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USS NIMITZ, At Sea - Sailors aboard the USS Nimitz ready an F/A-18 for takeoff during the joint exercise Valiant Shield 2007. The USS Nimitz was one of three aircraft carriers which participated in the exercise. (Photo by Airman 1st Class Daniel Owen/ 36th Wing Public Affairs)


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USS NIMITZ, At Sea - Sailors aboard the USS Nimitz ready an F/A-18 for takeoff during the joint exercise Valiant Shield 2007. The USS Nimitz was one of three aircraft carriers which participated in the exercise. (Photo by Airman 1st Class Daniel Owen/ 36th Wing Public Affairs)

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USS NIMITZ, At Sea - International media take pictures as a C-2 approaches the USS Nimitz's flight deck for landing. Navy personnel refer to the C-2 as carrier on-board delivery, or COD. The Navy uses the COD to deliver passengers and cargo from the carrier to shore and back. The USS Nimitz was one of three aircraft carriers which participated in the exercise. (Photo by Airman 1st Class Daniel Owen/ 36th Wing Public Affairs)
USS NIMITZ, At Sea - A Sailor aboard the USS Nimitz sits in darkness as he mans his post during the joint exercise Valiant Shield. The USS Nimitz was one of three aircraft carriers which participated in the exercise. (Photo by Airman 1st Class Daniel Owen/ 36th Wing Public Affairs)
ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam - Dr. John Treiber, 36th Wing Historian, and Lt. Col. Elizabeth Sweeney, deployed to Andersen in support of Valiant Shield, visits a monument commemorating the last B-29 mission of World War II, five days after the bombing of Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945. The plaque also recognizes the other B-29 bomb wings that operated from the Marianas Islands. Colonel Sweeney's father Brig. Gen. Charles W. Sweeney piloted the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. He is the only man who flew on both atomic missions. General Sweeney's mission originated from Tinian, an island located five miles southwest of Saipan. (Photo by Senior Airman Sonya Padilla\ 36th Wing Public Affairs)
ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam - A weapons load team prepares to load a Guided Bomb Unit -12 onto a B-52 before a mission as part of Valiant Shield 2007 Aug. 6, 2007. During the exercise, U.S. Air Force aircraft and personnel from stateside bases and Kadena Air Base, Japan, work together as part of an expeditionary air wing based at Andersen AFB, Guam. Andersen AFB will also be the beddown location for approximately 64 U.S. Air Force and 29 U.S. Navy aircraft, plus transient aircraft, during Valiant Shield. Valiant Shield 07, the largest joint exercise in recent history, includes 30 ships, more than 280 aircraft and more than 20,000 service members from the Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Miranda Moorer)
ANDERSEN AFB, GUAM - An F-15 deployed here from the 44th Fighter Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan, flies along side a KC-135 Stratotanker, from the New Hampshire Air Nation Guard, during Valiant Shield, Aug. 9, 2007. During the exercise, U.S. Air Force aircraft and personnel from stateside bases and Kadena Air Base, Japan, work together as part of an expeditionary air wing based at Andersen AFB, Guam. Andersen AFB will also be the beddown location for approximately 64 U.S. Air Force and 29 U.S. Navy aircraft, plus transient aircraft, during Valiant Shield. Valiant Shield 07, the largest joint exercise in recent history, includes 30 ships, more than 280 aircraft and more than 20,000 service members from the Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Miranda Moorer)
ANDERSEN AFB, GUAM - An F-15 deployed here from the 44th Fighter Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan, flies over the Pacific during Valiant Shield, Aug. 9, 2007. During the exercise, U.S. Air Force aircraft and personnel from stateside bases and Kadena Air Base, Japan, work together as part of an expeditionary air wing based at Andersen AFB, Guam. Andersen AFB will also be the beddown location for approximately 64 U.S. Air Force and 29 U.S. Navy aircraft, plus transient aircraft, during Valiant Shield. Valiant Shield 07, the largest joint exercise in recent history, includes 30 ships, more than 280 aircraft and more than 20,000 service members from the Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Miranda Moorer)
ANDERSEN AFB, GUAM - Airman 1st Class Geoffry Schultz, a New Hampshire Air National Guard boom operator, looks out over the Pacific from a KC-135 Stratotanker, during Valiant Shield Aug. 9, 2007. During the exercise, U.S. Air Force aircraft and personnel from stateside bases and Kadena Air Base, Japan, work together as part of an expeditionary air wing based at Andersen AFB, Guam. Andersen AFB will also be the beddown location for approximately 64 U.S. Air Force and 29 U.S. Navy aircraft, plus transient aircraft, during Valiant Shield. Valiant Shield 07, the largest joint exercise in recent history, includes 30 ships, more than 280 aircraft and more than 20,000 service members from the Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Miranda Moorer)
ANDERSEN AFB, GUAM - Maj. Dave Jarmon, an instructor pilot with the 905th Air Refueling Squadron, New Hampshire Air National Guard, flies a KC-135 Stratotanker, during Valiant Shield, Aug. 9, 2007. During the exercise, U.S. Air Force aircraft and personnel from stateside bases and Kadena Air Base, Japan, work together as part of an expeditionary air wing based at Andersen AFB, Guam. Andersen AFB will also be the beddown location for approximately 64 U.S. Air Force and 29 U.S. Navy aircraft, plus transient aircraft, during Valiant Shield. Valiant Shield 07, the largest joint exercise in recent history, includes 30 ships, more than 280 aircraft and more than 20,000 service members from the Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Miranda Moorer)
ANDERSEN AFB, GUAM - 1st Lt. Christopher Johnson, from the 905th Air Refueling Squadron, Grand Forks, N.D., assists the pilots of a KC-135 Stratotanker during Valiant Shield, Aug. During the exercise, U.S. Air Force aircraft and personnel from stateside bases and Kadena Air Base, Japan, work together as part of an expeditionary air wing based at Andersen AFB, Guam. Andersen AFB will also be the beddown location for approximately 64 U.S. Air Force and 29 U.S. Navy aircraft, plus transient aircraft, during Valiant Shield. Valiant Shield 07, the largest joint exercise in recent history, includes 30 ships, more than 280 aircraft and more than 20,000 service members from the Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Miranda Moorer)
ANDERSEN AFB, GUAM - Airman 1st Class Nathan Williams, 44th Fighter Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan, repositions an aircraft power unit before maintaining an F-15, Aug. 8, 2008. During the exercise, U.S. Air Force aircraft and personnel from stateside bases and Kadena Air Base, Japan, work together as part of an expeditionary air wing based at Andersen AFB, Guam. Andersen AFB will also be the beddown location for approximately 64 U.S. Air Force and 29 U.S. Navy aircraft, plus transient aircraft, during Valiant Shield. Valiant Shield 07, the largest joint exercise in recent history, includes 30 ships, more than 280 aircraft and more than 20,000 service members from the Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Miranda Moorer)
ANDERSEN AFB, GUAM--A pilot from the 44th Fighter Squadron, Kadena Air Base, Japan, does pre-flight checks before flying an F-15, Aug. 8, 2008. During the exercise, U.S. Air Force aircraft and personnel from stateside bases and Kadena Air Base, Japan, work together as part of an expeditionary air wing based at Andersen AFB, Guam. Andersen AFB will also be the beddown location for approximately 64 U.S. Air Force and 29 U.S. Navy aircraft, plus transient aircraft, during Valiant Shield. Valiant Shield 07, the largest joint exercise in recent history, includes 30 ships, more than 280 aircraft and more than 20,000 service members from the Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Miranda Moorer)