An Air Force Aircrew Life Support member from the 28th Air Expeditionary Wing, Diego Garcia, performs routine maintenance on an oxygen mask during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. Aircrew Life Support members perform the preventative maintenance every 30 days on aircrew flight helmets, oxygen masks, and survival vest to ensure pilots are always prepared for a mission. In response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 at the New York World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President George W. Bush initiated Operation ENDURING FREEDOM in support of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), fighting terrorism abroad
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM
Base: Diego Garcia
Country: British Indian Ocean Territory (IOT)
Scene Major Command Shown: 28th AEW
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Shane Cuomo, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
24/10/2001
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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