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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

Corporal Brenden Malyk, A-GUNNER operator and Corporal John G. Notte III, Team Leader, both with the 2nd Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion, Cherry Point, North Carolina, uses a Forward Area Air Defense Command and Control system to locate and lock on to hostile aircraft over the NASA Test Site, New Mexico as part of the largest joint air defense exercise Roving Sands '96

Major Francis W. Chesney, A Sector Anti-Air Coordinator from the Marine Air Control Squadron 7 from Yuma, Arizona, relays hostile aircraft coordinates from base camp, which is located at NASA test Site, New Mexico, to the Avenger and Stinger teams in the field allowing them to launch and destroy the enemy aircraft before letting them reach their targets, all a part of exercise Roving Sands '96

Pilots from the 2nd Fighter Squadron, Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, 77th Fighter Squadron, Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina and 188th Fighter Squadron, New Mexico Air National Guard, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico attend a video conferencing preflight briefing for missions in support of the world's largest joint service, multi-national tactical air operations exercise

US Air Force SENIOR AIRMAN Roy Chavez Jr., 342nd Training Squadron, 37th Training Group, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, crawls through the Belly Crawl obstacle during the Air Education & Training Command (AETC) DEFENDER CHALLENGER competition September 4-8, Lackland AFB, TX

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

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

A US Air Force (USAF) F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter, flown by MAJ Alex Grynkewich, 53rd Test and Evaluation Group (TEG), Nellis Air Force Base (AFB), Nevada (NV), breaks to the right after completing a training mission over the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR)

A US Navy SH-60 Seahawk helicopter from Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron 4 (HS-4), Naval Air Station North Island, Calif., lands in the desert of New Mexico to pickup the survivors of a simulated F-18 crash during the annual air defense exercise

Corporal Orlando Villareal, and Avenger GUNNER from the 2nd Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion from Cherry Point, North Carolina, confirms the simulated destruction of hostile aircraft in the skies over NASA Test Site, New Mexico during exercise Roving Sands '96

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Subject Operation/Series: ROVING SANDS '96

Base: Nasa Test Site

State: New Mexico (NM)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: AMN Benjamin Andera

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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Cadre members of the United States Marine Corporals

Captain Pat Ryan, an F-15 Eagle pilot from the 159th Fighter Group, New Orleans, LA, fills out the aircraft forms after returning from a mission in support of Roving Sands '96, the US military's largest annual joint air defense training exercise

A front view medium shot of three US Marine Corps Light Armored Vehicles (LAV-25) moving along the beach at the Pacific Missile Range Facility, "Barking Sands" Kauai, HI. Marines from the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Camp Pendleton, CA and involved Navy and Marine Air, Ground and Sea Forces trained as a combined amphibious assault force during Operation RIMPAC 96

A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft pulls away from a KC-10 Extender aircraft after an aerial refueling mission over the skies of Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom on Nov. 18, 2004. (USAF PHOTO by TECH. SGT. Erik Gudmundson) (Released)

The H-3 Sea King takes its final operational flight in the skies above Norfolk, Va., for their final flight .

MASTER SGT. Plonski, boom operator on the KC-135 from the 146th Air Refueling Squadron, 171st Air Refueling Wing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Air National Guard waits for the arrival of an F/A-18 Hornet, from the VFA-151 Fighter Attack Wing, Naval Air Station Lemoore, California, to be begin aerial refueling during Roving Sands '96, the US military's largest annual joint air defense training exercise

US Marine Corps Corporal Joseph Calebro uses an AN/PSC-3 Satellite Communications Radio on the tarmac at Pointe Noire, Congo. Corporal Calebro is attached to VMGR-252 (Detachment Bravo) to provide KC-130 Hercules aircraft secure communications while deployed in support of PHOENIX GAUNTLET. PHOENIX GAUNTLET deployed enabling forces as part of contingency planning to prepare for a possible evacuation of Americans from Zaire, gripped in a civil war

SPC. Travis Morrell, A Battery 1ST Battalion 188th Air Defense Artillery, operates the gunner's station of an Avenger. 1-188th ADA is a North Dakota National Guard unit based in Grand Forks, N.D. (U.S. Army photo by SGT. Jonathan Haugen) (Released)

AIRMAN Jason Bass, Crew CHIEF for the 77th Fighter Squadron, Shaw Air Force Base (AFB), South Carolina, launches his F-16 Fighting Falcon at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, for a local airspace orientation flight in preparation for 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

GUNNER First Class Arroyo, 40th Regiment d' Artillerie, works in the AUF-1 Self-propelled Howitzer at Hekon Base

Starboard bow view of the US Navy (USN) AVENGER CLASS: MINE COUNTERMEASERURES VESSEL, USS DEXTROUS (MCM 13), underway in the Klawr Abd Allah (KAA) waterway while conducting mine countermeasures operation in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

Cpl. Matthew Kirby, 24, a Scottsdale, Ariz., native,

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