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Staff Sgt. Brian Gilbertson, top left, a member of the 115th Fighter Wing Crash Damage Disabled Aircraft Recovery (CDDAR) team, directs a local civilian crane operator while moving the unit's static display F-16 August 23rd, 2008. The unit’s static display will be repainted and stenciled in the coming months, then placed back onto a larger pad. Improved dawn and dusk lighting will be installed to showcase the jet during low light periods of the day. The CDDAR team is comprised of many maintenance specialties that range from electrical to hydraulics. Their operational mission is to extricate and recover disabled aircraft. The movement of this static aircraft satisfied mandatory training requirements for many of the team members. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Master Sgt. Dan Richardson) (Released)

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Tech. Sgt. Jesse Ramirez, right, and other members of the 115th Fighter Wings Crash Damage Disabled Aircraft Recovery (CDDAR) team assist a local crane company in moving the unit's static display F-16 fighter aircraft, August 23rd, 2008. The unit’s static display will be repainted and stenciled in the coming months, then placed back onto a larger pad. Improved dawn and dusk lighting will be installed to showcase the jet during low light periods of the day. The CDDAR team is comprised of many maintenance specialties that range from electrical to hydraulics. Their operational mission is to extricate and recover disabled aircraft. The movement of this static aircraft satisfied mandatory training requirements for many of the team members. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Master Sgt. Dan Richardson)

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Senior Airman Shyla Kingsland of the 115th Fighter Wing in Madison, Wisconsin, lowcrawls through an obsticle course during the August, 2008 Unit Training Assembly (UTA). 115FW Security Forces performed multiple exercises during the August UTA to prepare for future deployments worldwide. (USAF Photo, Staff Sgt. Katherine O'Neill) (Released)

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SSgt Michael Alverez and SrA Stephen Montgomery of the 115th Fighter Wing in Madison, Wisconsin, participate in a Security Forces exercise during the August, 2008 Unit Training Assembly (UTA). 115FW Security Forces performed multiple exercises during the August UTA to prepare for future deployments worldwide. (USAF Photo, SSgt Katherine O'Neill) (Released)

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Onboard a UH-1 Huey "Air Ambulance", Flight Medic Sgt Eric Leuckert from the Army National Guard's 832nd Medical Company in West Bend, Wisconsin searches for survivors through the flooded streets of downtown New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The Hurricane made landfall near Buras, Louisiana on August 29th 2005 with winds up to 230km/h and by the following day had broken two New Orleans levees covering 80 percent of the city with water from nearby Lake Pontchartrain. (US Air National Guard Photo by TSgt Paul Gorman) (Released by MAJ Ed Bush, 102nd PAD)

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Three days after departing from it's home port in Norfolk, Virginia the USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) arrives outside the French Quarter of New Orleans to serve as a floating launch pad for amphibious and air operations in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The Hurricane made landfall near Buras, Louisiana on August 29th 2005 with winds up to 230km/h and by the following day had broken two New Orleans levees covering 80 percent of the city with water from nearby Lake Pontchartrain. (US Air National Guard Photo by TSgt Paul Gorman) (Released by MAJ Ed Bush, 102nd PAD)