Here's the official caption from the AF website.

OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM -- Ground crew members wave at a B-52H
Stratofortress bomber as it taxis for take off on a strike mission against
al Qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban
regime in Afghanistan on Oct. 7, 2001, during Operation Enduring Freedom.
The carefully targeted actions are designed to disrupt the use of
Afghanistan as a base for terrorist operations and to attack the military
capability of the Taliban regime. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman
Rebeca M.

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Netko wrote:

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I like this one: the first BUFF to take it to the Talibans after 9/11.
Notice the firemen crew.