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A group of 30 U.S. military personnel, including Marines, Airmen, and Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division, board a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal, Oct. 19, 2014. The service members are bound for Monrovia, Liberia, where U.S. troops will construct medical treatment units and train health care workers as part of Operation United Assistance, the U.S. Agency for International Development-led, whole-of-government effort to respond to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Maj. Dale Greer)
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U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Gary J. Volesky (right), commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division, speaks with U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Bruce Bancroft (left) and U.S. Air Force Col. David Mounkes of the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group Oct. 18, 2014, during a tour of the Joint Operations Center for Joint Task Force-Port Opening Senegal at Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal. The JTF-PO is funneling humanitarian supplies and military support into West Africa as part of Operation United Assistance, the U.S. Agency for International Development-led, whole-of-government effort to respond to the Ebola outbreak. Volesky will serve as the new commander of the U.S. military’s Operation United Assistance Joint Forces Command, headquartered in Liberia, where the Department of Defense is sending 3,000 troops to support the mission. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Maj. Dale Greer)
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U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Joseph Fitzpatrick (left), a surgeon assigned to a Forward Resuscitive Surgical System unit, and U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Tony Hayden, an aerial porter from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group, secure cases of red blood cells and frozen plasma to a C-130 cargo pallet at Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal, Oct. 10, 2014, in support of Operation United Assistance. The medical supplies and Fitzpatrick’s unit are bound for Liberia to support Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response AFRICOM. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Maj. Dale Greer)
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U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Meghan Donahue, a member of a fly-away security detail from the 435th Air Expeditionary Wing at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, provides overwatch of a Ramstein C-130 Hercules aircraft as U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Alex Vincent, an aerial porter from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group, prepares to load a pallet of red blood cells and frozen plasma on the aircraft Oct. 10, 2014, at Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal. The Airmen are supporting Operation United Assistance, the U.S. Agency for International Development-led, whole-of-government effort to respond to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Maj. Dale Greer)
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U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Alex Vincent, an aerial porter from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group, drives a pallet of packed red blood cells and frozen plasma to a waiting C-130 Hercules aircraft on the flight line at Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal, Oct. 10, 2014, in support of Operation United Assistance. Vincent and more than 70 other Kentucky Airmen are operating Joint Task Force-Port Opening Senegal to funnel humanitarian supplies and military support into West Africa as part of the U.S. Agency for International Development-led, whole-of-government effort to respond to the Ebola outbreak there. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Maj. Dale Greer)
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Aerial porters from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group load a pallet of red blood cells and frozen plasma onto a C-130 Hercules aircraft from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Oct. 10, 2014, at Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal. The aerial porters are part of Joint Task Force-Port Opening Sengal, an air cargo hub that’s funneling humanitarian supplies and equipment into West Africa in support of Operation United Assistance, the U.S. Agency for International Development-led, whole-of-government effort to respond to the Ebola outbreak there. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Maj. Dale Greer)
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Airmen from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group offload cargo pallets from a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft assigned to the 60th Air Mobility Wing, Travis Air Force Base, Calif., as part of ramp operations at Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal, Oct. 18, 2014, in support of Operation United Assistance. The Airmen are operating an Intermediate Staging Base in Dakar to funnel humanitarian aid and military support cargo into affected areas, working in concert with Soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 689th Rapid Port Opening Element to staff a Joint Task Force-Port Opening as part of the U.S. Agency for International Development-led, whole-of-government effort to respond to the Ebola outbreak. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Maj. Dale Greer)
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U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Michael Skeens, a command post controller for Joint Task Force-Port Opening Senegal, coordinates air movement from a mobile airfield operations center Oct. 18, 2014, at Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal. Skeens and more than 70 other Airmen from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group are operating a cargo hub in Senegal to funnel humanitarian supplies and military support equipment into West Africa as part of Operation United Assistance, the U.S. Agency for International Development-led, whole-of-government effort to respond to the Ebola outbreak. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Maj. Dale Greer)
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U.S. Air Force Col. David Mounkes (right), a Kentucky Air National Guardsman and commander of Joint Task Force-Port Opening Senegal, discusses the unit’s mission with U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Mark D. Harnitchek, director of the Defense Logistics Agency, inside the JTF-PO Joint Operations Center at Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal, Oct. 10, 2104. The JTF-PO, a joint effort between the Kentucky Air Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group and the U.S. Army’s 689th Rapid Port Opening Element, is funneling humanitarian supplies and equipment into West Africa as part of Operation United Assistance, the U.S. Agency for International Development-led, whole-of-government effort to respond to the Ebola outbreak there. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Maj. Dale Greer)
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Airmen from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group remove the transport wheels from a mobile airfield operations center at Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal, Oct. 17, 2014, in support of Operation United Assistance, the U.S. Agency for International Development-led, whole-of-government effort to respond to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The Airmen are operating an Intermediate Staging Base in Dakar to funnel humanitarian aid and military support equipment into affected areas, working in concert with Soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 689th Rapid Port Opening Element to staff a Joint Task Force-Port Opening. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Maj. Dale Greer)
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U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Matthew Hourigan of the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group installs leveling jacks on a mobile airfield operations center at Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal, Oct. 17, 2014, in support of Operation United Assistance, the U.S. Agency for International Development-led, whole-of-government effort to respond to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The Airmen are operating an Intermediate Staging Base in Dakar to funnel humanitarian aid and military support equipment into affected areas, working in concert with Soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 689th Rapid Port Opening Element to staff a Joint Task Force-Port Opening. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Maj. Dale Greer)
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Airmen from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group set up a mobile airfield operations center at Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal, Oct. 17, 2014, in support of Operation United Assistance, the U.S. Agency for International Development-led, whole-of-government effort to respond to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The Airmen are operating an Intermediate Staging Base in Dakar to funnel humanitarian aid into affected areas, working in concert with Soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 689th Rapid Port Opening Element to staff a Joint Task Force-Port Opening. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Maj. Dale Greer)
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U.S. Air Force Col. David Mounkes, a Kentucky Air National Guardsman and commander of Joint Task Force-Port Opening Senegal, discusses the unit’s mission with a delegation representing the U.S. Agency for International Development at Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal, Oct. 16, 2104. The JTF-PO is funneling humanitarian supplies and equipment into West Africa as part of Operation United Assistance, the international effort to fight Ebola. USAID is the lead federal agency coordinating the U.S. government’s multi-agency response. (U.S. Air National Guard photo illustration by Maj. Dale Greer)
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U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Michael Skeens, a command post controller for Joint Task Force-Port Opening Senegal, uses a satellite phone to coordinate air movement Oct. 14, 2014, at Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal. Skeens and more than 70 other Airmen from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group stood up a cargo hub in Senegal Oct. 5 that is funneling humanitarian supplies and military support into West Africa as part of Operation United Assistance, the U.S. Agency for International Development-led, whole-of-government effort to respond to the Ebola outbreak there. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Maj. Dale Greer)