Photo by Staff Sgt. Stephen Schester | 319th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 08.08.2011
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Renaldo Richardson, left, guides a GBU-38 bomb held up by a MJ-1B Jammer driven by Staff Sgt. Robert Corso in order to load ammo on a A-10C Thunderbolt II at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Aug. 8, 2011. Richardson and Corso are weapons crew members deployed from the 74th Aircraft Maintenance Unit, Moody Air Force Base, Ga....
Photo by Staff Sgt. Stephen Schester | 319th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 08.08.2011
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Renaldo Richardson, top right, guides a GBU-38 bomb being lifted up by a MJ-1B Jammer driven by Staff Sgt. Robert Corso, so that it may be loaded onto an A-10C Thunderbolt II at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Aug. 8, 2011. Richardson and Corso are weapons crew members deployed from the 74th Aircraft Maintenance Unit, Moody Air Force Base, Ga....
Photo by Staff Sgt. Stephen Schester | 319th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 08.08.2011
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Robert Corso rotates rockets inside a rocket pod attached to an A10C Thunderbolt II aircraft until the firing contact points lock in place Aug. 8, 2011 at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan. Corso is a weapons crew member deployed from the 74th Aircraft Maintenance Unit, Moody Air Force Base, Ga....
Photo by Staff Sgt. Stephen Schester | 319th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 08.08.2011
A U.S. Air Force air crew member provides final inspections on two A-10C Thunderbolt II aircraft before they taxi out to the runway for takeoff at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Aug. 8, 2011....
Photo by Staff Sgt. Stephen Schester | 319th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 08.08.2011
An A-10C Thunderbolt II pilot, taxing towards the runway, watches U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Adam Hinojosa prepare to load 30 mm rounds into another A-10 aircraft with the use of armament equipment at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Aug. 8, 2011. Hinojosa is a weapons crew member deployed from the 74th Aircraft Maintenance Unit, Moody Air Force Base, Ga....
Photo by Staff Sgt. Stephen Schester | 319th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 08.08.2011
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Christopher Shroyer, left, and Staff Sgt. Rafael Medina III, right, attempt to isolate an ongoing issue with the navigation system on an A-10C Thunderbolt II at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Aug. 8, 2011. Shroyer, an avionics journeyman, and Medina, an avionics craftsman, are deployed from the 23rd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Moody Air Force Base, Ga....
Photo by Staff Sgt. Stephen Schester | 319th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 08.08.2011
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Judith Bulkley, an electrical and environmental systems specialist deployed from the 23rd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Moody Air Force Base, Ga., exits an A-10C Thunderbolt II after performing an external power operations check on the aircraft at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Aug. 8, 2011. Bulkley was attempting to isolate an ongoing issue with the bus tie......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Stephen Schester | 319th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 08.08.2011
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Renaldo Richardson, a weapons team chief deployed from the 74th Aircraft Maintenance Unit, Moody Air Force Base, Ga., times the gun system underneath an A-10C Thunderbolt II during an ammo upload at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Aug. 8, 2011. Richardson loaded 1,150, 30 mm rounds onto the aircraft....