UAVs return from successful missions
Airman 1st Class Gale Passe disarms a GBU-12 laser-guided munition attached to an MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, Nov. 10. The Reaper can carry up to 3,750 pounds of ordnance, including GBU-12s and hellfire missiles. Airman Passe, an aircraft armament systems journeyman with the 332nd Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, is deployed from Creech Air Force Base, Nev. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Erik Gudmundson)