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SOUTHWEST ASIA - Staff Sergeant Kirk Sheppard, 380th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron, aircraft metals technology craftsman, and Airman 1st Class Joshua Hammer, aircraft structural maintenance journeyman, fabricate an aircraft part and rethread an alternator, respectively July 29. Sergeant Sheppard and Airman Hammer are currently deployed from Tinker Air Force base, Okla. Sergeant Sheppard hails from Milwaukee, Wis., and Airman Hammer hails from Manti, Utah (U.S. Air Force photo Tech. Sgt. Charles Larkin Sr.)

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Published July 31, 2009