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AIRMAN Jeffery Ervin, a plane captain with VFA-113, Naval Air Station, Lemoore, CA, stands by an F-18 Hornet while it is being hot refueled. Most of the fighters operating at Roswell Industrial Air Center are being refueled with the engines running during ROVING SANDS '97. ROVING SANDS is a multinational effort and is the largest military exercise on United States soil that allows training in a joint environment to hone command and control procedures and integrate new systems in Theater and Air Missile Defense
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Subject Operation/Series: ROVING SANDS
Base: Roswell Industrial Air Center
State: New Mexico (NM)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Cedric H. Rudisill, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
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Date
22/04/1997
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