Staff Sgt. David Yocom and Senior Airman Nadja Ainsworth make the final check and pull the safety pins from weapons loaded onto an F-16 Fighting Falcon before takeoff June 29 at Joint Base Balad, Iraq. Sergeant Yocom is a 332nd Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron weapons load crew chief, and is a native of Oldbridge, Airman Ainsworth is a 332nd EAMXS weapons loader from Puyallup, Wash. Both are deployed from Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany.

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Staff Sgt. David Yocom and Senior Airman Nadja Ainsworth make the final check and pull the safety pins from weapons loaded onto an F-16 Fighting Falcon before takeoff June 29 at Joint Base Balad, Iraq. Sergeant Yocom is a 332nd Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron weapons load crew chief, and is a native of Oldbridge, Airman Ainsworth is a 332nd EAMXS weapons loader from Puyallup, Wash. Both are deployed from Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany.

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