Mobilized as part of Operation NOBLE EAGLE, STAFF Sergeant Garry Root and SENIOR AIRMAN Shea Higgins (background) guard the entry control point to the flightline at Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base, Columbus, Ohio. They are Security Policemen with the 121st Air Refueling Wing, guarding the wings KC-135 aircraft. 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
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: NOBLE EAGLE
Base: Rickenbacker Ang Base
State: Ohio (OH)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: CMSGT Joe Pastre, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
15/10/2001
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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