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Naval MH-53 Helicopter crew chiefs from HC4 Black Stallions, Sigonella Naval Air Station, Sicily and Army soldiers from A Company, 1-508th Airborne Infantry Battalion escort American civilians and foreign national non-combatants to a MH-53 Helicopter. They are being evacuated from the exercise country "Anglia" during 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 ...

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Naval MH-53 Helicopter crew chiefs from HC4 Black Stallions, Sigonella Naval Air Station, Sicily and Army soldiers from A Company, 1-508th Airborne Infantry Battalion escort American civilians and foreign national non-combatants to a MH-53 Helicopter. They are being evacuated from the exercise country "Anglia" during 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 ...

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[Complete] Scene Caption: Naval MH-53 Helicopter crew chiefs from HC4 Black Stallions, Sigonella Naval Air Station, Sicily and Army soldiers from A Company, 1-508th Airborne Infantry Battalion escort American civilians and foreign national non-combatants to a MH-53 Helicopter. They are being evacuated from the exercise country "Anglia" during 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. (Released)USAF photo by: SSgt Jeremiah Erickson.

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
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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05/06/2001
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