Sather Airmen, Soldiers keep mission on track during dust storm

A Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle is driven to a refueling station after being delivered to Sather Air Base, Iraq, on January 30, 2008. The delivery is part of a Defense Department initiative to purchase additional MRAPs by July 31. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Jeffrey Allen)

Sather Airmen, Soldiers keep mission on track during dust storm

Air Force personnel wait for a pallet of equipment to load on a C-17 Globemaster III at Sather Air Base, Iraq, January 30, 2008. Sather AB is located on the west side of Baghdad International Airport and is the largest mover of passengers in Iraq, averaging 6,200 passengers weekly and the second largest mover of cargo in Iraq, averaging more than 1,700 tons weekly. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Jeffrey Allen)

Leaflets aid in search of "most wanted"

SOUTHWEST ASIA -- U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Brandon Fertig and Tech Sgt Alex Garrett, loadmasters deployed to the 40th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, Al Udeid Air Base, from Dyess AFB, TX, throws a box of leaflets out the door of a C-130 over designated zones during an airdrop. The 40th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, Al Udeid Air Base transport personnel and equipment in and around the AOR, provide aeromedical evacuation support,and make airdrops providing food, blankets, equipment, and leaflets to those on the ground. These leaflets are dropped to provide Coalition Forces with a means of mass communication to citizens in the area to aide in the capture of insurgents. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt Angelique Perez)

Iraqi pilots meet CENTAF/CC

Camp Taji, Iraq -- Lt. Gen. Gary North, U.S. Central Command Air Forces and Combined Forces Air Component Commander greets Iraqi pilot trainees at Camp Taji.

Airmen on patrol

U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Jessica Gallaway, deployed from Grand Forks AFB, N.D., assigned to the 732nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron, Det. 4, holds an Iraqi girl's hand as they look up at her apartment building where a fire is being put out by her family and neighbors. Air Force Security Forces are the first responders for the International Zone, Baghdad, Iraq. They are "in lieu of" tasking, meaning they are filling an Army billet on six-month deployments. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Angelique Perez)

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COMBINED AIR OPERATIONS CENTER, Southwest Asia – A U.S. Air Force F-16CJ Fighting Falcon dropped precision munitions near Al Nussayyib, Iraq, Sept. 25, killing Abu Nasr al-Tunisi and two other Al Q’aeda in Iraq operatives.