With the afternoon light fading and temperatures dropping to -40c, the advance party finishes constructing the HQ area. Working with the advance party, 1ST LT. Roman Hund, 341 CS/SCS, helps Captain Kane, 746 Comm Squadron (Calgary), 74 Comm Group, Alberta, and one of his troops assemble a tent and camouflage netting around a radio van to complete the command post. The exercise is a Canadian military winter operations indoctrination course

Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), Land Forces Command (LFC) CHIEF Warrant Officer (CWO) Shawn Croucher (far left), Squadron Sergeant Major, 13th Light Field Engineer Squadron and CAF Canadian Task Force Mine Information Center (CTF-MIC); and US Army (USA) Soldiers, 1ST Battalion (BN), 508th Infantry Regiment (1/508th); prepare to move out from an old Soviet Training Camp north of Kandahar City, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan (AFG). This Coalition team is tasked with locating, securing, assessing, and either relocating or destroying any ammunition, ordnance, and weapons found in old caches during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

In the early morning sun and with snow-covered ground, AIRMAN 1ST Class Brent Schultz, 341 CS/SCSP, and SENIOR AIRMAN Theodore Mackey, 341 CS/SCMMG, help the Canadians unload boxes of Individual Meal Packets (IMP) from the rear of a truck. The IMPs will be issued to the five-man teams to consume while out on the trail. The exercise is a Canadian military winter operations indoctrination course

Canadian Army Squadron SGT. MAJ. Croucher Shawn (far right) from the 13th Light Field Engineer Squadron points in direction where ACM (Anti- Coalition Militia) have been visiting to smuggle some of the ammunition stored at these sites to use against Coalition Forces and American soldiers around Kandahar City, Afghanistan on Oct. 7, 2005. The objective is to secure, relocate or destroy the ammunition and to assess the quantity found at the sites. (U.S. Army PHOTO by PFC. Leslie Angulo) (Released)

A member from the Canadian ground security forces from1 Platoon A Company 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry (3 PPCLI) Battle Group, Reconnaissance Squadron (Victoria Patricia (3VP)), Edmonton, Canada, makes his way to the landing zone. The approaching CH-47 Chinook, B Company "Hercules," 159th Aviation Regiment, Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia, will extract him at the site northeast of Kandahar where an Apache helicopter crash landed during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

Deployed personnel from the 21st Space Wing and 90th Missile Wing assemble a tent, in the snow and "minus teens" temperature, as "tent city" begins to take shape at Camp Guernsey. They are participating in Exercise Condor Contest, part of a Space Command Operational Readiness Inspection which deployed 155 members of the 90th Missile Wing, F.E. Warren AFB, Wyo. to Camp Guernsey Army National Guard Base, Wyo

Low angle, left side front view of a Canadian Forces Light Armored Vehicle (LAV). It's painted white with a small Canadian Flag decal on the left front corner of the vehicle. A Canadian Forces Soldier mans an unidentifiable machine gun from the top of the vehicle. The vehicle is protecting the US Embassy Compound. This mission is in direct support of Operation Restore Hope

With the afternoon light fading and temperatures dropping to -40c, the advance party finishes constructing the HQ area. Working with the advance party, 1ST LT. Roman Hund, 341 CS/SCS, helps Captain Kane, 746 Comm Squadron (Calgary), 74 Comm Group, Alberta, and one of his troops assemble a tent and camouflage netting around a radio van to complete the command post. The exercise is a Canadian military winter operations indoctrination course

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Subject Operation/Series: INCLEMENT WANDERER

Base: Camp Worthington

State: Alberta (AB)

Country: Canada (CAN)

Scene Camera Operator: SRA John A. Turner, Jr.

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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Date

19/01/1996

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The U.S. National Archives

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