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Members of the 434th Air Defense Squadron install an antenna array during the set-up at a new location at McGregor Range, New Mexico during Roving Sands '96, the US military's largest annual joint air defense training exercise

Bombardier Sheehan, a skyguard Air Defense system operator with the 119th Air Defense Battery, Canadian Armed Forces, watches the radar and targeting screens for hostile forces at McGregor Range, New Mexico during Roving Sands '96, the US military's largest annual joint air defense training exercise

A United States Army Patriot Missile crew with the 3rd Battalion, 43rd Air Defense Artillery, 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, Fort Bliss, New Mexico performs a missile reload of empty cans from the launcher to the GMT at McGregor Range, NM prior to live fire for exercise Roving Sands '96, the US military's largest annual joint air defense training exercise

Two U.S. army soldiers operate a High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) in full chemical warfare gear during chemical warfare training at McGregor Range, New Mexico, prior to the start of Roving Sands '96, the U.S. military's largest annual joint air defense training

Bombardier Snow, a member of the 119th Air Defense Battery, Canadian Armed Forces, mans a GDF-005, 35mm Anti Aircraft gun at McGregor Range, New Mexico during Roving Sands '96, the US military's largest annual joint air defense training exercise

Corporal Orlando Villarreal, an Avenger GUNNER from the 2nd Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion, from Cherry Point, North Carolina keeps a lookout for hostile aircraft over the NASA Test Site, New Mexico as part of exercise Roving Sands '96

Members of the 2nd 174th Hawk Battalion search through the mass of duffel bags located off the flightline at Biggs Army Airfield, Texas. All of the troops will be participating in exercise Roving Sands '96, the US military's largest annual joint air defense training exercise

German Air Force Air Defense personnel "live fire" a Hawk missile from McGregor Range. The Roving Sands exercise, conducted annually in the southwest portion of the United States is the largest air defense exercise in the free world

An F/A-18 Hornet with the VFA-151 Fighter Attack Wing, Naval Air Station Lemoore, California breaks away from the KC-135E tanker, from the 146th Air Refueling Squadron, 171st Air Refueling Wing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, after being refueled during Roving Sands '96, the US military's largest annual joint air defense training exercise

A Hawk Missile unit from the 39th Surface to Air Missile Group from Leck, Germany at McGregor Test Range, New Mexico is ready for action during Roving Sands '96, the US military's largest annual joint air defense training exercise

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Subject Operation/Series: ROVING SANDS '96

Base: Mcgregor Range

State: New Mexico (NM)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: AMN Benjamin Andara

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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06/06/1996
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