Members from "Team Tuzla" off load equipment and supplies from a C-130 Hercules transport aircraft arriving to Tulza Air Base in support of Operation JOINT GUARD. C-130 aircraft bring most of the arriving supplies into Tuzla. Personnel supporting the aircraft meet an arriving aircraft with in 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...

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[Complete] Scene Caption: Members from "Team Tuzla" off load equipment and supplies from a C-130 Hercules transport aircraft arriving to Tulza Air Base in support of Operation JOINT GUARD. C-130 aircraft bring most of the arriving supplies into Tuzla. Personnel supporting the aircraft meet an arriving aircraft with in 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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