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US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Steven L. Kwast, 492nd Fighter Squadron commander, 48th Fighter Wing, Royal Air Force Lakenheath, United Kingdom, addresses a group of World War II veterans and their family members during a luncheon at the Lakenheath Officers' Club. The 48th FW hosted approximately seventy-five World War II veterans and family members of four World War II bombardment groups that were stationed in England with the 8th Air Force. The group represented the 100th, 447th, 452nd and the 393rd Bomb Groups

U.S. Air Force LT. COL. Lance Bodine, Commander of the 551st Special Operations Squadron, escorts Yvette Plumhoff, widow of MAJ. Steven Pumhoff, to his squadron after the base dedicated a street sign in honor of her late husband at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., on Nov. 29, 2004. MAJ. Plumhoff, an MH-53 Pave Low helicopter pilot, was killed along with four others; Air Force STAFF SGT. Thomas A. Walkup Jr., TECH.SGT. Howard A. Walters, TECH. SGT. William J. Kerwood and U.S. Army SGT. MAJ. Philip R. Albert, in an MH-53 crash in Afghanistan on Nov 23, 2003. (PHOTO by Todd Berenger, CIV) (Released)

(Right to left) USAF Colonel Ted Kraemer, Southeast Air Defense Sector Commander; Brigadier General Walter E. Buchanan III, 325th Fighter Wing Commander; Major General Larry K. Arnold, 1ST Air Force Commander; Allen Bense, Florida State Representative; and Canadian Forces Brigadier General Jim Hunter, CONUS NORAD Region Deputy Commander, break ground Monday, December 13th, 1999, to plant a tulip-poplar seeding in front of the 1ST AF Headquarters building at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida. This event marked the 363rd birthday of the Air National Guard. The accepted birthday of the National Guard, Dec 13 1636, is the date the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony organized the ...

US Air Force (USAF) Brigadier General (BGEN) Erwin F. Lessel, left, Commander of the 86th Airlift Wing (AW), presents Technical Sergeant (TSGT) Edward Holzapfel, with the 786th Communications Squadron (CS), Ramstein Air Base (AB), Germany (DEU), the Bronze Star Medal for his participation with the Disaster Mortuary Affairs Response Team (DMART) and the retrieval of American remains in 2002, at an aircraft crash site

Lieutenant Colonel (LCOL) Bob Broderick, USAF, Commander, 555th Fighter Squadron (FS), and SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Margarethe Via, USAF, crewchief, 555th, preflights the Paveway II (CCG MAU-169) control unit on a Guided Bomb Unit-12 (GBU-12) 500-pound munitions on an F-16 Fighting Falcon. The F-16 as carries and AIM-9 Sparrow (right) missile on the wing. The 555th deployed to Incirlik Air Base, Turkey as part of Operation NORTHERN WATCH

US Air Force (USAF) Colonel (COL) Robert Worley, center, Commander of the 30th Space Wing (SW), Vandenberg Air Force Base (AFB), California, joins hands with Lieutenant Colonel (LCOL) Angela Thompson, the Medical Operations Squadron (MOS) Commander, 30th Medical Group (MG) and Major (MAJ) Chaplain David Terrinoni, 30th SW, COL Charles Campbell, 30th MG Commander and Colonel Ed Bolton, the 30th Operations Group (OG) Commander as they sing the Negro National Anthem during a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative service held at the Vandenberg Air Force Base (AFB), California, base Chapel

US Air Force (USAF) Colonel (COL) Marke Gibson (second from left), Commander, 332nd Expeditionary Wing (EW), and 332nd Command CHIEF MASTER Sergeant (CCM) Jeffery F. Ledoux (right), brief USAF General (GEN) John P. Jumper (left), CHIEF of STAFF of STAFF of the Air Force (CSAF), and CHIEF MASTER Sergeant of the Air Force (CMSAF) Gerald Murray, about the different programs the Services Squadron (SVS) has to offer on Tallil Air Base (AB), Iraq (IRQ), during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Air Force Colonel Dana Atkins, 20th Fighter Wing Commander, Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, holds a certificate awarding the Distinguished Flying Cross to retired US Air Force Major Charles Bonner, a World War II B-17 pilot. MAJ Bonner received the Cross for his efforts in bringing his crippled aircraft and wounded crewmembers home to safety after a bombing mission over Germany

