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455th AEW Photos

Fueling the fight: Airmen making a difference one gallon at a time in Southwest Asia

Senior Airman Brandon Bailey, a fuels distribution journeyman with the 380th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron fuels management flight, adjusts an R-18 fuel pump during operations at the fuel off-load facility at a non-disclosed base in Southwest Asia on Jan. 6, 2010. On any given day, Airman Bailey and other fuels Airmen in his flight can off-load up to 600,000 gallons of fuel from host nation supplier fuel trucks. In 2009, the 380th ELRS fuels management flight pumped more than 188 million gallons of fuel in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom and the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa. Airman Bailey is deployed from the 914th Logistics Readiness Squadron at Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station, N.Y., and his hometown is Buffalo, N.Y. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Tech. Sgt. Scott T. Sturkol/Released)

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