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An F-15C Eagle from the 493rd Fighter Squadron, Royal Air Force Lakenheath, United Kingdom, takes-off from Cervia Air Base, Italy, during Cobalt Flash in support of Operation JOINT FORGE the Stabilization Force (SFOR) mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina

STAFF Sergeant Greg Suhay, 48th Communications Squadron, Royal Air Force Lakenheath (RAF), United Kingdom, photographs F-15C Eagles from the 493rd Fighter Squadron, RAF Lakenheath at Cervia Air Base, Italy, during Cobalt Flash, in support of Operation JOINT FORGE the Stabilization Force (SFOR) mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Technical Sergeant (TSGT) Brad Davis, 48th Communications Squadron, Royal Air Force (RAF) Lakenheath, United Kingdom, sets-up an International Maritime Satellite (Inmarsat) at Cervia Air Base (AB), Italy. TSGT Davis is on a temporary duty assignment to Cervia AB for Cobalt Flash in support of Operation JOINT FORGE the Stabilization Force in Bosnia-Herzegovina

US Air Force AIRMAN First Class Paul Kielar, 493rd Fighter Squadron (FS) assistant crew chief, assists USAF Captain Garren Roberts a 493rd FS pilot with preflight preparations inside an aircraft shelter at the 493rd Fighter Squadron, Royal Air Force Lakenheath, United Kingdom

STAFF Sergeant Mike Hall of the 493rd Fighter Squadron at Royal Air Force (RAF) Lakenheath, United Kingdom, performs maintenance on an F-15C Eagle temporarily based at RAF Mildenhall

US Air Force members of the 493rd Fighter Squadron, Royal Air Force Lakenheath, United Kingdom, do a foreign object destruction (FOD) walk on the Cervia Air Base, Italy, flightline during Cobalt Flash in support of Operation JOINT FORGE the Stabilization Force (SFOR) mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The aircraft in the background are F-15C Eagles

US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Jorge Chavez, Life Support Floor Supervisor, 493rd Fighter Squadron (FS), 48th Fighter Wing (FW), inspects components of the ACES II survival kit inside the life support section at Royal Air Force (RAF) Lakenheath, United Kingdom (UK)

US Air Force Brigadier General Terry Gabreski, Deputy CHIEF of STAFF for Installations and Logistics, listens as US Air Force AIRMAN Kyle D. Richardson of the 48th Equipment Maintenance Squadron, Royal Air Force, Lakenheath, United Kingdom, Survival Equipment shop, describes the many pieces of life support equipment that maintenance, inspections, and other procedures are performed on, in order to support the 48 Fighter Wings mission. BGEN Gabreski is Team CHIEF for the Daedalian Trophy Team which recognizes the maintenance unit in the Air Force that has best met the objective of providing safe, serviceable, and available equipment for sustained use in peacetime, and wartime

STAFF Sergeant Lou Burgess (left), Technical Sergeant Brad Davis, (center), network operations, and SENIOR AIRMAN Gary Hammond, Base Intrusion Security Systems, 48th Communications Squadron, Royal Air Force Lakenheath, United Kingdom, set-up an International Maritime Satellite (Inmarsat) to provide world wide communications for the 48th Expeditionary Operations Group (EOG). The 48th EOG is deployed to Cervia Air Base, Italy for Cobalt Flash in support of Operation JOINT FORGE the Stabilization Force in Bosnia-Herzegovina

STAFF Sergeant Ken O'Connor, 493rd Fighter Squadron, Royal Air Force Lakenheath, United Kingdom, inventories a maintenance tool kit. Members of the 493rd are on temporary duty assignment to Cervia Air Base, Italy, for Cobalt Flash in support of Operation JOINT FORGE the Stabilization Force in Bosnia-Herzegovina

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Subject Operation/Series: JOINT FORGE

Base: Cervia Air Base

State: Emilia-Romagna

Country: Italy (ITA)

Scene Camera Operator: SRA Scott Asche, USAF

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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13/10/1998
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label_outline Explore Cobalt Flash, Cervia, Cervia Air Base

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US Army (USA) and French Army Officials assigned to the Stabilization Force (SFOR), conduct a interview with local Residents from the community of Nevesinjie, erzegovina, to hear testimonies on how they have been treated by the local community after the six year Balkan War. Pictured left to right- Ms. Leila Dizdarevic, Interpreter; US Army (USA) Lieutenant General (LGEN) John B. Sylvester (right), Commander, Stabilization Force (SFOR); French Army Captain (CPT) Raulet Guillaume, Company Commander, 3rd Company, 21st Marine Infantry Battalion; French Army CPT Davaillon, Company Commander 3rd Battery, 3rd Marine Artillery Regiment; and two Residents of the town of Nevesinjie,...

US Air Force Captain Connor Blackwood an F-15 Eagle pilot, from the 493rd Fighter Squadron, 48th Fighter Wing, RAF Lakenheath, United Kingdom, takes Eric Domagalski, a member of the Texas A&M University male cadet choir, on a pre-flight inspection of the F-15D Blackwood will be flying. The 'Voice of Aggieland, Texas 60-man choir performed a free concert for the East Anglian American Military Community. As a recruiting initiative aimed at stateside audiences, base officials, with the approval of higher headquarters, offered an F-15 incentive flight to one student. Eric's teachers chose him out of the 72 members. He received a flight physical; egress training and a full mission briefing ...

US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Patrick O'Connor, Crewchief, 52nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (AMXS), communicates with an A-10 Thunderbolt II pilot through a cable connection at Spangdahlem Air Base (AB), Germany

US Air Force STAFF Sergeant Strong a crewmember on an MH-53 Pave Low Helicopter from the 100th Special Operations Group, Royal Air Force Mildenhall, United Kingdom, looks for possible missed aircraft pieces through the crew door of the aircraft. The crash site of the two F-15C fighter aircraft belonging to the 493rd Fighter Squadron based out of RAF Lakenheath, UK was found in the Scottish Highlands

Eric Domagalski, a member of the Texas A&M University male cadet choir gives a thumbs up. The pilot of the F-15D Eagle aircraft is US Air Force Captain Connor Blackwood, an F-15 pilot from the 493rd Fighter Squadron, 48th Fighter Wing, RAF Lakenheath, United Kingdom. As a recruiting initiative aimed at stateside audiences, base officials, with the approval of higher headquarters, offered an F-15 incentive flight to one student. Eric's teachers chose him out of the 72 members. He received a flight physical, egress training and a full mission briefing before the afternoon take off

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