Two F-16 Fighting Falcons from the 188th Fighter Squadron, 150th Fighter Wing, New Mexico Air National Guard, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, wait to take off on a mission during ROVING SANDS '97 as a Southwest Airlines passenger jet taxis across the active runway. ROVING SANDS is a multinational effort and is the largest military exercise on United States soil that allows training in a joint environment to hone command and control procedures and integrate new systems in Theater and Air Missile Defense
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: ROVING SANDS
State: Texas (TX)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: SRA Chris Steffen, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Fighter planes and military aircrafts.
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Date
21/04/1997
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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