Medium shot, right front view, Major General Dan K. McNeill, USA, Commander, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, at the head of a stick of paratroopers approaches a C-141B Starlifter troop carrier door for a jump into a Fort Polk, Louisiana drop zone. The exercise, called Large Package Week involves the airdropping of 1200 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne and their heavy equipment onto the drop zone. Large Package Week is a quarterly training exercise designed to build cohesiveness between the 82nd Airborne and Air Mobility Command units. The mission took place at Pope Air Foce Base, North Carolina on April 5, 2000
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: LARGE PACKAGE WEEKEND
Base: Fort Polk
State: Louisiana (LA)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: Kenn Mann
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
05/04/2000
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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