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Senior Airman Michael Scott, a crew chief from the

Crew chiefs from the 7th Aircraft Maintenance Unit

A U.S. Navy T-45 Goshawk trainer aircraft gains altitude after performing a touch-and-go (TAG) landing during carrier qualifications aboard the Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71) on Dec. 14, 2006, while the ROOSEVELT is maintaining qualifications as part of the U.S. Navy fleet Response Plan. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communications SPECIALIST 2nd Class Nathan Laird) (Released)

The U.S. Air Force aerial demonstration team known

A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon receives fuel

An F-14A Tomcat aircraft is silhouetted by the sun as it stands on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier bound for the Middle East in support of Operation Desert Shield

An F-22 Raptor pulls away after refueling from a KC-10

U.S. Navy Aviation Structural Mechanic AIRMAN Brian Scott performs a routine wash down of a Strike Fighter Squadron 25 (VFA-25,"Fist of the Fleet") F/A-18C Hornet strike fighter aircraft on the flight deck of the Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier USS RONALD REAGAN (CVN 76) on Jan. 31, 2007, while the REAGAN and its strike group are currently underway on a surge deployment in support of U.S. military operations in the western Pacific Ocean. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication SPECIALIST 2nd Class John P. Curtis) (Released)

A US Air Force (USAF) F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft assigned to the 492nd Expeditionary Fighter Squadron (EFS), Royal Air Force (RAF), Lakenheath, United Kingdom (UK), armed with AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM), AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles, and GBU-12 500-pound Paveway II Laser Guided Bombs, flies over the no-fly zone during a mission flown in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH

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A detailed view of the weapons load on an F-16A Falcon from the Royal Netherlands Air Force as it takes on fuel from a 100th Air Expeditionary Wing KC-135R Stratotanker (not shown) from RAF Mildenhall United Kingdom on 31 Mar 99. While patroling the skies over Kosovo during Operation Allied Force, it is armed with AIM-9 missles for self protection and cluster bombs on the inboard stations to attack troop concentrations and nonhardened targets

An F-16C Falcon from the 52nd Fighter Wing based at Spandahlem AB Germany breaks away from a 100th Air Expeditionary Wing KC-135R Stratotanker (not shown) from RAF Mildenhall United Kingdom on 31 Mar 99. While patroling the skies over Kosovo during Operation Allied Force, it is armed with AIM-120C missiles for self protection and Highspeed Anti Radiation Missiles on the inboard stations to suppress anti-aircraft radar sites

An F-16C Falcon from the 52nd Fighter Wing based at Spandahlem AB Germany breaks away from a 100th Air Expeditionary Wing KC-135R Stratotanker (not shown) from RAF Mildenhall United Kingdom on 31 Mar 99. While patroling the skies over Kosovo during Operation Allied Force, it is armed with AIM-120C missiles for self protection and Highspeed Anti Radiation Missiles on the inboard stations to suppress anti-aircraft radar sites

An F-16C Falcon from the 52nd Fighter Wing based at Spandahlem AB Germany moves in to receive fuel from a KC-135R Stratotanker (not shown) with the 100th Air Expeditionary Wing from RAF Mildenhall United Kingdom on 31 Mar 99. While patroling the skies over Kosovo during Operation Allied Force, it is armed with AIM-120C missiles for self protection and Highspeed Anti Radiation Missiles on the inboard stations to suppress anti-aircraft radar sites

An F-16C Falcon from the 52nd Fighter Wing based at Spandahlem AB Germany moves in to receive fuel from a KC-135R Stratotanker (not shown) with the 100th Air Expeditionary Wing from RAF Mildenhall United Kingdom on 31 Mar 99. While patroling the skies over Kosovo during Operation Allied Force, it is armed with AIM-120C missiles for self protection and Highspeed Anti Radiation Missiles on the inboard stations to suppress anti-aircraft radar sites

A detailed view of the weapons load of an F-16C Falcon from the 52nd Fighter Wing based at Spandahlem AB Germany as it takes on fuel from a 100th Air Expeditionary Wing KC-135R Stratotanker (not shown) from RAF Mildenhall United Kingdom on 31 Mar 99. While patroling the skies over Kosovo during Operation Allied Force, it is armed with AIM-120C missiles on the two outboard stations for self protection and Highspeed Anti Radiation Missiles on the inboard station to suppress anti-aircraft radar sites

An F-16C Falcon from the Turkish Air Force waits to take on fuel from a 100th Air Expeditionary Wing KC-135R Stratotanker (not shown) from RAF Mildenhall United Kingdom on Mar. 31, 1999. The Falcon is armed with AIM-120C Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missiles on the wingtips and AIM-9 Sidewinders on the inboard wing stations while on patrol in support of Operation Allied Force

