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Airmen from the 621st Contingency Response Wing at McGuire AFB, N.J. assist aircrew personnel in offloading a Presidential Limousine from a C-17 GLobemaster at Kotoka International Airport July 8, 2009, at Accra, Ghana. The Airmen were among more than 150 Airmen, Sailors and Marines in Ghana and Sailors aboard the USS Iwo Jima who make up a task force supporting President Obama�s visit July 10 and 11.
The mission is being conducted by 17th Air Force, also known as Air Forces Africa, at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Seventeenth Air Force is the air component for U.S. Africa Command. The task force is providing aerial port and aircraft maintenance teams, along with forward communications, early warning and air domain safety and security elements to support the President�s visit, his first to the African continent since taking office in January. In addition to supporting the visit, members are working with their Ghanaian counterparts to strengthen the partnership between the two nations. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jerry Fleshman)
Staff Sgt. Jerry Fleshman
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