Country: Afghanistan (AFG)
Scene Camera Operator: SGT Keith D. Mcgrew, USA
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
11/06/2002
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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