Air Force Staff. Sgt. Tyler Charles, assigned to the 1st Expeditionary Civil Engineering Group, washes his clothes during runway repair operations at Qayyarah West airfield, Iraq, Oct. 08, 2016. Airmen work long hours and have little time to do laundry while repairing the runway that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) destroyed the using heavy machinery and explosives to disrupt coalition forces from gaining any control of the area. A Coalition of regional and international nations have joined together to enable Iraqi forces to counter ISIL, reestablish Iraq’s borders and re-

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Air Force Staff. Sgt. Tyler Charles, assigned to the 1st Expeditionary Civil Engineering Group, washes his clothes during runway repair operations at Qayyarah West airfield, Iraq, Oct. 08, 2016. Airmen work long hours and have little time to do laundry while repairing the runway that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) destroyed the using heavy machinery and explosives to disrupt coalition forces from gaining any control of the area. A Coalition of regional and international nations have joined together to enable Iraqi forces to counter ISIL, reestablish Iraq’s borders and re-take lost terrain thereby restoring regional stability and security. ( Army photo by Spc. Christopher Brecht)

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