Early morning mission
01/29/2007 -- BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Senior Airman Robert Gattison, 14th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, marshals Lt. Col. Chris "crash" Ashby, 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing, and his block 50 F-16 away from the hardened aircraft shelter toward the runway for a combat mission from Balad Jan. 29. Airman Gattison is deployed from Misawa Air Base, Japan. Colonel Ashby is deployed from Shaw Air Force Base, S.C. (U. S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Michael R. Holzworth)