Security personnel from the 52nd Fighter Wing, 606th Air Control Squadron, SENIOR AIRMAN Jeremy Rae, USAF, (left), stands by his FNMI 5.56 mm M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) and Technical Sergeant Rafael Gomez, USAF, with his Colt 5.56 mm M16A2 Rifle, oversee the main gate. They use an M998 HMMWV as their platform at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany. Increased security measures were implemented after terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centers Twin Towers in New York and at the Pentagon, when hijackers deliberately flew civilian airliners into the buildings, on the morning of 11 September 2001
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Spangdahlem Air Base
State: Rheinland-Pfalz
Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)
Scene Major Command Shown: USAFE
Scene Camera Operator: A1C Michelle S. Roquid, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
14/09/2001
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Source
The U.S. National Archives
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