ARCHIVE: Joint Task Force-Bravo loads CH-47 for Hurricane Melissa relief in Jamaica (Nov. 2025)

U.S. service members in camouflage uniforms walk across an airport apron in a line toward a CH-47 Chinook helicopter with its rotors turning, under a blue sky with white clouds and green hills in the distance. — U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Alexander Merchak, Joint Task Force-Bravo · Public domain (U.S. Air Force photo)

Photo taken Nov. 11, 2025 and released by the U.S. Air Force through DVIDS. The Air Force says it shows U.S. service members with Joint Task Force-Bravo loading shelter supplies onto a CH-47 Chinook of the 1st Battalion, 228th Aviation Regiment at Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston, Jamaica, deployed at the direction of U.S. Southern Command to provide lifesaving assistance after Hurricane Melissa. The same task force is flying relief missions after Panama's Oct. 9, 2026 earthquake.

What: ARCHIVE: Joint Task Force-Bravo loads CH-47 for Hurricane Melissa relief in Jamaica (Nov. 2025)
Where: Norman Manley International Airport, Kingston
When: Nov 11, 2025
Who: U.S. Air Force, Joint Task Force-Bravo (via DVIDS)
Status: Official release
Warning: Content warning: None. Service members loading relief supplies at an airport; no one harmed. Graphic level: none.

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U.S. Air Force, Joint Task Force-Bravo (via DVIDS) · DVIDS image 9383147: Joint Task Force-Bravo Load Shelter Supplies into CH-47 Chinook

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Captured 11 November 2025. Time captured: not stated. Releasing authority: U.S. Air Force, Joint Task Force-Bravo (via DVIDS). Location: Norman Manley International Airport, Kingston.

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Credit: U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Alexander Merchak, Joint Task Force-Bravo. License: Public domain (U.S. Air Force photo).

Archive · 11 November 2025