Members of the 82nd Airborne Division give their parachutes a final check prior to boarding a C-141B Starlifter aircraft that will transport him back to Fort Bragg, North Carolina (NC). US troops, including members of the 7th Light Infantry Division and the 82nd Airborne Division, spent two weeks participating in a mobilization of US Exercise Task Force DRAGON/GOLDEN PHEASANT. The task force was deployed by President Ronald Reagan to help discourage Nicaraguan forces from entering Honduras
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Palmerola Air Base
Country: Honduras (HND)
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Scott Stewart
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
01/03/1988
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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