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    Final Flight, Lifelong Bond: 103rd Pilots Celebrate Retirement Together [Image 1 of 19]

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    Final Flight, Lifelong Bond: 103rd Pilots Celebrate Retirement Together

    EAST GRANBY, CONNECTICUT, UNITED STATES

    05.03.2025

    Photo by Senior Airman Emme Drummond 

    103rd Airlift Wing, Bradley Air National Guard Base

    Lt. Col. Gary Caponetti disembarks from his final flight as a 103rd Airlift Wing pilot and is greeted by jubilant friends and family holding champagne bottles and squirt guns in East Granby, Connecticut, May 3, 2025. Completing a "fini" flight and getting doused in champagne afterwards is a tradition for retiring pilots. Lt. Col. Caponetti celebrated a double retirement with colleague Lt. Col. Josh Panis.

    (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Emme Drummond)

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    Date Taken: 05.03.2025
    Date Posted: 05.30.2025 15:35
    Photo ID: 9071374
    VIRIN: 250503-Z-FH878-2153
    Resolution: 6048x4024
    Size: 11.55 MB
    Location: EAST GRANBY, CONNECTICUT, US

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