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Weapons safe

Staff Sgt Matthew Edwards directs a bomb lift truck into position to load an AIM-120C air-to-air missile after removing it from an F-16 Fighting Falcon at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, Sept. 22. Edwards, a weapons load crewmember with the 332nd Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, is deployed from the Oklahoma Air National Guard's 138th Fighter Wing. His home town is Owasso, Okla. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Erik Gudmundson)

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Weapons safe

Staff Sgts. Terry Boom and Matthew Edwards secure an AIM-120C air-to-air missile onto a bomb lift truck after removing it from an F-16 Fighting Falcon at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, Sept. 22. The weapons load crewmembers are deployed to the 332nd Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron from the Oklahoma Air National Guard's 138th Fighter Wing. Edwards' hometown is Owasso, Okla., and Boom?s hometown is Broken Arrow, Okla. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Erik Gudmundson)

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Weapons safe

Staff Sgt Matthew Edwards secures an AIM-120C air-to-air missile onto a bomb lift truck after removing it from an F-16 Fighting Falcon at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, Sept. 22. Boom, a weapons load crewmember with the 332nd Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron here, is deployed from the Oklahoma Air National Guard's 138th Fighter Wing. His hometown is Owasso, Okla. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Erik Gudmundson)

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Weapons safe

Published Sept. 26, 2008