U. S. Army Task Force Hawk soldier, SPC Gaelen Smith, Bravo Company, 7/159th Aviation Battalion, uploads M-39 Guided Missile and Launch assemblies at Rinas Airport, Tirana, Albania, the base camp for members of Operation Sustain Hope. A soldier loads the munitions with a M10A large four-wheeled forklift. Sustain Hope is a combined NATO and joint U.S. military humanitarian relief effort in conjunction with civilian relief agencies. Sustain Hope is bringing relief to thousands of refugees (not shown) in Albania and Macedonia displaced by the current unrest in the region of Kosovo, Yugoslavia
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: SUSTAIN HOPE
Base: Tirana
Country: Albania (ALB)
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Chris Steffen
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
18/04/1999
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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