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A view of the Texas 17 air control tower as seen from one of the fighting positions dug by US Marine engineers with 2d Combat Engineer Battalion, Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) at Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

The Al Quaeda/Taliban detainment camp as seen, with the guard tower prominent, from one of the fighting positions dug by US Marine engineers with 2d Combat Engineer Battalion, Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) at Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

US Air Force Special Tactics Squadron airmen man the control tower, code named "Texas 17," overlooking the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

A view of the Al-Qaida/Taliban detainment tent area facility built by Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), as seen from the air traffic control tower at the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

A frontal view of the terminal roof line and air control tower at the Khandahar International Airport, Khandahar, Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom. "Texas 17" the Marine call sign for the base is painted on the side of the control tower. During OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

A view of the Al Quaeda/Taliban detainment facility build by US Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), as seen from the air control tower at the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan

A view of the Al-Qaida/Taliban detainment facility built by Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), as seen from the air traffic control tower at the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

A view of one of fighting positions dug by Marine engineers with 2d Combat Engineer Battalion, Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) at Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM. A Freightliner All Terrain Tow Vehicle (ATTV) in use in the background

The Texas 17 air control tower, with American flags flying, as seen through the broken glass of the the passenger terminal at Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

A view of the Texas 17 air control tower, left, and the Al Quaeda/Taliban detainment camp as seen from one of the fighting positions dug by US Marine engineers with 2d Combat Engineer Battalion, Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) at Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

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Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM

Base: Kandahar International Airport

Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

Scene Major Command Shown: 26 MEU

Scene Camera Operator: CAPT Charles G. Grow

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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18/01/2002
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label_outline Explore Al Quaeda, Air Control Tower, Detainment

U.S. Navy Seabees, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5, and U.S. Marine engineers from the 9th Engineer Support Battalion, move a tree stump at Don Joaquin Artuz Memorial Elementary School during Balikatan 2015.

Combat engineers with Regimental Engineer Squadron,

A U.S. service member with Special Operations Task

Aboard USS Fort McHenry (LSD 43)

Inside the well deck onboard the US Navy (USN) Amphibious Assault Ship USS NASSAU (LAH-4), USN and US Marine Corps (USMC) personnel assigned to Tank Platoon, Battalion Landing Team (BLT), 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Special Operations Capable (SOC), watch as USMC M1A1 Main Battle Tanks (MBT) are loaded onto a Landing Craft Utility (LCU) craft, during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. (Substandard image)

Boatswain's Mate 3rd Class Darnisha J. Siler prepares

Maxwell AFB, Ala. - On going construction on the air

A Marine from 1ST Combat Engineer Battalion, 1ST Marine Division, inserts a blasting cap in a stick of C-4 explosives prior to the amphibious assault on Red Beach

Aerial view of buildings with recently replaced roofs. In the center is the first control tower building

Marines from Golf Company, Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines (BLT 2/2), 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) (MEU SOC) race ashore in a Combat Rubber Reconnaissance Craft (CRRC) to secure the beach landing site for "Exercise EDGED MALLET 2003" in Manda Bay, Kenya

Members of the Anti-Taliban Forces (ATF) eat lunch at an observation post site where US Marines were dispatched to destroy unexploded munitions dropped by coalition air sorties near the Kandahar International Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan, during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

US Air Force Technical Sergeant James Keiffer (top, pointing) and USAF SENIOR AIRMAN Ray Fought, 235th Air Traffic Control Flight use a Hungarian/English translation book to make conversation with a group of Hungarian soldiers. Air Traffic Controllers from the 60th Operations Support Squadron (OSS), Travis Air Force Base, California, and the 30th OSS, McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, work alongside Hungarian controllers in the air traffic control tower at Taszar Air Force Base, Hungary

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