Two-year-old Max Gordon plays in the grass at the Kentucky Air National Guard Base in Louisville, Ky., July 4, 2015, as he waits for his uncle, Master Sgt. Aaron Schalck, to return from a deployment in the Persian Gulf region. Airmen from the Kentucky Air Guard's 123rd Airlift Wing have been supporting Operation Freedom's Sentinel in the Central Command Area of Responsibility since February. ( Air National Guard photo by Maj. Dale Greer)

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