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Controlling the flightline

BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Staff Sgt. DeShunn Foster, 332nd Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron airfield manager, calls in a sweeper team to clean up foreign object debris on the flightline during a dust storm here, April 29. Airfield managers ensure the airfield is free of hazards to aircraft and that safe operations are being conducted. Sergeant Foster is deployed from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Senior Airman Julianne Showalter)

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Controlling the flightline

BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- The air traffic control tower is the focal command and control element of the airfield here. The controllers who work in the tower coordinate the movement and flow of aircraft and vehicles on the Balad Air Base flightline. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Senior Airman Julianne Showalter)

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Controlling the flightline

Published May 2, 2008