STAFF Sergeant Duncan, from the Explosives Ordnance Detachment, carefully retrieves cases of .50 caliber rounds from a YRP-765 Armored Personnel Carrier that had been seized, by SFOR, in a weapons storage site in the town of Karakaj, Bosnia, and brought to Camp Dobol during Operation JOINT GUARD. 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...
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[Complete] Scene Caption: STAFF Sergeant Duncan, from the Explosives Ordnance Detachment, carefully retrieves cases of .50 caliber rounds from a YRP-765 Armored Personnel Carrier that had been seized, by SFOR, in a weapons storage site in the town of Karakaj, Bosnia, and brought to Camp Dobol during Operation JOINT GUARD. 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: Karakaj
Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)
Scene Camera Operator: SGT Angel Clemons, USA
Release Status: Released to Public
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