SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Jerry Achan, USAF, 12th Security Forces Squadron (SFS), mans a machine gun nest with a FNMI 5.56 mm M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW), to provide backup protection for a gate at Randolph AFB, Texas. Armed with a 5.56 mm M16A1 rifle a 12th Security Forces Squadron (SFS) member conducts a 100 percent ID check at Randolph AFB, Texas, as part of heightened security measures. Heighten security at Randolph AFB began shortly after terrorists hijacked commercial jetliners and crashing them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Randolph Air Force Base
State: Texas (TX)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: David L. Terry, CIV, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
26/09/2001
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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