Capt. Mike “Havac” Gilpatrick, a pilot assigned to the 9th Airlift Squadron, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, , and Capt. Jason “Brick” Sewell, a pilot assigned to the 43rd Operation Support Squadron, Pope Air Force Base, , prepare a C-17 Globemaster III for take-off before a joint forcible entry exercise at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., Dec. 10, 2016. JFEX is a Air Force Weapons School large-scale air mobility exercise in which participants plan and execute a complex air-land operation in a simulated contested battlefield.

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