Weapons handling
SOUTHWEST ASIA - Left to right, Airman 1st Class Andrew Peppin, Senior Airman Adam Weaver and Airman 1st Class Brian Adkins, 37th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Unit weapons load crew members, transfer a GBU-38 from a MHU-83 bomb lift truck to a MJ-40 BLT prior to it being loaded into a B-1B Lancer, Sept. 16, 2009, in Southwest Asia. Carrying the largest payload of both guided and unguided weapons in the Air Force inventory, the multi-mission B-1 is the backbone of America's long-range bomber force. It can rapidly deliver massive quantities of precision and non-precision weapons against any adversary, anywhere in the world, at any time. Airmen Weaver, Adkins and Peppin are deployed from Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D. in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Robert Barney)