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A Marine CH-53E helicopter is offloaded from a C5A Galaxy, flown by 68th Airlift Squadron,  at Makadonia Airport near Thessaloniki, Greece on May 18, 2000.  The Helicopter from Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 461 is going to be used to support ground troops partcipating in exercise Dynamic Mix 2000. Dynamic Mix 2000 is an exercise involving 14 NATO countries and involves live fire exercises, command post exercises and cross training between the different countries.The Marines  mission in the exercise is to conduct Maritime Prepositioning Force operations and  participate in scheduled events and cross training in order to support  US objectives in the Southern NATO region. (U.S. Marine Corps. photo by  Staff Sgt. Craig Shell.)
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Copyright Status
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Service Branch
 US Air Force
Primary Equipment
 C-5
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