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US Air Force (USAF) Technical Sergeant (TSGT) Ainsley Brimm, McGuire Air Force Base (AFB), New Jersey (NJ), hugs his son Ainsley after returning fromhis deployment in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Air Force (USAF) Technical Sergeant (TSGT) James Ahlstrom, 109th Air Control Squadron (ACS), Utah Air National Guard (UTANG), Utah (UT), gives his daughter Emily one last hug before deploying to the Middle East in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. This is the third time in three years that this Air National Guard (ANG) unit activated to augment deployed active duty forces

US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Donald Jepsen (left), Lead Crew CHIEF, 355th Maintenance Group (MXG), 355th Wing (WG), Davis-Montham Air Force Base (AFB), Arizona (AZ), hugs his daughter, Hailey, shortly after arriving back to his home station after his four month deployment to Iraq in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

Reunion at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada (NV), US Army (USA) Reservist Second Lieutenant (2LT) Johnathan Sowell, 257th Transportation Company (TRANS CO), Las Vegas, NV, hugs his wife Patty and daughter Juanita on returning home from an 18 month deployment in Kuwait and Iraq supporting Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

An unidentified US Air Force (USAF) Major (MAJ) assigned to the 130th Airlift Wing (AW), West Virginia Air National Guard (ANG), embraces his wife and meets for the first time his newborn son, after returning home at Charleston, West Virginia (VA), following a five-month deployment to Southwest Asia, supporting Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Air Force (USAF) Major (MAJ) Brian "Grinch" Bracken, Pilot, 107th Fighter Squadron (FS), Selfridge Air National Guard Base (ANGB), Michigan Air National Guard (MIANG), poses with his family during the welcome home celebration after returning from deployment to Iraq (IRQ) in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Navy (USN) Hospital Corpsman, PETTY Officer First Class (HM1) Randahl Benson, along with his wife and daughter, is interviewed by local news media, upon his return to Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Yuma, Arizona (AZ), following a recent deployment in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Army (USA) SPECIALIST (SPC) Jason Fuller, 263rd Personnel Services Detachment, Michigan Army National Guard (MIARNG), is reunited with his son, after arriving home in Lansing, Michigan (MI), returning from a one-year deployment to Iraq, in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. (A3695)

US Air Force (USAF) Captain (CPT) Charles Ericson, 116th Air Control Wing (ACW), gets a hug from his wife Pam while daughters Autumn, and Olivia, wait their turn. CPT Ericson had just returned from deployment in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM to his home base at Robins Air Force Base (AFB), Georgia (GA)

Idaho Air National Guard (IDANG) First Lieutenant (1LT) Michael Ramsay, 189th Airlift Squadron (AS), hugs his mother upon his arrival back at Gowen Field, Boise, Idaho (ID) after serving in Iraq during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: Gowen Field

State: Idaho (ID)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Tom Gloeckle, USAF

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Iraq War aka Operation IRAQI FREEDOM was the 2003 invasion of Iraq, led by U.S. Army General Tommy Franks, under the code-name "Operation Iraqi Freedom". 248,000 soldiers from the United States, 45,000 British soldiers, 2,000 Australian soldiers and 194 Polish soldiers from Special Forces unit GROM sent to Kuwait for the invasion. The invasion force was also supported by Iraqi Kurdish militia troops, estimated to number upwards of 70,000.

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Master Sgt. Kyle J. Walker, a 124th Aircraft Maintenance

First Lieutenant (1LT) Victor Haynes, 20th Military Airlift Squadron, checks a map while piloting a Military Airlift Command transport aircraft to the next location of Pope John Paul II's US visit. During the pope's visit, vehicle transportation and security is being provided under VOLANT SILVER, a joint Military Airlift Command/Secret Service operation

Two A-10C Thunderbolt IIs assigned to the 190th Fighter

US Air Force (USAF) First Lieutenant (1LT) Brian Quenette, 51st Security Forces Squadron (SFS), radios information on suspicious activity during Exercise BEVERLY BULLDOG 02-02, at Osan Air Base (AB) Korea

Lt. Alex Anderson, attached to Electronic Attack Squadron 140, hugs his wife after returning home from deployment at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island.

Airman 1st Class Thomas Koop, a Tactical Air Control

Special warfare tactical control party Airmen with

C-130 Hercules aircrew Engineer STAFF Sergeant Jeff Morgan (left) and Navigator Catain Keith Allbritten, 61st Airlift Squadron, discuss the status of the lanes chafe and flares with an electronic warfare secialist rior to flying into the former Yugoslavia region. The chafe and flares are discharged when the early warning system or a loadmaster erceives a ossible threat to the lane from anti aircraft armament or surface to air missiles. The Green Hornets are deloyed to Ramstein Air Base, Germany, for a 100 day Temorary Duty (TDY) tour assisting Oeration JOINT GUARD (reviously Oeration JOINT ENDEAVOR). Flying C-130s every day to the Former Yugoslav region (rimarily Tuzla) they...

C-130 Hercules Navigator, Captain Keith Allbritten, right, 61st Airlift Squadron discusses the status of the planes chafe and flares with Electronic Warfare SPECIALIST SSGT Todd Ross, prior to flying into the former Yugoslavia region. The chafe and flares are discharged when the early warning system or a loadmaster perceives a possible threat to the plane from anti aircraft armament or surface to air missiles. The Green Hornets are deployed to Ramstein Air Base, Germany, for a 100 day Temporary Duty (TDY) tour assisting Operation JOINT GUARD (previously Operation JOINT ENDEAVOR). Flying C-130s every day to the Former Yugoslav region (primarily Tuzla) they pick up and deliver cargo and...

A C-5 Galaxy from the 9th Airlift Squadron, Dover AFB, Delaware, unloads equipment at Rhein Main AB, Germany, in support of Operation Joint Endeavor

An Airman from the 366th Security Forces Squadron walks

A U.S. Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet with the Strike Fighter

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