Minnesota Vikings fans and deployed U.S. soldiers Chief

Minnesota Vikings fans and deployed U.S. soldiers Chief Warrant Officer 4 Joel Gordon and Spc. Lance Nielsen get a little pushback from U.S. airmen and Green Bay Packers fans 1st Lt. Nathan Wallin and Staff Sgt. Stephanie Blank at the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing’s “Rock” Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013. Gordon, a Dassel, Minn., native, is a C-12 pilot stationed with Detachment 51 at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. He currently lives in Washington state. Nielsen, a St. Paul, Minn., native, is an aviation operations specialist with Detachment 39 at Army Aviation Support Facility Number 1 of the Minnesota Army National Guard in St. Paul, Minn. Blank, a security forces leader, is from Peoria, Ill., and serves with the 7th Bomb Wing at Dyess Air Force Base in Abilene, Texas. Wallin, the 386th’s public affairs officer, hails from Plover, Wis., and serves in the Milwaukee-based 128th Air Refueling Wing of the Wisconsin Air National Guard. The four U.S. service members are deployed to an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Master Sgt. Christopher Campbell)