Capt. Nancy Badgett goes through her preflight checklist before engine start-up May 13 at a Southwest Asian air base. Captain Badgett was the aircraft commander of a mission that dropped off and picked up Soldiers and civilians to and from an air base in Iraq. Captain Badgett is a C-130 Hercules pilot with the 737th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron deployed from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Michael O'Connor)