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During a space debris retrieval mission in August, 2011, veteran airlift crew members from March Air Reserve Base, Calif., said Mongolia seemed much unchanged since the military's first flight into the country in 1991. Here a village sits on a hill overlooking the Chinngis Khaan International Airport in Mongolia, Aug. 26, 2011. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Linda Welz) A Mongolian village sits on a hill overlooking the airport where the March C-17 picked up the rocket debris.


MONGOLIA SPACE DEBRIS MISSION

During a space debris retrieval mission in August, 2011, veteran airlift crew members from March Air Reserve Base, Calif., said Mongolia seemed much unchanged since the military's first flight into the country in 1991. Here a village sits on a hill overlooking the Chinngis Khaan International Airport in Mongolia, Aug. 26, 2011. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Linda Welz) A Mongolian village sits on a hill overlooking the airport where the March C-17 picked up the rocket debris.

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The 163rd Reconnaissance Wing participated in the Grizzly Field Exercise, July 25. During spin-up of the exercise, the intensity of focus was easily observed in the Predator Operations Center (POC) at March Air Reserve Base Calif., as members of the 163d RW hovered over computer monitors and flight plans in final preparation for GFX 12. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Neil S. Ballecer)
During Grizzly Field Exercise 2012, the 163rd Reconnaissance Wing engaged with its primary platform, the MQ-1 Predator, and was tasked with providing full motion video to the State Joint Operations Center, 234th Intelligence Squadron, Nongovernmental agencies, Northern Command, and the 601st Air Operations Center in support of a search and rescue mission for possible survivors. The exercise was a proof of concept for domestic operations in assisting with disaster response. The joint exercise marked a pivotal turning point for cross agency involvement with the Army National Guard, State Military Reserve, and civilian agencies. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Neil S. Ballecer)
Pictured above from the 163rd Reconnaissance Wing are Maj. John Jimenez (left), pilot, Tech. Sgt. Chad Jones (right), sensor operator and Senior Airman Caley Sender (far right), mission coordinator. The 163d RW participated in Ardent Sentry Exercise 2012 as a receiver unit of an MQ-1 Predatory assigned to the 147th RW from Fort Polk, La. on May 7. (U.S. Air Force photo by Val Gempis)
The 163d Reconnaissance Wing of the California Air National Guard opened a new hangar today for the MQ-1 Predator at Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville, Calif., June 15, 2012. Maj. Gen. David S. Baldwin, the adjutant general of the California Military Department, and Col. Randall Ball, commander of the 163d RW, conducted the honor of cutting the ribbon, officially opening the Wing’s Formal Training Unit hangar (FTU) as several communnity members were attendance. (Air National Guard Photo by Master Sgt. Julie Avey)
Senior Airman Jaron Buchanan, left, Staff Sgt. Daniel Stephens, Staff Sgt. John Zimmerman, and Senior Airman Michael Antonson of the Blue Eagle’s Total Force Honor Guard, perform during the 163d Reconnaissance Wing’s new hangar ribbon cutting ceremony at the Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville, Calif., June 15, 2012. The 163d RW celebrated the official opening of the MQ-1 Predator hangar with several community members in attendance. (Air National Guard Photo by Master Sgt. Julie Avey)
The 163d Reconnaissance Wing celebrates the official opening of its new Formal Training Unit hangar (FTU) with a ribbon cutting ceremony at Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville, June 15, 2012. The new facility is 17,500 sq. ft. and will support the 163d Reconnaissance Wing's Formal Training Unit, which trains the Air Force's remotely piloted aircraft crews. Predators can be launched from the hangar and controls transferred via satellite to student pilots at March Field. (Air National Guard Photo by Master Sgt. Julie Avey)
Eleven Airmen from March traveled to the NATO Days air show in Ostrava, Czech Republic at the end of September 2011 to display a KC-135 Stratotanker. “The Czech Republic made us feel welcome, were great hosts and seemed very excited to have both a B-52 and a KC-135 at their air show,” said Tech. Sgt. Patrick Martin, a boom operator with the 912th Air Refueling Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Jeff Walston)
Staff Sgt. Erin Casillas and Tech. Sgt. Jaime Hase from the 452nd Maintenance Squadron at March Air Reserve Base, Calif., put the final touches on nose art they applied to a March KC-135 Stratotanker Dec. 12, 2011. U.S. Air Force photo by Megan Crusher
On Aug. 30, 2011, Dan Reichel, ManTech SRS Technologies, presented a poster of the a satellite launch seven years ago to the March Air Reserve Base crew who retrieved its expended rocket parts. Reichel traveled from Coca Beach, Fla., to Los Angeles International Airport to identify the space debris the crew delivered from Mongolia as Air Force property. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Linda Welz)
Air Force reservists hoist a 480-pound rocket part into a C-17 Globemaster III, Aug. 26, 2011. The aircraft was in Mongolia from the 729th Airlift Squadron at March Air Reserve Base, Calif., to retrieve fallen space debris. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Linda Welz)
Tech. Sgt. Ronald Dunn, 729th Airlift Squadron loadmaster, guides a Mongolian driver who is backing the truck toward an Air Force Reserve C-17 Globemaster III in Mongolia, Aug. 26. Dunn was part of a crew from March Air Reserve Base, Calif., who were assigned to a mission to retrieve space debris that fell to earth last summer. The parts were identified as expended rocket parts from an Air Force missile launched into space nearly a decade ago. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Linda Welz)