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UH-60 Black Hawk support helicopters arrive at Rinas Airport, Tirana, Albania, in support of NATO Operation Allied Force. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld uses the 1999 operation as a prime example why standing joint task force headquarters are needed in the future. When the 60-day air war over Yugoslavia ended, the ad hoc headquarters formed to coordinate it had filled only 80 percent of its necessary slots. Photo by Tech. Sgt. Cesar Rodriguez, USAF.

UH-60 Black Hawk support helicopters arrive at Rinas Airport, Tirana, Albania, in support of NATO Operation Allied Force. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld uses the 1999 operation as a prime example why standing joint task force headquarters are needed in the future. When the 60-day air war over Yugoslavia ended, the ad hoc headquarters formed to coordinate it had filled only 80 percent of its necessary slots. Photo by Tech. Sgt. Cesar Rodriguez, USAF.

UH-60 Black Hawk support helicopters arrive at Rinas Airport, Tirana, Albania, in support of NATO Operation Allied Force. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld uses the 1999 operation as a prime example why standing joint task force headquarters are needed in the future. When the 60-day air war over Yugoslavia ended, the ad hoc headquarters formed to coordinate it had filled only 80 percent of its necessary slots. Photo by Tech. Sgt. Cesar Rodriguez, USAF.

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