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    Operation Colony Glacier 2024 [Image 15 of 21]

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    Operation Colony Glacier 2024

    JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, ALASKA, UNITED STATES

    07.31.2024

    Photo by Tech. Sgt. Donald Hudson  

    Alaskan NORAD Region/Alaskan Command/11th Air Force

    U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Christopher Wand, 2nd infantry Brigade Combat Team, 11th Airborne Division, Glacier Mountaineering team non-commissioned officer in charge and pathfinder, belays for his teammate searching inside a crevasse at the recovery site at Colony Glacier, Alaska, July 31, 2024. Ward and other recovery team members are required to attend mountaineer training to prepare them for supporting the mission. Operation Colony Glacier is an effort to recover the remains of service members and wreckage from a C-124 Globemaster II that crashed in November 1952 with 52 military members on board. As of May 2024, 47 of the 52 service members have been identified. Following the inventory of items found, an honorable carry and honorable departure for the remains is conducted by the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Honor Guard and 673rd Medical Group personnel before being escorted to Dover Air Force Base, Delaware. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Don Hudson)

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    Date Taken: 07.31.2024
    Date Posted: 08.14.2024 14:05
    Photo ID: 8589509
    VIRIN: 240731-F-EZ530-1012
    Resolution: 5497x3657
    Size: 12.19 MB
    Location: JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, ALASKA, US

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