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Security forces troops take on the RedMan

JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq -- Senior Airman Ashley Swanson, 332nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron (left), holds a strike training pad while Senior Airman Rigoberto Valerio, 332nd ESFS, strikes with a training baton during a training class here Sept. 10. Both Airmen are deployed here from Robins Air Force Base, Ga. as part of the largest security forces unit deployed into combat to defend an airbase since the Vietnam War. Swanson is a native of Eagan, Minn. and Valerio's hometown is Corpus Cristi, Texas. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Erik Gudmundson)

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