Iraq Operations

 

 

Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth -    As Spring 2003 approaches and the World attempts to resolve many a crisis, Hookers prepare to enter Iraq... - Again...

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Somewhere in the Gulf Region, a pair of RAF Chinooks conduct exercises with troops of 16 Air Assault Brigade.

 

 

 

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Above, during Operation TELIC -- military contingency preparations related to Iraq -- pilots of 18(B) Chinook squadron from RAF Odiham land onboard HMS Ark Royal during flight deck landing practice on 27 February 2003.

 

 

 

An undated handout image released by the British Ministry of Defence on Sunday, 2 March 2003, of a Chinook helicopter kicking up a cloud of dust and debris while on duty in the Middle East (exact location not disclosed - hmmm, wonder where that could be...).

 

 

 

An RAF HC Mark II Chinook transport helicopter carries a bulldozer in the Kuwaiti desert on Monday, 3 March 2003.

 

 

 

A group of British marines move into a Chinook helicopter during a drill in the Kuwaiti desert near Iraq's border on 3 March 2003. The United Nations said on Monday that Iraq would submit a new report on VX nerve gas and anthrax stocks in a week's time as part of a drive to avert a possible U.S.-led invasion.

 

 

 

A British Chinook transport helicopter carries equipment near Camp Blair-Mayne in the desert of northern Kuwait on Monday, 3 March 2003. British forces continue to mass in the Kuwaiti desert in preparation for possible conflict with Iraq.

 

 

 

A British Chinook helicopter transports a vehicle somewhere in the Gulf in this Royal Air Force (RAF) handout photo taken on 26 February 2003 and released on Wednesday, 5 March 2003. Defense officials and analysts said on Wednesday many British troops massing in Kuwait are close to operational readiness with most hardware having already arrived in the theatre.

 

 

 

Above, Army and Air Force personnel utilize their brute strength to load two CH-47D Chinook helicopters onto a C-5A Galaxy at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, on Friday, 7 March 2003. Army personnel from Detachment 1, Bravo Company, 5th Battalion, 159th Aviation Regiment, located at Fort Eustis, Virginia,

are deploying to an undisclosed location in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.    In a ceremony held earlier in 2003, the "Freighttrain" unit callsign, of Vietnam era fame, was resurrected after many years and conferred upon Bravo Company by surviving members of the 243rd Assault Support Helicopter Company (ASHC) to provide unit distinction and to carry on the proud name of the Freighttrains.

 

 

 

Members of Charlie and Delta Company of 40 Commando British Royal Marines board a Chinook helicopter of 18 Squadron, British Royal Air Force, at an undisclosed location, in this picture released by the British Royal Navy, on Monday, 10 March 2003, for their onward transit to HMS Ark Royal during training operations for possible action against Iraq.

 

 

 

A handout image issued on 11 March 2003 shows British Royal Air Force troops from 51 Squadron preparing to board a Puma helicopter as a Chinook takes off during a simulated air assault exercise as part of Operation Telic in Kuwait.

 

 

 

Outside Kuwait City, British soldiers of 51 Squadron, Royal Air Force, look at an RAF HC Mark II Chinook of the Joint Helicopter Command as it lifts a Land Rover vehicle and its trailer during a practice air assault operation designed to capture an enemy airfield in the desert on Tuesday, 11 March 2003.

 

 

 

Outside Kuwait City, a British soldier of 51 Squadron, Royal Air Force, runs past an RAF Chinook helicopter during a practice air assault operation designed to capture enemy airfields on Tuesday March 11, 2003.

 

 

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