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The US Army (USA) Space and Missile Defense Plan from Huntsville, Alabama (AL), conducted a test with its Rapid Aerostat Initial Deployment System (RAIDS) at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan (AFG), during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. The RAIDS can serve as a weather station, laser range finder, and can also be used to track enemy personnel

US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Christopher Hughes (front) and USAF SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Michael Galang, Bio-Environmental Engineers, 30th Medical Group (MG), use a Narda Probe to perform a radio frequency survey on a radar dish providing satellite telemetry, tracking, and command, of the satellite control network from the Vandenberg Tracking Station, Vandenberg Air Force Base (AFB), California (CA)

A US Air Force (USAF) Booster Verification Test-5 (BVT-5) rocket launches from Space Launch Complex Twenty-One at Vandenberg Air Force Base (AFB), California (CA), at 10:40 AM on January 9, 2004. The USAF BVT-5 tested a three-stage booster configuration for use with the Missile Defense Agencys (MDA) Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system. The GDM is designed to intercept and destroy long-range ballistic missiles

US Air Force (USAF) members of the 1ST Combat Communications Squadron (CTCS), Ramstein Air Base (AB), Germany, assigned to the 457th Air Expeditionary Group (AEG), set up an AN/TPN-25 Precision Approach Radar (PAR) system at a forward-deployed location during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The PAR guides aircraft through low visibility and inclement weather

The 1ST Combat Comm. Squadron, Langley Air Force Base, Virginia has set up an operating site with tents and a satellite dish at Azaraq Air Base, Jordan. The unit will be participating in the upcoming joint United States Air Force/Royal Jordanian Air Force military exercise, Air Power Expeditionary Force operation. An ancillary mission of the Force is to assist US Air Force and other multinational forces operating in Saudi Arabia and other nearby countries patrol the no-fly zone over southern Iraq

US Air Force (USAF) personnel assigned to the 50th Space Wing (SW), Security Forces Squadron (SFS) Schriever Air Force Base (AFB), Colorado (CO), armed with 5.56mm M16A1 rifles equipped with Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) gear sprint for cover during the tactics portion of the security forces competition conducted at Vandenberg Air Force Base (AFB) California (CA), during Exercise GUARDIAN CHALLENGE 2002. Guardian Challenge, a four-day space and missile competition, is hosted annually at Vandenberg AFB, CA to test the wartime readiness of Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) professionals

US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeants (SSGT) George Dollenger (left), and Juan Orozco, 332nd Expeditionary Civil Engineering Squadron (ECES), set up a Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) base station antenna to receive signals from multiple satellites during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. They are collecting data from the satellites to obtain coordinates on Tallil Air Base (AB) to make an accurate map of the base

Workers supervise the off-loading of segments of a Lockheed Martin Atlas II rocket at the Skid Strip at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.; The rocket will be used to launch the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-M (GOES-M), the latest in the current series of advanced geostationary weather satellites in service.; GOES-M is being prepared for launch at the Astrotech Space Operations facility located in the Spaceport Florida Industrial Park in Titusville, Fla. The launch is scheduled for July 15 from Pad 36-A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station KSC-01pp1041

US Air Force (USAF) STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Joseph Wengle, 460th Air Base Wing (ABW), Security Forces Squadron (SFS) Buckley Air Force Base (AFB), Colorado (CO), wears his Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) gear, as he carefully searches for the Opposition Forces (OPFOR) during the Security Forces tactics competition conducted at Vandenberg Air Force Base (AFB) California (CA), during Exercise GUARDIAN CHALLENGE 2002. Guardian Challenge, a four-day space and missile competition, is hosted annually at Vandenberg AFB, CA to test the wartime readiness of Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) professionals

The US Army (USA) Space and Missile Defense Plan from Huntsville, Alabama (AL), conducted a test with its Rapid Aerostat Initial Deployment System (RAIDS) at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan (AFG), during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. The RAIDS can serve as a weather station, laser range finder, and can also be used to track enemy personnel. Contractors are making final adjustments to some of the equipment

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Base: Bagram Airfield

State: Parwan

Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

Scene Camera Operator: SGT Vernell Hall, USA

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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label_outline Explore Sgt Vernell Hall, Weather Station, Finder

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