Senior Airman Nicolas Blair, 69th Reconnaissance Group Detachment 1 crew chief, removes an engine cover during an RQ-4 preflight inspection at Yokota Air Base, Japan, May 5, 2017. The Global Hawk's mission is to provide a broad spectrum of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance collection capabilities to support combatant forces in worldwide peacetime, contingency and crisis operations.

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