Lurking in the shadows
Senior Airman Fred Cruz communicates with his unit using a land mobile radio at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, Sept. 24. Airman Cruz is an aerospace ground equipment journeyman with the 332nd Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron and deployed from Shaw Air Force Base, S.C. His hometown is Sonora, Calif. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Jason Epley)