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C-17 Globemaster III loadmaster from the 14th Airlift Squadron, Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina, upload pallets of US Army support equipment in support of Task Force Hawk. TFH is the US Army's contingent operation currently building up in Albania as part of NATO's air offensive campaign in Yugoslavia. The 14th Airlift Wing is part of the 437th Air Expeditionary Unit that is base out of Ramstein Air Base, Germany. This is mission in direct support of Operation Sustain Hope

C-17 Globemaster III loadmaster from the 14th Airlift Squadron, Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina, upload pallets of U.S. Army support equipment in support of Task Force Hawk. TFH is the U.S. Army's contingent operation currently building up in Albania as part of NATO's air offensive campaign in Yugoslavia. The 14th Airlift Wing is part of the 437th Air Expeditionary Unit that is base out of Ramstein Air Base, Germany. This is mission in direct support of Operation Sustain Hope

U.S. Air Force C-17 aircrew members from the 14th Airlift Squadron, help download a C-17 Globemaster III carrying US Army support equipment for Task Force Hawk. TFH is the US Army's contingent operation currently building up in Albania as part of NATO's air offensive campaign in Yugoslavia. The 14th Airlift Wing is part of the 437th Air Expeditionary Unit that is base out of Ramstein Air Base, Germany. This is mission in direct support of Operation Sustain Hope

U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircrew members from the 14th Airlift Squadron, Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina, enter final and prepare to land at Tirana airport, Albania. USAF crews are currently involved in airlifting US Army support equipment in support of Task Force Hawk. TFH is the US Army's contingent operation currently building up in Albania as part of NATO's air offensive campaign in Yugoslavia. The 14th Airlift Wing is part of the 437th Air Expeditionary Unit that is base out of Ramstein Air Base, Germany. This is mission in direct support of Operation Sustain Hope

U.S. Air Force aerial port personnel from the 621st Air Mobility Group, McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, pre-positioned themselves prior to downloading a C-17 Globemaster III (not shown) carrying US Army support equipment for Task Force Hawk. TFH is the US Army's contingent operation currently building up in Albania as part of NATO's air offensive campaign in Yugoslavia. The 14th Airlift Wing is part of the 437th Air Expeditionary Unit that is base out of Ramstein Air Base, Germany. This is mission in direct support of Operation Sustain Hope

U.S. Air Force aerial port personnel from the 621st Air Mobility Group, McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, download a C-17 Globemaster III carrying US Army support equipment for Task Force Hawk. The cargo is being rolled onto a self-propelled flatbed cargo hauler. TFH is the US Army's contingent operation currently building up in Albania as part of NATO's air offensive campaign in Yugoslavia. The 14th Airlift Wing is part of the 437th Air Expeditionary Unit that is base out of Ramstein Air Base, Germany. This is mission in direct support of Operation Sustain Hope

C-17 Globemaster III loadmaster, STAFF SGT. Brian D. McGriff assigned to the 14th Airlift Squadron (AS), conducts a radio check with the rest of the crew in preparation for a mission from Ramstein Air Base, Germany to Sarajevo. The 14th AS's C-17s assigned to the 437th Airlift Wing, Charleston Air Force Base, S.C. are providing inter-theater transport capability to the former Yugoslavia region in support the United Nation's Implementation Force

A C-17 Globemaster III from the 17th Airlift Squadron, 437th Airlift Wing, Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina, arriving from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, offloads U. S. Army Task Force Hawk equipment at Rinas Airport, Tirana, Albania, the base camp for members of Operation Sustain Hope. A left side front view of an eight-wheeled K-loader is seen at the rear entrance of the C-17. Sustain Hope is a combined NATO and joint U.S. military humanitarian relief effort in conjunction with civilian relief agencies. Sustain Hope is bringing relief to thousands of refugees (not shown) in Albania and Macedonia displaced by the current unrest in the region of Kosovo, Yugoslavia

A member of the Aerial Port Squadron, Ramstein Air Base, directs the placement of a K-Loader to the rear ramp of a C-17A Globemaster III in the early morning. The C-17A, from the 437th Airlift Wing, Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina, is preparing to fly a resupply mission of outsized cargo to Tuzla Air Base, Bosnia, and Taszar, Hungary, in support of the United Nations Stabilization Forces (SFOR) during Operation JOINT GUARD. JOINT GUARD is the multi-national peacekeeping mission that provides a climate of stability in the war-torn land of Bosnia-Herzegovina

C-17 Globemaster III loadmasters from the 14 Airlift Squadron, Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina, upload pallets of US Army support equipment in support of Task Force Hawk. TFH is the US Army's contingent operation currently building up in Albania as part of NATO's air offensive campaign in Yugoslavia. The 14th Airlift Wing is part of the 437th Air Expeditionary Unit that is base out of Ramstein Air Base, Germany. This is mission in direct support of Operation Sustain Hope

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Subject Operation/Series: SUSTAIN HOPE

Base: Ramstein Air Base

State: Rheinland-Pfalz

Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)

Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Efrain Gonzalez

Release Status: Released to Public

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S121E06614 - STS-121 - View of RCC repair sample pallet for DTO 484 taken during STS-121 / Expedition 13 joint operations

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U.S. Air Force STAFF SGT. Bayne Sullivan, 786th Security Forces Squadron, Sembach Air Base, GE., takes a break during an unscheduled delay of a change of command ceremony in Tirana, Albania June 1, 1999. (USAF 1ST Combat Camera Squadron photo by STAFF SGT Efrain Gonzalez)

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