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Airman 1st Class Darius Rogers, 2nd Munitions Squadron

Airman 1st Class Darius Rogers, 2nd Munitions Squadron

Airman 1st Class Darius Rogers, 2nd Munitions Squadron conventional maintenance technician, aligns M-117 General Purpose Bombs at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., Nov. 8, 2017. The assembling process for these mu... More

The last of the M-117 General Purpose Bombs were assembled

The last of the M-117 General Purpose Bombs were assembled

The last of the M-117 General Purpose Bombs were assembled at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., Nov. 8, 2017. The numbers 5-73 represent the month and year that the bomb was originally created. This bomb was manuf... More

Airman 1st Class Brandon Kiernan, 2nd Munitions Squadron

Airman 1st Class Brandon Kiernan, 2nd Munitions Squadron

Airman 1st Class Brandon Kiernan, 2nd Munitions Squadron conventional maintenance technician, assembles an M-117 General Purpose Bomb at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., Nov. 8, 2017. The M-117 has been around si... More

Airmen from the 2nd Munitions Squadron Production Flight

Airmen from the 2nd Munitions Squadron Production Flight

Airmen from the 2nd Munitions Squadron Production Flight assembles M-117 General Purpose Bombs at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., Nov. 8, 2017. The 2nd MUNS Production Flight supports the 2nd Bomb Wing Unit Comm... More

M-117 General Purpose Bombs are set up before they

M-117 General Purpose Bombs are set up before they

M-117 General Purpose Bombs are set up before they are assembled for the last time at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., Nov. 8, 2017. These are the last M-117s in the entire Air Force. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Air... More

An Airman from the 2nd Munitions Squadron Production

An Airman from the 2nd Munitions Squadron Production

An Airman from the 2nd Munitions Squadron Production Flight tightens a bolt on an M-117 General Purpose Bomb at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., Nov. 8, 2017. The M-117s have been in the Air Force for nearly 70 y... More

Senior Airman Kegan Schott, 2nd Munitions Squadron

Senior Airman Kegan Schott, 2nd Munitions Squadron

Senior Airman Kegan Schott, 2nd Munitions Squadron conventional maintenance technician, prepares M-117 General Purpose Bombs for assembly at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., Nov. 8, 2017. Airmen from the 2nd MUNS... More

Airman Angelica Melendez, 2nd Munitions Squadron

Airman Angelica Melendez, 2nd Munitions Squadron

Airman Angelica Melendez, 2nd Munitions Squadron conventional maintenance technician, reaches for an M-117 General Purpose Bomb component at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., Nov. 8, 2017. The last M-117s in the A... More

Airmen from the 2nd Munitions Squadron Production Flight

Airmen from the 2nd Munitions Squadron Production Flight

Airmen from the 2nd Munitions Squadron Production Flight assemble M-117 General Purpose Bombs at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., Nov. 8, 2017. An eight person team of Barksdale’s Airmen were tasked with assembli... More

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