Weapons crew rendezvous

Senior Airman Tristan Franklin and Airman 1st Class Cameron Padgett, 455th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron weapons loaders, use an ammunition loading adaptor to feed 30-millimeter rounds into an A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft ammo drum prior at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, June 11. The Airmen are deployed from Moody Air Force Base, Ga. The Thunderbolt II can employ a wide variety of conventional munitions, including general purpose bombs, cluster bomb units, laser guided bombs, joint direct attack munitions or JDAM, wind corrected munitions dispenser or WCMD, AGM-65 Maverick and AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles, rockets, illumination flares and the GAU-8/A 30mm cannon, capable of firing 3,900 rounds per minute. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Staff Sgt. Stephenie Wade)

B-1B Lancer: More than meets the eye

A B-1B Lancer assigned to the 34th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron prepares for takeoff, June 11, 2013, at the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing in Southwest Asia. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Benjamin Stratton)

You've got mail!

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Hollie Darling and Senior Airman Ken Wise separate mail according to its final destination at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, May 10, 2013. On average, the mail crews handle more than 50,000 pounds of mail a week. During the holiday season, roughly 130,000 pounds of mail is distributed weekly. (U.S. Air Force/photo Senior Airman Scott Saldukas)

Prime BEEF

Master Sgt. Arturo Quinones, 577th Expeditionary Prime Base Engineer Emergency Force Squadron, noncommissioned officer in charge of special capabilities, marks off a day's worth of runway requiring rubber removal at Forward Operating Base Shank, Logar province, Afghanistan, June 5, 2013. Runway maintenance is a composite team built from many civil engineering backgrounds. Quinones, hailing from San Antonio, is an electrician by trade. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Master Sgt. Ben Bloker)

Coalition hook-up

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Sean Buck and Airman 1st Class Pedro Cahua, both with the 451st Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, prepare to hook a 1,800 pound A-22 cargo bag to an approaching UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter flown by Soldiers of the 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade during a joint-coalition sling load training mission at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, June 1, 2013. The training provided coalition members the opportunity to learn the concepts of illuminating a landing zone as well as in-flight cargo sling loading. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Brian Maguire)

Bagram force protection program emphasizes the importance of vigilance

Task Force Colonist volunteers look at a compound map prior to searching it for unauthorized items on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, May 30. The 120 volunteers contributed to decreasing the amount of contraband on the base by participating in this ongoing force protection program. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Staff Sgt. Stephenie Wade)