Staff Sgt. Lee Kirkland, 332nd Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief, performs a trim-pad burner run from the cockpit of an F-16 Fighting Falcon at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, May 10. Kirkland is running the afterburner to help his maintenance personnel troubleshoot a fuel indication problem with the aircraft. Sergeant Kirkland is deployed from Shaw Air Force Base, , and is a native of Hamilton, Texas.

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