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Senior Airman Matthew Slattery (left) and Tech. Sgt. Peter Mickiewicz (right), take Tech. Sgt. Steve Gaunt’s, 447th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron emergency management flight, blood pressure and vitals making sure he is healthy enough to perform the duties involved in his chemical gear, Camp Stryker, Iraq April 24, 2009. All mail that comes into Baghdad that is improperly labeled, doesn’t have a return address or gets lost in the system has to be inspected before they can be processed and get it to the intended destination. The Iraqi government returns the mail to the Joint Military Mail Terminal on good faith but the military here has to take necessary precautions because the mail left the military postal system. When the JMMT gets the mail back from the Iraqi government it is ran through x-ray, inspected by military working dogs and then inspected by the 447th ECES emergency management flight for suspicious and/or hazardous materials which might have inadvertently come in contact with or intentionally added to the mail. The Airmen, armed with chemical suits and hazardous material sensors make their way downrange in teams of three, where the mail is stored and run test on the packages for radiological, chemical and biological material. The inspection process is a joint effort between emergency management team, readiness, the fire department, and biological engineers. Airman Slattery and Sergeant Mickiewicz are deployed from the 157th Air Refueling Wing, New Hampshire Air National Guard. Airman Slattery is a native of Exeter, N.H. Sergeant Mickiewicz is a native of Cambridge, Mass. Sergeant Gaunt is deployed from the 117th Air Refueling Wing Alabama Air National Guard, is a native of Marietta, Ga. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jacqueline Romero)
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