Crash team clears runway
Staff Sgt. Nicholas Blucker positions a 60-ton crane boom to prepare for an A-10C Thunderbolt II lift exercise Feb. 9, 2011, at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan. The 451st Air Expeditionary Wing's crash recovery team is responsible for all U.S. aircraft with in-flight emergencies and emergencies on the airfield. Sergeant Blucker is a crash recovery technician assigned to the 451st Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Willard E. Grande II)