Keeping 'em ready
BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq (AFPN) -- Armament specialist Airman 1st Class Casey Guilmette cleans the mini gun on an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter. The Airman is one of more than 30 64th Expeditionary Helicopter Maintenance Squadron troops that keep helicopters here ready for their around-the-clock combat search and rescue missions, whether they are routine or a matter of life and death. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Pamela Anderson)