US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Julianna Butler, Air Traffic Controller (ATC), 332nd Expeditionary Air Control Squadron (EACS), in communication with aircraft from the control tower at Balad Air Base (AB), Iraq, helping control airflow coming in an out of the base during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM
Base: Balad Air Base
Country: Iraq (IRQ)
Scene Major Command Shown: N/A
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Ricky A. Bloom, 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
08/03/2004
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