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Viper AMU: Falcons inspected for combat

Master Sgt. Jesse Mathes, 332nd Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Viper Aircraft Maintenance Unit production superintendant, checks the guide fins are properly secured on an AIM-120 advanced medium-range air-to-air missile on an F-16 Fighting Falcon during an exceptional release inspection Aug. 6, 2010, Joint Base Balad, Iraq. The AMRAAM missile improves the aerial combat capabilities of U.S. and allied aircraft to meet current and future threat of enemy air-to-air weapons. Sergeant Mathes, a native of Gate City, Va., is deployed from Shaw Air Force Base, S.C. (U.S. Air Force photo/staff Sgt. Phillip Butterfield)

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