Mitchell Melendez, a flight test engineer with the 413th Flight Test Squadron, mans a .50-caliber machine gun on a CV-22 Osprey during exercise Frigid Archer above Hurlburt Field, Fla., Jan. 6, 2016. Frigid Archer was a week-long exercise that tested 1st Special Operations Wing air commandos' expertise through a myriad of operational and support requirements. Senior Airman Ryan Conroy)

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