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Refueling missions are part of the nighttime air strikes on Afghanistan. Here an F-15 Strike Eagle, seen through the green glow of a night scope, moves in to make contact with a KC-135R from the 319th Air Expeditionary Group (AEG) in the night skies over Afghanistan. The 319th AEG deployed to a forward operating location to provide air-to-air refueling in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. In response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 at the New York World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President George W. Bush initiated Operation ENDURING FREEDOM in support of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), fighting terrorism abroad
US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Daniel Greenwood, USAF RC-135 Rivet Joint Crewchief, 55th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (AMXS), Offutt Air Force Base (AFB), Nebraska (NE), completes engine inspections of a USAF RC-135 "Rivet Joint" during the Operational Readiness Exercise (ORE). Over a two-week period, the 55th Wing (WG) is conducting an ORE in preparation for an upcoming Air Combat Command (ACC) Operational Readiness Inspection (ORI) in March. (Ghost image due to slow shutter speed during exposure.)
A KC-135 Stratotanker with the 121st Air Refueling
Aviation Ordnancemen assigned to the �Jolly Rogers� of Strike Fighter Squadron One Zero Three (VFA-103) transport a Laser Guided Bomb Unit-12 (GBU-12) and two GPS Guided Bombs Unit-38 (GBU-38) to be placed on an F/A-18F Super Hornet.
A catapult and arresting gear officer wearing a safety observer jersey signals instructions to the pilot of an F-14A Tomcat aircraft preparing to be launched from the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69)
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Quori Allard, a crew chief
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Brion Humenay, 926th Aircraft
STAFF SGT. James Wilson straps AGTS-36 Aerial GUNNERY Target Sets to a weapons trailer on the flightline during competition William Tell '94. The AGTS-36 is towed behind a specially modified F-15 Fighter aircraft to provide the competing teams something at which to shoot their 20mm lead. ammunition at
Vice Commander, Col. Troy Havener, of the 148th Fighter
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An SR-71A aircraft taxis on the flight line
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A front view of an SR-71A aircraft on the flight line
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The crew of an SR-71A aircraft (background) walks away from the flight line upon arrival
Airmen from the 71st Rescue Squadron Aircraft Maintenance
An SR-71A aircraft lands with its drag chute deployed during Air Fete '85
Ground crewmen service an SR-71A aircraft on the flight line
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Macdill Air Force Base
State: Florida (FL)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: Unknown
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
The SR-71 carried many nicknames like the "Habu," "SR," "Lady in Black," and "Sled;" but most of us know the SR-71 as the "Blackbird." The SR-71 was developed as a long-range strategic reconnaissance aircraft capable of flying at speeds over Mach 3.2 and at 85,000 feet. The first SR-71 to enter service was delivered in 1966 and retired in 1990. The USAF kept a few SR-71s in operation up until 1998, after a few were brought back to service in 1995. NASA's also flew the SR-71 from 1991 until its final flight in October 1999.
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Date
01/01/1986
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