Buckle up
Lt. Col. Chris Ashby gets assistance strapping into an F-16 Fighting Falcon from Senior Airman Robert Gattison before departing for a combat mission Jan. 29 at Balad Air Base, Iraq. Colonel Ashby is the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing chief of safety from the 20th Fighter Wing at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C. Airman Gattison is a crew chief assigned to the 14th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron. (U. S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Michael R. Holzworth)