Downtime: Airman Basic Rebecca Perez takes a
break from patrol during a field training exercise at Fort George G.
Meade, Maryland, on September 10, 2012
Incoming! A C-5 Galaxy with the U.S. Air Force's
107th Airlift Wing shoots live flares during a night formation training
mission designed to counter heat-seeking missiles
Drop zone: A C-17 Globemaster III drops U.S.
Army Soldiers during Large Package Week at Fort Bragg, Fayetteville in
North Carolina
Head for heights: Loadmaster Senior Airman Dylan Strom enjoys the view during a civic leaders and clergy flight
Deadly convoy: Dozens of U.S. Air Force F-16
Fighting Falcons demonstrate an 'Elephant Walk' as they taxi down a
runway during an exercise at Kunsan Air Base, South Korea, to practise
for a wartime mission. This picture is among a gallery of images chosen
to showcase a year in the life of the U.S. Air force in 2012
Aerobatics: The 139th Airlift Wing Sound of
Speed Airshow and Open House practice at Rosecrans Memorial Airport, St
Joseph, Missouri on May 4, 2012
Top gun tinkering: Airman 1st Class Bill
Bossinger, of the 757th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, tightens wiring
under an F-15 Eagle at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada
Equipped for all eventualities: C5 Galaxies
(left) align on a Westover runway to make room for air show aircraft at
Westover Air Reserve Base, Massachusetts, while Staff Sgt Ernest Andrews
(right) participates in combat skills training at Joint Base
McGuire-Dix in New Jersey
Primed for action: Staff Sgt Salvatore DiGiacomo
demonstrates the explosive ordnance operational equipment made famous
in the Oscar-winning film The Hurt Locker
Great views from up here: An E-3 Sentry airborne
warning and control system aircraft soars over Nevada after a refueling
mission at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada
Reinforcements: U.S. Air Force equipment from
the 820th Red Horse Squadron descends in support of an exercise over the
Nevada Test and Training Range
Sharing experiences: Retired Colonel Gail
Halvorsen signs an autograph for Tucker Richard, five, at an airshow at
Little Rock Air Force Base in Arkansas
Going beyond the skies: A fairing is put around
NASA's NuStar and an Orbital Pegasus rocket at Vandenberg Air Force
Base, California
Menacing: A rapidly spreading smoke cloud surrounds the U.S. Air Force Academy airfield in Colorado Springs, on June 26, 2012
Seek and destroy: Air force gunner, Sgt Razeg,
fires an M-240 weapon from an Mi-17 Helicopter during a mission from
Kabul, Afghanistan
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