(standing left) US Army STAFF Sergeant Benjamin Trescott and (kneeling right) US Army Sergeant Erik Spreengstein, paratroopers from Alpha Company, 1/508th Airborne Combat Team, 173d Airborne Brigade, Southern European Task Force, Vicenza, Italy, load 30 round magazines with 5.56mm blank ammo prior to their air drop. With a 9 ship mission, the 37th dropped nearly 80 tons of heavy equipment followed by a 12 ship mission that dropped 547 paratroopers from the 173d Airborne Brigade, Southern European Task Force (Airborne), Vicenza, Italy, in support of the multinational training exercise VENETO RESCUE 01, in northeast Italy and Slovenia. Veneto Rescue is an exercise that helps to train ...
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[Complete] Scene Caption: (standing left) US Army Staff Sergeant Benjamin Trescott and (kneeling right) US Army Sergeant Erik Spreengstein, paratroopers from Alpha Company, 1/508th Airborne Combat Team, 173d Airborne Brigade, Southern European Task Force, Vicenza, Italy, load 30 round magazines with 5.56mm blank ammo prior to their air drop. With a 9 ship mission, the 37th dropped nearly 80 tons of heavy equipment followed by a 12 ship mission that dropped 547 paratroopers from the 173d Airborne Brigade, Southern European Task Force (Airborne), Vicenza, Italy, in support of the multinational training exercise VENETO RESCUE 01, in northeast Italy and Slovenia. Veneto Rescue is an exercise that helps to train military units to conduct the safe evacuation of non-combatant civilians and other designated evacuates from a country or a region that has the potential for hostilities or danger. This type of operation is known as a non-combatant evacuation operation or NEO. This exercise involves over 34 aircraft and 1, 100 participants from military units with the US Army and Air Forces in Europe, the Italian Army, and the Slovenian Armed Forces.
Subject Operation/Series: VENETO RESCUE '01
Base: Aviano Air Base
State: Pordenone
Country: Italy (ITA)
Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Dave Ahlschwede, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
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