Technical Sgt. Chad Williams, 1st Combat Communications Squadron NCO in charge of tactical network operations, fires blanks from an M-16 rifle to defend a base during exercise Healthy Thunder at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Nov. 4, 2016. Fifty-eight Airmen participated in the exercise, which included setting up communications and defending a base in a deployed location.

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