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Description	Fairbairn in Canberra, Australia USAF Boeing E-4B Advanced Airborne Command Post ("Nightwatch") and two C-32 passenger transportation aircraft at Royal Australian Air Force support facilities at Fairbairn in Canberra, the national capital of Australia.
Source	self-made
Date	21 February 2008
Author	- Peter Ellis - Talk
Permission (Reusing this image)	See below.

Picture taken at 7.15pm Australian Eastern Daylight Saving time, 21 February 2008, looking into the setting sun under heavy cloud cover.

The three USAF aircraft had brought to Canberra:

E-4B
- Robert Gates, United States Secretary of Defense
- John Negroponte, US Deputy Secretary of State
C-32 (each)
Admiral Michael Mullen, USN, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Admiral Timothy J. Keating, USN, Commander United States Pacific Command

The occasion was the AUSMIN (Australia-US Ministerial) alliance talks, which were headed by Australia's Minister of Defence Joel Fitzgibbon and Minister for Foreign Affairs Stephen Smith. Side talks were held by the US military staffs with their Australian Defence Force counterparts.

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