Senior Airmen Brian Rhodes, a loadmaster with the 211th Rescue Squadron, Alaska Air National Guard, prepares the ramp of a HC-130 "King" aircraft for a high altitude, low opening airborne operation over the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Training Center in Twentynine Palms, Calif. The airmen from the 211th RQS were there participating in an Integrated Training Exercise, which is designed to validate units before deploying to Afghanistan. ( Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Edward Eagerton) Alaska Air Guardsmen train in California desert joint-forces exercise 131118-Z-MW427-072

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