OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM -- An EC-130H Compass Call, assigned to the 398th Air Expeditionary Group, takes off from a forward deployed operating base located in the Mediterranean region in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Operation Iraqi Freedom is the multinational coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech Sgt. Robert J. Horstman)