US Army (USA) Sergeant First Class (SFC) Adrian Jenkins (back, prone), Paratrooper, Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC), 1ST Battalion (BN), 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment (1/505th), 82nd Airborne Division (ABN), lies prone in a defensive position after exiting a UH-60 Black Hawk (Blackhawk) utility helicopter while participating in a 14-day field training exercise at the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC), Fort Polk, Louisiana (LA), in preparation for his units deployment to Iraq in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Fort Polk
State: Louisiana (LA)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Cherie Thurlby, 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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12/04/2006
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