A Minnesota Air National Guard F-16A Fighting Falcon fighter, 179th Fighter Squadron, 148th Fighter Wing, hooks up to refuel from the boom of a U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker. The Falcon is carrying an AIM-9M Sidewinder missile (left), Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation pod, and an Acceleration Monitor Assembly pod (right). (U.S. Air Force photo by STAFF Sergeant Brett R. Ewald)(Released)

An F-16J Fighting Falcon assigned to the Air National Guards (ANG) 150th Fighter Wing (FW), Kirtland Air Force Base (AFB), New Mexico, launches from Ahmed Al Jaber Air Base, Kuwait, armed with AIM-9 Sidewinder, AIM-120 AMRAAM Slammer missiles, AN/ALQ-99 Tactical Jamming System (TJS) pod and a CBU Cluster Bomb pod, in support of Operation SOUTHERN WATCH 1998

An F-16A Falcon from the Royal Netherlands Air Force breaks away from a 100th Air Expeditionary Wing KC-135R Stratotanker (not shown) from RAF Mildenhall United Kingdom on 31 Mar 99. While patroling the skies over Kosovo during Operation Allied Force, it is armed with AIM-9 missles for self protection and cluster bombs on the inboard stations to attack troop concentrations and nonhardened targets

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Subject Operation/Series: ALLIED FORCE

Base: Raf Mildenhall

Country: Great Britain / England (GBR)

Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Brad Fallin

Release Status: Released to Public

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A detailed view of the weapons load of an F-16C Falcon from the 52nd Fighter Wing based at Spandahlem AB Germany as it takes on fuel from a 100th Air Expeditionary Wing KC-135R Stratotanker (not shown) from RAF Mildenhall United Kingdom on 31 Mar 99. While patroling the skies over Kosovo during Operation Allied Force, it is armed with AIM-120C missiles on the two outboard stations for self protection and Highspeed Anti Radiation Missiles on the inboard station to suppress anti-aircraft radar sites

U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Walter L. Miller Jr., left,

A group of enemy soldiers tactically move towards U.S.

An F-14 "Tomcat" engages it's afterburners prior to a night launch off the flight deck of the U.S. aircraft carrier USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71). ROOSEVELT and its embarked carrier air wing are participating in strikes missions over the former Yugoslavia in support of NATO Operation Allied Force

A KC-135 Stratotanker from the 171st Air Refueling Wing of the Pennsylvania Air National Gaurd, heads a line up of tankers on the ramp at RAF Lakenheath United Kingdom on March 28, 1999. The Pennsylvania ANG aircraft temporarily assigned to the 100th Air Expeditionary Wing at RAF Mildenhall, United Kingdom, was diverted to Lakenheath due to adverse winds at Mildenhall. This mission is in direct support of NATO Operation Allied Force

A Royal Netherlands Air Force F-16 attached to the

KC-135R Stratotanker from the 100th Aerial Refueling Wing at Royal Air Force Mildenhall shares a hardstand at its home base in East Anglia, United Kingdom

A US Air Force (USAF) 494th Fighter Squadron (FS), 48th Fighter Wing (FW), F-15E Strike Eagle dual-role fighter aircraft, from RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk, England (ENG), banks away from the deployed refueling boom of an Alabama Air National Guard (ALANG) 106th Aerial Refueling Squadron (ARS), 117th Aerial Refueling Wing (ARW), KC-135R Stratotanker aerial refueling aircraft (not shown) on a training flight over the North Sea, while the 106th ARS is on a two-week deployment training mission with the 48th FW

A US Air Force (USAF) F/A-22 Raptor flown by USAF Major (MAJ) David Thole, 422nd Test and Evaluation Squadron (TES), Nellis Air Force Base (AFB), Nevada (NV), breaks away after completing a training mission with a USAF F-16 Fighting Falcon, flown by USAF MAJ Alex Grynkewich, 53rd Test and Evaluation Group (TEG), Nellis AFB, NV

At an entrance to Interstate Highway 70 (I-70), a member of the Glenwood Springs Police Department brief members of the 220th Military Police (MP) Company, Colorado Army National Guard (COARNG) on the Coal Seam Fires. The 220th MP will set up security access control points along the perimeter including I-70. The Coal Seam Fire started sometime in the mid-1970s as an underground fire burned along a rich vein of coal. Occassionally the fire breaks through to the surface. At this time it had burned 7,300 acres, damaged an estimated 40 structures, and caused the evacuation of 2,000 residents

Vicki Paisley, ships sponsor, breaks a bottle of champagne across the bow of the Los Angeles class nuclear-powered attack submarine USS CHICAGO (SSN 721) at the conclusion of the launch ceremony. Vice Admiral Nils Thunman, Deputy CHIEF of Naval Operations, Submarine Warfare, stands in the background center

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