Technical Sergeant Joseph Johnson of Seymore Johnson Air Force Base (AFB), North Carolina, prepares to spray paint marks onto the tape so AIRMAN First Class Benjamin Gatlin of Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, can drill holes into it during Air Expeditionary Force IV in support of Operation SOUTHERN WATCH. SOUTHERN WATCH enforces the United Nations Security Council Resolution 688 that establishes a no-fly zone over Southern Iraq below the 32nd parallel. The tape and connector are a part of a series of components in an aircraft arresting system used to stop an aircraft by absorbing its momentum in landing or aborted takeoff
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: SOUTHERN WATCH
Base: Doha
Country: Qatar (QAT)
Scene Camera Operator: SRA Shonna Ridings, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
24/03/1997
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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