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KC-135 crews prepare for mission

Senior Airman Andrew Deck conducts a KC-135 Stratotanker preflight check, Dec. 2, 2009, at an airfield in Southwest Asia. Airman Deck is a boom operator assigned to the 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Robert Barney)

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KC-135 crews prepare for mission

2nd Lt. Dick Conrad conducts a KC-135 Stratotanker preflight check, Dec. 2, 2009, in Southwest Asia. Lieutenant Conrad is a navigator assigned to the 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron. The squadron performs refueling missions in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Robert Barney)

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KC-135 crews prepare for mission

Senior Airman Andrew Deck, 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron boom operator, conducts a KC-135 Stratotanker preflight check, Dec. 2, 2009, in Southwest Asia. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Robert Barney)

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KC-135 crews prepare for mission

Airman 1st Class Torres Rivera, 340th Aircraft Maintenance Unit crew chief, tops off a KC-135 Stratotanker with hydraulic fluid during regular servicing Dec. 2, 2009, at an airfield in Southwest Asia. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Robert Barney)

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Alert mission protects U.S. airspace, interests

Capt. Matthew Feeman in an F-16 Fighting Falcon approaches a Cessna airplane, flown by South Carolina's Civil Air Patrol, to initiate a "head butt" as part of exercise Fertile Keynote Nov. 19, 2009 above South Carolina. A head butt is an action taken by the intercepting aircraft to redirect the intruder in the appropriate direction after other communications, like radio contact, have failed. Captain Feeman is an F-16 alert pilot from the 55th Fighter Squadron (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Michael Cowley)

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Alert mission protects U.S. airspace, interests

Capt. Matthew Feeman in an F-16 Fighting Falcon approaches a Cessna airplane, flown by South Carolina's Civil Air Patrol, to initiate a "head butt" as part of exercise Fertile Keynote Nov. 19, 2009 above South Carolina. A head butt is an action taken by the intercepting aircraft to redirect the intruder in the appropriate direction after other communications, like radio contact, have failed. Captain Feeman is an F-16 alert pilot from the 55th Fighter Squadron (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Michael Cowley)

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Raptors fly in Iron Falcon

Capt. Matthew Howard, 1st Fighter Wing pilot, taxis an F-22 Raptor to the runway for take-off Nov. 30, 2009. Captain Howard is participating in the Iron Falcon exercise while on temporary duty in Southwest Asia from Langley Air Force Base, Va. Captain Howard hails from Warrensburg, Mo. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Charles Larkin Sr)

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Raptors fly in Iron Falcon

Senior Airman Deandre Barnes, 1st Fighter Wing crew chief, waits for orders as the F-22 Raptor pilot prepares for take-off Nov. 30, 2009, at an airfield in Southwest Asia. The Airmen participated in the Iron Falcon exercise while on temporary duty from Langley Air Force Base, Va. Airman Barnes hails from Jacksonville, Ark. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Charles Larkin Sr)

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Raptors fly in Iron Falcon

Capt. Blaine Jones, 1st Fighter Wing pilot, checks the cockpit of an F-22 Raptor before closing the canopy Nov. 30, 2009, at an airfield in Southwest Asia. Captain Jones is participating in the Iron Falcon exercise while on temporary duty from Langley Air Force Base, Va. He is from Kingman, Kan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Charles Larkin Sr)

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Raptors fly in Iron Falcon

Senior Airman Adam Smith, 1st Fighter Wing crew chief, prepares to marshal an F-22 Raptor Nov. 30, 2009, at an airfield in Southwest Asia. Airman Smith is participating in the Iron Falcon exercise while on temporary duty from Langley Air Force Base, Va. Airman Smith is from Boston. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Charles Larkin Sr)

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Raptors fly in Iron Falcon

Senior Airman Adam Smith, 1st Fighter Wing crew chief, completes a last minute walk around Nov. 30, 2009, at an airfield in Southwest Asia. Airman Smith is participating in the Iron Falcon exercise while on temporary duty from Langley Air Force Base, Va. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Charles Larkin Sr)

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Raptors fly in Iron Falcon

Capt. Blaine Jones, 1st Fighter Wing pilot, prepares to taxi an F-22 Raptor Nov. 30, 2009, at an airfield in Southwest Asia. Captain Jones is participating in the Iron Falcon exercise while on temporary duty from Langley Air Force Base, Va. Captain Howard is from Kingman, Kan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Charles Larkin Sr)

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Raptors fly in Iron Falcon

Capt. Matthew Howard, 1st Fighter Wing pilot, prepares to board an F-22 Raptor Nov. 30, 2009, at an airfield in Southwest Asia. Captain Howard is participating in the Iron Falcon exercise while on temporary duty from Langley Air Force Base, Va. He is from Warrensburg, Mo. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Charles Larkin Sr)

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Transportation Command planning equipment shipments

Transportation planners are working closely with operations specialists to accomplish the mission of delivering 30,000 U.S. troops and equipment to Afghanistan when they are needed. They will use C-17 Globemaster IIIs, like the one shown here, as well as C-5 Galaxy aircraft to move outsized military equipment into the area of responsibility. (Defense Department photo/Tech. Sgt. Cohen A. Young)

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Dover C-5Ms complete test in surge operations

A C-5M Super Galaxy takes off during its First Flight ceremony at Lockheed Martin's Marietta, Ga., plant in June 2006. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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Yokota operations commander discusses importance of worldwide mobility presence

A C-130 Hercules leaves UTAPAO-International Airport, Thailand, in an effort to supply aid to the people of Myanmar on May 15, 2009. The C-130 is from the 515th Air Mobility Operations Group, Yokota Air Base, Japan. (U.S. Air Force Photo)

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Globemaster power

A C-17 Globemaster III takes off from an airfield on the Nevada Test and Training Range near Nellis Air Force Base during the Mobility Air Forces Exercise Nov. 18, 2009. The C-17 is participating in the exercise which provides realistic training for combat air forces, mobility air forces and U.S. Army Soldiers. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Brett Clashman)

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Flying command center

The E-4B is the national airborne operations center based at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., and supports the president, secretary of defense and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The alert crew is composed of 21 joint-service battle staff personnel along with an Air Force aircrew, maintenance, security and communications personnel. (U.S. Air Force photo/Lance Cheung)

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Full throttle ahead

Master Sgt. Dan Bloomquist sets the throttles of the E-4B as part of his preflight duties aboard the national airborne operations center based at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. Sergeant Bloomquist is a flight engineer with the 55th Wing. (U.S. Air Force photo/Lance Cheung)

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Sunshine on the Galaxy

A C-5 Galaxy from the 445th Airlift Wing waits for the next mission as the sun rises Nov. 21, 2009, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. (U. S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Robert Nelson)

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