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BALAD, IRAQ

05.15.2006

Photo by Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson  

United States Air Forces Central     

Senior Airman Derrick Farr, 727th Expeditionary Air Control Squadron, perform surveillance and identification procedures with the tactical air traffic in the skies over Iraq May 15, 2006. Balad Air Base controls over 200,000 square miles of air space over Iraq. The airfield is the busiest single runway airfield in the Department of Defense, merging combat and non-combat aircraft into the same airspace. Senior Airman Farr is an Air National guardsman deployed here from Savannah, Ga.

• Date Taken: 05.15.2006
• Date Posted: 05.17.2006 09:52
• Photo ID: 20669
• Resolution: 4114x2683
• Size: 6.34 MB
• Location: BALAD, IQ