US Air Force (USAF) Technical Sergeant (TSGT) Samuel Arbuckle (right), USAF STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Barry Demby (center) and USAF SSGT Barry Webster (left), firefighters with the 506th Expeditionary Civil Engineering Squadron (CES), observe US Army (USA) Warrant Officer (WO1) Jayson Ayres, Pilot, simulate shutting down the engines on a USA H-60 Black Hawk helicopter at Kirkuk Air Base (AB), Iraq (IRQ). The firefighters are participating in an exercise to familiarize themselves with emergency procedures for the Black Hawk helicopter during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Kirkuk Air Base
Country: Iraq (IRQ)
Scene Major Command Shown: CENTAF
Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Robert Wieland, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Iraq War aka Operation IRAQI FREEDOM was the 2003 invasion of Iraq, led by U.S. Army General Tommy Franks, under the code-name "Operation Iraqi Freedom". 248,000 soldiers from the United States, 45,000 British soldiers, 2,000 Australian soldiers and 194 Polish soldiers from Special Forces unit GROM sent to Kuwait for the invasion. The invasion force was also supported by Iraqi Kurdish militia troops, estimated to number upwards of 70,000.
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Date
17/12/2003
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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