Air Force 1st Lt. Mark Pierce, a pilot assigned to the 169th Fighter Wing of the South Carolina Air National Guard, with his family watching, performs pre-flight checks aboard an F-16 Fighting Falcon while his family members stand by waiting for him to deploy at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, South Carolina, July 11, 2018. The South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing is deploying nearly 300 Airmen and approximately a dozen F-16 Block 52 Fighting Falcon fighter jets to the 407th Air Expeditionary Group in Southwest Asia in support of an Air Expeditionary Force rotation.

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