'Here's lookin' at fuel, kid'
JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq -- Staff Sgt. Benjamin Laguana collects a fuel sample from a storage bladder here Aug. 12. The fuel is checked regularly to ensure no contaminants are present. Sergeant Laguana, a fuels laboratory technician with the 332nd Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron here, is deployed from Holloman Air Force Base, N.M. His hometown is Long Beach, Calif. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Jason Epley)