Navy maintenance personnel signal the pilot and crew as an A6B-Prowler with the VAQ133 Electronic Attack Squadron prepares to launch at Al Asad Airfield, Iraq, April 29. The Navy land-based squadron is one of three currently flying the Prowler with AF EWOs. The joint warfighters are conducting aerial overwatch operations for convoys at Al Asad. The AF officers are assigned to the 366th Fighter Wing at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, and work with their counterparts at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Wash., in the 388th Electronic Combat Squadron.

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