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Airman 1st Class Jeremy Meyers conducts a thorough flight inspection on an F-16 Fighting Falcon at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, Sept. 12. A thorough flight inspection allows maintainers to thoroughly prepare an aircraft for its next mission within a few hours. Meyers, an F-16 tactical aircraft maintenance apprentice with the 332nd Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron here, is deployed from Hill Air Force Base, Utah. His hometown is Spokane, Wash. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Erik Gudmundson)
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Combat metals keeps Hercs flying
SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Senior Airman Timothy Jeffers, 386th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron Combat Metals section, welds pieces of a fuel probe mounting bracket together for a C-130 Hercules on Sep. 17 at an air base in Southwest Asia. The Combat Metals shop performs aircraft sheet metal fabrication, structural repairs and modifications for aircraft. Airman Jeffers is deployed from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Raheem Moore)
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3 deployed Airmen, 200-plus weapons: 1 secure wing
SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Three members of the 380th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron here swapped out the last of 235 hand guards on the unit's cache of M-4 carbines Wednesday.
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Loading cargo
Staff Sgt. Dane Amos, loadmaster assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, marshals rolling stock onto a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft Sept. 18, 2008. Sergeant Amos ensures cargo is placed on the aircraft in such a way as to prevent overloading sensitive sections of the airframe and cargo floor. The loadmaster may physically load the aircraft, but primarily supervises loading crews and procedures. Sergeant Amos is a native of Bend, Ore., and is deployed from Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., in support of Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom and Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Michael Boquette/Released)
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Air Force band Yuma and Kyrgyz share culture through music
MANAS AIR BASE, KYRGYZ REPUBLIC -- The United States Air Force Band Yuma, also known in the U.S. as Max Impact, played ten concerts in the Kyrgyz Republic during an eight-day tour Sept. 4-11.
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Secretary of Defense visits 455th AEW
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan -- Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates visits with Airmen here September 17, 2008. Secretary Gates met primarily with the Airmen who fly and maintain the A-10 Thunderbolt II, one of the oldest airframes at Bagram, but still the most effective for close air support missions. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Samuel Morse)
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Bees get economy 'buzzing' in Bazarak District
PANJSHIR PROVINCE, Afghanistan -- One Hundred fifty bee boxes were delivered to Bazarak District Sept. 17 as part of an overall $180,000 province-wide project to help both the local economy and boost agricultural production.
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