United States Army soldiers park three M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV) in a line between the angry Albanian and Serbian mobs near the town of Domerovce, Kosovo. The soldiers are members of the 1/187th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and 108th Military Police Company (MP), 503rd MP Battalion, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. After two Serbian men disappeared, the Serbians believed the Albanians abducted the men and began to make threats and road obstructions to stop the Albanians from traveling safely through town. The Albanians began to form a mob to confront the Serbians until US and Russian Kosovo Force (KFOR) troops made a wall between the...
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[Complete] Scene Caption: United States Army soldiers park three M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV) in a line between the angry Albanian and Serbian mobs near the town of Domerovce, Kosovo. The soldiers are members of the 1/187th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and 108th Military Police Company (MP), 503rd MP Battalion, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. After two Serbian men disappeared, the Serbians believed the Albanians abducted the men and began to make threats and road obstructions to stop the Albanians from traveling safely through town. The Albanians began to form a mob to confront the Serbians until US and Russian Kosovo Force (KFOR) troops made a wall between the opposing sides. Task Force Falcon, Operation Joint Guardian, 14 August 2000.
Subject Operation/Series: JOINT GUARDIAN
Base: Domorovce
State: Kosovo
Country: Yugoslavia (YUG)
Scene Camera Operator: SPC Eric Hughes
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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