US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Salamasina Nickel, an Air Traffic Controller assigned to the 332nd Air Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron (AEOSS) gives clearance for traffic crossing a taxiway, from the Control Tower, while deployed at Balad Air Base (AB), Iraq, during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Balad Air Base
Country: Iraq (IRQ)
Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Keith Brown, 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
28/04/2004
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