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US Air Force (USAF) AIRMAN First Class (A1C) Melissa Gustafson, Weapons Loader assigned to the 510th Fighter Squadron (FS) performs a training procedure on the under section of a USAF F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft during monthly efficiency load evaluation exercise conducted at Aviano Air Base (AB) Italy

SENIOR AIRMAN Thomas Kretschmann, from St. Louis, Missouri, tightens a laser guided bomb on the wing of an F-16 Fighting Falcon at Aviano Air Base, Italy. SENIOR AIRMAN Kretschmann is a member of the 510th Fighter Squadron's Weapon Load Team 21. The team performed a monthly required proficiency (MPRO) load as evaluators watched their progress. The 510th has kept its aircraft mission ready since the inception of Operation Decisive Edge

SENIOR AIRMAN Thomas Kretschmann from St Louis, Missouri and STAFF Sergeant David Sarval from Manchester, New Hampshire load a laser guided bomb on the wing of a F-16 fighting Falcon at Aviano Air Base, Italy. SENIOR AIRMAN Kretschmann and STAFF Sergeant Sarval are members of the 510th Fighter Squadron's Weapon Load Team 21. The team performed a monthly proficiency load (MPRO) as evaluators watched progress. The 510th has kept its aircraft mission ready since the inception of Operation Decisive Edge

SENIOR AIRMAN Scott Batson, USAF, 510th Fighter Squadron, Aviano Air Base, Italy, Weapons Load crew team member uses a meter to test the gyro of a guidance control unit attached to an inert GBU-24B (Paveway III) training bomb loaded on an F-16 Fighting Falcon. Weapons load teams are responsible for proficiency on 9 primary munitions and are evaluated monthly on 3 of the 9 primary loads. Load standardization crews assigned to the 31st Operations Group evaluate the proficiency, safety and speed of each load team

SENIOR AIRMAN Scott Batson, USAF, 510th Fighter Squadron, Aviano Air Base, Italy, Weapons Load crewmember preps two inert 1,000lb CBU-89 Gator Mine training munition prior to loading them onto an F-16 Fighting Falcon. Weapons load teams are responsible for proficiency on 9 primary munitions and are evaluated monthly on 3 of the 9 primary loads. Load standardization crews assigned to the 31st Operations Group evaluate the proficiency, safety and speed of each load team

US Air Force (USAF) AIRMAN First Class (A1C) Claudius Jeffries (left), and STAFF Sergeant (SSGT) Matthew Smith, both assigned to the 510th Fighter Squadron (FS), attach a CBU-87 1,000-pound Combined Effects Munitions (CEM) onto the wing pylon of a USAF F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft during a monthly efficiency load evaluation exercise conducted at Aviano Air Base (AB) Italy

An US Air Force (USAF) F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft from the 510th Fighter Squadron, Aviano AB Italy, flies over the Bardenas Range, Zaragoza AB, Spain. The aircraft carries BDU-33 practice bombs and an AIM-9 sidewinder test missile

A U.S. Air Force 510th Fighter Squadron weapons load crew, load an AIM-120 AMRAAM Slammer missile on an F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft during the 31st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Annual Weapon Load Competition at Aviano Air Base, Italy, on Jan. 14, 2005. (U.S. Air Force PHOTO by AIRMAN 1ST Class Scherrie K. Gates) (Released)

A US Air Force (USAF) F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft assigned to the 555th Fighter Squadron (FS), 31st Fighter Wing, Aviano Air Base (AB), Italy, refuels from an Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft from the 940th Air Refueling Wing (ARW), assigned to the 100th ARW, over the Adriatic Sea during mission flown in support Operation JOINT FORGE

Weapon Load Team 21, 510th Fighter Squadron, Aviano Air Base, Italy, are critiqued by evaluators after completing their monthly required proficiency (MPRO) load 9 Sidewinder missiles and laser guided bombs to the wings of an F-16 Fighting Falcon as part of their evaluation training. The 510th has kept its aircraft mission ready since the inception of Operation Decisive Edge

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Subject Operation/Series: DECISIVE EDGE

Base: Aviano Air Base

State: Pordenone

Country: Italy (ITA)

Scene Camera Operator: SRA Robert Stuart

Release Status: Released to Public

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label_outline Explore Decisive Edge, Inception, Sra Robert Stuart

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