US Air Force SENIOR AIRMAN Shane Baker, Crew CHIEF, 555th Fighter Squadron, Aviano Air Base, Italy, and US Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco, Edward M. Gabriel, look on as USAF Captain Scott Poteet, F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter pilot from the 555th Fighter Squadron goes over a pre-flight maintenance check list before launching. Ambassador Gabriel visited Exercise AFRICAN EAGLE at Sidi Slimane Air Base, Morocco, to reinforce his appreciation of the close cooperation between Moroccan Forces and the United States. African Eagle a biannual exercise designed to practice dissimilar air to air training with the Royal Moroccan Air Force
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: AFRICAN EAGLE
Base: Sidi Slimane Air Base
Country: Morocco (MAR)
Scene Camera Operator: SRA Delia A. Castillo, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
26/01/2001
Location
Aviano AFB IT, 46.03333, 12.61667
Source
Royal collection of the United Kingdom
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