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455th AEW Photos

Weapons crew rendezvous

Staff Sgt. Brian Chatham and Rashid Harris, 455th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron weapons load crew chiefs, arm an A-10C Thunderbolt II aircraft with a flare on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, June 11. Flares are a defensive mechanism used to avoid detection and attacks by enemy air defense system. Harris and Chatham are deployed from Moody Air Force Base, Ga. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Staff Sgt. Stephenie Wade)

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