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US Air Force (USAF) pilot assigned to the 157th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron (EFS) hand-signs a signal, as he heads out in his F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter on a combat sortie in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

US Air Force (USAF) MASTER Sergeant (MSGT) Paul Riley, an aircrew member with the 165th Airlift Wing (AW), at Savannah International Airport, Georgia, gives a thumbs up while boarding USAF C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft on his way to the Persian Gulf in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

US Air Force (USAF) Captain (CPT) Doug Edwards (Pilot) and First Lieutenant (1LT) Seann Parish (Co-pilot), a man their positions inside the cockpit of a USAF KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft, during a refueling mission flown in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

040822-F-1279W-029 (Aug. 22, 2004)US Air Force (USAF) First Lieutenant (1LT) Crosbyof, Co-pilot, KC-135 Stratotanker, 30th Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW), checks radio frequencies during a sortie mission somewhere over Afghanistan (AFG) is support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM.U.S. Air Force official photo by MASTER SGT. Shaun Withers (RELEASED)

A US Army (USA) airman from the Tennessee Air National Guard (ANG), 118th Air Wing (AW), Airlift Control Flight (ACF), gives a thumbs-up to a USA UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from the 1ST Battalion, 228th Aviation Regiment (AR), from Soto Cano, Honduras, taking off from the Bird International Airport, during the Tradewinds 2002 Field Training Exercise (FTX), on the island of Antigua

US Air Force Reserve (USAFR) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Matthew Garrison, Crewchief, 465th Air Refueling Squadron (ARS), Tinker Air Force Base (AFB), Oklahoma (OK), assigned to the 376th Expeditionary ARS (EARS), salutes a KC-135R Stratotanker as it prepares to depart the ramp at a forward-deployed location during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

A US Air Force (USAF) female F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft pilot, assigned to the 157th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron (EFS), South Carolina Air National Guard (ANG), with the call sign of "Vixen," gives the thumbs up signal from the cockpit of her aircraft, as she prepares for a mission in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

A pilot for the 128th Air Refueling Wing (Wisconsin Air National Guard) gives the thumbs up as the KC-135 Stratotanker prepares to depart in support of Operation INFINITE JUSTICE. (Operation INFINITE JUSTICE later changed to Operation ENDURING FREEDOM)

US Air Force (USAF) First Lieutenant (1LT) Crosby, a USAF KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft co-pilot from the 908th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron (EARS), 380th Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW), gives a thumbs up sign during a sortie over Afghanistan (AFG) in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM (OEF)

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Country: Afghanistan (AFG)

Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Shaun Withers, USAF

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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A US Navy (USN) (green shirt) Catapult Operator gives the thumbs up signal as a F-14D Tomcat aircraft assigned to the "Tomcatters" of Fighter Squadron 31 (VF-31) prepares to launch from the flight deck of the USN Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier, USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71). The ROOSEVELT and embarked Carrier Air Wing 8 (CVW-8) are currently on a regularly scheduled deployment conducting maritime security operations in the Mediterranean Sea

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