Maintainers with the Iraqi air force 1st Maintenance Squadron push a Cessna 172 Skyhawk into its parking space after the aircraft returned from a training mission marking the 3,000th sortie by the Iraqi Training Wing at Kirkuk Regional Air Base, Iraq, Dec. 18. The Wing accomplished the feat with the help of the 52d Expeditionary Flying Training Squadron. The sortie was flown by Lt. Col. Randall Bristol, 52d EFTS instructor pilot and Lt. Saif, IqAF student pilot. Colonel Bristol is deployed from Geilenkirchen Air Base, Germany. Senior Airman Randi Flaugh)

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