An Avenger Unit personnel, 12th Air Defense Artillery, Ft Polk, Louisiana, as he uses his equipment to take immediate perimeter positions around the landing zone (LZ) of the CH-53 Chinook that brought them, and one of the Avenger units to the insertion point at Condron Army Air Field. Minutes afterwards, more Avenger laden Chinooks arrive. The Avenger unit is a High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) with a turret mounted Stinger launcher module. All units participating in this exercise will be challenged by the desert environment and integration with a variety of other U.S. and multi-national services
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: ROVING SANDS '95
Base: White Sands Missile Test Range
State: New Mexico (NM)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: STAFF SGT. Lance Cheung
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
01/05/1995
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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