A 968th Expeditionary Airborne Air Control Squadron crew member completes an E-3 Sentry preflight inspection before flying a sortie in support of Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, Jan. 11, 2017. Since October 2016, 968 EAACS E-3s have completed more than 150 sorties in which they provided a real-time picture of the battle space for multi-national Coalition aircraft working to weaken and destroy Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant operations in the Middle East region and around the world.

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