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US Air Force (USAF) Airmen assigned to the 332nd Expeditionary Civil Engineering Squadron (ECES), install M-2 aircraft runway matting during the construction of an outdoor basketball court at Tallil Air Base, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Air Force (USAF) Airmen assigned to the 332nd Expeditionary Civil Engineering Squadron (ECES), install M-2 aircraft runway matting during the construction of an outdoor basketball court at Tallil Air Base, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Edward Bentler, assigned to the 321st Expeditionary Civil Engineering Squadrons (ECES) Structures Team, helps to tighten a tent fly rope to a ground stake, while deployed at Masirah Air Base (AB), Oman, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Air Force (USAF) Airmen assigned to the 114th Civil Engineering Squadron (CES), build flooring for the dinning facility under construction at Tallil Air Base (AB), Iraq during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Air Force (USAF) Airmen assigned to the 114th Civil Engineering Squadron (CES), build flooring for the dinning facility under construction at Tallil Air Base (AB), Iraq during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Air Force (USAF) Airmen assigned to the 407th Expeditionary Services Squadron (ESVS) assemble Tent, Extended, Modular, Personnel (TEMPER) tents that will become the dinning facility at Tallil Air Base (AB), Iraq during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Air Force (USAF) Members of the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW), conduct a walk to pick up potential Foreign Object Damage (FOD) items along the flightline on Tallil Air Base (AB), Iraq (IRQ) during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

A US Air Force (USAF) Pararescueman from the 304th Rescue Squadron (RQS) lands following a parachute jump at Tallil Air Base, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Julianna Butler, Air Traffic Controller (ATC), 332nd Expeditionary Air Control Squadron (EACS), in communication with aircraft from the control tower at Balad Air Base (AB), Iraq, helping control airflow coming in an out of the base during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Air Force (USAF) Airmen assigned to the 332nd Expeditionary Civil Engineering Squadron (ECES), install M-2 aircraft runway matting during the construction of an outdoor basketball court at Tallil Air Base, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

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Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM

Base: Tallil Air Base

State: Dhi Qar

Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Kenneth Velez, 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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label_outline Explore Msgt Kenneth Velez, Basketball Court, Expeditionary Civil

US Navy Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 40, embarked onboard the Military Sealift Command Hospital Ship USNS MERCY (T-AH 19), clean the ground before building a basketball court at a local school during a community relations project at Tarakan, Indonesia. The MERCY is currently off the coast to provide humanitarian and civic assistance to the people of this coastal city. The ship is in its third month of a scheduled five-month deployment to host nations in the Pacific Islands, and South and Southeast Asia. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication SPECIALIST SEAMAN Ryan Clement) (Released)

Maj. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, Combined Joint Task

US Air Force (USAF) AIRMAN First Class (AIC) Joseph Gibbon, Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) / Refrigeration Technician, 438th Expeditionary Civil Engineering Flight (ECEF), uses a cordless power drill to install the backing plate of an air conditioning control unit, while deployed at a forward location supporting Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

US Air Force (USAF) 447th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron (ECES) disassembles the 447th Expeditionary Services Squadron (ESS) clamshell tent recreation center at Baghdad International Airport (BIA), Iraq (IRQ), in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

Left to right, are US Army (USA) SPECIALIST (SPC) Abe Caceres, SPC Steven Stocking and Sergeant (SGT) Michael Grabski, all with the 2/503rd Battalion, patrol an area litered with abandoned munitions in a local village near Kirkuk Air Base (AB), Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Air Force (USAF) Technical Sergeant (TSGT) Ray Ashey, Non-Commissioned Officer In Charge (NCOIC), Finance Office, 407th Air Expeditionary Group (AEG), Tallil Air Base (AB), Iraq, charges his 9 mm M9 Pistol prior to departing his office to pay local national personnel during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

As an exercise, US Air Force (USAF) Firefighters of the 506th Expeditionary Civil Engineering Squadron (ECES) lift the pilot out of a US Army (USA) H-60 Black Hawk helicopter at Kirkuk Air Base (AB), Iraq (IRQ). The firefighters are participating in an exercise to familiarize themselves with emergency procedures for the Black Hawk helicopter during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

Local Iraqi citizens gather in the streets to rejoice as US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines assigned to E/Company, Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Special Operations Capable (SOC), as USMC personnel secure the town of Qalat Sukkar, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

Henry Rollins, Actor and Musician, signs a guitar at a base dining facility for avid fan US Air Force (USAF) AIRMAN First Class (A1C) Catherine Shultz, Civil Engineer Readiness Troop, 379th Expeditionary Civil Engineering Squadron (ECES). Mr. Rollins is one of the many celebrities donating their time and effort to the United Services Organization (USO)/Armed Forces Entertainment tour in support of deployed US military troops

Members of the 380th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron

US Navy (USN) Command MASTER CHIEF (CNOCM) of US Navy Forces Iraq, Pat Flavin (center) poses in a group photograph with USN Sailors assigned to the maintenance section of Patrol Squadron 9 (VP-9), Iraq Detachment Bravo, during a visit to Tallil Air Base (AB), Iraq. CNOMC Flavin is on a tour of bases throughout Iraq to touch base with Navy Commands and individual Augmentees assigned to multi-national and joint service commands in Iraq. VP-9 is currently on deployment conducting reconnaissance and maritime patrol operations supporting Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines assigned to Task Force (TF) Tarawa distribute donated food supplies to local Iraqi citizens in the town of An Nasariyah, Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

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