US Army soldiers from HHC Bravo Company, Vicenza, Italy, push a massive pallet containing a US Army 950B bucket loader onto a 60K pallet loader which will later be secured in and air dropped from an Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft, deployed to Aviano Air Base, 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 ...

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[Complete] Scene Caption: US Army soldiers from HHC Bravo Company, Vicenza, Italy, push a massive pallet containing a US Army 950B bucket loader onto a 60K pallet loader which will later be secured in and air dropped from an Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft, deployed to Aviano Air Base, 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: SSGT Jeremiah Erickson, USAF

Release Status: Released to Public
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