Next Stop...Paradise
Master Sgt. Curtis Stark, the 7th Expeditionary Airborne Command and Control Squadron superintendent, conducts a pre-flight inspection in the cockpit of an E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System aircraft at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Nov. 14. Stark has deployed 17 times with JSTARS aircraft in support of contingency operations and has accumulated more than 4,000 combat flying hours. After nearly 30 years of service he plans to retire from the Air Force in March. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. James Hodgman)