An E-3 AWACS aircraft refuels over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Ecuador prior to patrolling the skies over South America, July 2005

Не все E-3 ВВС США используются для выполнения военных задач, данная машина, например, привлекается к борьбе с наркотрафиком.
Personnel board an E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control system aircraft, which then flies a counter-narcotic surveillance mission over the eastern Pacific Ocean on August 1, 2007.

The USAF's E-3 latest deployment to Curacao in June 2020

An aerial shot of the Cooperative Security Location Aruba-Curacao, taken in September 2019