Mobilization of the 188th Fighter Wing, Arkansas Air National Guard, Fort Smith Arkansas is part of Operation NOBLE EAGLE. STAFF Sergeant Michael W. Pennington, Medical Service Technician, with a 5.56 mm Colt M16A2 Assault Rifle, is now a security forces augmentee. He inspects the payload of a local soft drink vendor prior to allowing him to enter Ebbing Air National Guard Base. NOBLE EAGLE is a partial mobilization of the reserves for homeland defense and civil support missions in response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 at the New York World Trade Center and the Pentagon
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: NOBLE EAGLE
Base: Fort Smith
State: Arkansas (AR)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Major Command Shown: ACC
Scene Camera Operator: SMSGT Dennis L. Brambl, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
06/11/2001
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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