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Lt. Col. Charles Stevens performs a pre-flight inspection before a training flight with an Iraqi air force student pilot Sept. 26, 2010, at Tikrit Air Base, Iraq. Air Force instructor pilots are training and advising the first group of Iraqi air force instructor pilots on the T-6A Texan II as part of the Operation New Dawn mission. Colonel Stevens is the 52nd Expeditionary Flying Training Squadron commander

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