Maintenance personnel in communication with the pilot prior to an equipment test before the F-15E Strike Eagle, 366th Air Expeditionary Wing, 391st Fighter Squadron, Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, taxies from its parking spot at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. The F-15 is heading out for its first bombing mission into Afghanistan, in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. Visible part of the aircrafts payload, a rack of GBU-12 500-pound bombs with CCG MAU-169 guidance system and an AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM)
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM
Base: Al Udeid Air Base, Doha
Country: Qatar (QAT)
Scene Major Command Shown: CENTCOM
Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Dave Nolan, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
17/10/2001
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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