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EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska -- A KC-135 Stratotanker from Kadena Air Base, Japan, lands here Oct. 7 after an area familiarization flight in preparation for exercise Cope Thunder 06-1. The two-week Alaskan exercise is the largest air combat training exercise, involving more than 1,000 active-duty and Air National Guard Airmen and 87 aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joshua Strang)

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EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska -- Airman 1st Class Kim examines aircraft here on Oct. 7 from the tower before the start of exercise Cope Thunder 06-1. The two-week Alaskan exercise is the largest air combat training exercise, involving more than 1,000 active-duty and Air National Guard Airmen and 87 aircraft. Airman Kim is assigned to the 354th Operations Group. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joshua Strang)

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EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska -- An Airman de-ices a KC-135 Stratotanker from Kadena Air Base, Japan, before it takes off on its first Cope Thunder mission Oct. 10. The two-week Alaskan exercise is the largest air combat training exercise, involving more than 1,000 active-duty and Air National Guard Airmen and 87 aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. A.C. Eggman)

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EIELSON AIR BASE, Alaska -- Senior Airman Lulimana Meals and Airman 1st Class Ryan Blackburn plot a mission Oct. 7 for the first tactical mission of Cope Thunder 06-01. The two-week Alaskan exercise is the largest air combat training exercise, involving more than 1,000 active-duty and Air National Guard Airmen and 87 aircraft. The sergeants are intelligence analysts with the 52nd Operations Support Squadron from Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. A.C. Eggman)

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Thunderous combat

Published Oct. 12, 2005

Thunderous combat

Thunderous combat

Thunderous combat

Thunderous combat

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