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German aircrew with their Bell UH-1B Huey helicopter, Air Transport Squadron 62/CSAR Germany, check out the terrain during a familiarization flight over the Alamogordo bombing range before the start of ROVING SANDS '97. ROVING SANDS is a multinational effort and is the largest military exercise on United States soil that allows training in a joint environment to hone command and control procedures and integrate new systems in Theater and Air Missile Defense

German aircrew with their Bell UH-1B Huey helicopter, Air Transport Squadron 62/CSAR Germany, check out the terrain during a familiarization flight over the Alamogordo bombing range before the start of ROVING SANDS '97. ROVING SANDS is a multinational effort and is the largest military exercise on United States soil that allows training in a joint environment to hone command and control procedures and integrate new systems in Theater and Air Missile Defense

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Subject Operation/Series: ROVING SANDS

Base: Alamogordo Bombing Range

State: New Mexico (NM)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Cedric H. Rudisill, USAF

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

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Date

18/04/1997

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The U.S. National Archives

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