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A US Air Force C-130 Hercules, from the 86th Air Wing, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, gets ready to launch from Aviano Air Base, Italy. The C-130 is deployed to Aviano in support of VENETO RESCUE 2000. Veneto Rescue is a simulated non-combatant evacuation operation (NEO) that simulates the extraction of American citizens and designated third-country nationals from a fictitious, politically troubled country

A US Air Force C-130 Hercules, from the 86th Air Wing, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, gets ready to launch from Aviano Air Base, Italy. The C-130 is deployed to Aviano in support of VENETO RESCUE 2000. Veneto Rescue is a simulated non-combatant evacuation operation (NEO) that simulates the extraction of American citizens and designated third-country nationals from a fictitious, politically troubled country

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Subject Operation/Series: VENETO RESCUE

Base: Aviano Air Base

State: Pordenone

Country: Italy (ITA)

Scene Camera Operator: SRA Delia A. Castillo, USAF

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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Date

06/06/2000

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The U.S. National Archives

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