Norwegian Air Force Colonel (COL) Roy Olsen (left), North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) deployed detachment commander escorts Secretary of the Air Force (SECAF) James G. Roche on a tour of the NATO ramp at Tinker AFB, Oklahoma. SECAF Roche traveled to Tinker specifically to thank the AWACS community and NATO crews for the long hours and hard work they've put in for homeland security. The NATO AWACS crews, composed of twelve participating nations, deployed to the United States the first week of October 2001, from their home base in Geilenkirchen, Germany for Operation EAGLE ASSIST in support of Operation NOBLE EAGLE. They brought seven...

Lieutenant Colonel (LCOL) Todd Bolger (left), USAF, Commander, 66th Rescue Squadron (RS), Nellis AFB, Nevada, pins the Distinguished Flying Cross on retired First Lieutenant (1LT) Gilman L. Weber, Army Air Forces/United States Army (AAF/USA), for extraordinary accomplishment on 24 March 1945. He downed a German Messerschmitt ME-109 about to attack one of his fighter aircraft patrol comrades. His actions were not recognized until now

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Base: Nellis Air Force Base

State: Nevada (NV)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Major Command Shown: ACC

Scene Camera Operator: SRA Melanie Bobair, USAF

Release Status: Released to Public

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label_outline Explore Sra Melanie Bobair, Messerschmitt, Bolger

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

Concentration camp prisoners at Messerschmitt factory

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

The body of Army LCOL Charles Ray is being carried from a VC-137 Stratoliner aircraft upon arrival. Ray was killed by terrorists in Paris

MGEN Edward C. Peter, commander of 5th Infantry Division (in background), presides over activation ceremonies for the 105th Battalion. LCOL Jay Vaugh, commander of the 105th Battalion (right), exchanges battalion colors with Command SGM Andrew Abernathy (left)

LCOL Robert Muldrow, B-1B aircraft program element monitor, discusses the bomber with COL James W. Evatt (seated), special assistant for the B-1B in the office of the Deputy CHIEF of STAFF for Research, Development and Acquisition

Jubileum 50 års, A 6. Kamratföreningen.

LCOL Daniel James Doughty (Captured 2 Apr 67) at the microphones talks to people who came out to greet the returning POWs on their nighttime arrival at Scott. LCOL Doughty was released by the North Vietnamese in Hanoi on 12 Feb 73

A M35A2 2 1/2-ton cargo truck pulls a support vehicle up the starboard loading ramp of the United States Naval Ship (USNS) Gordon. USNS Gordon is the first United States Navy (USN) Large, Medium-Speed Roll-on/Roll-off Ships, or LMSR, cargo vessel. USNS Gordon is a former commercial tanker and underwent conversion to United States Navy Military Sealift Command specifications to make it ideal for the loading, transport and unloading of United States Army and United States Marine Corps combat equipment. It is more than 300 yards long and has a storage capacity of more than 300,000 square feet. The ship is named in honor of MASTER Sergeant Gary I. Gordon, US Army, who was posthumously...

US Marine (USMC) Wing Support Squadron (MWSS) 373rd Commanding Officer (CO), Lieutenant Colonel (LCOL) Donald W. Zautcke ceremoniously adds the final nails into the supporting beam of the hardback tent living quarters, at Camp Sledd on Ahmed Al Jaber Air Base, Kuwait, in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

Members of the 3rd United States Infantry (The Old Guard) and United States Army Drill Team from Fort Myer, Virginia, participate in the opening ceremony for the Resident Class of 2002 on the Indian Field parade grounds

The remnants of Fort Bowie, a 19th-century outpost from which the United States Army battled the area's Chiricahua Apaches

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