Members from "Team Tuzla" greet a C-130 Hercules transport aircraft arriving to Tulza Air Base from Ramstein Air Base Germany in support of Operation JOINT GUARD. C-130 aircraft are used for most of the arriving supplies into Tuzla. Personnel that support the aircraft meet an arriving aircraft within five seconds. The complete offload takes well under thirty minutes. On December 20, 1996, the Implementation Force (IFOR) mission came to a conclusion and the 1ST Infantry Division was selected to continue serving in Bosnia as part of the new Stabilization Force (SFOR). This decision brought to close the peace mission of Operation JOINT ENDEAVOR and has been the beginning for the current...
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[Complete] Scene Caption: Members from "Team Tuzla" greet a C-130 Hercules transport aircraft arriving to Tulza Air Base from Ramstein Air Base Germany in support of Operation JOINT GUARD. C-130 aircraft are used for most of the arriving supplies into Tuzla. Personnel that support the aircraft meet an arriving aircraft within five seconds. The complete offload takes well under thirty minutes. On December 20, 1996, the Implementation Force (IFOR) mission came to a conclusion and the 1ST Infantry Division was selected to continue serving in Bosnia as part of the new Stabilization Force (SFOR). This decision brought to close the peace mission of Operation JOINT ENDEAVOR and has been the beginning for the current operation known as Operation JOINT GUARD. JOINT GUARD will continue to monitor the militaries of the former warring factions and provide a climate of stability.
Subject Operation/Series: JOINT GUARD
Base: Tuzla
Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT David W. Richards, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
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