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US Army STAFF Sergeant Rowland Smith from the 55th Signal Company (Combat Camera), Fort Meade, Maryland, documents an AN/TPQ-36 weapons finder radar system at the International Airport of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Eleven soldiers from the unit are deployed to Sarajevo documenting day to day operations during Operation JOINT ENDEAVOR

STAFF Sergeant Rowland Smith, 55th Signal Company (Combat Camera), Fort Meade, Maryland, operates a video camera to document a Q-36 Fire Finder Radar at the International Airport in Sarajevo, Bosnia on the morning of the 20th of April, 1996. He and ten other soldiers of the same unit are deployed to Sarajevo in order to provide imagery to various units and nations who request Combat Camera support as well as to document day to day operations in their area of operations during Operation Joint Endeavor

A Q-36 Fire Finder Radar System from the 161st Target Acquisition Battery of the Kansas National Guard sits at the International Airport in Sarajevo, Bosnia on the morning of the 20th of April, 1996. This Radar System, manned by an eight soldier team, gathers information that deals with small arms weapons, mortars, artillery and rockets as well as many other sorts of weapons being fired. With the help of this Radar System, they can determine where, when, and at what time the weapon was fired, as well as where the round is going to land and when it will do so. They are in Sarajevo to support all local Implementation Force commanders and to warn them of any possible threat in their area...

An AN/TPQ-36 weapons locating radar, part of the FireFinder radar system, of the 161st Target Acquisition Battery of the Kansas National Guard is positioned at the international airport. An eight soldier team on deployment for JOINT ENDEAVOR mans the AN/TPQ-36 which gathers information about artillery, rockets, and mortars and with it the team can determine when and where a weapon was fired, where the round is going and when the round will reach its target

An AN/TPQ-36 weapons locating rador, part of the Firefinder radar system, of the 161st Target Acquisition Battery from the Kansas National Guard is positioned at the international airport. An eight soldier team on deployment for JOINT ENDEAVOR mans the AN/TPQ-36 which gathers information about artillery, rockets, and mortars and with it the team can determine when and where a weapon was fired, where the round is going and when the round will reach its target

An AN/TPQ-36 weapons locating radar, part of the Firefinder radar system, of the 161st Target Acquisition Battery from the Kansas National Guard is positioned at the international airport. An eight soldier team on deployment for JOINT ENDEAVOR mans the AN/TPQ-36 which gathers information about artillery, rockets, and mortars and with it the team can determine when and where a weapon was fired, where the round is going and when the round will reach its target

STAFF Sergeant Rowland Smith, 55th Signal Company (Combat Camera), Fort Meade, Maryland, operates a video camera to document equipment at the International Airport in Sarajevo, Bosnia on the morning of the 20th of April, 1996. He and ten other soldiers of the same unit are deployed to Sarajevo in order to provide imagery to various units and nations who request Combat Camera support as well as to document day to day operations in their area of operations during Operation Joint Endeavor

A Q-36 Fire Finder Radar System from the 161st Target Acquisition Battery of the Kansas National Guard sits at the International Airport in Sarajevo, Bosnia on the morning of the 20th of April, 1996. This Radar System, manned by an eight soldier team, gathers information that deals with small arms weapons, mortars, artillery and rockets as well as many other sorts of weapons being fired. With the help of this Radar System, they can determine where, when, and at what time the weapon was fired, as well as where the round is going to land and when it will do so. They are in Sarajevo to support all local Implementation Force commanders and to warn them of any possible threat in their area...

A Q-36 Fire Finder Radar System of the 161st Target Acquisition Battery of the Kansas National Guard, sits at the International Airport in Sarajevo, Bosnia on the morning of the 20th of April, 1996. This Radar System, manned by an eight soldier team, gathers information that deals with small arms weapons, mortars, artillery and rockets as well as many other sorts of weapons being fired. With the help of this Radar System, they can determine where, when, and at what time the weapon was fired as well as where the round is going to land and when it will do so. They are in Sarajevo to support all local Implementation Force commanders and to warn them of any possible threat in their area...

SSG Rowland Smith of the 55th Signal Corps (Combat Camera), Fort Meade, Maryland, documents the AN/TPQ-36 weapons locating rador, part of the Firefinder radar system, of the 161st Target Acquisition Battery from the Kansas National Guard is positioned at the international airport during JOINT ENDEAVOR. A portion of the city of Sarajevo can be seen in the background

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Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR

Base: Sarajevo

Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

Scene Camera Operator: SGT Jean-Marc Schaible

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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Multinational students attending the International

Soldiers from the 137th Transportation Company, Kansas

An IFOR (Implementation Force) Aardvark Mark 3 Joint Services Flail Unit (Aardvark JSFU MKIIIC) mine clearing vehicle, operated by French Army Engineers, clears an area adjacent to a Sarajevo International Airport runway in Sarajevo International Airport near Sarajevo, Bosnia. A parked unidentified IL-76 is seen in the background. The Aardvark JSFU MKIIIC is clearing this area to allow more civilian aircraft to land at Sarajevo International Airport more safely

This photograph of a TMM-1 Anti-Tank Mine was used for mine awareness pamphlets and posters for use during Operation Joint Endeavor on Rajlovac, a French compound northwest of Sarajevo

Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina soldiers perform

Members of the 626th AMSS (Air Mobility Support Squadron) push cargo into position aboard a C-17 redeploying to CONUS. Two months after deploying to Rhein-Main AB, Germany, the 17th Airlift Squadron (AS), flying the C-17 Globemaster III, is redeploying to Charleston AFB, South Carolina. Performing well with the newest aircraft on the Air Forces Inventory List was vital to Operation Joint Endeavor flying missions from Rhein-Main AB to Taszar Hungary and throughout the former Yugoslavia region. The Globemaster III transported vehicles, supplies and personnel into the staging area in Taszar; Sarajevo, Serbia; Split, Croatia and Tuzla AB, Bosnia. Cargo delivered was for the Implementation...

A French Army Aardvark Mark 3 Joint Services Flail Unit (Aardvark JSFU MKIIIC) mine-clearing vehicle, with IFOR markings, clears an area adjacent to a Sarajevo International Airport runway in Sarajevo International Airport near Sarajevo, Bosnia. A parked unidentified IL-76 is seen in the background. The Aardvark JSFU MKIIIC is clearing this area to allow more civilian aircraft to land at Sarajevo International Airport more safely

Maja und Alpino. Libretto. German

[Washington, D.C. Central Signal Station, Winder Building, 17th and E Streets NW, and Signal Corps men]

Sergeant Major of the Army, Gene McKinny, poses for a photograph with soldiers of the 161st Field Artillery, Target Acquisition Battery, Kansas National Guard at the Sarajevo Airport

Maja und Alpino. Libretto. German

Fort Riley, Kansas. A Signal Corps man attached to a truck unit

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