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Tire change

SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Airman 1st Class Anthony Sandoval, 379th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron C-130 crew chief, changes a tire on a Herk at a Southwest Asia air base Jan. 22. Airman Sandoval is deployed from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas. (U.S. Air Force Photo/SrA Carolyn Viss)

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Maintainers keep deployed planes flying

Published Jan. 24, 2008