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A McChord C-17 Globemaster III pilot prepares for training during a flight to the Mountain Home Range Complex, Idaho, May 17, 2016. The pilot was part of seven air crews training for Air Mobility Command’s exercise Mobility Guardian. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Naomi Shipley)


Proof of Concept - Mobility Guardian 2017

A McChord C-17 Globemaster III pilot prepares for training during a flight to the Mountain Home Range Complex, Idaho, May 17, 2016. The pilot was part of seven air crews training for Air Mobility Command’s exercise Mobility Guardian. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Naomi Shipley)

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Staff Sgt. William Behl (left), 62nd Maintenances Squadron crewchief, has his eyes examined by Senior Airman Shailesh Kumar, 446th Aerospace Medicine Squadron optometry technician, May 9, 2017, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. The clinic provides routine eye exams which includes prescription check and an eye health check. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Jacob Jimenez)
Staff Sgt. William Behl, 62nd Maintenances Squadron crewchief, has his annual eye exam performed at the McChord Field optometry clinic, May 9, 2017, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. The clinic provides annual exams and exams for corrective eye surgery, to include photorefractive kerectomy surgery and LASIK surgery. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Jacob Jimenez)
Staff Sgt. William Behl, 62nd Maintenances Squadron crewchief, looks at different eye glasses May 9, 2017, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. The McChord Field optometry clinic provides military-issue spectacles and gas mask inserts, which include a frame of choice. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Jacob Jimenez)
A B-17 Flying Fortress flies over the skies of Olympia, Wash., May 10, 2017. The B-17 had 13, 50-caliber M2 Browning machine guns for defense. The long range capabilities of the B-17 meant they would often fly missions without fighter plane escorts. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Whitney Amstutz)
Aluminum Overcast, a 77-year-old B-17 carrying passengers from the local community and WWII veterans, flies over the Puget Sound, May 10, 2017 in Olympia, Wash. Of the 12,732 B-17s produced between 1935 and 1945, 4,735 were lost in combat. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Whitney Amstutz)
A B-17 Flying Fortress, flies over Olympia, Wash., May 10, 2017. The nose turret, where the navigator and bombardier traditionally sat, is accessible through a small passageway under the pilot’s seats and yields unencumbered views. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Whitney Amstutz)
A 77-year-old B-17 nicknamed Aluminum Overcast flies over Olympia, Wash., May 10, 2017. During WWII, the B-17 had a crew of 10 men, a maximum speed of 287 miles per hour, and a maximum ceiling of 35,600 feet. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Whitney Amstutz)
A fully-restored B-17 Flying Fortress nicknamed Aluminum Overcast sits on the runway at the Olympic Flight Museum, May 10, 2017 in Tumwater, Wash. Members of the media had the opportunity to fly on the historic aircraft and speak to veterans who either worked on, or flew the B-17 during WWII. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Whitney Amstutz)
Betty Lausch (left), who bucked rivets during WWII, talks with Marie Samson, who works with museums to pay homage to “Rosie the Riveter” women of WWII, during an event at the Olympic Flight Museum honoring veterans who flew and worked on the B-17 during WWII, May 10, 2017 in Tumwater, Wash. Veterans of the war, aged 90 and older, were present to give firsthand accounts of what it was like to fly in the B-17 into combat. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Whitney Amstutz)
Fred Parker, a veteran who worked on B-17s during WWII, smiles aboard Aluminum Overcast, a B-17 built in 1945, prior to taking off, May 10, 2017 at the Olympic Flight Museum in Tumwater, Wash. B-17s dropped more than 640,000 tons of bombs on European targets and downed more enemy aircraft per thousand raids than any other aircraft in the United States’ arsenal, making it the champion of the American aerial campaign during WWII. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Whitney Amstutz)
A reuben sandwich, prepared by Derek Torrence, McChord Club executive chef, waits to be picked up at McChord Grill, May 10, 2017 at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. Torrence was afforded the chance to make his dream of becoming a chef real when he went to Culinary Arts School and graduated from Johnson & Wales University in 2008. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Divine Cox)
Derek Torrence, McChord Club executive chef, prepares a sandwich during lunch at McChord Grill, May 10, 2017 at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. Torrence has been the executive chef at McChord since May 2015. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Divine Cox)

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