Airman 1st Class Jeremy Meyers checks a wheel well as part of a thorough flight inspection on an F-16 Fighting Falcon at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, Sept. 12. conducts a thorough flight inspection on an F-16 Fighting Falcon at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, Sept. 12. A thorough flight inspection allows maintainers to thoroughly prepare an aircraft for its next mission within a few hours. Meyers, an F-16 tactical aircraft maintenance apprentice with the 332nd Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron here, is deployed from Hill Air Force Base, Utah. His hometown is Spokane, Wash. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Erik Gudmundson)