AFMAO embodies “No Airman left behind” - Operation Colony Glacier 2025

Carlos Colon, Armed Forces Medical Examiner System medicolegal death investigator, and U.S. Air Force Capt. Travis Lockwood, Operation Colony Glacier ground forces commander and recovery team lead, looks at a piece of remains from a C-124 Globemaster crash from 1952 on Colony Glacier, Alaska, June 17, 2025. The C-124 crashed into Mount Gannett, less than 40 miles from what is now Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. Close to 60 years later, on June 10, 2012, an Alaska National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crew on a training mission noticed some wreckage on Colony Glacier. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Madeline Baisey)

PHOTO BY: Senior Airman Madeline Baisey
VIRIN: 250617-F-PX896-1254.JPG
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NIKON Z 8

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NIKKOR Z 24-70mm f/2.8 S

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45/10

SHUTTERSPEED

1/250

ISO

64

IMAGE IS PUBLIC DOMAIN

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