Members of A Company, 1-508th Airborne Infantry Battalion, deployed from Camp Elderly, Italy, exit a C-47 Chinook helicopter near Osoppo, Italy, where they will aid in the extraction of American and Italian non-combatants from the American embassy in the exercise country "Anglia" in support of the multinational training exercise VENETO RESCUE '01, in northeast Italy and Slovenia. Veneto Rescue is an exercise that helps to train military units to conduct the safe evacuation of non-combatant civilians and other designated evacuates from a country or a region that has the potential for hostilities or danger. This type of operation is known as a non-combatant evacuation operation or NEO. This...

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[Complete] Scene Caption: Members of A Company, 1-508th Airborne Infantry Battalion, deployed from Camp Elderly, Italy, exit a C-47 Chinook helicopter near Osoppo, Italy, where they will aid in the extraction of American and Italian non-combatants from the American embassy in the exercise country "Anglia" in support of the multinational training exercise VENETO RESCUE '01, in northeast Italy and Slovenia. Veneto Rescue is an exercise that helps to train military units to conduct the safe evacuation of non-combatant civilians and other designated evacuates from a country or a region that has the potential for hostilities or danger. This type of operation is known as a non-combatant evacuation operation or NEO. This exercise involves over 34 aircraft and 1,100 participants from military units with the US Army and Air Forces in Europe, the Italian Army, and the Slovenian Armed Forces.

Subject Operation/Series: VENETO RESCUE '01

Base: Aviano Air Base

State: Pordenone

Country: Italy (ITA)

Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Jeremiah Erickson, USAF

Release Status: Released to Public
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