Lavinia Limon, Director of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement, left, and Jan Belz, State Department Domestic Refugee Resettlement Program field questions from the local and national media concerning the status and morale of the 453 Kosovar refugees (not shown) who were flown into Fort Dix, New Jersey, on May 5, 1999. Both individuals are at Fort Dix to aid Joint Task Force Open Arms which is responsible for ensuring the refugees are properly processed and taken care of until sponsor families can be found for them. Open Arms is part of Operation Sustain Hope, the U.S. effort to bring in food, water, medicine, relief supplies, and to establish camps for the refugees...

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[Complete] Scene Caption: Lavinia Limon, Director of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement, left, and Jan Belz, State Department Domestic Refugee Resettlement Program field questions from the local and national media concerning the status and morale of the 453 Kosovar refugees (not shown) who were flown into Fort Dix, New Jersey, on May 5, 1999. Both individuals are at Fort Dix to aid Joint Task Force Open Arms which is responsible for ensuring the refugees are properly processed and taken care of until sponsor families can be found for them. Open Arms is part of Operation Sustain Hope, the U.S. effort to bring in food, water, medicine, relief supplies, and to establish camps for the refugees fleeing from the Former Republic of Yugoslavia into Albania and Macedonia.

Subject Operation/Series: SUSTAIN HOPE

Base: Mcguire Air Force Base

State: New Jersey (NJ)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Kim Price

Release Status: Released to Public
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