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Boom Operators point of view onboard a US Air Force (USAF) KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft assigned to the 900th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron (EARS), showing a USAF E-3A Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft braking away after refueling during a mission flow over Northern Iraq, in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH

Boom Operators point of view onboard a US Air Force (USAF) KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft assigned to the 900th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron (EARS), showing a USAF F-16CG Fighting Falcon aircraft, approaching for refueling during a mission flow over Northern Iraq, in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH

Boom Operators point of view onboard a US Air force (USAF) KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft assigned to the 900th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron (EARS), showing a USAF F-15C Eagle refueling during a mission flow over Northern Iraq, in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH

US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Rafael Him, Boom Operator, 900th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron (EARS), man his position aboard a USAF KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft, as a USAF E-3A Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft refuels during a mission flown over Northern Iraq, in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH

Boom Operators point of view onboard a US Air Force (USAF) KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft assigned to the 900th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron (EARS), showing a Oklahoma (OK), Air National Gurad (ANG) F-16CG Fighting Falcon aircraft, connecting to refuel during a mission flow over Northern Iraq, in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH. The aircraft is armed with AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM), AIM-9 Sidewinder Missiles, and GBU-12 Paveway II 500-pound Laser Guided Bombs

Boom Operators point of view onboard a US Air Force (USAF) KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft assigned to the 900th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron (EARS), showing a Oklahoma (OK), Air National Guard (ANG) F-16CG Fighting Falcon aircraft, braking away after refueling during a mission flow over Northern Iraq, in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH. The aircraft is armed with AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM), AIM-9 Sidewinder Missiles, and GBU-12 Paveway II 500-pound Laser Guided Bombs

Boom Operators point of view onboard a US Air Force (USAF) KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft assigned to the 900th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron (EARS), showing a Oklahoma (OK), Air National Guard (ANG) F-16CG Fighting Falcon aircraft, braking away after refueling during a mission flow over Northern Iraq, in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH. The aircraft is armed with AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM), AIM-9 Sidewinder Missiles, and GBU-12 Paveway II 500-pound Laser Guided Bombs

Boom Operators point of view onboard a US Air Force (USAF) KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft assigned to the 900th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron (EARS), showing a Oklahoma (OK), Air National Gurad (ANG) F-16CG Fighting Falcon aircraft, connecting to refuel during a mission flow over Northern Iraq, in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH. The aircraft is armed with AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM), AIM-9 Sidewinder Missiles, and GBU-12 Paveway II 500-pound Laser Guided Bombs

US Air Force (USAF) MASTER Sergeant (MSGT) Dan Smith, Boom Operator, 900th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron (EARS), man his position aboard a USAF KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft, during a refueling mission flow over Northern Iraq, in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH

Boom Operators point of view onboard a US Air Force (USAF) KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft assigned to the 900th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron (EARS), showing a USAF E-3A Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft refueling during a mission flow over Northern Iraq, in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH

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Subject Operation/Series: NORTHERN WATCH

Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Anna Hayman, USAF

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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label_outline Explore Usaf E 3 A Sentry Airborne, Boom Operators Point, Mission Flow

CAPT. William Robinson (left) and CAPT. Robert Ham fly an E-3A Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft into the tactical large force employment exercise area. They are assigned to the 961st AWACS, Kadena Air Base, Japan

Boom Operators point of view showing a US Air Force (USAF) B-2 Spirit aircraft approaching the refueling boom of a Alaskan Air National Guard KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft while conducting refueling operations during Exercise NORTHERN EDGE 02. Northern Edge '02 is an annual joint training exercise held in Alaska designed to exercise joint operations techniques, procedures and enhance interoperability among the services

Members of 3rd Section, A Battery, 1ST Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment (Airborne), Fort Bragg, plug their ears as the M119 105mm howitzer fires during a joint field training. The soldiers are wearing MILES (Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System) equipment. (Duplicate image, see also DASD9803109 or search 980201A6522J506)

A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from 1-228th Aviation

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 U.S. Army Task Force Brawler CH-47F Chinook releases

Canadian Forces Air Command Sergeant Jason Day, a communications technician with the 962nd Air Control Squadron, Elmendorf Air Force Base Alaska, repairs a mission critical radio, onboard a US Air Force E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft, flying in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH to enforce the No-Fly-Zone over Northern Iraq

A row of US Air Force (USAF) F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft assigned to the 494th Fighter Squadron (FS), Royal Air Force (RAF), Lakenheath, United Kingdom (UK), armed with Advance Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM) and GBU-12 500-pound Paveway II Laser Guided Bombs, prepare for a mission while deployed at Incirlik Air Base (AB), Turkey in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH

A ground crewman directs a US Air Force E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft from its parking spot. The aircraft is beginning a mission over Turkey in support of the operation. This operation is a security mission to enforce the United Nations no-fly zone north of the 36 degree parallel from Iraqi air and ground incursion. A four nation coalition of US, Turkey, Great Britain and France has been actively protecting and supplying Kurdish refugees since Desert Storm in 1991.(Exact date unknown)

An E-3A Sentry Airborne Warning and Control system (AWACS) aircraft from the 962nd Airborne Air Control Squadron (AACS) is parked on the snow-cleared ramp

Members of the 964th Airborne Warning and Control Squadron, 552nd Airborne Warning and Control Wing, prepare to board a bus that will take them to the airfield for deployment aboard C-5 Galaxy and E-3A Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft

Over the Middle East, an US Marine Corps (USMC) F/A-18 Hornet, Marine Fighter Attack Squadron-115 (VMFA-115), Silver Eagles, Beaufort, South Carolina (SC), prepares to connect for refueling operations with a US Air Force (USAF) KC-135R Stratotanker, 163rd Air Refueling Wing, 196th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron, Grizzlies, March Air Force Base (AFB), California (CA), during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The F-18 is armed with AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles (wing tips), a GBU-12 (left), and a MK-83 1,000 lbs Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM)

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