US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN Brandon McCormick (foreground), a F-15 Eagle aircraft Crew CHIEF assigned to the 18th Air Maintenance Squadron (AMXS), 18th Wing (WG), Kadena Air Base (AB), Japan, provides assistance to his Pilot, USAF Lieutenant Colonel (LTC Jeff Gustafson, 44th Operations Officer, as the two wait for the aircraft to be towed into a harden aircraft shelter following an exercise sortie, during the Wing's weeklong Operational Readiness Exercise (ORE)